
REVERSE SIDE EFFECTS

HELP YOUR CLIENTS LIVE HAPPIER LIVES
Get The Template for Tapering Psychotropic Medications
It’s true that psychotropic medications can mask symptoms of mental disorders, often with limited degrees of success…
But not only do these substances leave the root cause of illness in place, over time these mental health pharmaceuticals damage the body at the cellular level.
Once clients’ brain metabolism becomes dysregulated, they often are pulled toward unhealthy coping mechanisms—quick fixes that complicate matters even further for their long-term health and keep them from real healing.
Our clients deserve so much more. And now you have the power to help them achieve better outcomes.
No-Risk Offer: If you’re on the fence about an integrative medicine certification, you can take this course first. If you like it and want to complete a certification I will give you a discount coupon for the value of this course.
MORE ABOUT THE COURSE
Address the Root Cause
During my 40 years of integrative mental health care practice, I’ve learned the precise dietary, nutritional, and psychosocial supports to ease the process of tapering off psychotropic medications and address the root cause of psychiatric symptoms.
Proven Protocol
In this self-paced course, you’ll learn a proven protocol that will let you (at last) help clients who are ready to taper off medication do it safely—and create a healthier, happier life.
Readiness to Taper Intake
You’ll get a Readiness to Taper Checklist and a 40-minute clinical demonstration conducting the Readiness to Taper Intake with a live model client.
What You’ll Learn…
- The effects of psychotropic medications on mitochondria, and how their dysregulation connects to inflammation, stress, gene expression, and cellular aging
- The foods, amino acids, nutrients, botanicals, and entheogens that provide the building blocks of all our neurotransmitters
- The 5 key considerations to explore when assessing a client’s readiness to taper
- How to use the Readiness to Taper Checklist
- Components of the preparation stage, including diet, supplements, and at-home practices, will give your clients momentum and set them up for a successful tapering
- The role of the taper team and how clinicians and clients can work together to create one
- The critical supports for and pacing of Phase 2, during active tapering
- Foods and herbs that help restore a healthy circadian rhythm, improving sleep and wakefulness naturally
- How to expertly handle developmental challenges that may return in Phase 3, when the same issues that led to the original decision to use medication can recur
- The specific benefits of glycine, glandulars, and the mineral forms of lithium (vs. the prescription drug)
- Potent and easy detoxification strategies and anti-anxiety tools to help with tapering
Help Your Clients Safely Step Off the Treadmill of Pills
Discover the proven way to support your clients who choose to taper off psychotropic medications.
Your Course Includes:
- 3:18 hours of on-demand learning
- Readiness to Taper Checklist
- Clinical Demonstration conducting the Readiness to Taper Intake with a live model client
- Two Case Reviews
- Two Comprehensive Handouts
- An invitation to complete one of my Certification Programs
“Your training has given me hope and inspires me.”
Ericka Juarez, PhD
"The content and your teaching style helped keep me motivated and hopeful for the type of clinician I have always wanted to become.”
Dr. Dara Goldberg
“Thank you for being a game changer.”
Sandra M. Elliott, MS, PT, MEd
Frequently Asked Questions
This course is designed for all psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, professional counselors, nurses, and health professionals who work with psychotropic medications and/or foods, supplements, and herbal medicines to support their clients’ mental health and well-being.
No-Risk Offer: If you’re on the fence about an integrative medicine certification, you can take this course first. If you like it and want to complete a certification I will give you a discount coupon for the value of this course.
There is no known commercial support or conflict of interest for this program.
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3 CE Credits for Psychologists, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Professional Counselors, and Nurses are approved by The CE Company.
The CE Company is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The CE Company maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The CE Company has co-sponsored Tapering Off Psychotropic Medications: Integrative and Naturopathic Strategies for 3 continuing education (CE) credits to Psychologists, Social Workers, Nurses, Professional Counselors, and Marriage and Family Therapists in the following states:*
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*Participants should always check with their state’s licensure board regarding the acceptance of APA CE credits. If you are seeking continuing education credit for a specialty or location not listed above, it is your responsibility to contact your licensing/certification board to determine program eligibility. Partial credit for attendance of individual sessions is not available.
Accessibility Policy: This program adheres to the standards of the Americans Disabilities Act. Please contact the Leslie Korn Institute for Integrative Medicine if special accommodation is required.
