"Coaching at the Edge: Holding boundaries with clarity, confidence and care"

Health coaching often sits at the edge of multiple domains — medicine, mental health, behaviour change and lived experience. In real conversations, grey areas emerge: emotional disclosures, advice requests, uncertainty about referral, or subtle dependency patterns. These moments aren’t about memorising rules — they require judgement, relational skill and ethical confidence.

In this session, we’ll explore how to navigate these edges safely. We’ll look at scope clarification tools, red flags for referral and practical contracting strategies that protect both client and coach. Based in lifestyle medicine, this session strengthens your ability to coach alongside clinical care — not instead of it — with clarity, confidence and care.

Sessions are led by Dr Caroline Gibson, a qualified Coach and Coaching Supervisor.

LifeMed Clinical sessions are a reflective space for you to bring whatever is important to you in your Lifestyle Medicine or Coaching practice. 

If you bring a case to the session, please ensure that confidentiality is maintained and no patient-identifiable information is used.

If you have topics that you would like to discuss but would prefer these not to be included in the recording please let us know either during or shortly after the session and we will edit these out.  We're here to help and support you.

This week's Live Session is LifeMed Practice.  LifeMed Practice sessions provide practical tools and support for creating your Lifestyle Medicine or Coaching practice in the NHS or privately. More details coming soon...

We are delighted to welcome Stroke Consultant and longevity expert Dr Nikhil Sharma as our Special Guest Speaker to our LifeMed Knowledge session this month.

"What's Good for the Heart is Good for the Brain: High impact interventions for Heart health, Brain health and more" 

Heart disease, Stroke and Dementia are 3 of the most common and most feared causes of ill health and mortality worldwide and in the UK. Stroke consultant Dr Nik Sharma will discuss the overlap between good heart health, stroke and dementia and the surprising degree to which these "horsemen" can be modified through a proactive approach to health and largely lifestyle focused interventions.

Dr Nik Sharma is a Stroke Physician in Liverpool. After a decade of practice as a consultant and several senior leadership roles both within his hospital trust and within the Stroke community, Nik developed a passion for disease prevention and in particular Stroke prevention. Motivated by epidemiological studies demonstrating that up to 90% of heart attacks and Strokes could be prevented with risk factor prevention, Nik set himself the goal of Preventing 100 million years of ill health through Proactive Disease prevention. Proactive Healthcare is Nik's online Stroke and Prevention clinic that represents the first step on this journey.

Nik also works as Chief Medical Officer of Helfy. Helfy aligns with Nik's vision by supporting talented lifestyle and longevity physicians to get into practice by providing online electronic records, CQC oversight and governance support.