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Nutrition Psychiatry: Integrating Nutrition and Lifestyle

Previously Recorded
Vicki Steine
$99.99

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.

About the Presenter

Vicki Steine is a Doctor of Science in Holistic Nutrition and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice working with children and adults. She enjoys combining her skills as a Social Worker with her holistic nutrition knowledge to educate her clients on the benefits of treating mental health and neurological disorders with nutrition, supplements, and traditional psychotherapy. Her goal is to give each of her clients the tools they need to live a quality life with optimal wellness. Dr. Vicki strongly values both traditional and integrative/functional medicine and passionately believes in teaching her clients the power of personal responsibility in health and wellness.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Evaluate mood and behavior in clients using micro-and macronutrients.
  2. 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.
  3. Apply integrated and nutritional medicine safely and ethically within your professional discipline’s scope of practice
  4. Evalaute the difference between Functional and Western Medcine
  5. Identify lifestyle choices that can impact mental health
  6. 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 nutrients

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 workshop offers 6 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

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
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
Refund Policy:
Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
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*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.