Leslie Korn – Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for PTSD and Complex Trauma Course

What you’ll learn in Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for PTSD and Complex Trauma Course:

Overview of Integrative Medicine and Trauma

• Introduction
  • Thinking integratively as the core feature of your practice
  • Apply a trauma-informed model of self-care, nutritional and integrative approaches
  • The principle of substitutions and conscious self-medication
  • Integrating IM with methods like Polyvagal Theory, IFS, Eye Movement, & Post trauma therapy
• Ethics & Scope of Practice
  • Working independently, group practice, hospital settings
  • Legal issues
  • Informed consent handouts
  • Disclosure document handouts
  • Testing
• The Psychology of Trauma
  • Acute and chronic PTSD, complex trauma, Dissociative-type, DSM-5®
  • Special types of trauma: Medical, dental, military, white collar (clergy, professionals, gurus)
  • ACES quiz and its relationship to physical health
  • Interpersonal and power dynamics
  • Identify the role for IM in attachment and self-regulation in children and adults
• Trauma, Biology & the Body
  • Energy, fatigue and mitochondria
  • Stress response: hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
  • Dysautonomia (POTS, chronic fatigue, pain, fibromyalgia)
  • Chronic illnesses, chronic pelvic pain
  • Psychoneuro-immunology, autoimmune disorders
  • Digestive disorders; gut and dysbiosis
• Trauma, Culture & Identity
  • Demographics of trauma and ethnicity/identity
  • The role of integrative medicine and nutrition in treatment across cultures
  • Overcoming stigma with integrative medicine and nutrition
  • LGBTQ+ & BIPOC communities
  • Cultural Formulation Interview: DSM-5®

Brainbow Blueprint: Integrative and Nutritional Strategies

• Circadian & Ultradian Rhythm & Hormones
  • Assessment and testing of circadian rhythm as it pertains to PTSD
  • Somatic Empathy; methods of clinical entrainment in treatment
  • The role of pranayama in altering brain hemispheric rhythms
  • The brain and heart: heart rate variability and HeartMath technology
  • The role of hormones in trauma throughout the life cycle
• Bio-individuality, Digestion & Diet
  • Bio-individuality and personalized health
  • Polyvagal theory, nutrition and integrative methods
  • Restoration strategies for digestion from salivation to elimination
  • Digestive disorders (GERD, Colitis, NAFLD, Metabolic syndrome, IBS constipation) in complex trauma and PTSD
• Integrative Assessment, Test & Evaluation
  • Conducting an integrative medicine and nutritional assessment for trauma and its sequelae
  • Review of ethics and scope
  • Tests, assessments, and analysis
  • Handouts
  • Demonstration of the assessment process
    • Food mood diary and analysis
• Culinary & Spice Medicine
  • The role of nutrition in PTSD and complex trauma
  • Techniques of intermittent fasting, ketosis and the brain
  • The Brainbow diet: how food colors reflect nutrients
  • Fantastic fungi; integrating medicinal mushrooms into the diet
  • How culture, ethnicity and genomic testing informs optimal nutrition
  • Designing psycho-culinary group therapies
• Nutritional Supplementation
  • Review of nutrition research: why is it so confusing?
  • Matching supplements to intake assessment
  • Amino acid therapy for depression, anxiety, sleep, pain, cognition
  • Neurotransmitters, precursors, and food
  • Vitamins, minerals glandulars, fatty acids
  • The science and clinical use of supplements to enhance or replace pharma
  • Collaborating with nutrition professionals
• Herbal Medicine
  • List the evidence for types of herbs and preparations for PTSD and its sequelae
  • Adaptogens, nervines, anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, tonics
  • Cannabis: CBD, THC, terpenes; indications, contraindications
  • Essential oils: the engagement of the senses for mood and vagal health
  • Drug-nutrient-herb interactions: using a database and keeping your client safe
• Detoxification and Hydrotherapy Strategies
  • Hydrotherapy: the use of hot and cold water for psychoneuroimmune support
  • How hot and cold alters mood, pain, headaches
  • Medications
    • Managing side effects & tapering off medications
    • Discontinuation syndrome
    • Detoxing from pharmaceutical medication
    • Methods for collaborating with prescribers
    • Developing a taper team
• Exercise, Yoga, Breath, and Sound
  • Brain hemispheric dominance exercises
  • State-based exercise applied to specific symptoms and capacities
  • Balance exercises to enhance emotional flexibility
  • PTSD, hyperventilation syndrome, disordered breathing, and anxiety
  • Yoga for developmental trauma, attachment and self-regulation
• Somatics, Bodywork, and Energy Therapies
  • Provide a framework for somatic interventions used in treating PTSD and complex trauma
  • Energy medicine: neurofeedback, cranial electrical stimulation, and photobiomodulation
  • Self-massage and pressure point therapies for pain digestion
  • Sensory awareness and integration
    • Intersection of trauma in highly sensitive individuals and sensory processing in children and adults
    • Bidirectional strategies for eye/brain/mind
• Nature & Human/Animal Bond
  • The clinical application of ecotherapies for children and adults
  • Nature-based stress inoculation and resilience strategies
  • Developing peripheral vision in nature for autonomic relaxation
  • The science of canine & equine therapies
  • The clinical application of touch using animal therapists
  • The role of canine therapists working with victims of violence and the justice system
  • Human-animal interaction, self-regulation and attachment
• Entheogens and Psychedelic Medicine
  • Assessment for readiness and referral
  • Medical versus traditional: what the client and clinician need to know
  • Research on psychedelics: anxiety, end-of life, PTSD
  • Psychedelics and the Sacred journey
    • Psychedelic medicine
    • Mushrooms/psilocybin/psilocin
    • Peyote (Lophophora williamsii)
    • Ayahuasca
    • DMT
    • MDMA
    • LSD
    • Ketamine
• Spirituality, Post-Traumatic Growth, & Transformation of Trauma
  • Transpersonal psychology and thriving
  • The role of stories in reclaiming self as hero
  • Rituals for recovery
  • Special treatment needs when the traumatic etiology derives from spiritual/religious authorities
• The Roadmap to Health
  • Motivation and adherence strategies
  • Shared decision making: best practice guidelines
  • Self-disclosure strategies
  • Developing group and telehealth support
  • Motivational Interviewing and engagement
  • Relapse prevention strategies
  • Creating a treatment plan based on the assessment
  • Affordability and access strategies

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