Course overview

Whole Person Approaches to Mental Health

Support emotional well-being with integrative, evidence-informed strategies that honor the full complexity of mind, body, and spirit.

This self-paced course explores the biological, behavioral, social, and spiritual influences on mental health and equips you with practical tools to support patients using lifestyle, nutritional, mind-body, and emerging integrative approaches. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of how to work with mood, trauma, neurobiology, and healing beyond conventional diagnoses.
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 Integrative Mental Health

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.

11 hours of Expert-led Content

Build essential skills in supporting mental health through whole-person care—grounded in evidence and clinical experience.

Self-Paced and Flexible Learning

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

Here is what we will cover in
this course

Foundations of Integrative Mental Health

Explore whole-person, systems-based models of emotional well-being that integrate biological, psychological, and social dimensions.

Lifestyle and Physiologic Influences

Understand how sleep, stress, inflammation, nutrition, and gut health contribute to mental wellness or distress.

Integrative Approaches to Depression

Identify evidence-informed strategies for mood support, including advanced and emerging integrative interventions.

 The Gut-Brain-Mind Axis

Examine how the microbiome and dietary inputs influence mood, cognition, and resilience.

Psychedelics and Non-Ordinary States

Review emerging science on psychedelic-assisted therapy, mystical experiences, and their impact on mental health and neuroplasticity.

Healing, Meaning, and the Power of Spirit

Explore how therapeutic presence, spirituality, belief, and context influence outcomes through mechanisms like the placebo effect and the meaning response.

Take the next step in your integrative and whole health journey

This course gives you practical tools to support emotional and spiritual healing—integrating mind-body practices, functional assessments, and emerging science into personalized 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?

Mental health conditions are on the rise—and with them, a growing demand for approaches that go beyond symptom suppression. Patients are seeking personalized, root-cause–oriented strategies that recognize the connections between brain, body, and life experience.
In this course, you'll:
  • Understand the whole-person framework for mental health care
  • Assess the impact of nutrition, inflammation, trauma, and stress on the mind
  • Use mind-body, lifestyle, and psychospiritual strategies to support resilience
  • Explore new frontiers such as psychedelic therapies and the power of belief
  • Expand your clinical toolkit with strategies that are evidence-informed, relationship-centered, and trauma-sensitive
This course equips you with the knowledge and clinical tools to confidently support mental and emotional well-being using whole-person, lifestyle-based strategies grounded in evidence, compassion, and systems thinking. It also explores emerging frontiers, such as psychedelics, spirituality, and the healing power of context, as part of integrative mental health care.

Whether you’re a physician, therapist, health coach, or care team leader, this course equips you with the tools to guide patients toward emotional well-being using integrative, whole-person approaches.

Ready to build your integrative clinical skillset?