About the Get Healthy Service

Learn more about our free phone and online health coaching service and how we can support you to reach your health goals.

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About the Get Healthy Service

The Get Healthy Service offers free phone and online health coaching to help you make lifestyle changes to improve your health. 

The Get Healthy Service is delivered by Diabetes Australia, a national provider of health coaching services, contracted by the NSW Government.

How the Get Healthy Service works

Qualified health coaches can help you set and achieve your health goals, and give you information, motivation and support while you work towards them. 

Health coaching is designed to fit in with your life, so services are provided via phone, email, text and online. The amount of time it takes to complete the program will vary. 

When you finish, you can re-enrol for more coaching or register for Get Healthy Stay Healthy for SMS maintenance support. To join the Get Healthy Service:

Your journey to better health

To find out what to expect on your journey toward better health, view the stages of the Get Healthy program.

Health coaching

When you join the Get Healthy Service, you’ll get:

  • access to your own qualified health coach
  • motivation and support to set health goals that are important to you
  • emails and texts to encourage you and remind you about appointments
  • support to help you track your goals and actions
  • help to get through any blocks to reaching your health goals
  • the option to book coaching sessions online
  • up to 10 regular health coaching calls tailored to support your health goals.

Qualified health coaches

Coaching calls will be with a qualified health coach specialising in:

  • dietetics
  • exercise physiology
  • nursing or equivalent health qualifications. 

Coaching is available at a time that works for you. Our coaches support you to:

  • set and achieve your health goals
  • eat well and keep active
  • reduce the amount of alcohol you drink
  • gain a healthy amount of weight in pregnancy
  • stay active during and after cancer treatment
  • manage or lower your risk of conditions like heart disease and diabetes.

Information only option

Not sure about health coaching? Try a one-off coaching call for advice on reaching your health goal. 

You will get free information, resources and tools to get you started on your own.

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Get Healthy Service - How can a health coach help you?

The Get Healthy Service offers free phone and online health coaching to help you create sustainable lifestyle habits. Call 1300 806 258 to find out more!

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Get Healthy Service - How can a health coach help you?

Sarah, Get Health Service: Creating healthy habits is hard, and sometimes just knowing what to do isn't enough to make lifestyle changes and keep them for the long term. 

This is where working with a health coach can really help. Your health coach partners with you to understand the goals that are important to you. 

They help break it down into small steps that are realistic and achievable. You work together to come up with ways to fit these plans into your life. 

Your coach also knows that it's really normal to find yourself falling off track or feeling less motivated from time to time. Remember, new habits don't form overnight.

And just like learning to ride a bike, we're bound to fall off when we start. But that doesn't mean that we failed or that we should give up. 

The same is true as we develop new habits to eat healthy or be more active. 

Sometimes all we need is a little extra reminder, support or encouragement to keep working towards our goals. And that's exactly what your Get Healthy coach is for.

[Black text on screen] Get Healthy Service. Call now 1300 806 258.

Our programs

Learn more about our free Get Healthy Service programs and enrol by registering online. 

Complete the online registration form

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