Your Coach

Transformational coaching is about you, not me. Still, it helps to know who will be guiding the process.

My name is Arvid Schigt. I am trained as a medical doctor, emergency physician, certified lifestyle medicine practitioner, and accredited health coach.

After qualifying in medicine in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, I completed specialist training in emergency medicine and have worked internationally ever since. My career has taken me from emergency and prehospital care in North Wales to critical care and retrieval medicine with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in rural Australia. Since 2020, I have been living on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, where I work in a small but great emergency department.

Alongside medicine, I developed a growing interest in helping people create lasting improvements in their health and wellbeing. This led me to train in coaching and lifestyle medicine, combining evidence-based practice with a more personal, sustainable approach to change.

My coaching style is grounded in curiosity, compassion, and practicality. Together, we focus on changes that fit your life and are realistic to maintain.

I noticed quite soon already that a coaching session can leave me with as much joy, fulfillment, and “stoke” as a surf session does. Even beyond the next day!