Health Coach

Health Coaches are trained in Health Coaching but are not clinicians. They help you gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to better manage your health. This can include helping you set health goals and supporting you as you work toward them.

They may also help you and your whānau find resources in your community or online to support your social, emotional, and physical well-being. This could include visiting you at home, connecting you to other services like housing, or providing cultural support.

Christina Thompson is the Health Coach at Family Doctors and has lived in Tauranga Moana for the past 2 years. She moved here to be closer to family and friends.

Christina worked as an educator in the primary sector for over 22 years. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Education (BEd) and a Diploma in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).
For the past year, she has worked in her new role as a health coach for the Western Bay of Plenty Primary Health Organisation. Christina is passionate about her role as she sees it as a way of helping people gain the knowledge, skills and tools they need to take an active part in their own health care.

Christina enjoys working alongside the doctors and nurses from the practice helping people to achieve their health goals.

In her spare time, Christina enjoys spending time with her family cooking delicious food, taking long walks and swimming in the ocean on a hot summer's day.