Healthspan Coaching for Veterinarians

You care for patients, pet parents, and your team.
It's time to take care of you.

You dedicate your days to caring for animals and supporting the people who love them. In a demanding profession, it's easy for your own needs to become an afterthought.

I'm Mayo Clinic trained, a National Board Certified Health and Wellness coach (NBC-HWC), with graduate level evidence-based coach training and certification, and training and certification in applied neuroscience and brain health. I work with veterinarians in building systems to develop practical habits, routines, and boundaries that make it easier to take care of yourself while meeting the demands of veterinary medicine.

The Empty Bowl Reset

Your work asks a lot: long shifts, emotional weight, decisions with no clean answer, and people who need you at their worst moments. Most veterinarians already know what would help them feel steadier. Knowing is not the same as doing.

When the clinic runs late, the lunch break disappears, a case stays with you, and your phone follows you home, your own health becomes the thing deferred until "next week."

That is not a discipline problem. It is a systems problem.

You should not do this alone

Sustainable positive change is difficult in isolation. Coaching gives you a protected space to turn good intentions into repeatable actions and adjust when work gets intense.

My healthspan and longevity coaching is for practicing veterinarians. It empowers you to honestly identify what's not working, then builds a system of small, specific steps that turn it into something that does.

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"You cannot keep filling bowls when yours is empty. A long career in this work is built on how well you look after yourself."
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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."

Denice A. Fox, NBC-HWC, CEBC, MBSR, PCC
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Your work matters. Your health, your longevity, your relationships, and your life outside the clinic matter too.
What is healthspan

Your Career Has a
Healthspan, Too

Lifespan is how long you live. Healthspan is how many of those years you stay genuinely healthy, sharp, and able. For a veterinarian, your healthspan is the physical energy, mental clarity, and emotional steadiness a demanding career quietly draws down, shift after shift, year after year. Burnout is what that feels like in the moment. Healthspan erosion is what it costs you later, whether or not the burnout ever gets acknowledged or treated.

Healthspan coaching is about protecting and rebuilding that capacity on purpose. The system I use for it comes from my training at the Mayo Clinic, The Neuroscience Academy, and Fielding Graduate University: a system of tiny, repeatable changes that compound into real results over time. I pair that approach with steps that fit a real clinic week and your life. The goal is a career you can sustain in good health, rather than one that quietly costs you your health and longevity.

The focus to protect your healthspan

Healthspan is built from a handful of everyday systems: how you sleep, move, eat, recover, and set limits. We work on those at a size that fits a real clinic week, so your capacity grows over time instead of quietly eroding.

One-to-One Coaching for Veterinarians

Private sessions focused on what you choose to work on: sleep and recovery around demanding schedules; realistic movement, food, and hydration; boundaries around shifts, overtime, and after-hours contact; preparing for hard conversations with colleagues or clients; a ritual to decompress after euthanasia, emergencies, and traumatic cases; easing the pressure to be perfect; and getting clear on what you actually want from your career and your life.

For Practices and Hospital Groups

Replacing a veterinarian is expensive, and most of what drives someone out the door built up quietly over time, not overnight. Protecting your veterinarian team's healthspan is a perk and retention work.

Healthspan Support for Your Veterinarian Team

My structured coaching program for your veterinarian staff is built around the same baseline-and-checkpoint approach used in individual coaching, so leadership can see the shape of the investment, not just take it on faith. Delivered as a cohort program or embedded 1:1 sessions.

Build (weeks 1 to 16): weekly sessions establishing the specific goals, plan, and the system for action to habits that fit your actual schedule, not a generic wellness checklist.

Sustain (ongoing): biweekly or monthly check-ins and a revisit of your baseline at defined checkpoints, so progress is something you can see, not just something you hope is happening.

Investment: $2,000 for the initial four months, $1,000 per month to sustain.

About
Denice A. Fox, Founder of On Both Sides of the Leash
Denice A. Fox, NBC-HWC, CEBC, MBSR, PCC

I combine over 1,000 hours of coaching, Mayo Clinic graduate education in Health and Wellness Coaching, 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 Coach Federation, Certificate in Applied Neuroscience & Brain Health through The Neuroscience Academy, membership in the Institute of Coaching (IOC) at Harvard University, and university training in psychology into one integrated approach.

My Healthspan Coaching for Veterinarians

Veterinarians spend their lives looking after animals and the people who love them. Far too few have anyone looking after them.

I am a certified health coach, not a veterinarian, and that turns out to be part of what makes this work.

I stay firmly in my lane. I support you in building the system for habits, boundaries, and a happy life.

Mission

To help veterinarians protect their healthspan, the energy, clarity, and health a long career depends on, so they can keep doing work they love without it costing them their own wellbeing.

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 and supported by systems that make healthy habits easier to build and sustain.

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

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What my coaching is

A working partnership focused on building a personalized system that makes healthy habits easier to follow. We work together to turn what matters to you into practical actions you can actually sustain. Using principles of my Systems & Habits approach, we focus on small steps, habit stacking, environmental cues, and systems that make the behaviors you want easier to start and sustain.

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What it is not

This is not veterinary, medical, or psychological care. I do not diagnose, prescribe, interpret medical results, or provide therapy. I am also not part of your clinic or your professional circle. That creates a different kind of space. There is no clinical role, workplace hierarchy, or reputation to manage. You can say, "I'm exhausted," "I'm not sure I want to do this anymore," or "I know what I should be doing, but I'm not doing it." You can say what is actually going on and be heard.

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From knowing to doing

Most veterinarians already know a great deal about what supports health and wellbeing. Knowing usually isn't the problem. The challenge is turning that knowledge into consistent action when work is demanding and life is full. That's where my coaching comes in. Together, we identify what matters to you, create a system that fits your actual life, choose the small step you will take this week, and build from there. Not another list of things you should do. A way of making the things you already know matter become part of how you actually live.

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The whole person, not just the veterinarian

You are a veterinarian, but you are also a whole person. Your work is only one part of your life. My coaching looks at the whole picture: how you spend your time, what gives you energy, what drains it, the habits that support you, the habits that get in your way, and what you want your life to look like outside the clinic. The goal isn't to give you more things to fix. It's to build 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."
Denice A. Fox, NBC-HWC, CEBC, MBSR, PCC

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