Couples Counseling, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindful Eating & Nutritional Psychology, & Psychotherapy
Health Care Provider Continuing Education: RN, LCSW, MFT, PhD, PsyD, Health and Wellness Coaches, California
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Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.
Orientation to Nourish Your Mood: Meditation and Eating with the Brain in Mind
This orientation will guide you in experiential eating meditation and self-compassion meditation and will introduce ways to consider how food may be affecting your client’s mood. The latest research shows that anxiety and mental health issues can be linked to biopsychosocial root causes including: the gut/brain axis, the microbiome, and inflammation. Attending the orientation is a good way to decide whether to take the full Nourish Your Mood program or to refer your clients. If you know people who have received treatment and don't seem to being seeing the changes they seek, this 9-month class may help get to some of the underlying biological causes affecting mood, sleep, pain, sex drive, and attention. The 9-month program is based on deep study of 3 principles: Mental Health Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, and Body Positivity. Welcoming all body shapes and sizes, transgender-positive, non-binary-positive. Class is taught on a sliding scale. There is a $25 charge for CEs.
Learning Objectives:
Nourish Your Mood: Meditation and Eating with the Brain in Mind
This program will train you in ways to consider how food may be affecting your client’s mood and teach you about foods that research shows can support mood in some individuals. This program will guide you in different practices each month of eating meditations and mindfulness and self-compassion meditations. The latest research shows that anxiety and mental health issues can be linked to biopsychosocial root causes including: the gut/brain axis, the microbiome, and inflammation. If you know people who have received treatment and don't seem to being seeing the changes they seek, this program may help get to some of the underlying biological causes affecting mood, sleep, pain, sex drive, memory and cognitive health, and attention. The program is based on deep study of 3 principles: Mental Health Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, and Body Positivity. Welcoming all body shapes and sizes, transgender-positive, non-binary-positive. Class is taught on a sliding scale. There is a $50 charge for CEs.
Learning Objectives:
• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the course concludes.
SCA is an approved CE provider for National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches (CEP Number 100196)
• For questions about enrolling in CE or receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact L. Rebecca Connell, LCSW at (510) 594-8224 or click here to send an encrypted email.
For other questions about CE contact David Lukoff, PhD at CE@spiritualcompetency.com .
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction can be taken for 14 CE contact hours.
Nourish Your Mood can be taken for 17.5 CE contact hours.
The Orientations can be taken for 2 CE contact hours.
Intro to Mindful Mental Health Nutrition for Therapists/Health Care Providers: Meditation and Surprising Findings in Food/Mood Research can be taken for 1.5 CE contact hours.
Taking Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction does not certify you to teach Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, but it is an important part of that training path.
Reba Connell, LCSW, LCS 19814, has completed several levels of study in teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindful Eating, including a professional training program under the direction of Dr. Saki Santorelli and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.
Orientation to Nourish Your Mood: Meditation and Eating with the Brain in Mind
This orientation will guide you in experiential eating meditation and self-compassion meditation and will introduce ways to consider how food may be affecting your client’s mood. The latest research shows that anxiety and mental health issues can be linked to biopsychosocial root causes including: the gut/brain axis, the microbiome, and inflammation. Attending the orientation is a good way to decide whether to take the full Nourish Your Mood program or to refer your clients. If you know people who have received treatment and don't seem to being seeing the changes they seek, this 9-month class may help get to some of the underlying biological causes affecting mood, sleep, pain, sex drive, and attention. The 9-month program is based on deep study of 3 principles: Mental Health Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, and Body Positivity. Welcoming all body shapes and sizes, transgender-positive, non-binary-positive. Class is taught on a sliding scale. There is a $25 charge for CEs.
Learning Objectives:
- Prepare to use self-compassion break in moments of stress
- Explain a connection between food, mood, and mental health
- Demonstrate self-regulatory skills in practing eating meditation
Nourish Your Mood: Meditation and Eating with the Brain in Mind
This program will train you in ways to consider how food may be affecting your client’s mood and teach you about foods that research shows can support mood in some individuals. This program will guide you in different practices each month of eating meditations and mindfulness and self-compassion meditations. The latest research shows that anxiety and mental health issues can be linked to biopsychosocial root causes including: the gut/brain axis, the microbiome, and inflammation. If you know people who have received treatment and don't seem to being seeing the changes they seek, this program may help get to some of the underlying biological causes affecting mood, sleep, pain, sex drive, memory and cognitive health, and attention. The program is based on deep study of 3 principles: Mental Health Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, and Body Positivity. Welcoming all body shapes and sizes, transgender-positive, non-binary-positive. Class is taught on a sliding scale. There is a $50 charge for CEs.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the role of self-responsibility in health-enhancing behaviors
- Analyze skills related to self-nourishment
- Analyze skills related to body awareness
- Discuss and Analyze barriers to the development of self-regulatory skills
- Apply the experiential nature of mindful sitting and lying meditation in developing self-regulatory skills
- Demonstrate knowledge of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in stress
- Describe the differences between the benefits of temporary nervous system arousal and the risks of chronic nervous system arousal
- Apply self-regulatory skills to eating
- Apply coping strategies for stressful situations at home and work
- Create a personal mindfulness practice and demonstrate personal discipline in practicing mindfulness at home
- Apply how to use the brain’s approach system as a vehicle for behavioral change
- Demonstrate knowledge of at least 5 foods that the research shows support brain health
- Explain the role of hunger and blood sugar in mood
- Describe the human microbiome
- Assess the impact of food on mood and energy by recording personal experience as an n=1 case study
- Demonstrate knowledge of theory and practice in applying current research on the gut-brain connection
- Compare and contrast between the roles of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in supporting or interfering with learning and behavioral change
• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
• SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the course concludes.
SCA is an approved CE provider for National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches (CEP Number 100196)
• For questions about enrolling in CE or receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact L. Rebecca Connell, LCSW at (510) 594-8224 or click here to send an encrypted email.
For other questions about CE contact David Lukoff, PhD at CE@spiritualcompetency.com .
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction can be taken for 14 CE contact hours.
Nourish Your Mood can be taken for 17.5 CE contact hours.
The Orientations can be taken for 2 CE contact hours.
Intro to Mindful Mental Health Nutrition for Therapists/Health Care Providers: Meditation and Surprising Findings in Food/Mood Research can be taken for 1.5 CE contact hours.
Taking Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction does not certify you to teach Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, but it is an important part of that training path.
Reba Connell, LCSW, LCS 19814, has completed several levels of study in teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindful Eating, including a professional training program under the direction of Dr. Saki Santorelli and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Important CE info for enrolled students:
For Nourish Your Mood and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, only full course credit, not partial credit, is available. You can miss up to 1 of the 2.5 hour sessions. If you miss more than one, you can make up the hours in individual meeting(s) with the instructor, at the rate for individual consultation. Sliding scale may be available.