An online training to equip providers with practical nutritional strategies to address common imbalances and unique patient biochemistry
Learn how to restore brain chemistry, balance blood sugar, and avoid relapse. Enroll now and gain functional and nutritional tools to help patients move past cravings to lasting recovery.
Detox and abstinence are only the start of recovery. Many clients stay stuck with cravings, mood swings and repeated relapse, and part of the reason is often biological: depleted neurotransmitters, unstable blood sugar and nutritional imbalances that no one has checked.
The Functional Nutrition for Addiction Treatment & Recovery Intensive Training gives mental health providers a practical introduction to using nutrition in addiction treatment. You’ll learn how to use targeted amino acid therapy to restore neurotransmitter function and ease withdrawal and cravings. You’ll also learn how to use blood sugar regulation to reduce relapse risk, and help clients make use of the recovery skills they’re building—and how to spot the hidden nutritional issues that can quietly work against sobriety.
Nutritionally oriented practices and programs have used these strategies for decades. Now you can learn how to use them in your current practice right away, whatever your role or treatment setting.
Stop treating addiction halfway. Support the body and the brain.
PROGRAM FORMAT: Fully online training combining self-paced curriculum, an exclusive webinar lecture, and three (3) online sessions providing live faculty guidance and trainee Q&A time (available as recordings for those unable to join)
ENROLLMENT FEE: $499
PROGRAM START & LIVE TRAINING DATES: Program begins February 4, 2027. Live sessions will be held on February 4th, 11th and 18th (all sessions held at 8pm ET).
ACCREDITATION: 1.0 credit (CME, CPE, CNE, AAPA, AANP, CPE for Dietitians, ASWB, APA, Participation) via the exclusive bonus lecture, Using Low-Dose Lithium in Addiction Treatment
THIS INTENSIVE TRAINING IS IDEAL FOR: Psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, therapists, counselors, addiction specialists, social workers and other mental health professionals who want to:
- Address the biological side of addiction that talk therapy and medication can miss
- Give clients practical tools to reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms
- Lower relapse risk with simple nutrition strategies that are easy to put in place
- Offer a more complete, whole-person approach to recovery
Functional Nutrition for Addiction Treatment & Recovery Training Curriculum
- Module 1: Key Drivers of Addiction and Recovery
Explore the three-legged stool model (bionutritional, psychosocial and spiritual factors) of addiction and recovery, and what each requires for the best outcomes. Learn the latest research and examine case stories demonstrating how allergies and gluten intolerance, hormonal imbalances, pyroluria and fatty acid deficiency can drive relapse. - Module 2: Neurotransmitter Function and Repair Using Amino Acid Therapy
Learn how neurotransmitter depletion and down-regulation fuel tolerance and make addiction more severe. Follow as faculty reviews a structured, step-by-step approach to restoring neurotransmitters with targeted amino acid therapy, including the precautions you need to know. - Module 3: Blood Sugar Dysregulation and Relapse
Find out why missing a meal may be the main relapse trigger across all addictions. Learn how reactive hypoglycemia affects recovery, how to help clients identify helpful and harmful eating patterns, and how to prevent the common sugar addiction in early abstinence.
What’s Included in the Psychiatry Redefined
Functional Nutrition for Addiction Treatment & Recovery Training
- Live Sessions: Join Christina Veselak, MS, LMFT, CN for three (3) live clinical discussion sessions to examine curriculum, key topics, practice strategies, helpful tools, and real patient cases.
- 3 Hours of Clinician-Led Curriculum: Discover curriculum on the latest nutritional research, new applications, and effective restoration treatments.
- Faculty Support: Connect with faculty and gain direct clinical guidance for patient treatment.
- Continuing Education Credits: Master new skills while you gain 1.0 credit (CME, CPE, CNE, AAPA, AANP, CPE for Dietitians, ASWB, APA, Participation)
- Exclusive Lecture: Gain additional insights into addiction treatment with the lecture, Using Low-Dose Lithium in Addiction Treatment, led by James Greenblatt, MD.
- Self-Paced Study: Learn at your own pace with online curriculum, accessible from any device.
Discover a whole-person treatment plan that provides a real chance at lasting recovery.
In this Training, You’ll Learn How to:
- Understand the bionutritional, psychosocial and spiritual pillars of addiction and recovery, and explain how abstinence differs from recovery.
- Recognize the key symptoms of pyroluria and name the primary nutrients used to treat it.
- Describe the Allergic/Addicted and GLA-deficient alcohol use disorder (AUD) biotypes, including relapse triggers and nutritional approaches to implement.
- Name the four mood-regulating neurotransmitter systems depleted in addiction and explain how depletion and down-regulation drive tolerance, making addiction more severe.
- Identify the amino acids and nutrients used to support stimulant and opioid detox and to help prevent cravings.
- Use Amino Acid Therapy and trialing process to assess neurotransmitter depletion and guide targeted amino acid therapy, with the right safety precautions.
- Explain how reactive hypoglycemia and adrenaline set clients up for relapse, and why missing a meal may be a relapse trigger.
- Apply blood sugar strategies to support sobriety, including the one food that is crucial to recovery; reviewing a client’s eating patterns, and preventing the common switch to sugar addiction in early abstinence.
Scientific Education Led by Trusted Experts
Christina Veselak, MS, LMFT, CN
Christina Veselak, MS, LMFT, CN, is passionate about reducing relapse rates and overdose deaths in people recovering from substance use disorders by using targeted nutrition to address the biochemistry of addiction and recovery. With 40 years of experience working as a psychotherapist, coach and mental health nutritionist in the addiction treatment field, she brings an unparalleled breadth of knowledge and a wealth of compassion and expertise. She has positively impacted the world of treatment and recovery through her online school for professionals, The Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition, her non-profit organization, Eating Protein Saves Lives, Inc., and her book, EAT! A Guide to Radiant Recovery Using Food and Amino Acids to Repair the Addicted Brain and Reduce Cravings.
Join us to learn effective nutritional strategies to help your patients find recovery and peace.
Training Tuition:
$499
The 2027 training begins February 4, 2027. Trainees are granted six months of access from training start date. All refunds must be requested within seven (7) days of enrollment. In order to qualify for a refund, learners must have progressed through less than 10% of the educational content in question. All refunds will be processed minus a 10% transaction fee.
Questions? Please email training@psychiatryredefined.org.
