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Janette Gale is a practising Health Psychologist and founder of Health Coaching Australia. She consults to government and industry on the implementation of health behaviour change processes into chronic condition prevention and self-management programs. She is an Australian leading authority on health coaching principles and professional practice and is the primary developer of the HCA Model of health behaviour change for chronic disease prevention and self-management.
Janette has extensive experience in using health coaching techniques in her work with individuals and groups to enhance their health and prevent or manage chronic health conditions. She has also designed and facilitated several innovative community-based, government & industry funded health promotion and education programs targeting lifestyle change for adults and families. Currently Janette is completing a doctoral thesis investigating issues around making lifestyle changes during pregnancy to avoid excessive gestational weight gain. She is an active member of the Australian Psychological Society College of Health Psychologists and was until recently a member of the NSW Health Chronic Disease Management Program Clinical Expert Reference Group.
Janette co-developed Australia’s first health coaching professional development program for health professionals with Andrew Dawson at Deakin University, Victoria. She has previously lectured in Consumer Behaviour, Marketing and Research Methods at the University of Sydney.
View a description and outcomes of the Kangaroo Valley Healthy Community Project funded by the Rural Chronic Disease Initiative, Department of Health and Ageing. Health Coaching Australia, in conjunction with the Kangaroo Valley Lions Club and the Shoalhaven City Council, received State and National level Heart Foundation Kellogg Local Government Awards in 2004 for this project, in the category of Project by a Community Organisation .
Rebecca McPhee is an Accredited Practising Dietitian, a Primary Facilitator and Training Director for Health Coaching Australia. She has been involved in a variety of innovative community based lifestyle programs targeting obesity and is NSW chairperson for Nutrition Australia. Rebecca has also worked in England as an Obesity Specialist Dietitian for the NHS and was the representative for the Obesity Strategy Committee for Westminster. Rebecca currently runs a successful dietetics private practice where she specialises in assisting patients to self-manage diabetes, weight issues and cardiovascular disease. She uses health coaching techniques within her practice to achieve tailor made lifestyle and dietetic solutions for individuals. Rebecca trains HCA Training Assistants and Co-facilitators in HCA workshop content and delivery.
Vanessa Cook is a Health Psychologist and a Primary Facilitator for Health Coaching Australia. She operates a successful practice in which she applies the Health Coaching Australia model to facilitate change within a population experiencing or at risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other preventable health conditions. Health Coaching is used both as an integrated part of her personal training practice to enable clients to overcome barriers that prevent their goal attainment, and also as a stand-alone health psychology service to individuals from the wider community for chronic condition self-management and health behaviour change. Vanessa is currently involved with several research projects using and evaluating the HCA model of health coaching.
Caroline is a Manipulative Physiotherapist who consults in Occupational Health and works in a private practice in the Melbourne CBD. She is passionate about self-management and has extensive clinical experience in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions and chronic pain. She also holds a Master’s degree by research which investigated the use of a home gravity traction device and exercise in chronic low back pain. Since attending both the Introductory and Consolidation Health Coaching Courses, Caroline has been integrating Health Coaching techniques into her clinical practice. It is used to assist patients to identify and overcome barriers which may prevent them adhering to treatment recommendations. She is now training with HCA to become a Co-facilitator.
Hayley Morey is an Occupational Therapist with ten years experience working in Australia and the United Kingdom, specialising in neurological rehabilitation and community-based rehabilitation. She has spent the past three years focused on self-management and health behaviour change in a Melbourne-based community health service, facilitating clients to make positive long term change to reduce the risk and impact of diabetes, obesity, cardio-vascular disease and other preventable health conditions.
Hayley is trained in the Stanford Model and is licensed to use the Flinders Model of Chronic Condition Self Management and is passionate about seeing clients achieve health empowerment and independence.
Since her first introductory HCA workshop in 2007, she has been using the HCA Model with great results in her practice, assisting clients to identify and overcome barriers to change and improve their attitude to their health and wellbeing. She is excited about being part of the HCA team so she can share what she knows - that the HCA Model works!
Kidest is a Registered Nurse currently practicing as a nurse specialist and care coordinator for technology dependent children. Kidest has experience in self-management and health behaviour change through working with communities and international organsiations. She utilises health coaching in her current role to enable families and children to take active roles in managing their health care needs. Kidest has a long standing passion in ensuring that health care consumers are able to navigate the health care system, understand their role in management of their health and achieve optimal health care outcomes.
Graham has had a long career in marketing, primarily in the area of Fast Moving Consumer Goods and Pharmaceuticals, both in Australasia and Asia.
After graduating from the University of Sydney, Graham worked for a number of multinational firms (including Nestle, Unilever & Novartis) in marketing & market research roles. He spent 15 years with the Reckitt & Colman group (now Reckitt Benckiser) in Australasia and Asia Pacific, before leaving in 1999 (as Asia Pacific Marketing Director). Between 1993 and 1999, Graham served at Board level on the major organisations representing the over the counter and prescription medicines industries in Australia, where he was active in developing and modifying the marketing Codes of Conduct for those industries.
Graham is currently Chairman, Promotional Monitoring Panel for ASMI (the industry body representing the self medication industry). Since 2001 he has taught post graduate Marketing courses at the University of Sydney. He is also a consultant to both private industry and government.
Kerry is the Operations Manager at Health Coaching Australia. She coordinates scheduling of organisational workshops, deals with general enquiries, coordinates HCA staff and overseas the promotion of upcoming events and workshops. Kerry has previously worked in a number of large media organisations in both the UK and Australia and is an accredited member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Lucy Rodden is the Organisational Workshop Coordinator for HCA workshops conducted in location for a variety of health organisations in regional areas and main centres all over Australia. She coordinates all the administration for these workshops which are run in conjunction with a variety of Community Health organisations, General Practice Divisions and other public and private health organisations. Lucy was previously involved in the administration of a large Sydney based genetics laboratory and IVF clinic and works from our local office.
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