3-Day Nutrition for Mental Health Certification Course

Presented by Vicki Steine, DSc, LCSW, this profram will provide training in the following:

• Improve mood and behavior in clients using micro-and macronutrients
• Ideas for practical, affordable and individualized diets along with optimal cooking methods and recipes
• Safely and ethically apply integrated and nutritional medicine within your professional discipline’s scope of practice
• Improve assessment by learning to differentiate between a clinical presentation of mental illnesses vs. nutritional and/or hormonal imbalances
• Customize treatment plans through six unique nutritional methods for clients with mood lability
• Nourish both the brain and the gut, the “second brain,” through key nutrients
• Learn to identify gluten and casein sensitivity with the presentation of depression, psychosis and ASD in clients
• Implement evidence-based protocols for nutritional and herbal approaches for six DSM-5® categories
• Evaluate how client eating patterns may influence their mental health by using a food-mood assessment tool
• Increase compliance by using the DSM-5® Cultural Formulation tool to inform your treatment planning process
• Prevent side effects of polymedicine use through evaluation of drug-nutrient-herbal interactions
• Decrease dissociative symptoms in clients through stage-specific anaerobic and aerobic exercise and self-care methods
• Improve focus for clients with anxiety disorders with breathing techniques to reduce hyperventilation
• Adapt complementary and alternative methods for children and teens with behavioral and mental health disorders such as ADHD and ODD
• Learn when psychotropic medications, herbal medicines, and nutrients can be harmful to clients
• Improve anxiety and depression symptoms with essential fatty acids
• Discover how circadian rhythm contributes to depression, PTSD and bipolar disorder
• Evaluate the impact of blood sugar and genetic variations on mental health disorders and effective treatment

Approved for 19 CE clock hours; no NBCC credits available for this program.