Julie Kosey, MS, RYT, CPCC, ACC

Integrative Health Coaching Manager

Kosey is a certified professional coach with a passion for enabling people to lead lives inspired by what matters most to them. She joined Duke Integrative Medicine's coaching team in 2004.

Over the last 20 years, her work experience has included a variety of leadership and service roles. She served as executive director of the Wellness Council of North Carolina consulting with more than 200 organizations to enhance employee health and reduce health care costs. The employee wellness program she managed at Rex Healthcare merited a Gold Well Workplace Award and the Governor's Award for Worksite Health and Fitness. She has also published positive outcomes for a N.C. state employee health promotion pilot project utilizing coaching.

She currently shares time between her role with Duke Integrative Medicine and her private coaching, teaching, and consulting business. The clients she has worked with, both individually and in groups, note their increased energy and improved life balance. She enjoys being part of the evolving field of coaching and integrating it with mind/body skills to create better results in health, life, and business.

Her academic credentials include a master's degree in wellness management with minors in business and counseling from Ball State University, a graduate certificate in alternative health and healing from the University System of New Hampshire, and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.

She completed coaching and leadership training through the Coaches Training Institute and is credentialed through the International Coach Federation.

In addition Kosey is a registered yoga teacher who received her teaching certification through the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Her work is grounded in the personal transformation she experienced through Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, and his mindfulness-based stress reduction training for health care professionals in 1995.