60 Hour Live Online Certificate

March 7 - May 26, 2027

Certified Integrative Health Practitioner Program (CIHP)

Applied Integrative Nutrition & Mind-Body Medicine

Learn to bring nutrition, mind-body medicine, and functional health approaches to your clients.

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The Certified Integrative Health Practitioner Program equips you with the knowledge, assessment tools, and practical interventions to connect nutrition, physiology, mental health, and lifestyle—and create more comprehensive, individualized approaches to healing through evidence-informed training and applied protocols.

Dates

March 7 - May 26, 2027

Format

60 Hour Live Online Certificate

Preview Event

Sunday, December 13, 2026

About the Certificate

A More Comprehensive Approach to Health, Healing & Human Well-Being

A client comes to you struggling with anxiety, exhaustion, difficulty concentrating, or persistent physical discomfort. You may recognize the psychological and emotional dimensions of their experience, but what about the other factors influencing how they feel?

Nutrition, inflammation, metabolic health, hormonal changes, sleep, stress, and lifestyle can all influence physical and psychological well-being. These factors frequently interact, making it difficult to understand someone's health through any single approach.

Practitioners need the knowledge to recognize these connections, understand their significance, and respond with appropriate interventions.

The Certified Integrative Health Practitioner program brings together applied nutrition, mind-body medicine, functional health assessment frameworks, somatic practices, and lifestyle medicine into one comprehensive professional training.

You'll learn to assess interconnected health systems and apply evidence-informed approaches to nutrition, stress regulation, sleep, movement, energy, and behavioral change.

Throughout the program, you'll build a practical library of assessments, protocols, and interventions, learning to integrate them into personalized health plans that reflect each client's needs.

Expand your ability to support clients through nutrition, nervous-system regulation, lifestyle interventions, and integrative health strategies.

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The Integrative Health Framework

Health is shaped by the interaction of multiple systems, including nutrition, digestion, hormonal health, nervous system regulation, sleep, movement, pain, and psychological well-being.

The Integrative Health Framework helps you recognize how these systems influence one another, identify meaningful patterns, and develop a more informed approach to assessment and intervention.

The Integrative Practitioner You’ll Become

Bring together assessment findings, nutritional, mind-body, and lifestyle interventions, behavioral strategies, and interdisciplinary referrals into individualized plans. You’ll develop the ability to recognize connections that may otherwise be overlooked, understand complex health presentations with greater depth, and make more informed decisions about appropriate interventions.

Conduct integrative health assessments

Explore nutrition, sleep, stress, movement, relationships, and health history to understand each client’s health.

Understand physiological influences on mental health

Recognize how inflammation, nutrition, metabolism, hormones, and sleep influence mood, cognition, and energy.

Apply integrative nutrition and nutritional psychology

Learn food-mood assessment, gut-brain health, nutritional psychoeducation, and supplement safety.

Use practical mind-body interventions

Build skills in breath regulation, somatic practices, relaxation, therapeutic imagery, and movement.

Support restorative sleep, energy, and recovery

Assess sleep, fatigue, burnout, and movement habits to develop personalized strategies.

Create personalized integrative health plans

Combine assessment findings with nutrition, mind-body, and lifestyle interventions tailored to each client.

Whether you’re supporting someone experiencing chronic stress, fatigue, emotional difficulties, persistent pain, or challenges with sleep and energy, you’ll have a broader understanding of the factors that may be contributing to their experience and a more comprehensive set of tools to support their well-being.

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Sunday

December 13, 2026

Preview Event with Scott & Arielle

5:00 - 6:30PM ET

Practical Tools for Real-World Application

Assessments, Tracking Tools, Protocols & Planning Templates

Build a practical toolkit for identifying interconnected health patterns, applying mind-body interventions, and developing individualized approaches to care.

The toolkit includes the Integrative Health Assessment, Integrative Health Map, Food-Mood Tracker, Sleep Assessment & Planning tools, Stress & Nervous System Regulation Protocols, and Personalized Integrative Health Plan.

These tools are introduced throughout the curriculum and brought together in the final phase, where you’ll learn to translate assessment findings into practical, individualized strategies.

The Curriculum

A Comprehensive Education in Integrative Health & Mind-Body Medicine

Across six phases, you’ll develop the scientific knowledge, assessment methods, and practical interventions to integrate nutrition, functional health approaches, and mind-body medicine into your work.