Grievances Policy: Leslie Korn Institute for Integrative Medicine seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to grievances_lkkim@protonmail.com. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems.
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1. Define the effects of pharmaceuticals on mitochondria, and how their dysregulation connects to inflammation, stress, gene expression, and cellular aging
2. List the 5 key considerations to explore when assessing a client’s readiness to taper
3. Define psychotropic discontinuation syndrome and how to educate the client about it
4. Explain 4 components of the preparation stage, including diet, supplements, and at-home practices
Here are some options to work with me directly.
You may choose a Health Consultation for your own health and to see how to conduct the Brainbow Blueprint® model in practice.
I also offer Practice Building and Career Counseling to think through your career goals in integrative medicine and nutrition for mental health.
Whatever way you prefer to connect with me, know that I am passionate about supporting you and your personal and professional goals!
Psychotropic medications are drugs that impact our behavior, perception, mood, and thinking. There are 5 categories of such drugs for mental health disorders: antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, stimulants, antipsychotics, and mood stabilizers. Each of these alters levels of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin.
However, many of these drugs also cause side effects, with some severe enough to require monitoring by a healthcare provider. Many of them also cause nutrient deficiencies along with dependence or withdrawal symptoms. Children, pregnant women, and older adults are at even higher risk for complications or side effects. And discontinuation syndrome is known to occur after the use of many kinds of antidepressants. It can include nausea, insomnia, vertigo, “brain zaps”, and anxiety.
Thus, tapering off psychotropic medications is an art and a science that must be individualized to each clients’ needs. This course guides the “deprescriber” in the multiple forms of support that will benefit the client at each stage of their recovery.
Among the most challenging medications to taper and detoxify are the SSRI’s, such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Lexapro, and SNRI’s, like Pristiq and Effexor, along with benzodiazepines like Valium and the atypical antipsychotics like Seroquel which is often used for sleep and to treat traumatic stress.
You can start the course immediately. It is a completely self-paced online course — you decide when you start and when you finish.
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like – across any and all devices you own.
If you are not 100% satisfied with this course you may send an email and you will be provided with a full refund, no questions asked. The reimbursement given will be minus taxes and fees paid.
No-Risk Offer: If you’re on the fence about an integrative medicine certification, you can take this course first. If you like it and want to complete a certification I will give you a discount coupon for the value of this course.
Imagine you had a proven way to support your clients who choose to taper off psychotropic medications…
The Curriculum Covers…
- Introduction
- Problems of Pharma
- The Role of Mitochondria
- The Brainbow Blueprint®
- Foundations of Tapering
- Readiness to Taper
- Clinical Demonstration – Introduction
- Clinical Demonstration – Checklist with Client
- Clinical Demonstration – Review Intake
- Phases of Taper
- Taper Phase 2
- Two Case Reviews
- Summary
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Your Instructor
Dr. Leslie Korn is a renowned expert in integrative medicine for the treatment of trauma and its physical sequelae including chronic digestive illness, insomnia, pain, substance abuse, diabetes, cognitive decline and “unexplained illnesses.” She has provided over 65,000 hours of clinical care integrating psychotherapy and somatic therapies with nutritional, culinary, and herbal medicine. She completed her training at Harvard Medical School and The Harvard School of Public Health. She is licensed and board certified in 4 clinical disciplines.
She has been a faculty instructor at Harvard in the Department of Psychiatry and faculty at 2 Naturopathic medical schools. She lived for 25 years in the jungle of Mexico, where she worked alongside indigenous healers and directed a pro bono health center. Her clinical practice focuses on helping clients who are ill by restoring their health and reducing or eliminating medications.
Her mentoring practice focuses on helping clinicians create a successful, integrative medicine, trauma-informed career. Her ethic of compassion and care is informed by feminist values of social justice and her love for dogs.
Licensure: LMHC, MA. Lic #3214, exp. 12/2023; NPI: 1629659636
The Leslie Korn Institute For Integrative Medicine is neither a regulatory nor licensing organization and therefore not sanctioned to certify, license, or otherwise bestow the legal authorization to practice as a nutritionist, physician, or mental health professional. Certification does not warrant that a program or its examination certifies a candidate’s competence. Nothing about this program or its examination is intended to replace, override, or conflict with licensing requirements for health professionals and their requirements for practice in their state of residency and practice.