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A Functional Medicine Approach to Antidepressant Withdrawal & Deprescribing

Course Fee: $59
Join Dr. James Greenblatt to gain essential tools to guide patients through a safer, more individualized withdrawal process using a Functional Medicine model that addresses the root causes of withdrawal symptoms and deprescribing. By integrating lab testing, nutrient repletion, and personalized protocols, you’ll discover a valid path for practitioners to help patients discontinue antidepressants, taper safely, and achieve recovery on their terms.

Functional & Integrative Medicine for Addiction

Course Fee: $340
This 7-module course, co-taught by Dr. James Greenblatt and Dr. Arwen Podesta, elucidates a comprehensive functional medicine approach to the treatment of substance use disorders, targeting reward-pathway dysregulation and the many nutritional deficiencies associated with addiction that can alter brain function.  Integrating mainstream approaches such as MAT and psychotherapy with evidence-based functional approaches such as nutrient therapy, acupuncture, and mindfulness, this course provides clinicians with a roadmap for navigating addiction disorders and bringing patients into balance.

Functional Medicine for Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline

Course Fee: $255
This three-module course illuminates a novel paradigm for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline based upon biomarker testing and preventative neuroprotection. It explores biologic and environmental variables that influence the trajectory of Alzheimer’s pathogenesis, and presents evidence-based interventions to mitigate biologic risk, support neuronal viability, and optimize long-term cognitive health.

Functional & Integrative Medicine for Bipolar Disorder

Course Fee: $255
Co-taught by Dr. James Greenblatt and Dr. Peter Bongiorno, this 3-module course illuminates a cutting-edge functional medicine paradigm for the treatment of one of psychiatry’s most challenging presentations. Elucidating an evidence-based approach inclusive of multiple treatment tiers – medication, testing-informed nutritional interventions, and natural therapies – this course provides registrants with a cohesive paradigm for the successful treatment of bipolar disorder.

Functional & Integrative Medicine for Irritability, Anger, Aggression, and NSSI (Self-Injury)

Course Fee: $170
Join Dr. James Greenblatt as he explores the etiology and pathophysiology of chronic irritability, anger, & aggression, demonstrated by research to be prognostic of treatment outcomes and thus key targets of functional psychiatry interventions.  This two-module course also examines non-suicidal self-injury, serious behavioral presentations often indicative of biochemical imbalances impacting brain function.  Viewers will learn a functional medicine approach to testing and treatment that prioritizes these serious symptoms in order to optimize therapeutic outcomes.

Functional & Integrative Medicine for Managing Medication Side-Effects

Course Fee: $170  |  2.0 CME credits
This course provides methods for managing medication withdrawal and side-effects (sexual dysfunction, weight gain, suicidality) through a lens of functional and integrative medicine. In particular, we examine nutritional interventions to ameliorate the withdrawal symptoms associated with SSRI antidepressants. We conclude with a general discussion regarding the role of medication in psychiatry.

Functional & Integrative Medicine for Schizophrenia & Psychosis

Course Fee: $259
Developed with support from the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine, this course incorporates classical theories of orthomolecular medicine, including Lingus Pauling, Carl Pfeiffer, and Abram Hoffer’s groundbreaking contributions, in the context of modern psychiatry. We address, in particular, the micronutrient deficiencies, toxic neurochemical aggregations, systemic inflammation, and other etiologic factors in the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis.

Adaptogens In Psychiatry

Course Fee: $170
In this unique course, naturopathic physician Peter Bongiorno (ND, LAc) examines the long history of plant adaptogens (natural plant materials with a variety of pharmacologic compounds) in the treatment of psychiatric illness. Based on millennial-old knowledge regarding the medicinal qualities of particular adaptogens, this course provides clinical guidelines for supplementation regimens based on patients’ diagnostic profiles.

The Amuse System: Utilizing Laughter in Therapy

Course Fee: $69  | 1.0 CME credit
The use of humor and laughter in psychotherapy has great potential in a treatment setting, providing levity in broaching sensitive topics, stimulating insights, diffusing anger, and relating to patients. The intention of this course is to communicate the value of bringing humor into the therapy session, to provide an assortment of skills and tools to implement humor; and to promote humor as a technique for achieving recovery in the eating disorder population.

Biological Models for Suicide Prevention

Course Fee: Now only $49!
Developed in collaboration with the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine, this course explores the underlying biochemical, nutritional, genetic, and environmental factors that lead to a diagnosis of suicidality.

The Brainstem Control of Headache & Sleep

Course Fee: $69

Learn how your patients can have more success treating and preventing their headaches, both migraine and other forms of headache, by understanding headache’s link to sleep in the course by Stasha Gominak, MD.

Broad-Spectrum Micronutrients

Course Fee: $69
In this one-module course, Dr. Judith E. Pentz explores the role of micronutrients in mental health through the lens of cutting-edge scientific research, expanding horizons for the treatment of psychiatric and neurologic disorders such as ADHD, OCD and depression. After elucidating current models for the pharmacodynamics of key micronutrients, Dr. Pentz presents research evidence supporting the efficacy of broad-spectrum micronutrient formulas as part of a personalized approach for mental health treatment.

The Endocannabinoid System, CBD and Women’s Health:

Understanding the Interactions Between Female Hormones, the Endocannabinoid System & Women’s Health – Including Borderline Personality Disorder

Course Fee: $69

Hormones & Mental Health

Course Fee: $255
In this course led by Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc, you’ll learn how hormones affect mental health, neurotransmitter balance and stress response, the role of hormonal individuality, and how different hormone scenarios can be balanced and treated using naturopathic and functional medicine.