The training culminates in personalized integrative health planning, where you’ll learn to bring these approaches together in real-world application.

Phase 01

Foundations of Integrative Mind-Body Medicine

Explore how biological, psychological, relational, and environmental factors influence health. Study inflammation, immune function, stress physiology, and foundational mind-body practices while developing an integrative approach to assessment.

Classes
  • Foundations of Integrative Mind-Body Medicine: Whole-Person Assessment & Health Mapping
  • The Science of Healing: How the Mind, Body & Environment Shape Our Health
  • Inflammation & Mental Health: Understanding & Working With Inflammatory Processes
  • The Immune System & Mental Health: Psychoneuroimmunology & Integrative Interventions
  • The Science & Practice of Physiological Regulation
  • Therapeutic Imagery & Contemplative Practice in Mind-Body Medicine

Practical Tools: Integrative Health Assessment, Health Mapping Protocol, breath regulation, progressive muscle relaxation, autogenic training, therapeutic imagery, and contemplative practices.

Phase 02

Integrative Nutrition & Nutritional Psychology

Understand how nutrition, digestion, the microbiome, and metabolic health influence brain function, mood, energy, and psychological well-being. Learn practical approaches to nutritional assessment and psychoeducation.

Classes
  • Foundations of Integrative Nutrition: Food, Health & Whole-Person Well-Being
  • Nutritional Psychology: The Relationship Between Food, Mood & Mental Health
  • The Gut-Brain Connection: Digestion, the Microbiome & Mental Health
  • Metabolic Health: Blood Sugar, Energy & Emotional Stability

Practical Tools: Integrative Nutrition Assessment, Food-Mood Tracking, Supplement Evidence & Safety Review, Gut-Brain Health Assessment, and Metabolic Health & Nourishment Planning.

Phase 03

Food Therapy, Stress Management & Hormonal Health

Explore the relationships among eating behaviors, trauma, stress physiology, and hormonal health. Learn somatic and behavioral approaches to supporting regulation, nourishment, and emotional well-being.

Classes
  • Food as Nervous System Information: Understanding Our Relationship With Eating
  • Cravings, Trauma & Conscious Eating: A Somatic Approach to Food Therapy
  • Integrative Stress Management
  • Hormones & Mental Health: Understanding Endocrine Influences on Mood, Energy & Well-Being

Practical Tools: Conscious eating, somatic inquiry, stress-cycle mapping, Somatic Stress Release™, stress-management planning, and frameworks for recognizing possible endocrine influences.

Phase 04

Sleep, Recovery, Burnout & Applied Exercise Science

Study the science of sleep, circadian rhythms, fatigue, burnout, and movement. Learn practical strategies for supporting restorative sleep, sustainable energy, and physical and psychological resilience.

Classes
  • The Science of Better Sleep: Integrative Assessment & Interventions for Restorative Sleep
  • Understanding Fatigue & Burnout: Restoring Energy, Resilience & Recovery
  • Exercise as Medicine: The Science of Movement & Mental Health
  • The Healing Power of Movement: Somatic Practices for Mental Health & Well-Being

Practical Tools: Sleep assessment, circadian rhythm mapping, sleep-support planning, fatigue and energy mapping, movement planning, mindful movement, and behavioral activation.

Phase 05

Pain, Cognitive Engagement and Performance

Understand the relationships among persistent pain, nervous system sensitization, neuroplasticity, and cognitive health. Explore mind-body and lifestyle approaches to supporting pain management, attention, memory, and brain function.

Classes
  • The Mind-Body Connection in Chronic Pain: Understanding and Healing Persistent Symptoms
  • Somatic Approaches to Chronic Pain: Nervous System Regulation & Embodied Healing
  • Brain Health & Neuroplasticity: The Science of Cognitive Vitality & Longevity
  • Optimizing Cognitive Performance: Enhancing Focus, Memory & Mental Clarity

Practical Tools: Pain-related somatic approaches, nervous system regulation, cognitive-performance assessment, attention strategies, and lifestyle approaches to brain health.

Phase 06

Personalized Integrative Health Planning & Application

Bring together everything you’ve learned to assess complex health presentations, recognize interconnected patterns, and develop individualized approaches to care.

Through applied case work, you’ll learn to organize assessment findings, identify priorities, select appropriate nutritional, somatic, mind-body, and lifestyle interventions, and develop collaborative plans that support sustainable change.

