3-Hour Inflammation, Hormones, Immune Issues and Mood Disorders
What Therapists Need to Know
- Speaker:
- Christina Cowger, MFT
- Duration:
- 3.5 Hours
- Product Code:
- LWC150997
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ96838
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar
Description
- Translate complex neurobiological research into clinically relevant insight
- How long COVID, Lyme, chronic fatigue and other autoimmune diseases can impact mental health
- Integrate medical awareness into clinical case assessment
- Review key pharmacology
When clients present with low mood, anxiety, brain fog, fatigue, or irritability we’re not always getting the whole story.
Inflammation, immune activation, hormonal shifts, and chronic illness profoundly shape brain function, emotional regulation, and psychological resilience.
But many therapists were not taught this in grad school and the field continues to emerge.
That’s why you need this training with Christina Cowger, MFT, clinician and educator specializing in the intersection of chronic illness, inflammation, and mental health.
She’s taught countless mental health clinicians and physicians lecturing at places like Stanford University, Kaiser Permanente, the California Naturopathic Association, Sonoma State University and more.
In just 3 hours she’ll translate complex medical and neurobiological research into clinically relevant insight for mental health professionals …
… helping you uncover how inflammation, immune system issues and biological stressors impact mood disorders and how you can factor that into your work to help clients – without overstepping your scope.
You’ll discover:
- Key neurochemicals and how they’re impacted by chronic illness and inflammation
- How long COVID, Lyme, chronic fatigue and other autoimmune diseases impact mental health
- Barriers to treatment, socioeconomic limitations of care, gender and racial bias
- How to integrate medical awareness into clinical case assessment
- A review of key novel pharmacology that highlights inflammatory drivers of mood disorders
This training will help you more fully understand the context of your clients’ suffering …and help them find relief.
Register now!
Credit
Speaker
Christina Cowger, MFT Related seminars and products
Christina Cowger, MFT, has worked within the integrative medicine field for over two and a half decades providing both CME and CE education to health providers. Christina is a licensed mental health practitioner who has lectured on topics such as mood, anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and addiction. Throughout her career she has consulted with trauma and addiction recovery centers on integrating a mind-body approach to recovery. In addition to her extensive counseling experience, Christina has spent decades writing, researching, and lecturing on the topic of mind-body theories, experiential processes in trauma recovery, psychopharmacology, neuro-immune developments, and addiction. Christina was an integral force in developing a relationally based women’s residential program where she spearheaded the clinical track and served as the clinical director. This program dynamically addressed attachment and relationship challenges, integrating cognitive, biological, and experiential methods.
Her teaching and lecturing venues include Stanford University, Kaiser Permanente, California Pacific Medical Center, California Naturopathic Association, Dominican University, Sonoma State University, CAMFT and groups such as WAAT (Women’s Association for Addiction Treatment), CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders), the Nevada Osteopathic Association, physician groups, and addiction treatment centers. Christina is a CE provider in California. She received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University, studied health education at CIIS, and received her master’s degree from Sonoma State University.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Christina Cowger has employment relationships with Infectolab Americas and IGeneX. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Christina Cowger is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
Additional Info
Access Period for Live WebcastYou will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 15-minute break mid-morning. Actual break start time is at the discretion of the speaker. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Examine the relationship between chronic immune activation, inflammation, and mood disorders.
- Apply emerging research on hormones to improve clinical formulation, psychoeducation, and interdisciplinary collaboration – without exceeding scope of practice.
- Identify how pharmaceutical advancements that target inflammation are being used to treat resistant mood disorders.
Outline
- How neurotransmitters, hormones, and basic immune system impact mood disorders
- Key neurochemicals and how they’re impacted by chronic illness and inflammation
- Gender variations, life stage hormonal changes and illness as contributors to mood disorders
- How long COVID, Lyme, chronic fatigue and other autoimmune disease impact mental health
- How to integrate medical awareness into clinical case assessment
- Barriers to treatment, socioeconomic limitations of care, gender and racial bias
- A review of key pharmacology
- Case studies
- Research, risks and limitations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Registered Psychotherapists
- Addictions Counselors
- Nurses
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