Earn 12 Continuing Education Credits
Join us on our upcoming 2-Day Intensive Course from July 22 to 23, 2022
Amino Acids and Dietary Strategies to powerfully support addiction and mental health recovery. Effectively reduce cravings, withdrawal symptoms, depression, anxiety, irritability and insomnia.
During the Thursday evening Meet and Greet, which is free and open to the public, you will meet the instructors, as well as other practitioners and their clients who have experienced first hand the power of this approach. You will hear their stories and be able to ask questions.
You will be given a tour of the four mood-mediating neurotransmitters systems and their precursor amino acids. You will be introduced to an assessment tool, which has been in use for decades, which identifies probable neurotransmitter depletion, and guides amino acid and nutrient dosing. You will learn how these depletions frequently drive the progression or addiction as well as many mental health symptoms, and effective, non-pharmaceutical interventions. You will even be given the opportunity to try out this assessment tool before the training starts.
Learn about the nutrients which the brain absolutely requires to function optimally in supporting mood and behavior, and which mental health symptoms are actually created by deficiencies in them. You will learn about the food plan which provides all of these essential nutrients and why MISSING A MEAL is probably the #1 relapse trigger for all addiction. Finally you will receive a review of recent research on the role of optimal gut health in recovery and optimal mental health.
By the end of this cutting-edge training, you will have a greatly expanded understanding of why what and when we eat matters to recovery and emotional well-being, and you will have a greatly expanded toolkit from which to create policy as well as to support client improvement.
Reduce Relapse! Save Lives!
Welcome To Academy for Addiction & Mental Health Nutrition
The Academy for Addiction & Mental Health Nutrition believes that all addictive disorders, as well as MANY MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, are driven by nutrient and neurotransmitter imbalances in the brain that can often be successfully addressed without the need for psychotropic medication.
A stable, well-functioning, and well-nourished brain is required for clients to effectively address the emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual issues, which impact their lives and need to be worked through for a successful recovery.
We teach clinicians, treatment providers and health/recovery coaches how to reduce cravings and recurrent use, and improve the quality of recovery by using amino acid and nutrient therapy, along with diet to effectively address many biochemical aspects of addictive and mood/behavioral disorders.
Our Amino Acid Therapy Training Courses
Our Signature Courses
Level 1 CORE Training
The six-month, Level 1 CORE Training program thoroughly introduces students to the use of amino acids, specific crucial nutrients and diet in addressing symptoms of neurotransmitter depletion, such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, addiction, cravings and relapse.
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This program brings hope for many people
My clients are self-confident now, stronger, happier, and calmer. Something they often thought would never be possible. Christina Veselak’s program brings hope for many people, for a normal, and healthy life. Choosing this program was one of the best decisions of my life.
Anna Rall
Level 1 Training Alumni
This is changing lives.
signed up and it was amazing. Christina taught the class and she was easy to follow and extremely knowledgeable. After an intense three day training, I came home and started giving them to my family member. They started working instantly. This person had anxiety since very small. They had been to several doctors and put on several different meds, leaving them feeling like a science project and defeated. They got hooked on alcohol and drugs as a teenager. They had been through the juvenile system, adult court system, and rehab twice.
Shelly Wahlstrom
Level 1 Training Alumni
Addressing the actual biology of addiction
She gets to the roots of addiction and life damage that twists who we could be, into a wreck that is hard to face… and then helps to find the path, the real and walkable path out. The guidance and education she gave me LITERALLY helped me find my way to the, “Me”, I always hoped was really still in, “there”.
KM
Level 1 Training Alumni
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