AS A PEDIATRICIAN, you’re on the front lines of a growing mental health crisis—and too often, you’re asked to manage complex cases with limited tools and few alternatives to medication. The system is broken. Families want options. And children deserve better.
At Psychiatry Redefined, we’ve created a new path forward. Alongside Dr. Nancy O’Hara, I’ve developed the first Pediatric Fellowship in Functional and Integrative Psychiatry—a year-long training program designed exclusively for pediatric clinicians.
This advanced Fellowship will give you a deeper understanding of the biological, nutritional, and functional root causes of mental health conditions in children and adolescents. You’ll gain practical tools to personalize care, reduce polypharmacy, and restore hope to the families you serve.
Children are not small adults—they need a model of care built just for them. This Fellowship is that model.
— Dr. James Greenblatt, Founder & CMO
Join us to redefine what’s possible in pediatric mental health care.
Expand & Transform Your Pediatric Mental Health Toolkit with Functional Psychiatry
At Psychiatry Redefined, we train pediatricians in evidence-based, root-cause approaches to mental health care. Led by Dr. James Greenblatt, a dual-certified clinical psychiatrist who is also a pioneer in precision and personalized psychiatry, our programs integrate functional medicine strategies with conventional care, helping you deliver more effective, individualized treatment for children and adolescents. If you’re ready to go beyond symptom management and embrace a science-backed, whole-person model of care, you’re in the right place.
What Is Pediatric Functional Medicine?
Pediatric functional medicine is an approach to children’s healthcare that focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of physical, emotional, and behavioral issues, rather than just managing symptoms. It combines traditional pediatric care with advanced tools from functional, integrative, and nutritional medicine to treat the whole child—biologically, emotionally, and environmentally.
Here’s a breakdown of what makes it different:
Root Cause Focus
Instead of labeling a diagnosis and prescribing medication alone, functional medicine practitioners dig deeper—looking at genetics, gut health, nutrient deficiencies, environmental exposures, and lifestyle factors to understand why a child is experiencing symptoms.
Whole-Person Approach
Pediatric functional medicine sees children as complex, interconnected systems. For example, mental health concerns like anxiety, ADHD, or depression may be connected to things like blood sugar imbalance, inflammation, poor sleep, or microbiome disruptions.
Personalized Testing
It often includes advanced lab work—like nutrient panels, food sensitivity tests, gut microbiome analysis, and hormone evaluations—to personalize care.
Nutrition and Lifestyle at the Core
Treatment plans typically involve nutrition changes, supplements, sleep support, stress reduction, and sometimes detoxification protocols—designed to support long-term healing and healthy development.
Collaboration with Families
It’s also a more collaborative process. Families are active participants, and care plans are tailored around the child’s life, preferences, and environment.
How Can Integrative Psychiatry Help Children & Adolescents?
Integrative psychiatry can be especially powerful for children and adolescents because it offers a more personalized, root-cause approach to mental health challenges—one that looks beyond just symptoms and medications. Here’s how it can help:
1. Addresses Underlying Causes
Children often exhibit symptoms like anxiety, ADHD, or depression that may be linked to deeper biological, nutritional, or environmental imbalances. Integrative psychiatry looks at:
• Nutrient deficiencies (like zinc, magnesium, omega-3s)
• Gut health and the microbiome
• Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
• Environmental toxins
• Sleep and lifestyle patterns
2. Reduces Reliance on Medication
Many parents and pediatricians are looking for alternatives to the “medicate first” model. Integrative psychiatry provides science-backed options like:
• Targeted supplementation
• Dietary interventions
• Lifestyle changes (exercise, mindfulness, screen time moderation). These strategies can reduce or sometimes even eliminate the need for medications—especially when symptoms are rooted in treatable physiological issues.
3. Takes a Whole-Person View
Instead of isolating the mind from the body, integrative psychiatry considers the full picture of a child’s life:
• Emotional health and family dynamics
• School and social stressors
• Trauma history or sensory processing issues. This broader lens supports more effective, lasting care.
4. Empowers Families
Parents are partners in the healing process. Integrative psychiatry emphasizes:
• Education and involvement of caregivers
• Tools for at-home support
• Collaborative treatment plans that evolve over time
5. Improves Long-Term Outcomes
By intervening early with personalized care, integrative psychiatry may help prevent chronic mental health struggles from escalating into adulthood.
Do you know a child suffering from anxiety, OCD, tics, depression, or eating disorders? If so, the Pediatric Fellowship is just what you need. It provides a way for pediatricians to find the community, the care, the tools, the formulations, the dosages for caring for children and adolescents—which is so different from treating adults. It’s like having an entire team working with you: a team who can help you learn and apply the learnings immediately in your practice. There’s nothing else like it.
