Course overview

Nutrition and Therapeutic Diets for Whole Person Health

Gain clinical confidence in using nutrition as a powerful tool for healing, prevention, and personalized care.

Food is foundational to health, yet it’s often underutilized in clinical practice. This self-paced course equips you with a whole-person, evidence-based approach to nutrition—covering macronutrients and micronutrients, therapeutic diets, and personalized counseling strategies that support sustainable change.
This course is part of the Certificate in Integrative and Whole Health Practice. Go to the certificate program page for more information.

What's included?

Micro-Certificate in Nutrition and Therapeutic Diets

Earn a downloadable micro-certificate. This course is part of a full Certificate in Integrative and Whole Health.

Multimedia Presentations + Clinical Cases

Learn through a combination of video lectures, case-based learning, downloadable tools, and self-reflection activities.

17 hours of Expert-led Content

Build your skills in applying therapeutic diets, functional nutrition assessment, and personalized counseling strategies in integrative care.

Self-Paced and Flexible Learning

Follow clearly organized, self-paced modules that fit your schedule—no mandatory live sessions or fixed deadlines.

Earn CME Credit

This course includes 2 CME-eligible modules approved for up to 12.75 continuing education credits for physicians and other eligible health professionals, including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists. CME credit is available through February 1, 2027.

To claim CME credit, participants must complete module requirements and pass quiz activities with a score of 70% or higher. All reflection and assignment activities must be submitted.

See the linked PDF for details on the accredited module and applicable professions.

Here is what we will cover in
this course

Nutrition Foundations

Understand the role of macronutrients and micronutrients in health, and assess how modern dietary patterns and the industrial food system affect nutritional status.

Therapeutic and Diagnostic Diets

Learn the clinical indications and implementation strategies for anti-inflammatory, DASH, FODMAP, and elimination diets.

Functional Nutrition Assessment

Use lifestyle, digestive, and dietary indicators—along with labs and food culture insights—to uncover nutrient imbalances.

Personalized Counseling Skills

Practice open-ended questioning and motivational interviewing to co-create culturally respectful nutrition plans with patients.

Take the next step in your integrative and whole health journey

This course gives you practical tools to assess and address nutrition-related drivers of chronic disease—integrating functional assessment, therapeutic diets, and personalized counseling into whole-person care.
Enroll now to get immediate access to all course materials, expert-led video lessons, and clinical case studies. Earn your micro-certificate upon successful completion of the course.

Why should I take this course?

Nutrition is one of the most powerful and modifiable levers for health and one of the most under-addressed areas in clinical care.
In this course, you'll:
  • Identify root causes of nutritional imbalances and food-related symptoms
  • Confidently recommend therapeutic diets tailored to individual health needs
  • Navigate food allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities.
  • Interpret labs and lifestyle indicators that influence nutrient status, digestive function, and metabolic health.
  • Fulfill professional development goals with CME credit and a micro-certificate
This course provides practical, evidence-based training to help you use food as a powerful tool in prevention and healing. You’ll learn how to assess nutritional status, apply therapeutic diet strategies, and counsel patients in a way that supports lasting change.

Whether you’re a physician, advanced practitioner, or allied health professional, this course will expand your clinical toolkit for delivering upstream, whole-person care.

Ready to build your integrative clinical skillset?