Healthspan Coaching for Veterinarians

Build a Healthier, More Sustainable Way to Practice Veterinary Medicine

I work with veterinarians, veterinary practices, and hospital groups to build practical systems that support healthspan, career healthspan, sustainable routines, and wellbeing, so veterinary professionals can continue providing excellent care to patients, pet parents, their teams, and themselves.

Why My Approach Is Different

This is not a generic wellness program or a predetermined list of habits.

My coaching combines healthspan science, evidence-based coaching, a personalized system for habit development, and applied neuroscience with a simple principle:

The right behavior is the one you can actually integrate into your life.

Together we identify what matters most, design around your real circumstances, see what happens, and adjust from there.

The result is a personalized approach that evolves with you rather than asking you to fit your life around a program.

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"Listening is where I begin. From there, we work together to create a system that is uniquely yours, and turn your goals into practical actions, sustainable habits, and meaningful results."
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Personal Healthspan & Career Healthspan

Lifespan is how long you live. Healthspan is how many of those years you maintain your health, capacity, and ability to do the things that matter to you. Career healthspan is the number of years you can do fulfilling, sustainable, valuable work, not merely remain employed.

Your career has a healthspan, too. For veterinarians, that means protecting the physical energy, mental clarity, recovery, and capacity that demanding clinical work draws on, shift after shift, year after year.

My healthspan coaching empowers veterinarians to build practical, sustainable behaviors that protect that capacity, using a personalized system for habit development designed around the realities of veterinary practice and life beyond the clinic.

The approach is informed by my training as a Mayo Clinic Trained Health and Wellness Coach, evidence-based coaching training through Fielding Graduate University, applied neuroscience training through The Neuroscience Academy, and training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.

The Focus to Protect Healthspan & Career Healthspan

Your healthspan and career healthspan are shaped by the systems that support your capacity every day. Together we work on those at a size that fits a real clinic week, so your capacity grows over time instead of quietly eroding.

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Your work matters. Your health, your longevity, your relationships, and your life outside the clinic matter too.
Coaching for Veterinarians and Veterinary Hospital Groups

Your healthspan and career healthspan are shaped by the systems that support your capacity every day. My coaching guides you to identify what matters most, turn it into a behavior that fits the realities of veterinary medicine, and adjust as your work and life change.

Personalized System for Habit Development

Grounded in the science of behavior change. Designed for your real life. Instead of a generic list of habits to follow, I use practical, evidence-based tools to turn the changes that matter to you into behaviors you can actually integrate and sustain.

How My Coaching Works

Discover: together we get specific about what you want to change, what is happening now, and what matters most to you.

Design: together we turn that priority into a behavior and plan designed around your actual schedule, responsibilities, and capacity.

Do: I help you put the plan into practice in your real life.

Adapt: together we use what you learn to adjust the behavior, the environment, or the plan when something is not working for you, because one size does not fit all.

Integrate: as you repeat the habit, together we look for signs that it is becoming easier, more consistent, and more naturally connected to you.

The goal isn't to fit your life around the plan. The plan needs to fit your life.

What We Can Work On Together

There is no predetermined list of things you have to fix. We focus on what is most relevant to you and what would make the greatest difference in your health, your work, and your life outside the clinic. This might include:

  • Sleep and recovery around demanding schedules
  • Realistic movement and physical capacity
  • Nutrition and hydration
  • Boundaries around shifts, overtime, and after-hours contact
  • Preparing for difficult conversations with colleagues or pet parents
  • Creating rituals to decompress after euthanasia, emergencies, and difficult cases
  • Easing the pressure to be perfect
  • Getting clearer about what you want from your career and your life
The Build and Sustain Approach

Build | Weeks 1 to 16: 45-minute weekly coaching sessions focused on establishing your specific goals, identifying the systems that will support them, and turning intentions into repeatable habits that fit your real life.

Sustain | Ongoing: 2 monthly 45-minute coaching sessions to reinforce what you have built, address new challenges, and revisit your baseline at defined checkpoints. This keeps your progress visible and allows the system to evolve as your work and life change.

Investment

Build | 16 weeks: $2,000. Includes sixteen 45-minute weekly coaching sessions.

Sustain | Ongoing: $1,000 per month. Includes 2 monthly 45-minute coaching sessions.

Sustain support can be adjusted as appropriate, including a transition to monthly check-ins as your systems become established.

About
Denice A. Fox, Founder of On Both Sides of the Leash
Denice A. Fox, NBC-HWC, CEBC, MBSR, PCC
My Healthspan Coaching for Veterinarians

I combine over 1,000 hours of coaching, training as a Mayo Clinic Trained Health and Wellness Coach, National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) through the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching (NBHWC), partnered with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), Certified Evidence-Based Coach (CEBC) through a graduate program in evidence-based coaching at Fielding Graduate University, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) certification from UMass, Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation, Applied Neuroscience Coach Certification through The Neuroscience Academy, membership in the Institute of Coaching (IOC) at Harvard Medical School / McLean Hospital, and university training in psychology into one integrated approach for your "Personalized System for Habit Development".

Mission

To empower veterinarians to protect their healthspan, the energy, clarity, physical capacity, and health a long career depends on, so they can continue doing work that matters to them without sacrificing their wellbeing along the way.

Vision

A veterinary profession where protecting healthspan is part of the career.

Scope and support

Clear about what this is, and what it is not

Here's the clear version, so you know exactly what you're getting.

I work with veterinarians to build sustainable health habits, set and maintain boundaries, recover from demanding work, and create healthier daily patterns. Every goal and plan is personalized to you. My Personalized System for Habit Development helps you make the behaviors you choose easier to start, easier to repeat, and more sustainable over time.

I do not provide veterinary, medical, psychological, or psychotherapy services.

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From knowing to doing

Most veterinarians do not need another lesson about why sleep, movement, nutrition, recovery, or boundaries matter. Knowing isn't the problem. Turning what you know into consistent action when work is demanding is where I come in: we identify the behavior that matters, make it specific, design it around your actual circumstances, and use what happens in real life to keep improving the plan.

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What my coaching is

A working partnership built around your goals, your circumstances, and your capacity. I use my Personalized System for Habit Development to guide you from intention to action, learn from what happens, and make adjustments that allow healthy behaviors to become more sustainable over time.

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What it is not

This is not veterinary, medical, or psychological care. I do not diagnose, prescribe, or provide therapy, and I am not part of your clinic or professional circle, so there is no hierarchy or reputation to manage. You can say, "I'm exhausted," or "I know what I should be doing and I'm still not doing it," and be heard.

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The whole person, not just the veterinarian

You are a veterinarian, but you are also a whole person, and your work is only one part of your life. My coaching looks at the whole picture: your time, your energy, your habits, and what you want your life to look like outside the clinic. The goal is a way of living and working that is yours and that you can sustain.

"You do not have to be burned out to deserve support. If the work is costing you more than it should, let's talk about a steadier way to do it. You have spent your career taking care of everyone else. This is where that changes."
Denice A. Fox, NBC-HWC, CEBC, MBSR, PCC

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