What Pediatric Conditions Can Be Addressed Using a Functional & Integrative Psychiatry Approach?
Functional and Integrative Psychiatry offers a powerful, personalized approach to many of the most common—and complex—mental health and behavioral challenges seen in pediatric care today. This model goes beyond symptom management to identify and treat the underlying biological, nutritional, and environmental factors driving these conditions.
Pediatricians and other pediatric providers can apply this approach to support children and adolescents with:
- ADHD and attention issues
- Anxiety disorders and mood dysregulation
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Depression
- Sleep disturbances
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Tics and Tourette’s
- Eating disorders
- Behavioral and conduct issues
- Learning differences and cognitive delays
By combining evidence-based medicine with advanced lab testing, nutritional psychiatry, and personalized treatment protocols, Functional Psychiatry empowers providers to better understand why a child is struggling—and how to help them heal.
How Does a Functional Medicine Approach for Mental Health Differ from Conventional Child Psychiatry?
A Functional Medicine approach to mental health in children differs significantly from conventional child psychiatry by focusing on the root causes of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive challenges rather than simply managing symptoms. While traditional child psychiatry often relies on standardized diagnoses and first-line treatments such as psychiatric medications or behavioral therapy, Functional Medicine takes a more personalized and holistic path.
Instead of asking “What diagnosis fits this child?” Functional Psychiatry asks, “Why is this child struggling?” It explores a wide range of contributing factors—such as nutritional deficiencies, gut health, inflammation, genetics, environmental toxins, and lifestyle habits—that may be driving the child’s symptoms.
In Functional Psychiatry, treatment plans are highly individualized. Practitioners may use advanced lab testing to uncover imbalances or deficiencies, and focus on interventions like nutrition, sleep optimization, micronutrient support, and gut healing before considering medication. Medications are not excluded—but they’re used more cautiously and often only when necessary.
By addressing the interconnected systems in a child’s body and considering the full developmental and family context, Functional Psychiatry offers a more comprehensive and proactive approach to pediatric mental health. It empowers clinicians and families to move beyond symptom suppression toward long-term, root-cause recovery.
The Pediatric Fellowship doesn’t replace existing tools, but it augments and enhances the traditional care approach. This program will help clinicians understand, translate and apply the facts and the science: that every child and adolescent is unique; that testing is critical; that personalized medicine is essential. Our faculty provide the bridge to help pediatricians understand root causes of child and adolescent mental illness. This will change the path of mental illness for so many kids who are suffering.
Can I Integrate Functional Psychiatry into My Existing Pediatric Practice?
Yes—you can absolutely integrate Functional Psychiatry into your pediatric practice! Doing so can be transformative for both your patients and your clinical impact. Functional Psychiatry offers pediatric providers a practical, science-based approach to uncover the root causes of mental health and behavioral challenges—empowering you to go beyond symptom management and offer more comprehensive care.
The Pediatric Functional Psychiatry Fellowship
At Psychiatry Redefined, our Pediatric Functional Psychiatry Fellowship was designed specifically for busy pediatricians and child-focused clinicians who want to expand their toolkit without stepping away from their current practice. Through this year-long, on-demand training program, you’ll gain the knowledge, clinical frameworks, and treatment protocols needed to incorporate lab testing, nutritional interventions, and integrative strategies into your everyday work.
Whether you’re treating ADHD, anxiety, depression, autism, or mood dysregulation, this Fellowship equips you with the tools to deliver more personalized, root-cause care—right from your own practice setting.
Schedule a private call now to learn how the Fellowship can enhance your practice.
Pediatric Fellowship FAQs
Do I need prior experience in Functional Medicine to enroll in the Psychiatry Redefined Pediatric Fellowship?
No prior experience in Functional Medicine is required to join our Pediatric Fellowship. The program is designed specifically for licensed clinicians with experience in pediatric medical or mental healthcare—whether you’re a pediatrician, psychiatrist, nurse practitioner, or therapist working with children, adolescents, or teens.
This comprehensive Fellowship provides all the training, tools, and clinical frameworks you need to confidently integrate functional, nutritional, and integrative approaches into your practice. Through expert-led modules, case-based learning, and real-world protocols, you’ll gain the knowledge and support to expand your clinical approach and begin addressing the root causes of mental health challenges in young patients.
Whether you’re new to functional medicine or looking to deepen your integrative skills, this Fellowship is your roadmap to delivering more personalized and effective care.
Does the Pediatric Fellowship offer CME credits?
Yes, the Psychiatry Redefined Pediatric Fellowship offers 52 CME’s.
