Training & Certification


If you’re a health practitioner who is convinced that nutritional therapies can literally change our minds as well as our bodies…

If you would like to develop expertise in the targeted nutrient therapies that can correct mood, appetite, energy, and sleep problems by nutritionally enhancing the brain’s neurotransmitter functions…

If you would like to know more about correcting the other biological functions that impact our stress tolerance, our vulnerability to addiction and more….

…consider training with The Neuro-Nutrient Therapy Institute (NNTI)

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ADVANCED TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION IN AMINO ACID THERAPY

 PROGRAM COMPONENTS

Required Readings;  

    • The Mood Cure

    • The Diet Cure

    • The Craving Cure

    • The Healing Nutrients Within: Facts, Findings, and New Research on Amino Acids

    • Depression Free, Naturally

Additional Readings and Other Resources Provided Throughout the Course

 

Foundations of Amino Acid Therapy: At least 6 modules.

The Client Assessment Process: Evaluating symptoms and history. To facilitate this, each student will experience an individual assessment and trialing sessions conducted by an NNTI instructor.

Recognizing And Understanding Deficits In Serotonin, GABA, Endorphin, Dopamine/Norepinephrine, And Blood Sugar Function.

Using Individual Amino Acids TherapeuticallySelecting, Trialing, Dosing, Monitoring, Terminating and Documenting the amino’s effects over time with adults and children. Options of dyad practice and practice with volunteers to build confidence.

Dealing with Diets: Eliminating food cravings with aminos. Fielding questions re vegan, vegetarian, and other current diet trends. Individualizing healthful meals with adequate nutrients and calories.

 

Advanced Topics Seminars: 8 Modules

Following the initial Foundations of Amino Acid Therapy segment, comes a set of seminars addressing more complex problems, some of which Amino Acid Therapy, alone, cannot totally resolve:

 

    • Providing Alternatives to SSRIs

    • Pyroluria

    • Subclinical Bi-polar Spectrum Issues

    • Thyroid Factors: Energy and Metabolic Dysfunction

    • Adrenal Dysfunction:  Stress and Sleep

    • Weight Repair

    • Diabetes

    • Eating Disorders

    • Addictions:  Alcohol, Drugs, Behaviors

    • Duel Diagnosis Collaboration

 

Individual Case Consultations/Mentoring 1-2 hours, 2 times per month, until each trainee’s case-work requirements are met (20 cases, with 8 cases formally presented in writing).  Typically, this process takes 12 months.

 

INSTRUCTORS/MENTORS: 

    • Julia Ross MA, NTS, Author, Director of NNTI and The Julia Ross Virtual Clinic

    • Barbara Clark NC, NTS, Lead Nutritionist at The Virtual Clinic

    • Guest Instructors:  Mary Sue Abernethy MFT, RD, NTS (eating disorder expert) and others.

Tuition: Approximately $4,500 paid in advance or in monthly installments.  Additional cost for internship at The Julia Ross Virtual Clinic.

 

 

 

PREREQUISITE

Food Fundamentals:   Only for psychotherapists and other health practitioners with little or no formal education in the fundamentals of diet and nutrition.

In the past, NNTI has referred these potential trainees to nutritionist training programs because NNTI’s training requires trainees to have an understanding of the food fundamentals in order to provide the vital dietary guidance needed to rebuild permanent neurotransmitter health. Now, however, we are providing that basic training ourselves! One of our own certified NNTS’ who is also a seasoned certified nutritionist designed a program that combines the essentials of traditional eating with the strategies we have developed for dealing with modern dietary challenges. It may be taken during or before the advanced amino acid therapy training. (Other comparable courses may be substituted.)

Topics:

Introduction: The Evolution and the Destruction of the Human Diet

Food Basics

Fats

Proteins

Carbohydrates

Calories

Digestion

Food Sensitivities

Minerals and Water

Blood Sugar Regulation

Cooking Basics

 

 

Why consider training in Neuro-Nutrient therapy?

How Will your Clients/Patients Benefit?

Mastering amino acid therapy and related techniques will dramatically improve your ability to help the majority of your case load struggling with negative moods, insomnia, fatigue, blood sugar disorders, compulsive carbohydrate consumption, and more.

Appetite Control

“If only my patients would follow a healthy diet.”

