Amapola Ramirez M.S., MSW

 (562) 639-2734

Description & Consent for Service

As a Wellness Coach Amapola Ramirez M.S. MSW, is a Certified Health Coach, Certified Anger Management Specialist-I, and a Certified Breakthrough Parenting Instructor and Co-Parenting High Conflict Focused Specialist. Amapola Ramirez implements her learned knowledge from all her education and 11 years of experience to teach, advocate, encourage, support, guide, and who will mentor and provide assistance to clients in pursuing his/her individual wellness journey. The interventions are based upon respectful and honest dialogue supported by motivational training. The approach is strengths-based and involves sharing positive perspectives and outcomes about managing one’s own mental health, physical health and spiritual health, teaching what a healthy lifestyle looks like when the client gets there (visioning), assisting a person with re-visioning his/her self-perception, assisting the person in recognizing his/her own strengths as a basis for motivation, and identifying capabilities and opportunities upon which to build enhanced a healthy lifestyle approach. The peer-to-peer basis for the service allows the sharing of personal experience, including modeling wellness and offering mutual support that is also respectful of the individualized process and journey of a healthy life. This is not considered mental health therapy.

A mind/body/spirit approach is essential to address the client as a whole. Throughout the provision of these services, the health coach addresses and accommodates each clients unique sense of culture, spirituality, and self-discovery, assisting individuals in understanding shared-decision making, and in building a relationship of mutual trust with other professionals.

What to expect when working with me.

• When you work with me you have someone who helps you focus on the goals you want to achieve and develop strategies to be sure you reach them. A health coach helps you take action in your life; so after each session you will apply what you learn and create something new in your career or in your life. With a health coach, you will make clearer decisions and build a life that best matches who you really are. You gain clarity, focus and support to be the best you can be.
• As a health coach, I partner with a peers as needed to help deal with obstacles by choosing to emphasize strengths and focus on your overall wellness.

• When you work with a health coach like me, you have someone who helps you focus on the goals you want to achieve and develop strategies to be sure you reach them.

• A  Coach is there to help you to take action in your life; so after each session you will apply what you learn and create something new in your career or in your life.
• Teaching skills on how to manage their mental and physical health.
• Supports clients in learning how to make good choices for themselves.
• Teach, model, and demonstrate skills
• Support the client as s/he practices creating healthy habits of personal self-care
• Providing anger management skills 
• Implementing healthy ways to communicate clients needs
• Teaching parenting/co-parenting skills to assist with the wellness of the clients family life environment. 
• Providing individualized health coaching to clients in obtaining their health objectives.
• Creates and adapts wellness objectives to overcome barriers to good mental and physical health based on needs of, and with input from, clients.
• Promotes consumer engagement in therapy with clinicians as needed or if needed.
• Maintains appropriate professional standards and provides appropriate follow-up with consumers.

Wellness Peer Specialist was trained in basic principles and skills that are expected to be followed by the Code of Ethics.

The following highlights six major health coach skills:

• Engage in person-centered planning to identify strengths and supports
• Support the person in writing wellness goals based on personal motivation and person-centered planning

• Support the person in creating journal logs

• Build the person’s Relaxation Response skills to manage stress

• Build the person’s cognitive self-management skills to avoid negative thinking

• Link to community-based support services

Certified Health Coach Code of Ethics

The following principles guide the Wellness Peer Specialist. Focusing on the relationships, and levels of responsibility in which they function professionally.

1. The primary responsibility of health coach is to help individuals achieve their own needs, wants, and goals. Wellness Peer Specialists will be guided by the principle of self-determination for all.

2. A health coach will maintain high standards of personal conduct and conduct themselves in a manner that fosters their own persona.

3. A health coach will openly share with consumers and colleagues their personal stories related to wellness and will likewise be able to identify and describe the supports that promote clients healthy lifestyle.

4. A health coach will, at all times, respect the rights and dignity of those they serve.

5. A health coach will never intimidate, threaten, harass, use undue influence, physical force or verbal abuse, or make unwarranted promises of benefits to the individuals they serve.

6. A health coach will not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate in any form of discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, race, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, marital status, political belief, mental or physical disability, or any other preference or personal characteristic, condition, or state.

7. A health coach will advocate for those they serve that they may make their own decisions in all matters when dealing with other professionals.

8. A health coach will respect the privacy and confidentiality of those they serve.

9. A health coach will advocate for the full integration of individuals into the communities of their choice and will promote the inherent value of those individuals to those communities. A health coach will be directed by the knowledge that all individuals have the right to live in the least restrictive and least intrusive environment.

10. A health coach Wellness Peer Specialists will not enter into dual relationships or commitments that conflict with the interests of those they serve.

11. A health coach will never engage in sexual/intimate activities with the consumers they serve.

12. A health coach will keep current with emerging knowledge relevant to health and wellness, and openly share this knowledge with their colleagues.

Roles and Responsibilities 

A health coach uses a set of strategies that engage, inspire, educate, and offer support to persons served in order to help them successfully set and work towards a health goal and connect to health services, including prevention, timely treatment, self -management, and follow‐up. In order to be effective, A health coach needs certain core competencies—these allow the health coach to fulfill the key functions, roles, and responsibilities of a health coach.

Core competencies include:

• Communication Skills
• Competency in active listening and relationship‐building
• Ability to communicate with empathy and respect
• Ability to bridge the communication gaps
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing
• Ability to communicate with and facilitate dialogue between professionals, individuals, and their families
• Knowledge and competence related to health and wellness resources in the community
• Knowledge and ability to integrate health information into the culture and language of the community, including facts about prevention and information about the health & mental health system.
• Ability to assist the individuals to use the health care system in a knowledgeable,empowered, and effective manner
• Knowledge and ability to navigate the health care & mental health system
• Ability to actively participate as a member of the health and mental health system. 

Mandated Reporter

Amapola Ramirez M.S., MSW, Certified Health Coach is a Mandated Reporter who is responsible in reporting any child and/or senior physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, neglectful abuse to the Department of Child Protective Services in the Los Angeles County or any other county the child/senior resides in. 

Payment & Attendance

$65.00 per session

• Payments must be made before session and can pay in advance for sessions on a monthly basis. No reimbursements when paying in advance. Payments can be paid via Venmo, or Zelle. 
• Your payment will remain active until you decide to return and complete the remaining sessions. You have 1 year from the date of payment to complete the remaining sessions if you wish to pause and resume at a later date.
• Reschedule/Cancellations must be made within 24 hours in advance notice. Client can call or text to inform of their cancellation.
• During your attendance you will be provided with a safe space to comment about any questions or concerns you may have about your sessions. You are encouraged to speak to Amapola Ramirez in person. Please note that any emails addressing concerns will also be addressed in person or by telephone to have clear communication about your concerns and/or questions. 
• You have the right to end sessions at anytime during your enrollment. If you paid for sessions in advance you must provide a letter stating your request to end session to receive a reimbursement but you will have 15 days to provide the letter and receive full amount.
• If at anytime any disrespectful comments and/or actions are made towards Amapola Ramirez for whatever reason it may be, she has the right to terminate her services with you at any time.  Also, new rules can be added at anytime depending on any concerns she may have to make sure client/s and Wellness Peer Specialist are safe.