Your personal invitation from Dr. Korn …
Your clients are sick and tired of talking, session after session, about their trauma …
… They’re hoping for a breakthrough that never seems to come.
When every evidence-based strategy you’ve been trained to use breaks down, it’s easy to feel like you’re not doing enough.
It’s a feeling I experienced often in my early years of practice.
But through my time as a pioneering integrative medicine researcher and clinician at Harvard Medical School and later working side by side with indigenous healers in the jungles of Mexico, I began to discover a complex relationship between what we eat and the way we think, feel, and interact with the world.
With my clients, I started integrating talk therapy with nutrition, bodywork, breathing strategies, yoga, medicine, and more.
And I quickly discovered that their journey to healing accelerated and they experienced life-changing results - even when they were previously stuck.
That’s why I created this exclusive, self-paced training … to teach you how to treat both the mind and body so your trauma clients can find deeper healing faster than ever before.
You’ll end this course with a step-by-step process you can implement immediately with your clients and the confidence you need to create personalized care plans from an array of scientific disciplines proven to improve overall well-being.
Dr. Leslie Korn
Objectives
- Examine the scientific research that links diet and nutrition to mental illness and its implications for treatment.
- Evaluate ethical and scope of practice considerations relative to integrated and nutritional medicine with respect to your own professional discipline.
- Use a food-mood assessment to evaluate how client eating patterns may influence their mental health.
- Examine client self-shame statements regarding their dietary habits.
- Identify the science of circadian rhythm as it contributes to depression, PTSD, and bipolar disorder.
- Choose stage-specific anaerobic and aerobic exercise and client self-care methods to decrease dissociative symptoms in clients.
- Use breathing techniques to reduce hyperventilation and improve focus among clients with anxiety disorders.
- Identify integrative and nutritional methods for digestion as they relate to client psycho-education.
- Analyze the science for the “second brain,” the gut-brain axis communication system of neurotransmitters.
- Identify six culinary methods for treating clients who present with mood lability.
- Examine adaptations of culinary methods for children and teens with behavioral and mental health disorders such as ADHD and ODD.
- Identify the evidence for the use of fats in the diet for anxiety and depression.
- Determine how certain micronutrients and macronutrients affect mood and behavior in clients.
- Identify the correlation of gluten and casein sensitivity with the presentation of depression, psychosis, and ASD in clients.
- Evaluate drug-nutrient-herbal interactions for clients in order to prevent side effects of polymedicine use.
- Define the benefits of therapeutic massage therapy and bodywork as an adjunct to psychotherapy.
- Examine the research on cranial electrical stimulation for insomnia, depression, and PTSD.
- Identify 6 nutritional methods for treating clients who present with mood lability.
Outline
Clinical Application and Evidence-Based Research
Scope of Practice Information
- Nutritional therapies
- Culinary medicine
- Behavioral medicine
- Nutritional supplementation
- Herbal medicine
- Hydrotherapies for mood management
- Bodywork therapies
- Acupuncture and cranial electrical stimulation
- Sound and music for insomnia and mood light & dark therapies
- Stage appropriate yoga for anxiety, pain, and PTSD
Assessments
- Learn to conduct a basic nutritional food/ mood assessment
- Learn to conduct an adrenal stress and biological rhythm assessment
- Culture and ethnicity assessment and treatment
- The Cultural Formulation Interview and CAM methods
- Three basic lab tests for optimal mental health
The Psychology of Change Using Integrative Approaches
Balancing the sleep/wake cycle in depression, bipolar disorder, and PTSD
- Balancing circadian rhythm in depression, bipolar, and PTSD
- Applying special yogic breathing exercises for mental health
- Enhance sleep and address insomnia
The Complex Relationships between Mental and Physical Health
- Strategies to reduce inflammation: the major factor in depression, anxiety, bipolar, and ADHD
- Chronic illness, fibromyalgia
- Anxiety and digestion
- The second brain: microbiome, probiotics and GABA, and anxiety
- Sleep, adrenal health, and rhythms
- Anger, alcohol abuse, and liver health
- Genetics, depression and brain
- PTSD and auto immune, addictions, and cognition
- ADHD, ASD, and food sensitivities
- Integrative approach recovery from addictions
Beyond Pharmaceutical Management
- Address clients concerns and provide alternatives to psychotropics
- Herbal medicine for mental health
- Strategies for coming off or reducing psychotropic
- Ayurvedic medicine and mental health
- Exercise: aerobic, anaerobic, yoga, core, land, and water based
- Sound and music for insomnia, anxiety, and anger
- Toning, binaural music
Nutrition, Diet and Culinary Medicine
- Food as "brain-mind-medicine"
- Fats: essential fatty acids, toxic fats, and fish oil
- Protein: the building blocks of happiness
- What nutrients improve mental health and cognitive function
- Vitamins, minerals, glandulars, and special nutrients for the non-nutritionist
- Hormones
- Balance blood sugar to balance mood
- Cultural and genetic variations
- Enhance digestion for mental health
- Thyroid function and mental health
Herbal Medicine
- Seven major herbs for PTSD, anxiety, depression, sleep, and cognitive health
- Endocannabinoid deficit theory
- Cannabis and psychedelic medicine
- THC versus CBD
- Evidence for medical cannabis for mental health
- PTSD and chronic pain
- Smell, mood and cognition
- Evidence for essential oils to alter mood and cognition
Special Issues Across the Lifespan
- Children: supporting sleep, focus, mood, and attention
- Alternatives to psychotropics for ADHD
- Middle life: perimenopause, menopause, andropause
- Preventing cognitive decline
- Nutrition and integrative methods to support people with dementia and their caregivers
Somatic Therapies, Acupuncture, and New Approaches
- The spectrum of somatic and bodywork therapies
- The NADA protocol for addictions
- Cranial electrical stimulation for PTSD, insomnia, and optimal cognition
Comprehensive Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment Plans and Protocols for Treating the DSM-5® Disorders
- Depression & Seasonal Affect Disorder
- Anxiety, PTSD and Complex Trauma
- Bipolar
- ADHD
- Body Dysmorphia
- OCD
- Bulimia
- Insomnia
- Addictions
Develop a Niche Practice
- The ethics and scope of your practice: ethics, law, and competency
- Build an integrative health team
- When and where to refer clients
- Where to find the right provider
- Develop a niche practice as a certified specialist
- Professional organizations and more training
- Controversies and hot topics
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals