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Night eating syndrome is an often-overlooked condition that can present similarly to binge eating disorder. By identifying its component parts, which includes mood, eating and sleeping disorders, it can be more appropriately treated. This course will describe the etiology of night eating syndrome along with outlining treatment for the condition.
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Food addiction has long been a controversial topic. In this webinar, Dr. Robert Lustig reviews the science and biochemistry underlying the concept of food addiction while outlining what dietary constituents appear to qualify as addictive.
This program will explore the factors that influence food intake, the underlying brain systems and neurochemistry, the potential for food addiction and strategies to minimize or prevent it.
Read MoreThe ADOS-2 focuses on the application of assessment methods as it is a standardized and semi-structured assessment of communication, social interaction, play, or the imaginative use of materials for people suspected of having an autism spectrum disorder.
Read MoreThis workshop will teach a series of interventions to expand history-taking, locate generationally-transmitted wounds and resources, and re-process along the lines of generational themes. This workshop includes afternoon practica to identify, explore and process clinicians’ generational themes.
Read MoreWith over 30 years of clinical experience, Dr. James Greenblatt, world renowned functional psychiatrist and researcher, is leading the way with clinical protocols for the use of low-dose nutritional lithium. In this recorded seminar, Dr. Greenblatt reviews different applications of lithium that are effective and safe for a range of psychiatric and neurologic disorders, such as Alzheimer’s, depression, addiction, traumatic brain injury, and post-COVID, as well as for suicide prevention.
Help your patients move from symptom management to lasting recovery with practical and evidence-based lithium recommendations. You’ll learn about the lithium dose-response curve, and defining dose parameters that are safe, accessible, and powerful across a range of diagnoses. From the training, you will be provided new skills and methodologies to utilize immediately with your patients.
Read MoreIn her accessible and practical style, Robin Shapiro will teach you how to use ego state therapy to work with a variety of clients and their issues. This is a 2 day workshop. During the workshop you will learn to distinguish healthy, flexible states from dissociative ones, and to map your own states, from physically-based vagal states to age and role-related states. You’ll learn methods to use embodied ego-state interventions to clear trauma, work with couples, attachment issues, sexual issues with sex-abuse survivors, over-active immune systems and chronic pain, shame, personality disorders, suicidal clients, and dissociative identity disorder. You will learn to track your own states, and you’ll practice many of the interventions. If you do EMDR, you’ll learn when it’s more useful to use EMDR, when to use ego state work, and when and how to use them both. And despite the seriousness of the subject, expect to enjoy the process.
Read MoreIn small groups, approximately 12-16 people, participants study in-depth, each of the EFT steps, through didactic instruction, role play and presentation of their own work via video tape. Participants must show 10 minutes of their work with a real couple during one of the core skills modules.
Read MoreIn this workshop Ad de Jongh and Suzy Matthijssen explain how one can use special EMDR techniques which can be applied to treat patients with a variety of mental health conditions, including Complex PTSD. They will show how to deal with the ingrained avoidance patterns of patients who are too afraid and avoidant to get started with trauma-focused therapy.
Read MoreThis training will guide EMDR clinicians to determine which target selection is most fitting for each client at any moment in time. These different types of case conceptualizations have been tested in the presenters’ clinical work and through scientific research. They include the (1) “Timeline route” for most mental health symptoms, such as sleeping problems, or feeling depressed, the (2)“Intrusion route” for trauma-related conditions, such as PTSD, the (3) “Floatback route”, for difficult emotions or bodily symptoms, the method EMDR therapists are probably most familiar with, (4) the "Belief route” for cases where irrational and negative core cognitions, about the person themselves, are central, (5) the “Emotion route” for when strong emotions such as guilt and anger are in the foreground, and the (6) “Flashforward route”, for anticipatory fear and anxiety disorders.
Read MoreThis course, presented by Dr. James Greenblatt, introduces a functional medicine model for anorexia nervosa (AN) treatment and recovery. Research supporting associations between metabolic abnormalities and micronutrient imbalances will be objectively reviewed, illuminating critical treatment targets for today’s functional psychiatry practice and providing an empirically validated blueprint for personalized interventions. Upon completion, students will be able to substantiate the clinical utility of a functional medicine approach for AN, and safely incorporate evidence-based treatment strategies into existing therapeutic models to maximize patient outcomes.
Read MoreThis presentation will explore common missteps in the counseling process with minority clients and how to address and repair those relationships. The concepts of cultural humility and affirmation will be defined and practiced by participants. The presenters will also discuss how to create a more inclusive practice or supervision space, and practical interventions addressing racial trauma. A resource list will be provided for participants. No prerequisites required.
Read MoreThis four-day training will encompass a variety of teaching styles. It will include lecture, large and small group discussion and practicum. Healing Our Core Issues is a developmental and relational trauma model of counseling based on the theory that individuals who have experienced trauma in their lives can experience relief and healing through connection.
Read MoreCreativity is a complex construct involving multiple components. We will discuss the various components of creativity. Creativity is not a monolithic trait; there are many paths to creativity. Even the most innovative creative individual ahead of his or her society is a product of that society. We will discuss the relationship between individual creativity, cognition, and the host culture.
Read MoreThis live, 18-hour course is open to participants who have completed the Advanced Applications of Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Levels 1 and 2. Each meeting addresses advanced methods, interventions, and case review. It will be conducted in 12 live webinars of 1.5 hours each. Participants will be provided journal articles and additional resources.
Read MoreIn this webinar we will examine how executive functions are affected in various dementias (including Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia, and Frontotemporal dementia); traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular disease, neuropsychiatric disorders (including schizophrenia and affective disorders), infectious encephalopathies, seizure disorders, and other clinical conditions, including viral encephalopathies, like neuro-COVID.
Read MoreThe ADHD diagnosis has acquired the status of a fad and is often given too casually and inclusively. Conflation between two distinct classes of clinical phenomena, hyperactivity and exploratory behavior, is a common source of ADHD overdiagnosis. Inspired by early insights by Oliver Sacks, we examine the relationship between frontal-lobe syndromes, Tourette syndrome, and Parkinson’s disease.
Read MoreDuring the workshop you will learn to distinguish healthy, flexible states from dissociative ones, and to map your own states, from physically-based vagal states to age and role-related states. You’ll learn methods to use embodied ego-state interventions to clear trauma, work with couples, attachment issues, sexual issues with sex-abuse survivors, over-active immune systems and chronic pain, shame, personality disorders, suicidal clients, and dissociative identity disorder. You will learn to track your own states, and you’ll practice many of the interventions. If you do EMDR, you’ll learn when it’s more useful to use EMDR, when to use ego state work, and when and how to use them both.
Read MoreLaterality is a fundamental feature of brain organization. In this webinar we will discuss why the traditional understanding of hemispheric specialization fails to capture all its essential aspects, and will introduce a new understanding of brain laterality which permits a broader evolutionary perspective. We will review the neuroanatomical and biochemical differences between the two hemispheres; their respective (and changing) roles in cognition across the lifespan; examine gender and handedness differences in laterality; as well as the relationship between hemispheric specialization and motions.
Read MoreThis certification provides you with comprehensive, training in state-of-the-art methods to prevent illness and treat the whole person using evidenced-based methods that are designed to integrate seamlessly and safely in your current practice. This course gives you the tools to enhance and expand your current practice, so that you become an expert in this emerging field.
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