ClassesIntegration & Application
  • Designing Personalized Integrative Health Plans: From Assessment to Intervention
  • Integrative Mind-Body Medicine in Practice

Practical Tools: Comprehensive Integrative Health Mapping, individualized health planning, motivational interviewing, collaborative goal-setting, intervention selection, progress monitoring, and case-based integration.

Your Culminating Application

Develop a personalized Integrative Health Plan that brings together assessment findings, relevant health systems, individual goals, appropriate interventions, and strategies for ongoing monitoring and adjustment.

The Faculty

Learn From Leading Interdisciplinary Experts in Health & Healing

The program brings together an interdisciplinary faculty whose expertise spans integrative health, nutritional science, somatic psychology, stress physiology, mind-body medicine, and behavioral health.

You’ll explore how these disciplines inform one another and learn practical approaches from educators working across different dimensions of health and healing.

Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Dr. Arielle Schwartz

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Dr. Illene Naomi Rusk

Dr. Illene Naomi Rusk

Luis Mojica

Luis Mojica

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Dr. Scott Lyons

Dr. Scott Lyons

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Nkem Ndefo

Nkem Ndefo

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Nicole Sachs

Nicole Sachs

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Who This Is For

For Practitioners Ready to Expand Their Approach to Health & Healing

  • Therapists & Mental Health Professionals

    Understand how nutrition, physiology, and lifestyle influence psychological well-being.

  • Coaches & Wellness Professionals

    Build a scientific foundation and practical tools for sustainable health-related behavior change.

  • Somatic Practitioners & Bodyworkers

    Deepen your understanding of nutrition, metabolism, sleep, stress physiology, and interconnected bodily systems.

  • Healthcare & Allied Health Professionals

    Integrate mind-body practices, lifestyle interventions, and functional health perspectives into your work.

  • Individuals Exploring Their Own Health & Healing

    Explore nutrition, mind-body medicine, and holistic approaches to well-being.

Tuition
& Enrollment

Invest in Your Development as an Integrative Health Practitioner

Expand your expertise across integrative nutrition, functional health, and mind-body medicine while developing practical assessment tools, intervention methods, and personalized health planning skills.

2027 Live Online Certificate Program

Certified Integrative Health Practitioner (CIHP)

Applied Integrative Nutrition & Mind-Body Medicine

Your Enrollment Includes:

  • Six phases of interdisciplinary integrative health education
  • Live online instruction
  • Integrative health assessment and mapping frameworks
  • Applied nutrition and mind-body intervention protocols
  • Food-mood, sleep, and stress assessment tools
  • Personalized integrative health planning and case application
  • Professional ethics and scope-of-practice education

Member Price

$977 USD

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Non-Member Price

$1,227 USD

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to be a nutritionist or healthcare professional to enroll?

The curriculum is designed for therapists, coaches, somatic practitioners, healthcare professionals, and other helping professionals. It also welcomes individuals interested in deepening their understanding of integrative health for their own well-being, subject to final eligibility requirements.

Will I learn how to use nutrition in my existing practice?

Yes. The training covers nutritional psychology, food-mood tracking, nutritional assessment frameworks, supplement literacy, and nutritional psychoeducation. How you apply these methods professionally depends on your qualifications and scope of practice.

Does the certificate teach functional medicine?

The curriculum incorporates functional and systems-oriented approaches to understanding health, including nutrition, metabolism, inflammation, hormonal influences, and lifestyle. The certificate does not independently confer medical licensure or a functional medicine specialist qualification.

Will I learn practical tools I can use with clients?

Yes. You'll study structured assessments, tracking tools, mind-body interventions, lifestyle strategies, and individualized planning frameworks, with an emphasis on responsible professional application.

Is the program primarily focused on mental health?

Mental health is an important area of application, but the training also addresses physical and behavioral health, including nutrition, sleep, fatigue, chronic pain, metabolic health, and cognitive functioning.

Can I diagnose medical conditions or prescribe supplements after completing the program?

No. Completion of the certificate alone does not authorize medical diagnosis, prescribing, or regulated medical nutrition therapy. The program emphasizes professional boundaries, evidence-informed practice, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Expand Your Understanding of Health and What’s Possible in Your Practice

When you understand how nutrition, physiology, stress, sleep, movement, and psychological well-being influence one another, you gain a broader perspective on the challenges people bring into your care. Develop the expertise to approach health more comprehensively and support the people you work with through informed, individualized, integrative care.

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