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Nutritional & Integrative Interventions for Mental Health Disorders: Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar & ADHD


Speaker:
Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAC
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC049800
Brochure Code:
PLW50140
Media Type:
Live Webcast

Dates


Description

  • Evidenced-based natural treatments
  • How to fix sleep to heal the brain
  • The gut - brain connection
  • Important lab testing explained
  • Drug / herb / nutrient interactions to watch out for

Join Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAC, as he teaches you how to think more holistically about diagnosing mental illness, as well as how lifestyle choices, poor digestion, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar dysregulation, hormonal imbalances and much more can contribute to mental health disorders. Improve your clients’ physical and mental health and accelerate your therapeutic results with non-pharmaceutical interventions to treat depression, anxiety, bipolar and ADHD. You will learn the true underlying causes of these disorders, to more accurately diagnose and help your clients heal by addressing the underlying causes.

Through both lecture and example case analysis, Dr. Bongiorno will help you understand how addressing core physiologic and nutritional needs can greatly increase therapeutic results. You will learn the top lab tests to help aid your diagnosis and treatment as well as the lifestyle, diet, and supplements most effective to help treat your most depressed and anxious clients, while learning simple strategies that can safely replace pharmaceutical interventions as well as which supplements and natural treatments are safe to use with conventional treatments, and how to use natural medicines to aid in weaning. Expect to leave this seminar with the tools you can use to immediately incorporate these strategies into your clinical practice.

OUTLINE

Underlying Factors of Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar and ADHD

  • Transcending Mind-Body Separation: Understanding the HPA
  • The Factors that Cause “Chemical Imbalance”
  • Beyond Pharmaceutical Management

Getting To Know You

  • How to Build a Healthy Integrative Therapeutic Relationship
  • What Does an Integrative Intake Look Like?
  • What Questions are Key?
  • Treatment Plans with Impact

Laboratory Testing You Should Know

  • Blood Sugar
  • Lipids
  • Hormonal Testing
  • Nutrient Testing
  • Digestive Function Tests
  • Saliva Adrenal Tests
  • Environmental Toxicity
  • Genomic Testing

Accelerate Your Therapeutic Results with Powerful Lifestyle Changes

  • Sleep: Natural Medicine for a Good Sleep
  • Exercise: Elevate Serotonin and Regulate
  • Food: Which Foods Heal the Brain
  • Which Diets are Best?
  • Protein: The Building Blocks of Happiness
  • Digestion, Microbiome and Inflammation

Choosing the Right Supplements for Mental Health

  • Three Basics Every Patient Should be Taking
  • Supplements to Nourish Body and Brain: B-Vitamins, 5-MTHF, Vitamin D, Magnesium, Much More

Supplements for Physiological Support

  • Blood Sugar Control: Chromium
  • Digestive Support: Berberine, Saffron
  • Anti-inflammatories: Curcumin, Essential Fats

Supplements for Direct Mood Support

  • 5-HTP, St. Johns Wort, Tryptophan, SAMe, Macuna, Venetron, Lithium Valerian, Passiflora

Keeping Your Clients Safe: The Truth About

  • Popular Supplements
  • Serotonin Syndrome
  • Interactions with Pharmaceuticals
  • Supplements that Support Medications' Efficacy

Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment Plans For:

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Bipolar
  • ADHD
  • Anger/Irritability
  • Obesity
  • Addictions

OBJECTIVES

  1. Explain chemical imbalances holistically.
  2. Describe how integrative interventions facilitate a deeper level of healing.
  3. Summarize how foods and lifestyle may impact mental health.
  4. List which lab tests are helpful to unearth underlying factors of mental challenges.
  5. Explain the strong link and research between gut and brain and mental health moods.
  6. Explain how improved nutrition improves therapeutic outcomes.
  7. Describe which nutrients correct hormonal, blood sugar, inflammatory and digestive disturbance.
  8. Describe the link between environmental toxicity and mental health.
  9. Apply nutritional and integrative strategies for assessing and treating depression, anxiety, bipolar, and ADHD.
  10. Summarize how to use holistic care to help patient safely wean off medications.

 

Credit


* Credit Note - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

CE Information is based on 100% attendance.

 


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Speaker

Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAC Related seminars and products


Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAC, is regarded as a leading expert in natural treatments for mental health. Dr. Peter Bongiorno is co-director of InnerSource Natural Health and Acupuncture, a premier Northeast naturopathic clinic, with thriving practices in New York City and Long Island. Specializing in emotional and mental health, Dr. Bongiorno researched at the National Institute of Health, in the National Institute of Mental Health’s department of Clinical Neuroendocrinology, and Yale’s department of pharmacology before training at Bastyr University in naturopathic medicine and acupuncture. He is president of the NY Association of Naturopathic Physicians.
Dr. Bongiorno lectures extensively to both physicians and the public about integrative and natural medicine care.  He is a major contributor to the Textbook of Natural Medicine (Elsevier), in 2010 he authored Healing Depression (CCNM press) the first comprehensive textbook designed to teach physicians the science and art of natural medicine for mood support. He has authored How Come They’re Happy and I’m Not, (Red Wheel/Conari Press), Holistic Solutions for Anxiety And Depression (Norton) and Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug Free Program (Red Wheel/Conari Press).


Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Peter Bongiorno is co-director of Inner Source Natural Health and Acupuncture. He receives a consulting fee from Emerson Ecologics and Douglas Laboratories. Dr. Bongiorno receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Peter Bongiorno is the president of the NY Association of Naturopathic Physicians.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals.

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