What If You Could Get Better Patient Outcomes While Doing Less Work?

Let me ask you something…

When was the last time you left work feeling energized instead of drained?

When was the last time a patient actually followed through on what you discussed—without you having to remind them or repeat yourself?

If you're like most healthcare professionals I talk to, it's been a while.

I know. Because I was you.

I Was at the Height of My Career. And I Was Burning Out.

I was an OT for 14 years. I'd built a reputation. I knew my stuff. And every single day, I was exhausted.

Not from the clinical work—from the convincing.

I'd give brilliant recommendations. Clear, evidence-based, exactly what my patients needed. They'd nod along. They'd say "yes, I'll do it." And then they'd come back next week having done… nothing.

So I'd try harder. Explain more. Create more handouts. Send more reminders.

I was working harder than my patients were. And it was breaking me.

The Moment Everything Changed

Then March 2020 happened. The world shut down. I had to pivot my first workshop to Zoom. I didn't even know what "annotate" meant!

I delivered it on April 3rd—my birthday. I had a headache that day.

But I did it anyway. Messy. Imperfect. Real.

There was no way in heck I was cancelling.

The Dirty Secret Nobody Talks About in Healthcare Education

You spent years learning anatomy, physiology, assessment, and intervention.

You can diagnose. You can treat. You know exactly what your patients need to do to get better.

And yet…

• You're working harder than your patients are
• You give brilliant advice that goes in one ear and out the other
• You write "goal not achieved" more often than you'd like to admit
• You finish your day feeling like you gave everything—and got nothing back
• You've started wondering if maybe this profession isn't for you anymore

The problem isn't your patients. It's not that they're lazy or "non-adherent."

The problem is the model you were trained in.

Traditional healthcare education teaches you to be the expert. To assess, diagnose, prescribe, instruct.

You do all the thinking. You do all the planning. You carry the cognitive load for every single patient on your caseload.

No wonder you're exhausted.

Simply telling patients what to do doesn't translate to meaningful action or outcomes. THIS is the missing link.

What If There Was Another Way?

What if—instead of telling patients what to do—you could help them discover it for themselves?

What if patients left your sessions with their own plan, their own motivation, their own sense of ownership?

What if you could get better outcomes while doing less work?

That's exactly what Dive Into a Coach Approach® makes possible.

It's not about becoming a life coach. It's not about abandoning your clinical expertise or spending an hour on "feelings."

It's a practical, structured methodology that integrates seamlessly into your existing practice—even in 15-minute appointments.

Instead of:

• Prescribing solutions → You facilitate discovery
• Carrying the cognitive load → Patients own their goals
• Chasing adherence → You unlock intrinsic motivation
• Repeating yourself → Patients remember because they said it

The result?

• Patients follow through — because the plan is theirs, not yours
• Progress accelerates — because engagement drives outcomes
• You leave work with energy left — for your life, your family, yourself
• You remember why you got into healthcare — and you stop thinking about quitting

Self-reported by DICA program graduates

Why This Works When "Motivational Interviewing" Fell Short

You might be thinking: "I've tried motivational interviewing. It helped a little, but…"

Here's the difference:

Motivational interviewing was developed in addiction counseling. It wasn't designed for the realities of healthcare practice—short appointments, physical interventions, clinical expertise that needs to be shared.

The Coach Approach was built specifically for healthcare professionals.

It gives you a clear framework for when to coach vs. when to provide clinical expertise. It works with your assessments and treatments, not instead of them.

You don't have to choose between being an expert and being a coach. You get to be both—at the right moments.

What You'll Learn in DICA 1: Core Fundamentals

This is the foundation. 12 hours of self-paced training that will fundamentally change how you interact with patients—starting with your very next session.

And here's the truth: you don't have to be perfect. Start before you're ready. Do it messy. That's how change happens.

1. The Coach Approach Foundation Why traditional "expert mode" backfires and the neuroscience of sustainable behavior change
2. The Coaching Spectrum Framework™ Know exactly when to coach vs. when to provide clinical expertise—no more guessing
3. The 10 Core Techniques From powerful questions to strategic silence—practical tools you'll use every day
4. The 4 Mindset Principles Amateur, Discoverer, Environmentalist, Olympian—shift how you see your role
5. DIVE IN Goals™ Our proprietary goal-setting framework: 6 neuroscience-based strokes that make goals stick
6. Handling Resistance What to do when patients push back, shut down, or "yes but" you
7. Integration & Application Putting it all together in real clinical scenarios—with practice exercises
8. Your Coach Approach Action Plan Leave with a concrete plan for implementing what you've learned immediately

Who Created This (And Why It Matters)

Hélène Thériault, BScOT, MAdEd, MCC

Master Certified Coach (top 3% globally) · 23+ years as OT · UBC Clinical Instructor since 2018 · ICF Emerging Coach Educator Award 2023

I'm not a business coach who stumbled into healthcare. I'm a Registered Occupational Therapist who spent two decades in clinical practice before becoming one of roughly 2,200 Master Certified Coaches in the world.

I built Dive Into a Coach Approach® because I lived the burnout. I watched colleagues leave the profession. And I discovered that coaching skills were the missing piece—the thing that keeps healthcare professionals in healthcare.

Since 2017, over 1,000 healthcare professionals have gone through this training. It's been featured at AOTA Conference, CAOT Conference, and delivered at UBC.

This isn't theory from someone who's never treated a patient. It's battle-tested methodology from the trenches.

This Training Counts Toward Your CEUs

DICA 1 is fully accredited. You'll earn 12 continuing education hours recognized by:

No extra paperwork. No separate application. Complete the training, get your credits.

Here's Everything You Get

Still Have Questions?

You Have Two Choices Right Now

Option 1: Keep doing what you're doing. Keep working harder than your patients. Keep writing "goal not achieved." Keep wondering if maybe you should just find a different career.

Option 2: Learn the skill that changes everything. Join 1,000+ healthcare professionals who have transformed their practice—and their relationship with their work.

The investment is $595. The cost of burnout? Immeasurable.

My mission is to keep healthcare professionals in healthcare. It doesn't need to be this hard. Let me show you another way.

Questions? Email [email protected]