Workshop Description:

This training is designed for mental health providers who work with trauma, including PTSD and complex trauma diagnoses. Integrative mental health practice will be defined and explored as an approach to treatment that facilitates interventions based on nutrition, movement, and trauma-informed body-supportive therapies. Practitioners will receive an overview of both PTSD and complex trauma diagnostic constructs as well as best practices to address these diagnoses through integrative mental health treatment plans. Practitioners will leave the workshop versed in appropriate referral strategies for trauma survivors to receive the support they require to optimize their healing journeys and treatment protocols.

Topics covered include a review of diagnostic trauma language, a brief overview of trauma and brain health, an introduction to nutrition for treatment of trauma, an overview of trauma-informed body-centered therapies, and exercise plans to support trauma healing.

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Learning Objectives:

1. Learn diagnostic constructs of PTSD and Complex Trauma (CPTSD)

2. Learn basics of brain health affected by trauma including amygdala “fight-flight” response

3. Learn nutritional plans that support trauma healing

4. Identify foods that can interrupt trauma healing

5. Learn how cardio-vascular exercise and weight training can support trauma healing

6. Review the essential component of empowerment in guiding integrative mental approaches to trauma treatment