Integrative Holistic Coaching
Integrative Holistic Coaching (IHC) is a transformational life coaching approach to growth and healing through the IHC coaching method. The IHC foundational principles are rooted in the client’s innate ability to grow and heal. The coaching experience includes a customized coaching program designed to guide the client through self-discovery and deep examination of thoughts, emotional healing, behavioral patterns, and family systems dynamics. The IHC model incorporates somatic practices, family systems therapy, transactional analysis, and progressive therapeutic frameworks to support full-spectrum transformation. Through coaching, clients learn specific tools that empower them to move through obstacle thoughts, interrupt negative patterns, and create conscious change. Certified Legacy Training International IHC Life Coaches are trained to coach clients from wounded to healed and from breakdown to breakthrough. Ultimately, IHC clients love their lives and fulfill their life purpose.
Meet the Founder
Heather Steele, DDS, BS & Mediator
Founder + Master Life Coach + Retreat Facilitator + Author
Heather Steele is the Founder of Integrative Holistic Life Coaching (IHC) and a transformational leader in personal development and integrative healing. She is the owner of Steele Communications, Legacy Training International, and WindRiders Adventure Camps, and the founder of breakthrough programs including Just Us for Couples, Women Who Win Seminars and Breathe Retreats. Steele's graduate work is Divinity Science (DDS), and holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism & Telecommunications (BS), and is a certified Mediator. Her graduate studies include focused work in both psychology and spiritual science, bringing a multidisciplinary foundation to her holistic coaching methodology.
Prior to founding Steele Communications in 2000, Heather served as a published journalist and international corporate trainer. As Vice President of a global, award-winning PR and advertising firm, she worked with elite clients including JP Morgan, Chase, Coca-Cola, Dupont, Red Cross Ball, Mira-Lago, and Intercoastal Health Foundation. A curriculum architect since 2000, Heather is the author of The Realizations, The Integrative Holistic Life Coaching Guidebook, Just Us: 12 Laws of Sacred Relationship, and the WindRiders Adventure Camp Guidebook. Her work integrates somatic practices, family systems therapy, transactional analysis, and progressive healing modalities. Deeply committed to human potential, community, and the evolution of consciousness, Steele's mission is to help individuals and organizations rise with integrity, heal with intention, and lead with purpose.
Integrative Holistic Coaching or Therapy
What is the best fit for you right now?
Integrative Holistic Coaching (IHC)
IHC is a transformational coaching model that blends personal development tools with deep emotional and systemic healing processes. It supports the whole person — mind, body, spirit and includes heart opening exercises, changes in behavior, and healing with family of origin system. It is designed to help clients move from blind zones, survival patterns, stunted growth and development to breakthroughs in thinking, feeling and movement toward living a life they love and with purpose. “The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership,” according to the International Coaching Federation, ICF, the largest coaching organization and closest to a regulatory body.
Best suited for...
- Clients who are inspired and have a Vision
- Clients who are willing to grow out of feeling "stuck"
- Clients seeking holistic healing and integration
- Clients desiring both immersion training personal development and professional experiential learning and development
Focus areas...
- Breaking through negative thought and behavior patterns through education and self-awareness
- Inner child, shadow, and family systems work for growth
- Overcoming obstacles, blind zones and limiting beliefs
- Connecting to their gifts, talents, skills and vision for a fulfilled life
Coaching style...
Empowering, inspirational, intuitive, trauma-informed, and deeply personal; merges action and introspection in a non-clinical container. Certified Integrative Holistic Life Coaches and therapists are trained in the IHC methodology, the12 Realizations, Holistic Tools and Integrative Exercises. Coaches adhere to Legacy Training International Code of Ethics.
Therapy (Psychotherapy)
Therapy is a clinical process used to diagnose and treat emotional distress, trauma, mental health conditions, and relational dynamics. Treated by a licensed mental health professional.
Best suited for...
- Patients managing depression, anxiety, PTSD, or unresolved trauma
- Patients needing to heal from past wounds or processing emotional pain
- Patients seeking emotional regulation and mental wellness
Focus areas...
- Mental health disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression)
- Trauma recovery and emotional regulation
- Relationship or attachment issues
Therapeutic style...
Clinical, compassionate in psychological theory; often explores the past to understand the present; treatment-based and sometimes combined with psychiatric.
Meet IHC Certified Coaches
Legacy Training International
Certified Integrative Holistic Life Coaches
Legacy Training International has trained and certified over 100+ IHC Life Coaches in Heather Steele's Integrative Holistic Coaching Curriculum. A certified Legacy Integrative Holistic Life Coach has completed over 1500 hours of personal and professional growth and development education. Through this progressive and transformative curriculum, seminars and destination immersion retreats Legacy Coaches are prepared to help their clients fulfill their Life Purpose.
