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Digital Seminar

Nutrition and Integrative Methods for Trauma: Enhancing Mood, Sleep, and Well-being


Faculty:
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB
Duration:
4 Hours 18 Minutes
Copyright:
Mar 16, 2023
Product Code:
NOS096270
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

Evidence-based research suggests that there are significant limitations to pharmaceutical interventions for PTSD. Nutritional and integrative strategies can offer an effective alternative. Yet how do we help clients understand the connections between their physical well-being and traumatic etiologies? What methods and interventions do we choose, at what stage of recovery, and who is a viable candidate? This session will explore the latest research and clinical application of culinary, nutritional, herbal, and psychedelic medicine. You’ll discover how to ethically incorporate these methods into your practice and learn reliable tools to help your clients improve their well-being. You’ll explore:

  • How and when to introduce clients to integrative and nutritional methods to enhance well-being
  • How to provide your clients with a comprehensive overview of nutrition, food preparation, and mindful eating
  • Specific yogic, somatic, and breathing exercises to improve digestion, anxiety, and panic
  • What research tells us about psychotropic medication and viable alternatives

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 4.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



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Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB, is a renowned integrative medicine clinician and educator specializing in the use of nutritional, herbal and culinary medicine for the treatment of trauma and emotional and chronic physical illness. She is known for her dynamism and humor providing clients effective alternatives to psychotropics. She completed her graduate education in the department of psychiatry and public health at Harvard Medical School and her life training in the jungle of Mexico where she lived and worked alongside local healers for over 25 years. She directed a naturopathic medicine and training clinic facilitating health, culinary and fitness retreats. She is licensed and certified in nutritional therapy, mental health counseling, and bodywork (Polarity and Cranial Sacral and medical massage therapies) and is an approved clinical supervisor. She introduced somatic therapies for complex trauma patients in outpatient psychiatry at Harvard Medical school in 1985 and served Acupuncture and faculty at National College of Naturopathic Medicine.

She is the author of the seminal book on the body and complex trauma: Rhythms of Recovery: Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2012, 2023); The Brainbow Blueprint: A Clinical Guide to Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for Mental Well Being (PESI, 2023), Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health (W.W. Norton, 2016), Eat Right Feel Right: Over 80 Recipes and Tips to Improve Mood, Sleep, Attention & Focus (PESI, 2017); Multicultural Counseling Workbook: Exercises, Worksheets & Games to Build Rapport with Diverse Clients (PESI, 2015); The Good Mood Kitchen (W.W. Norton, 2017); and Natural Woman: Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life (Shambhala, 2019). She was a founder of the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a Fullbright scholar in Herbal Medicine and an NIH-funded scientist, in mind/body medicine. She is an approved clinical supervisor and is the research director at the Center for World Indigenous Studies where she designs culinary and herbal medicine programs with tribal communities engaged in developing integrative medicine programs.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Leslie Korn maintains a private practice and is the Director of Research at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. and additionally receives publishing royalties from Norton, Shambhala, and Routledge. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Leslie Korn is a member of the Nutritional Therapy Association and Integrative Medicine for the Underserved.


Objectives

  1. Organize 4 integrative and nutritional strategies that enhance mood and sleep in PTSD.
  2. Utilize stage based methods to assist in the treatment of trauma.
  3. Apply 3 clinical strategies to introduce and incorporate integrative and nutritional methods.
  4. Describe the scientific literature on psychotropic medicine for PTSD and complex trauma.

Outline

  • Core Integrative and nutritional strategies that enhance mood and sleep in PTSD
  • Clinical assessments in nutritional psychology and their utility for PTSD
  • Stage-based integrative methods for PTSD recovery
  • Clinical strategies to introduce and incorporate nutritional support
  • Scientific literature on psychotropic medications for PTSD symptoms

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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