Dr Claire Maguire
Dr Claire Maguire is a leading expert in health and wellbeing coaching, with over 15 years of experience as a wellness coach. She is passionate about training coaches who create real, lasting impact in people’s lives.
Since founding Raw Horizons Academy, Claire has personally trained hundreds of health and wellbeing coaches who now practice successfully across 12 countries, which include England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Middle East, USA, Australia, Hong Kong, The Netherlands, Spain and more. To see where our alumni are today, explore our Graduate Directory.
Her comprehensive approach to wellness coach training comes from years of real-world experience – she has facilitated over 400 wellbeing retreats, worked with thousands of people through her retreat centre and private coaching practice, and understands firsthand what it takes to build a meaningful career in wellbeing.
Claire’s journey into health and wellbeing coaching began through her own lived- experience. By navigating health challenges that affected every aspect of her life, physically, mentally, and emotionally, she discovered the power of a holistic wellness approach to healing and growth. This experience shaped her deep understanding of how wellbeing touches every area of our lives and fueled her commitment to helping others on their own wellness journeys.
What sets Claire apart as a trainer is her genuine care for her students’ success. Not only does she teach coaching theory; she also shares practical wisdom from building her own wellbeing businesses. This includes her experience of navigating the challenges of helping others transform their lives, plus creating sustainable practices that truly make a difference.
Claire’s mission is to ensure every graduate leaves with not just wellness coaching certification, but the genuine confidence and skills to create meaningful change around the world, one conversation at a time.
Informal Bio:
Dr Maguire has been a Wellbeing Coach since 2008. Claire founded Raw Horizons Wellbeing Retreats in 2011 and has been running successful self-development programmes and transformational retreats since then.
This includes various format structures such as in-person, live online (such as Zoom meetings), extended hybrid style programmes and self-paced online courses – all embodying self-care, self-worth and personal transformation for long-lasting holistic change.
With a PhD in medical biochemistry from Imperial College, London, followed by research in top universities, Claire has an inherent interest and understanding in the science behind how the body and mind work.
She has since trained and learned from outstanding world-class coaches such as Gabrielle Bernstein, Judymay Murphy, Karen Knowler, Tony Robbins and Dr Sarah McKay to learn extensively about wellbeing and lifestyle, how the mind works and achievement.
Her experience started in food relationship coaching, helping people understand how food affects emotional and physical health. She then expanded to cover life coaching as she discovered that when people present with an issue regarding food, it addresses all areas of life. This led to health and wellbeing coaching, by developing and using techniques to combat stress, gain confidence and uncover a passion for life.
Dr Maguire’s coaching approach is holistic coaching, vision coaching and solution-focused coaching. She sees the client as a whole, so all issues are addressed. She anchors into the vision with the understanding that focusing on the outcome desired can erase self-doubt and drive motivation.
Claire specialises in linguistics and the power of words, plus mindfulness, food relationship, stress management, self-worth, self-expression and holistic wellbeing. She writes her blog articles regularly and you can read them all here – Dr Claire Maguire: Blog Articles plus adds short videos to her Raw Horizons YouTube Channel.
Her own health challenges with breast cancer and overcoming the trauma have reinforced in her the utmost importance of our own self-worth, health and positive body image. This is what drives her to inspire other people to live the life they desire.
Claire has reached out to thousands of people with her engaging talks, successful retreat programs, popular workshops and her private coaching practice.
She is a published author (you can find her book publications here) and has received significant acclaim in the national press, such as her live interview on the BBC Good Food Show.
In addition to her expertise as a renowned wellness coach, Dr Maguire is also a certified Kundalini yoga teacher, chakra dance practitioner, plus qualified meditation and breathwork facilitator and trainer.
For Claire, learning never stops, and she is always expanding her expertise and skill set to ensure her clients and students receive the best knowledge available.
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‘I spent 40 years in therapy trying to solve the wrong problem. Thank you Claire for this life changing experience. So much has changed in my thinking & beliefs.’ Cathy H.