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Nutritional and Integrative Interventions for Mental Health Disorders with Anne Procyk

• Immediately implement these new tools into your clinical practice
• Nutritional interventions for therapeutic success
• 7 nutrients essential for neurotransmitter balance
• 4 habits that sabotage mental health
• 3 common hormonal imbalances commonly misdiagnosed as mental illness

Join Anne Procyk, ND, as she teaches you how to think more holistically about diagnosis, nutritional deficiencies, and hormonal imbalances that may contribute to mental health disorders. Improve your clients’ mental health and accelerate your therapeutic results with non-pharmaceutical interventions to treat depression, anxiety, bipolar and ADD. You will learn the underlying causes and symptoms of these disorders, to more accurately diagnose and treat your clients.

Through case analysis, you will experience how addressing core physical and nutritional needs can greatly increase therapeutic results. You will discover the nutrients most essential to help treat your most depressed and anxious clients, and learn simple strategies that can replace pharmaceutical interventions. Leave this seminar with the tools and understanding necessary to immediately incorporate these strategies into your clinical practice.

OUTLINE

Underlying Factors of Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar & ADD

• Transcend the Mind-Body Separation
• Chemical & Hormonal Imbalances
• Beyond Pharmaceutical Management
• Food: The Good, the Bad, and the Fake
• Lack of Sleep & Exercise

Recognizing When “Mental Illness” is Something Else

• Hormones
• Blood Sugar and Diabetes
• Genetic Variations
• Inflammation
• Stress: A Holistic Approach

Nutritional & Integrative Mental Health Interventions

• Fats: Essential Fatty Acids, Toxic Fats, Fish Oil
• Protein: Tyrosine, Tryptohan, and Other Amino Acids Necessary for Happiness
• Carbohydrates: The True Complex Carbohydrates, Inositol
• Vitamins: B Vitamins, 5-MT HF, Vitamin D
• Minerals: Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc, Iodine
• Supplemental Activated Nutrients: GABA, 5-HTP, SAM e
• Other Strategies: St. John’s Wort, Theanine
• Keeping your Clients Safe: Pharmaceutical Interactions with Popular Supplements
• Exercise: Elevate Serotonin & Regulate Stress Hormones
• Sleep: The 4 Essential Habits for Refreshing Sleep

Non-Pharmaceutical Treatment Plans for:

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

Building an Integrative Health Team

• When to Refer
• Who to Refer a Client To
• Where to Find the Right Provider

OBJECTIVES

• Explain chemical imbalance holistically.
• Describe how integrative interventions facilitate a deeper level of healing.
• Outline the nutrients critical for optimal brain function.
• Explain how improved nutrition improves therapeutic outcomes.
• Differentiate between mental illness and nutrition and hormonal imbalances.
• Apply nutritional and integrative strategies for assessing and treating depression, anxiety, bipolar, ADD.
• Describe the impact of hormones on mental health assessment and treatment.
• Summarize the impact of blood sugar and genetic variations on mental health disorders and effective treatment.

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