About Us
The Academy for Addiction & Mental Health Nutrition trains professionals to use targeted nutrition and amino acid therapy to reduce relapse, stabilize mood, and support lasting recovery.
Who we are
The Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition
Many psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and addiction counselors are aware of the vital role biochemical and nutrient imbalances play in the etiology and maintenance of substance use and mental health disorders. However, we often don’t have the skills or confidence to effectively approach these issues with our clients without resorting to medication.
Very often clients leave the treatment on more medication than when they started. We created the Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition to meet this need. We believe that many of these issues can be effectively be resolved without the use of medication, simply by accurately feeding the starving brain and identifying and addressing the underlying biochemical drivers of these disorders.
The Academy provides cutting-edge, in-depth, on-line and live education and consultation services for the purpose of thoroughly training mental health and addiction treatment professionals and volunteers in the skills necessary to identify and effectively address the biochemical aspects of client symptoms through nutrient interventions.
We teach clinicians, treatment providers, and health/recovery coaches how to reduce relapse and improve the quality of recovery by using amino acid and nutrient therapy along with food and diet to effectively address the biochemical aspects of addiction and mood/behavioral disorders, thus providing a stable foundation to the recovery journey. We also welcome anyone interested in learning this powerful, life-transforming information.
What we do?
The Academy provides cutting-edge, in-depth, on-line and live education and consultation services for the purpose of thoroughly training mental health and addiction treatment professionals and volunteers in the skills necessary to identify and effectively address the biochemical aspects of client symptoms through nutrient interventions.
We teach clinicians, treatment providers, and health/recovery coaches how to reduce relapse and improve the quality of recovery by using amino acid and nutrient therapy along with food and diet to effectively address the biochemical aspects of addiction and mood/behavioral disorders, thus providing a stable foundation to the recovery journey. We also welcome anyone interested in learning this powerful, life-transforming information.
Why Choose Us?
The Academy is the only on-line school in the world that applies functional nutrition to recovery from addictive disorders, as well as from mental health and behavioral issues.
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Trusted by Professionals
The Academy for Addiction & Mental Health Nutrition has been invited to speak at some of the most respected national conferences in the fields of addiction, mental health, and functional nutrition. Our work has also been featured in leading industry publications, podcasts, and professional platforms committed to advancing integrative approaches to recovery. This recognition reflects the growing awareness of how nutritional strategies and brain-based interventions are transforming the future of treatment.
Join interactive Zoom sessions led by experienced instructors from the comfort of your home.
Choose a class schedule that fits your lifestyle with both AM and PM cohorts available.
Access downloadable resources, video replays, handouts, protocols, and more inside your student portal.
Connect with fellow students, alumni and practitioners in a private online forum for ongoing support and inspiration.
meet our Lead Instructor, Founder, Director
Christina Veselak MS, LMFT, CN
Christina T. Veselak is the founder and director of the Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition. She has been a licensed psychotherapist for almost 40 years, and has been integrating Mental Health Nutrition in to her practice since 1993 and currently provides on-line Relapse Prevention Coaching and Mental Health Nutrition to a wide variety of clients.
Christina consults for supplement companies as well as IV detox programs and residential addiction treatment, helping them integrate this life-saving nutritional approach into their programs.
She is an experienced public speaker, and has presented at conferences and trainings around the country. Christina is also a founding member and former Executive Director of the Alliance for Addiction Solutions, a non-profit organization which promotes the use of nutritional and other natural modalities to support repair of the addicted brain. Christina is committed to staying abreast of the rapidly growing science of orthomolecular psychiatry and functional nutrition & biochemistry for mental health, and is passionate about sharing her knowledge with both the general public and professionals in the fields of addiction recovery & mental health treatment.
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New Paradigm in Mental Health and Addiction Recovery that will Transform Your Practice!
Our Amino Acid Therapy Training Program provides the knowledge and skills to help your clients rebalance their brain chemistry through nutrition and lifestyle changes, thus reducing depression, anxiety, insomnia and cravings, often within 20 minutes!
