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Nutrition Psychiatry: Integrating Nutrition and Lifestyle
Nutriton psychiatry is an exciting new field that takes your work with clients to a new level of success. The brain and the body are intimately connected and it is important to integrate nutrition and lifestyle changes in every client's treatment plan. In this class you will learn how inflammation, epigenetics, mitochondria, toxins, screen time, sleep, and exercise impact not only your clients health but also their mental health. For your client to truly heal, it is important to incorporate all of these things into your psychotherapy practice.
Nutrition Psychiatry: Integrating Nutrition and Lifestyle
Friday, March 14, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Presenter: Vicki Steine
Course Length: 6 Hours
Learning Objectives:
Evaluate mood and behavior in clients using micro-and macronutrients.
Distinguish practical tools to assist clients in understanding comprehensive non-pharmaceutical treatment strategies and protocols and how they can use those to help manage their mental health.
Apply integrated and nutritional medicine safely and ethically within your professional discipline’s scope of practice
Evalaute the difference between Functional and Western Medcine
Identify lifestyle choices that can impact mental health
Identify the impact of the gut brain axis on mental health
This workshop Offers 6 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
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Nutriton psychiatry is an exciting new field that takes your work with clients to a new level of success. The brain and the body are intimately connected and it is important to integrate nutrition and lifestyle changes in every client's treatment plan. In this class you will learn how inflammation, epigenetics, mitochondria, toxins, screen time, sleep, and exercise impact not only your clients health but also their mental health. For your client to truly heal, it is important to incorporate all of these things into your psychotherapy practice.
Learning Objectives:
Evaluate mood and behavior in clients using micro-and macronutrients.
Distinguish practical tools to assist clients in understanding comprehensive non-pharmaceutical treatment strategies and protocols and how they can use those to help manage their mental health.
Apply integrated and nutritional medicine safely and ethically within your professional discipline’s scope of practice
Evalaute the difference between Functional and Western Medcine
Identify lifestyle choices that can impact mental health
Identify the impact of the gut brain axis on mental health
Agenda:
I. Introduction
a. The difference between Western and functional medicine
b. The introduction of nutrion psychiatry
30 minutes
II. Nutrition
a. Definition of macro and micro nutients
b. Definition of the S.A.D. diet
c. The impact of sugar on your client's brain
d. Diets that are available for treating your client
e. How to evaluate your client's diet
f. Food prep and other tricks in the kitchen for your client
Video on organic foods
Exercise: mindfulness eating
Written examples of assessment forms
2 hours
III. Inflammation and the gut-brain axis
a. Acute and chronic
b. Impact of inflammation on brain health
c. What is the gut brain axis?
1 hour
IV. Toxins
a. Where do they come from?
b. How do we manage them?
Exercise on toxins in your environment
1 hour
V. Mitochondria, epigentics, screentime and sleep
a. How our biology matters
b. Tips on how to improve your client's biological health
30 minutes
VI. Somatic therapies
a. How to treat the mind and body
b. Tapping and brainspotting
Video on Tai Chi
Exercise in deep breathing
1 hour
This presentation is open to:
Social Workers
Professional Counselors
Therapists
Psychologists
Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling.
The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0774.
Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland. CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.
Refunds
Registrants who are unable to attend a Frum Therapist seminar or live workshop may ask for, and will receive, a
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knows in advance that they are unable to attend we ask that they inform Frum Therapist ahead of time by emailing
[email protected] or by calling or texting (607) 249-4585 this allows us to free up the spot in the training in
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