- $799
Nutrition Coaching Certification
- Course
- 49 Lessons
This certification course is now open to the public for the first time. It was originally developed for doctors and licensed healthcare practitioners, but no prerequisites, experience, or medical background is required.
Why Nutrition Coaching Matters More Than Ever
A nutrition coach helps people improve their health through whole-food nutrition, individualized guidance, and practical lifestyle support. They do not diagnose or treat illness or disease, but they play an important role in helping clients make meaningful, sustainable changes.
Many people are looking for more personalized, nutrition-oriented support than they receive in a brief medical appointment. At the same time, most physicians receive very limited nutrition training during medical education. That gap creates a vital need for knowledgeable, compassionate nutrition coaches.
What people need is thoughtful, individualized support from someone who understands that health is never one-dimensional. Symptoms do not exist in isolation, and the mind-body connection, life history, and daily habits all matter. This Nutrition Coaching Certification course teaches a whole-food, whole-person framework for supporting health in a deeper, more practical way.
That someone can be you.
A Practical Pathway Into Meaningful Wellness Work
Information is everywhere, but not all of it is accurate, trustworthy, or useful. In many cases, conflicting advice and ill-informed guesswork only create more confusion. Real progress often requires accountability, empathy, context, and guidance tailored to the individual.
Nutrition coaching is built on human relationships — trust, accountability, empathy, and the ability to see the whole person, rather than just a list of symptoms.
With this certification, you can:
Coach clients one-on-one online or in private practice settings — no state license required.
Build a flexible wellness-based practice from anywhere.
Add nutrition coaching to an existing wellness or health-focused business.
Offer workshops, group programs, and educational presentations.
Write articles and create content in the growing natural-health space.
Use your certification for a side income or a full-time coaching path.
Do meaningful, location-independent work that's centered on helping others.
What You'll Learn
This course teaches nutrition from the ground up — literally, from the soil where food is grown to the cells where it does its work. By the end of the program, you'll have a deep, practical understanding of:
How whole, unprocessed foods support cellular health, energy, immunity, and long-term wellness.
How the mind-body connection, psychological history, and trauma can shape physical health.
How to look beyond symptoms and better understand what may be driving a client's health concerns.
How to build personalized coaching strategies for real people with real lives.
The holistic thinking framework that helps great coaches do more than simply relay information.
Your Transformation: From Zero to Ready to Coach
You don't need a medical background, a science degree, or prior knowledge of nutrition to begin.
The Institute of Transformational Studies' Nutrition Coaching Certification course was designed to meet you where you are and give you the knowledge, framework, and practical tools to begin working with clients confidently.
By the time you earn your Certificate of Completion, you'll have a credential, as well as the knowledge, framework, and confidence to put it into practice.
About This Course
This certification was developed by Vic Shayne, PhD, a natural healthcare practitioner and researcher with more than 35 years of clinical experience. Throughout his career, Dr. Shayne watched the medical system overlook the foundational role of food in health. Dr. Shayne has written more than a dozen books on nutrition, natural healthcare, and the mind-body connection.
Format: Self-paced reading materials with module quizzes
Duration: Typically 16–24 weeks
Completion: Certificate of Completion awarded upon successful completion all modules
CE Credits: This course satisfies 30 continuing education credits for chiropractors in Colorado and other states. Check with your state board for specific requirements.
Special Enrollment Pricing
Previously available only to licensed healthcare professionals, this course is now open at an introductory price for a limited time.
$500
Regular price: $799 — enter code NUTRICOACH at checkout to save $299.
Built by a doctor and clinician, this certification gives students a practical path into nutritional coaching.
Enrollment Policy: Due to immediate access to course materials upon enrollment, all sales are final. No refunds will be issued after purchase.
This course is for educational and coaching purposes only. Nutritional coaches do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical concerns.
Why This Training Fills an Important Gap in Nutrition Education
A peer-reviewed study published in the National Institutes of Health's research database — authored by more than 20 medical doctors — found that most chronic conditions are preventable, result from unhealthy lifestyle patterns, and that more than 80% of chronic conditions could be avoided through the adoption of healthy lifestyle recommendations. Yet this knowledge remains largely absent from conventional medical training.
This certification helps bridge that gap by giving you the holistic, whole-food foundation in nutrition and client support that many students and professionals still do not receive through conventional education.
Course Contents
Getting Started
The Significance of Holism
Food, Nature & Nutrition
Nutrients in Whole Foods
Cholesterol: a highly misunderstood topic
Food Production and the Environment
Using nutritional supplements
Lifestyle's Effect on Health
The Microbiome
25 Most Common Illnesses and the Foods That Help
Herbs in Nutritional Coaching
Bonus Information
The How-to of Nutritional Coaching
Essentials for Operating Your Coaching Practice
What Students Are Saying
T E S T I M O N I A L S • R E V I E W S
"I was introduced to the healing power of whole foods several decades ago and how they have the power to heal in a way that chemical vitamins just cannot do. I highly recommend this course for any practitioner who is serious about natural healthcare and understanding the intricacies and complexity of real, whole foods (as well as whole food supplements). Not only have I implemented what I have learned about healing with foods into my professional practice, but also in my personal life. This course offers a lot of insight about how the body knows the difference between natural foods versus laboratory-made chemicals. It's a real eye-opener."
Kathryn Boschert, MA, RD
"I took this course for life enrichment. I wanted to know how to be more healthy. As a yoga instructor and active mom, I want to know how and what to feed my family and keep them healthy. This course provided information that I never learned at the university level. It's not that it challenges convention, but rather that it teaches the most basic information about nutrition yet puts it into a holistic context that few of us think about. I can't say enough good things about this course, it's invaluable contents, or how much it changed my life."
Melanie Robertson
"Dr. Shayne has been a tireless, invaluable resource for me for over 30 years now regarding whole food nutrition. I have 4 healthy children and 9 healthy grandchildren to prove the value of his work. Always willing to find answers to questions regarding whole food nutrition. Not always very glamorous in the research he finds, but also very profound in its simplicity. And easily applicable. No need to be a chemist trying to decipher the chemical ingredients in many of the so-called whole food concentrates being marketed to the unassuming public as nutrition. Hats off to a man and company whose integrity is beyond profit.
Everybody has to make a living. Dr. Shayne's model is to help people by eating well first."
Dr. George Siegfried, DC, ND
"The Nutritional Coaching Certification course is one of the best learning experiences any natural healthcare practitioner can have, because it drills down into what really counts — that our bodies are natural, biological beings that require nature's foods to be healthy, have a strong immune system, and heal from illness. As a chiropractic physician I have found that understanding how to use whole food supplements makes a huge difference in my patients' health and recovery. Every chiropractor, nutritionist, and naturopath should take this course, because these days they focus much too closely on isolated supplements when the body was never meant to consume such chemicals."