The Impact of Menopause on the Brain: A Focus on Mood

Course Fee: $255

During menopause, a woman loses estrogen, and all of the hormonal rhythms foundational to female system functioning are altered, including brain health and mood. Being that estrogren is anti-inflammatory, and cardio- and neuro-protective, this loss impacts every organ in her body. Learn about the critical role of hormones, circadian rhythm, the microbiome and hormonal therapy for brain health in this 3-module course on menopause by reproductive expert, Dr. Felice Gersh.

The Integrative Management of Stress and Anxiety: A Pragmatic Approach for Clinical Practice

Course Fee: $255
In this three-part module course for clinicians of all specialties, Dr. Prousky, makes a case for moderating stress and anxiety symptoms by using a pragmatic treatment philosophy – derived from contemporary stress and neurobiological research – to support enhanced clinical outcomes. Protocols to treat stress and common anxiety disorders will enable you to maximize therapeutic interventions for your patients.

Ketogenic Diets for Psychiatric Disorders

Course Fee: $69
Led by Dr. Georgia Ede, this course will introduce attendees to the exciting emerging field of metabolic psychiatry, the cornerstone of which is the ketogenic diet. Learn about the science behind ketogenic diets, and how they can help enhance therapy and outcomes for psychiatric disorders–even helping some reduce or eliminate the need for medication.

Laboratory Testing (Mycotoxins, Organic Acids, Heavy Metals & Genetic Testing)

Course Fee: $340
Presented by William Shaw, PhD, the founder of Great Plains Laboratory and a board-certified clinical chemist and toxicologist, these four courses will delve into the exciting field of biomedical analysis, and explore how objective laboratory testing for metabolic, nutritional, and toxic factors can help clinicians maximize therapeutic potentials in integrative functional medicine practice.

Low-Dose Nutritional Lithium

Course Fee: $170
This course offers an immersive look at one of the oldest elements in the known universe – lithium – through an orthomolecular lens, seeking to redefine its association with human health and illuminate its potentials as a treatment for neurologic and psychiatric ailments.  An empirically substantiated rationale for the incorporation of lithium into functional protocols for disorders ranging from depression to Alzheimer’s will be presented, along with guidelines for the safe and effective administration of low-dose nutritional lithium.

Microbes & Mental Illness: What Every Mental Health Professional Should Know About Lyme Disease

Course Fee: $69  |  1 CME credit
Lyme disease is an infection caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium. It is transmitted by the Ixodes tick and can generate multisystem complaints; these tick-borne infections often cause a host of psychiatric issues. In this course by Dr. Dan Kinderlehrer you’ll learn about the mental health disorders associated with lyme and tick-borne infections, their pathogenesis, clinical manifestations that lead a practitioner to suspect an underlying organic etiology, as well as testing.

The Neuroscience of Happiness: Providing Hope for Recovery from Disordered Eating

Course Fee: $69
Using a neuroscientific model, this unique course combines research and clinical knowledge with a patient’s perspective to demonstrate how hope is real, tangible, and even required in the recovery from disordered eating. An informative as well as entertaining presentation, this course provides a practical, neuroscientific explanation of hope, as well as concrete tools for helping clients to achieve lasting recovery.

Optimizing Sleep as an Antidote for Trauma: Exploring an Underutilized Treatment Opportunity

Course Fee: $69  |  1.25 CME credits
Insomnia and sleep disorders are predominant in those with PTSD, and eating and mood disorders. This course will provide an unlikely and underutilized treatment for trauma/PTSD and expound on the sleep dysregulation that trauma generates, covering exposure response prevention (ERP), relaxation therapy (ERRT), cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia (CBT-I), pharmacological therapy, and much more.

The Oxytocin Paradox: Miracle Cure or Extraordinary Hype?

Course Fee: $69
Oxytocin alters neural pathways that exert prosocial effects and modulates trust, fear, depression, anxiety, trauma, and neuroplasticity. Research supports the hormone reduces unconscious tendencies to focus on food, body shape and negative emotions. This course explores the potential of exogenous and endogenous oxytocin to improve the outcomes of eating disorder treatment.

PANS: Infection, Autoimmunity & Mental Illness

Course Fee: $69
This course by Dr. Dan Kinderlehrer describes the clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, laboratory evaluation, and treatment protocols for patients with PANS. It will also detail clinical studies performed by Dr. Kinderlehrer that suggest this is a widespread problem.

Photobiomodulation for Brain Health

Course Fee: $255
Join Maria Da Costa in this three module online course exploring the cutting-edge technology of photobiomodulation (PBM). PBM uses the radiant power of light to enhance cellular functioning, increase circulation and so much more. Its neuroprotective applications have
helped many with conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, traumatic brain injury, mental health conditions, and more.

S.H.I.N.E.® Protocol for CFS & Fibromyalgia

Course Fee: FREE
In his 30 years of clinical experience treating CFS/FMS, and in his landmark published research on CFS/FMS (published in the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Dr. Teitelbaum has found that his S.H.I.N.E.® approach is successful in the vast majority of patients. S.H.I.N.E.® identifies five key areas related to the body that, when addressed in combination, provide a blueprint for promoting optimal energy. Tending to these can help you maintain healthy energy levels when you are well, and can help support recovery when dealing with CFS and fibromyalgia.

Sleep Primer for Mental Health Professionals

Course Fee: $170
Learn recently discovered links between common sleep disorders and specific deficiency states that provide new options for mental health treatment in this 2-part course taught by neurologist, sleep coach, and instructor, Stasha Gominak, MD.

The Science of Sleep: How Much Snooze Can You Afford to Lose?

Course Fee: $69
Sleep is the time during which the brain heals. Therefore, not only is it important that one gets enough sleep, but the quality of that sleep is a key to long term recovery. This course addresses the challenges of sleep and therapeutic intervention that will assist those who treat mental health disorders and disordered eating.