About PHCA
Training the coaches children and families need.
Our mission is to train and equip professionals with health coaching skills and behavior change techniques that improve the lives of children, teens, and families.
OUR STORY
It started with families.
PHCA began with the simple goal of helping more families build lasting healthy habits.
Dr. Thea Runyan and Dr. Arielle Levi have worked together for more than 10 years. It started at Kurbo, the first digital health company to offer evidence-based, one-on-one health coaching for kids and teens. Thea's deep expertise in pediatric behavior change and family coaching at Stanford, and Arielle's expertise in health coaching and coach training, created a coaching model that reached thousands of families.
That work supported families around the world. Clients included Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Military, and the Singapore Ministry of Health.
Along the way, they saw the same gap again and again. Families need ongoing support to change habits at home. But there aren't enough trained people to provide it. PHCA was created to close that gap.
Today, PHCA is the only NBHWC-approved training program specializing in children, teens, and families.