Can I take the General Fellowship and Pediatric Fellowship at the same time?
Yes. Many clinicians working with children and adults have registered for both the General Fellowship and the Pediatric Fellowship via the a Fellowships Bundle option. We have designed this blended program exclusively for our Fellows who select both approaches. Both programs run concurrently and complement each other.
What is included in the Pediatric Fellowship?
The Psychiatry Redefined Pediatric Fellowship program includes the following components:
- 52 CME credits for the Pediatric Fellowship (optional)
- 50+ hours of direct faculty mentorship from experts who have researched, developed and implemented effective pediatric interventions for decades
- Live monthly sessions (clinical discussions) with faculty to review curriculum, protocols, and testing methodologies, ask questions, and get feedback on real cases (24 sessions total)
- Certification and Certified Provider status (upon training and exam completion)
- Over 310 hours of extensive clinician-led education including courses, special lectures, conference presentations, and more
- Private community to connect with faculty and fellows and discuss cases, treatments, resources and practice tools
- Dedicated monthly office hours with faculty
- Access to the brand-new Clinical Companion Tool, an exclusive interactive treatment resource created just for fellows
- Unlimited access to all courses and educational material for 14 months
- Complimentary access to all Psychiatry Redefined new courses and online events
How many hours per month do Fellows spend on the Fellowship?
The Fellowship is built for busy professionals who are currently engaged in full-time work, school and/or practice. The average time commitment is 6-9 hours per month. The Fellowship is self-paced; the more time put in, the more you learn.
Each month we suggest taking the monthly courses listed in the syllabus and completing the recommended readings, along with the related curriculum, webinars and special lectures listed. We also highly encourage all Fellows to attend group and special topic sessions when they are held live each month (multiple sessions); all group sessions are recorded for later viewing.
There is a minimum of four (4) hours per month of faculty contact: 3 hours of live sessions, 1 hour of office hours, and additional bonus lectures organized around special topics/faculty.
Can I manage my practice and the Fellowship?
99% of our Fellows have busy practices, are students, have families, serve on boards, etc. We have designed the Fellowship specifically for busy clinicians. Our Fellows report it is very manageable to accomplish with a practice and or school.
The Pediatric Fellowship blends online self-paced, self-directed study with live, guided sessions led by Dr. James Greenblatt and faculty. You can watch online course lectures and review course materials immediately upon enrollment, and at your own pace over your one-year period of study.
I have additional questions. Where can I find more information?
To learn more about our Fellowship programs, we encourage you to explore our FAQs page here.
You can learn more about the Pediatric Fellowship here, and the General Fellowship here.
We also offer a variety of ways to connect with our team and Dr. Greenblatt to ensure you’re making the right decision for your career and clinical goals.
- You may schedule a free and private discovery call here.
- Dr. Greenblatt offers live, Q&A webinars in the months leading up to each Fellowship commencement date. These free informational sessions will provide a comprehensive overview of our 12-month Fellowship program. You can ask questions live and gain insight into functional and integrative medicine for mental health.
- You may also email our Fellowship Director at fellowship@psychiatryredefined.org at any time, and she will respond to you directly.
Additional Training & Educational Opportunities for Pediatric Clinicians
Child and Adolescent Integrative Psychiatry Webinars
- Nourishing Hope: How Personalized Diets Support Children with Autism
- Social Media & Anxiety: Navigating Mental Health in Children Today
- The Missing Link: Nutritional Lithium for Childhood Aggression & Behavior Disorders
- Beyond Diagnosis: A Functional Medicine Approach to Aggression, Irritability and Disruptive Behavior
- An Integrative Approach to PANS/PANDAS
- Finally Focused: A Functional Medicine Approach to ADHD
- View all webinars in Functional Medicine here
Functional Medicine Courses
- Click here to view our online catalog of Functional & Integrative Psychiatry courses and programs.
Functional Medicine Pediatric Case Studies
- Anxiety, Depression & PCOS (17 year old female)
- Binge Eating Disorder, ADHD, Irritability and Aggressive Behavior (10 year old male)
- Disordered Eating, Depression, Self-Injury, and ADHD (15 year old female)
- ADHD with Behavioral Dysregulation (11 year old male)
- Childhood ADHD (8 year old male)
- Anxiety & Celiac Disease (12 year old male)
- Inattentive-Type ADHD (13 year old female)
- Aggressive Behavior (3 year old male)
- Severe Depression (17 year old male)
- Sudden Onset Psychosis, Depression and Suicidal Ideation (18 year old male)
- Depression, Addiction and Self-Harming Behaviors (17 year old male)
