Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for PTSD and Complex Trauma Certification Course

Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for PTSD and Complex Trauma Certification Course

Description:

Your clients are sick and tired of talking, session after session, about their trauma…

…They’re hoping for a breakthrough that never seems to come.

When every evidence-based strategy you’ve been trained to use breaks down, it’s easy to feel like you’re not doing enough.

It’s a feeling I experienced often in my early years of practice.

But through my time as a pioneering integrative medicine researcher and clinician at Harvard Medical School and later working side by side with indigenous healers in the jungles of Mexico, I began to discover a complex relationship between what we eat and the way we think, feel, and interact with the world.

With my clients, I started integrating talk therapy with nutrition, body work, breathing strategies, yoga, medicine and more.

And I quickly discovered that their journey to healing accelerated and they experienced lifechanging results — even when they were previously stuck.

That’s why I created this exclusive, self-paced online certification training… to teach you how to treat both the mind and body so your trauma clients can find deeper healing faster than ever before.

You’ll end this certification course with a step-by-step process you can implement immediately with your clients and the confidence you need to create personalized care plans from an array of scientific disciplines proven to improve overall well-being.

You’ll leave this certification training with…
The complete set of interventions you need to work with the mind, body, and spirit
The skills to go beyond just talk therapy to treat the full person in front of you
The strategies to safely and ethically use integrated and nutritional medicine within your professional discipline’s scope of practice
The understanding of how the body reacts when clients are suffering from complex trauma and PTSD
The confidence to combine Integrative Medicine with other modalities like Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and post-trauma therapy
The education you need to become Certified in Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for Trauma Treatment
The chance to join an exclusive referral network for clinicians trained in Integrative Medicine
You’ll get comprehensive training in…
The psychology of trauma
Trauma’s effects on the body
Circadian and ultradian rhythms and hormones
Bio-individuality, digestion, and diet
Yoga and breathing techniques
Somatic interventions and energy therapies
Nutrition and supplementation
Herbal medicine and entheogens
Detoxification and hydrotherapy strategies
And so much more…
WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN THIS CERTIFICATION COURSE

Overview of Integrative Medicine and Trauma
Introduction
Thinking integratively as the core feature of your practice
Apply a trauma-informed model of self-care, nutritional and integrative approaches
The principle of substitutions and conscious self-medication
Integrating IM with methods like Polyvagal Theory, IFS, Eye Movement, & Post trauma therapy
Ethics & Scope of Practice
Working independently, group practice, hospital settings
Legal issues
Informed consent handouts
Disclosure document handouts
Testing
The Psychology of Trauma
Acute and chronic PTSD, complex trauma, Dissociative-type, DSM-5®
Special types of trauma: Medical, dental, military, white collar (clergy, professionals, gurus)
ACES quiz and its relationship to physical health
Interpersonal and power dynamics
Identify the role for IM in attachment and self-regulation in children and adults
Trauma, Biology & the Body
Energy, fatigue and mitochondria
Stress response: hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
Dysautonomia (POTS, chronic fatigue, pain, fibromyalgia)
Chronic illnesses, chronic pelvic pain
Psychoneuro-immunology, autoimmune disorders
Digestive disorders; gut and dysbiosis
Trauma, Culture & Identity
Demographics of trauma and ethnicity/identity
The role of integrative medicine and nutrition in treatment across cultures
Overcoming stigma with integrative medicine and nutrition
LGBTQ+ & BIPOC communities
Cultural Formulation Interview: DSM-5®
Brainbow Blueprint: Integrative and Nutritional Strategies
Circadian & Ultradian Rhythm & Hormones
Assessment and testing of circadian rhythm as it pertains to PTSD
Somatic Empathy; methods of clinical entrainment in treatment
The role of pranayama in altering brain hemispheric rhythms
The brain and heart: heart rate variability and HeartMath technology
The role of hormones in trauma throughout the life cycle
Bio-individuality, Digestion & Diet
Bio-individuality and personalized health
Polyvagal theory, nutrition and integrative methods
Restoration strategies for digestion from salivation to elimination
Digestive disorders (GERD, Colitis, NAFLD, Metabolic syndrome, IBS constipation) in complex trauma and PTSD
Integrative Assessment, Test & Evaluation
Conducting an integrative medicine and nutritional assessment for trauma and its sequelae
Review of ethics and scope
Tests, assessments, and analysis
Handouts
Demonstration of the assessment process
Food mood diary