Integrative Behavioral Health & Wellness
Certification Classes
We offer Integrative Behavioral Health & Wellness certification classes to the community through a qualified instructor.
Certified Integrative Behavioral
Health & Wellness Coach
C.A.R.E.S (Certified Addiction Recovery Empowerment Specialist) & CPS-AD (Certified Peer Specialist of Addictive Disease are certifications provided for and funded by the Georgia Council for Recovery.
We offer Integrative Behavioral Health and Wellness Certification classes for all members of the community
and offer scholarships to all those who qualify.
Next group of LIVE IN-PERSON CLASSES start date is TBD
What makes a Behavioral Health Professional Integrative?
An Integrative Professional takes a balanced approach by considering the whole person in regard to their bio-psycho-social-spiritual aspects using a client-centered individualized approach that would benefit the body as a whole with the understanding that all aspects work together symbiotically for a complete picture of health and wellness.
What makes a program certified?
A certification program is a defined set of components or training programs offered by an organization to members to prove that they have achieved a measured level of knowledge within a designated timeline.
Legally speaking, any organization can create its own certification programs and issue certificates, and no accreditation is needed for doing that. The required credentials and experience of the instructor(s) are established by the organization.
Class Attendance is Mandatory for Certification. The fee for this entire program is $100 which is placed in escrow and is returned in full to students who have attended all classes.
Classes are on Monday evenings from 6pm-9pm on specified dates only (subject to change with plenty of advance notice). Please arrive at least 10 minutes early to be prepared and situated as we start right at 6pm. You are either early or you are late. There is no “on time”
Training topics will include these areas:
- 12 Core Functions of Counseling/Coaching
- Personal Growth & Development/ Leadership
- Amen Clinic Brain Health Professional Certification(Neuroscience, ANTS Therapy, Grief & Trauma, and much more)
- Coaching Modalities (Including the Resolution Solution Process, Motivational Interviewing, Client-Centered, etc.)
- Experiential Activities
- Relationships/Communication/Conflict Resolution
- Financial Health
- Integrative Nutrition
- Peer Recovery/Recovery Messaging/All Pathways to Recovery/RCO’s
- Self-Care and Other Integrative Practices (Deep Breathing, Meditation, Reiki, Ayurvedic)
- And much more!
*Items highlighted above are fully separate smaller individual courses contained within the entire program curriculum. So you get it all!
After completion of this course, you will be proficient in:
- The ability to conduct professional coaching sessions (including all the tasks/core functions of a professional coach for addiction and other behavioral health including grief, trauma, nutrition, and more)
- The Amen Clinics Method and Brain Health Coaching
- The ability to facilitate the Resolution Solution Process
- The ability to facilitate Experiential Activities
- Understanding Recovery Messaging and the many pathways to recovery
This curriculum contains special guest speakers and a large amount of hands-on learning.
Required Readings:
- Your Brain is Always Listening, Dr. Daniel Amen
- The End of Mental Illness, Dr. Daniel Amen
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay
- The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale
- Keys to the Kingdom, Alison Armstrong
- Hope Dealers: The Calling, The Struggle, The Breakthroughs and the Community of Believers, Nadine Blase Psareas
- The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman
- As A Man Thinketh, James Allen
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
- The 4 Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
Optional Suggested Readings for your library:
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra
- Anatomy of the Spirit, Caroline Myss
- A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
- Prayers Answered Immediately, John Fichtner
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
- The Alchemist, Pablo Cohelo
- Ben Franklin Autobiography
- Think and Grow Rich, Napolean Hill
Thank you for expressing your interest in our classes!
In Your Service,
~Nadine