Unfortunately, willpower alone, even bolstered by the threat or reality of severe illness, can no longer withstand the overwhelming cravings for sugars and refined starches specifically designed to addict us by interfering with our neurotransmitter functions. These cravings  make it impossible for many people, even the most health-conscious and well intentioned, to stick to the wholesome foods they need (and would prefer to eat!) Amino acid and associated therapies can typically eliminate their cravings for empty and toxic calories within one week, putting an end to unneeded weight gain and blood sugar instability.

This applies most particularly to our epidemic of diabetes, but other epidemic killers such as heart disease and cancer are also closely associated with our current diet.

Mood Enhancement
“My patient is so depressed and discouraged that she’s not even getting in to her appointments.” Chronic depression, anxiety, and other negative moods not only effect 50% of the US population they are also risk factors for diabetes, heart disease, cancer and many other health problems. Gaining the power to eliminate depression without drugs, calm the stress response, and normalize sleep using simple and permanent neurotransmitter restoration therapies will allow you to provide prevention and treatment options otherwise impossible to attain. By providing tools that can eliminate more than 20 negative emotional states within 24 hours, including depression, anxiety, apathy, overstress and chronic sadness you will improve your clients’ quality of life enormously. These negative moods can often be permanently eliminated in only a few months of nutrient therapy, since the aminos are typically only needed short-term (assuming that adequate protein is regularly consumed in the diet).
Psychological Healing

Being able to distinguish neurochemical deficits, or “false” moods, from genuine emotional distress is crucial to this effort. Where current or past unresolved trauma play a role, the resulting stress will continue to erode neurotransmitter function (which may have been already deficient genetically) and overall health and well being. It is important to know how to assess and address suicidality and other critical emotional needs and refer to appropriate help when needed. This training process will give you guidance in this vital aspect of holistic care. If you are a psychotherapist you will be able to help your clients determine when psychotherapy may no longer be needed.

Alternatives to Antidepressants

Forty-three million Americans were using antidepressant drugs (SSRI’s and SNRIs) in 2002. The number has doubled since then. We are also aware of the shocking reports exposing the serious side affects of these medications. Since then, most antidepressant takers have become understandably frightened, and many attempt to withdraw from their medications. Unfortunately, they often face daunting, sometimes insuperable, withdrawal symptoms and a return of often‐unbearable mood problems. 

Neuronutrient therapy, in conjunction with a prescriber and/or pharmacist can help design and monitor medication tapers, remove the discomfort of withdrawal, and, build up optimal serotonin levels. This prevents the return of depression, anxiety, insomnia and the many other symptoms of serotonin deficiency. Permanently. And quickly.

Insomnia

There are several types of insomnia that plague us in the “developing” world. Being able to quickly identify and correct the particular brain/body/imbalances that cause them is an art you will master in this process.

Addiction Treatment

Whether you know it or not, many of your clients are struggling to some degree with food, alcohol, drug, or behavioral addictions. Negative moods and overpowering cravings continually drive them back to their neurotransmitter-altering substances. Amino acids and related therapies can eliminate even the most notoriously treatment-resistant compulsions by repairing neurotransmitter and blood sugar function. You will learn how to tactfully identify these problems and help create effective recovery strategies.

Eating Disorders
Bulimia, anorexia, and compulsive and binge eating have only become common concerns since the 1970s. The trigger? Our new and highly addictive high carbohydrate, processed food diet. This depletes the neurotransmitters that regulate appetite. This depletion can be easily corrected, though binge eaters usually require both aminos and other supplementation. 
Pain Relief

Pain medications are the top selling and most addictive deadly drugs in America. Chronic pain affects at least 50% of the general population and 75% of those seen by health care practitioners of all kinds. Pain tolerance is regulated in large part by the neurotransmitters Endorphin, GABA and Serotonin. By restoring neurotransmitter function, pain levels may be dramatically and quickly reduced, while appropriate structural adjustments and/or other interventions are sought to remove the underlying causes of pain. 

Fatigue

Amino Acid Therapy can eliminate fatigue permanently and take effect in 15 minutes if the problem is caused by neurotransmitter deficiency. If additional causes of fatigue are diet-related, thyroid-related, adrenal related, or chronic insomnia-related, this nutritional therapy  process can help enormously.

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