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title: Emotions - Real Balance Certified Health and Wellness Coach Training
description: Get certified as a health and wellness coach with Real Balance. Comprehensive training and certification designed for wellness and healthcare professionals.
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# Emotions

## [Coaching a Client Through To A Mental Health Referral Using The Stages of Change](https://realbalance.com/coaching-a-client-through-to-a-mental-health-referral-using-the-stages-of-change)

![referrals](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/referrals-1.jpg)

**Times arise when it becomes apparent to a wellness coach that their client would benefit from working with a mental health professional.** The need for referral may be urgent and involve client safety as when there is a threat of harm to self or others. That rare situation is usually more clearly recognized, referral is made and coaching is usually…

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## [Process Coaching: Yes, Coaches “Do Emotions”](https://realbalance.com/process-coaching-yes-coaches-do-emotions)

![two people in the forest](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/two-people-forest.jpg)

**How can we walk with our clients through the landscape of emotion and stay on solid and fertile ground?** How can we avoid the mud, or even the quicksand of faux-counseling/psychotherapy? We want our clients to harvest the insights and benefit from the emotional release that comes telling their story, while feeling heard, understood, and even affirmed. We want them…

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## [The Great Utility of Coaching In The Emotional Realm](https://realbalance.com/the-great-utility-of-coaching-in-the-emotional-realm)

![sad girl beach](https://realbalance.com/images/wellness-blog/800x600/sad-girl-beach.jpg)

*According to Plato: Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.*



**Coaches often cautiously retreat from the affective level with their clients for fear of crossing the line into therapy.** Other coaches with a professional mental health background are comfortable going in this direction, but don’t often know how to shift from a therapeutic approach to…

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## [Wellness of The Heart](https://realbalance.com/wellness-of-the-heart)

Some say it is just a muscular pump in the middle of our chest. Others say it is the center and essence of who we are. Seat of all human emotion or cardiovascular electro-stimulated organ, nothing captures our imagination, hopes and fears like our heart.



I love it when science validates what we know “in our hearts”. Research now…

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