Stephen Porges – IMMH: Integrative Medicine For Mental Health Course
Description Of IMMH: Integrative Medicine For Mental Health Course
Beyond the Prescription Pad: Improve Patient Outcomes with Integrative Medicine
A ground-breaking course designed for health care and mental health providers
All too often, established medical models treat mental health conditions with therapy and medication, leaving many patients with residual symptoms, unpleasant side effects, and relapse.
And now more than ever, pioneering practitioners, like you, are rethinking this perspective… looking at the underlying issues that lead to mental health conditions… and taking a new approach. And you are not alone!
Clinicians are turning to integrative and functional medicine — which looks for and treats the root cause of the problem… such as hormone imbalance, toxin exposure, inflammation, gut microbiome, and more.
And the results are revolutionizing the field of mental health and providing patients with sustainable results. It offers hope and healing for some of the most complex and difficult-to-treat mental health conditions from anxiety to depression to ADHD.
What You’ll Learn In IMMH: Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Course
Register now for the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health online course and discover what the latest advances in this emerging field mean for your patients and your practice.
When you register, you will get…
- New insights into the underlying biochemical factors that contribute to mental illness… including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and more
- An understanding of how to harness the psychological connection to improve health
- The latest evidence about the mind, gut, and body connection and its impacts on mental health
- Strategies to incorporate integrative medicine into a variety of clinical settings
- Simple tools for developing personalized patient treatment plans using labs and diagnostics
- Tools to harness the power of nutrition to treat mental health conditions
- New evidence on how toxins including mold, pesticides, and heavy metals can impact mental health and what you can do about it
During this comprehensive course, you’ll get expert guidance from 18 of the most renowned and pioneering doctors, scientists, and health practitioners in the field. They’ll share the latest evidence and best practices in integrative and functional medicine so you can empower your patients with treatments that address the root causes of their conditions.
Get the latest information, skills, and tools to provide holistic and effective mental health care.
With a focus on the root cause, personalization, and precision, integrative medicine delivers unique, actionable, cutting-edge, and evidence-based information so that forward-thinking practitioners can offer more hope and better healing to their patients.
WHY THIS TRAINING STANDS OUT FROM OTHERS!
- Rooted in a deep history of integrative medicine for mental health (IMMH) and known for its excellence
- Developed to meet the real-world needs of practitioners who care for patients of all ages with mental health conditions
- A unique approach that combines psychological and biochemical treatment options for better patient outcomes
- Led by 18 world-renowned integrative medicine and mental health practitioners… Greenblatt, Shaw, Pizzorno, Lustig, Toups, and more!
- Guidelines to address hormones, inflammation, food, toxins, and more!
- Powerful integrative medicine strategies you can immediately apply in your practice
Designed for: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Physician Assistants, Nurses, and other medical and mental health providers
About Stephen Porges
Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is a distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium within the Kinsey Institute. He holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland, and is a founder of the Polyvagal Institute.
Dr. Porges served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award.
He has published approximately 400 peer-reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. His research has been cited in more than 50,000 peer-review publications.
In 1994, Dr. Porges proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders.
He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton, 2017), Polyvagal Safety (Norton, 2021), co-author with Seth Porges of Our Body Polyvagal World (Norton, 2023), and co-editor with Deb Dana of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018). Dr. Porges is also the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol™, which currently is used by approximately 3,000 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Stephen Porges has employment relationships with Indiana University Bloomington and the University of North Carolina. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Porges receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He receives royalties from Integrated Learning Systems/Unyte. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Stephen Porges is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. He holds a patent on Televagal equipment. Dr. Porges is co-owner of Polyvagal Music, LLC launching in 2024.
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