By: Jane Kennedy, Certified Family Nurse Practitioner, MN, MPH
Integrative and Functional Medicine has for decades used the principle of finding the underlying cause of imbalance in the whole person system and treating with modalities that cause the least side effects to return the patient to optimal balance. By using this approach, we can successfully evaluate changes in psychological health through the life cycle and determine if underlying hormonal imbalances of various types or dysfunctional states of metabolism, can be the the cause.
These include sex hormones, thyroid and adrenal hormones, insulin and glucose control, and neurotransmitters along with other hormones, for women and men at at any age. By promoting optimal life style choices, supplementation and bio-identical hormone replenishment when appropriate, we can offer approaches which have low risks of side effects.
The journey with patients to regain lost balance can be one filled with deep satisfaction as they reclaim their lives with a new sense of optimal health and well-being physiologically and psychologically.
Learning Objectives - After completion of the presentation the attendees will:
1. Identify points of physiologic hormonal changes in the life cycle when psychological changes are likely to occur for women and men.
2. List 3 major hormonal systems causing psychological symptoms and 2 of the most common with each system.
3. List 3 physiologic features patients demonstrate of hormonal or metabolic imbalance.
About our speaker
Jane Kennedy, CFNP, MN, MPH has concentrated her Santa Rosa clinical practice over the past 18 years on helping women and men regain their health and vitality after experiencing hormonal imbalance and decline. Her extensive training and experience with experts in the field of Integrative and Functional Medicine have made her into a leading hormonal health practitioner. Trained as a Nurse Practitioner at UCLA, Jane has been in clinical practice for over 40 years in Family Practice, Women's Health, and Dermatology. With an additional Master's Degree in Public Health, she has always focused on disease prevention and embraces a mind-body-spirit model of health.
10:30 - 11:00 Social networking and registration
Map to Odd Fellows Hall here.
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Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
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- Refunds: $10 cancellation fee for refunds requested up to 30 days before the event. No refunds are given beginning 29 days prior to the event.
- CE Certificate: You must stay for the entire meeting, sign in and out and complete an evaluation to receive your CE credit certificate. At the conclusion of this educational event, an email with a link to the evaluation form will be sent to all attendees who signed in AND out of the event. Once you complete and submit your evaluation, you will have immediate access and be able to print your CE Certificate. Course meets the qualifications for 6 hrs of continuing education (CE) credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
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