Wellness Services
Wellness, Nutrition & Education LLC (WNE), a commonly owned company of Employee Benefit Specialist, Inc. has been established to develop programs for employers and individuals to encourage healthy lifestyles. WNE specializes in providing personalized health and wellness coaching at the employer’s worksite or our offices.
A wellness program in the workplace provides many benefits to employers and employees:
- Allows employers to contain health care and disability costs
- Improves productivity and employee performance
- Encourages job satisfaction and positive moral
- Controls absenteeism and turnover
- Fosters a healthy corporate atmosphere.
After completing a Health Risk Assessment, employees are able to participate in small group sessions that include topics such as weight management, nutrition education, exercise motivation, stress management and smoking cessation. Individual counseling and health and wellness coaching provides additional support for individuals.
Health and Wellness coaching is the practice of health education and health promotion utilizing effective behavioral psychology principles to enhance the wellness of clients by facilitating the attainment of their health and wellness goals and to assist them in making lifestyle changes.
WNE also provides comprehensive nutrition and dietetic consulting to individuals in our offices. We work with individuals to develop personalized programs designed to address specific needs.
Health and Wellness coach, Dana Thornley, RD, LDN received a Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology-Dietetics from Montclair State University (1995) and is currently in the process of completing the Masters of Health Sciences program in Integrative Health and Wellness at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ.
Dana is a registered dietitian with over 16 years of experience in individual health and wellness counseling, teaching group classes, and lecturing on a variety of health related topics to audiences of all age ranges in the general public, as well as continuing medical education programs to healthcare providers and professional organizations.