Whether you’re just learning about nutrition for mental health or you’re looking for new ways to expand your nutritional approach, this training will give you crucial insights while you develop practical skills so you can confidently and ethically integrate nutrition into your treatment within your scope of practice!
Here’s What You’ll Learn Over Three Days
The Complex Relationship between Mental and Physical Health
Physiological Factors of Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar and ADHD
How Foods Affect Moods
Nutrition, Diet and Culinary Medicine
The Truth About Popular Supplements and Herbal Medicine
Assessments and Evidence-Based Research
Recognizing When “Mental Illness” is Something Else
Symptoms of Nutritional Deficiencies and Co-Morbid Conditions
Physiological Factors of Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar and ADHD
- Transcending mind-body separation: Understanding the complex relationships
- The factors that cause “chemical imbalance”
- Beyond pharmaceutical management
- Balancing circadian rhythm
- Applying breathing exercises for mental health
- Enhance sleep and address insomnia
How Foods Affect Moods
- Carbohydrates – A new way to think about cravings
- Effects protein may have on depression and anxiety
- Fats for mental health (depression, ADHD, bipolar)
- The connection between food, depression, diabetes and obesity
- Physiological causes of fatigue, depression and anxiety
- Vitamins: B-Vitamins, 5-MTHF, Vitamin D
- Minerals: Magnesium, calcium
Nutrition, Diet and Culinary Medicine
- Food as “brain-mind-medicine”
- Fats: Essential fatty acids, toxic fats, fish oil
- Protein: the building blocks of happiness
- Nutrients to improve mental health and cognitive function
- Vitamins, minerals, glandulars, and special nutrients for the non-nutritionist
- Regulate hormonal imbalance
- Balance blood sugar to balance mood
- Cultural and genetic variations
- Enhance digestion for mental health
- Thyroid function and mental health
The Truth About Popular Supplements and 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
- Adaptogens: Ginseng, licorice, ashwagandha
- Melatonin
- Interactions with pharmaceuticals
Assessments and Evidence-Based Research
Recognizing When “Mental Illness” is Something Else
- Hormonal imbalance
- Anxiety vs. hypoglycemia
- Inflammation
- Digestion
- Depressed, fatigued or malnourished
- Side effects of medications
Symptoms of Nutritional Deficiencies and Co-Morbid Conditions
- Strategies to reduce inflammation
- The major factor in depression, anxiety, bipolar and ADHD
- Anxiety and digestion
- The Second Brain: Microbiome, probiotics and GABA, and anxiety
- Sleep, adrenal health, and rhythms
- Alcohol abuse
- Genetics, depression and brain
- PTSD and auto immune, addictions and cognition
- ADHD, ASD and food sensitivities
- Integrative approach recovery from addictions
Simple Screening Tools to Identify Nutritional Deficiencies Contributing to:
Assessments Using Integrative Approaches
Clinical Applications – Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment Strategies
Comprehensive Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment Plans and Protocols for:
Practical Tools to Accelerate Treatment Results, Improve Energy, and Gain Mental Clarity
Unique Issues Across the Lifespan
Build an Integrative Health Team
Apply Techniques Within Your Scope of Practice
- Anxiety and PTSD
- Depression
- ADHD
- Fatigue
- Anger
- Bipolar disorder
- Lack of mental clarity
- Other mental health concerns
Assessments Using Integrative Approaches
- Conduct a basic nutritional food/mood assessment
- Conduct an adrenal stress and biological rhythm assessment
- The Cultural Formulation Interview
- Basic lab tests for optimal mental health
Clinical Applications – Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment Strategies
Comprehensive Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment Plans and Protocols for:
- Depression & Seasonal Affect Disorder
- Anxiety, PTSD and complex trauma
- Bipolar
- ADHD
- Body dysmorphia
- OCD
- Bulimia
- Insomnia
- Addictions
- Obesity
- Psychosomatic symptoms
- Pre-menstrual syndrome and menopausal symptoms
Practical Tools to Accelerate Treatment Results, Improve Energy, and Gain Mental Clarity
- Food: The Good, the Bad and the Fake
- Sleep: The 4 habits critical to refreshing sleep
- Exercise: Elevate serotonin and regulate stress hormones
- Stress: A holistic approach
- Feed your brain
Unique Issues Across the Lifespan
- Children: Supporting sleep, focus, mood and attention
- Alternatives to psychotropics for ADHD
- Preventing cognitive decline
- Nutrition and integrative methods to support people with dementia and their caregivers
Build an Integrative Health Team
- When and where to refer clients
- How to find the right provider
- Questions to ask before referring
- Develop a niche practice as a certified specialist
- Professional organizations and more training
- Controversies and hot topics
Apply Techniques Within Your Scope of Practice
- Ethics, law and competency
- Nutritional therapies
- Culinary medicine
- Behavioral medicine
- Nutritional supplementation
- Herbal medicine
- Integrative detoxification for addiction
Objectives
- Evaluate mood and behavior in clients using micro-and macronutrients.
- Justify how macronutrients and micronutrients affect mood and behavior in clients.
- Determine how gluten and casein sensitivity may influence the presentation of depression, psychosis and ASD in clients.
- Apply integrated and nutritional medicine safely and ethically within your professional discipline’s scope of practice.
- Correlate assessments to differentiate between a clinical presentation of mental illnesses vs. nutritional and/or hormonal imbalances.
- Construct treatment plans through six unique nutritional methods for clients with mood lability.
- Determine key nutrients that support the function of both the brain and the gut, the “second brain”.
- Implement evidence-based protocols for nutritional approaches for six DSM-5 categories
- Evaluate how client eating patterns may influence their mental health by using a food-mood assessment tool
- Develop a Cultural Formulation tool using the DSM-5 to inform your treatment planning process
- Apply at least one stage-specific nutritional methods to assist clients in all stages of life.
- 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.
- Evaluate nutrition-based alternatives to psychotropics for ADHD.
- Utilize at least one strategy to enhance digestion to decrease anxiety.
- Inspect the presented research on how essential fatty acids can help clients diagnosed with mood disorders alleviate symptoms (as is within your scope of practice)
- Design a plan to increase serotonin through nutrition and exercise.
- Evaluate the impact of blood sugar and genetic variation on mental health disorders.
- Analyze the efficacy of comprehensive elimination diets in order to alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety and fatigue.
- Create an integrative health team to improve clinical outcomes.
