Seminar: Treating Depression and Anxiety with Food

Nutritional & Complementary Treatment for Mental Health Disorders: Non-Pharmaceutical Strategies that Work! Seminar

This seminar is for mental health professionals and
individuals trying to improve their overall health.

When: Yakima, Friday, August 15, 2008 at 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tacoma, Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Seattle Friday, August 22, 2008 at 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

What will be covered:
· How food affects mood
· Screening and assessment of nutritional deficiencies for anxiety and depression
· Tools and handouts to treating anxiety and depression


“I have personally worked with hundreds
of speakers across the country and Kristen
is at the top of the list when it comes
to performance, professionalism, knowledge
and charm and this is reflected in
stellar audience reviews. Kristen connects
with learners instantly and is able to cut
through the expanse of information to
provide the specific content that can
change people’s lives.”
—Michael Olson, M.S.
Senior Project Manager
PESI, LLC

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Nourish Your Body, Transform Your Life

Nourish Your Body, Transform Your Life
Educational Support Group Series

• Have you ever wondered how food affects your mood?
• Are you frustrated with how hard it is to change eating habits?
• Are you concerned that food advertising is not promoting good health?
• Tired of craving sugar and carbohydrates?
• Tired of not caring through with diet changes?
  
  Group meets: Thursdays, 6-8 pm

April 17: Introduction: How to have more energy and mental clarity-FREE
May 8: Spring into Action: Understanding cravings for sugar and carbs
June 5: The Path of Change: How to rewire your brain

June 26: Food Labels: Understanding what you are eating
July 10: Transform Your Approach: Making friends with your saboteur

Cost: $280 total for all 4 groups, if paid in full by April 24th.
$340 total for all 4 groups, if paid after April 24th.
Seating is limited.

Call or email to RSVP for the free class on April 17th: 206-579-2757
For directions and registration see below.

Be proactive—promote your overall wellness!

This group is to assist people in improving their relationship with food, their body, and themselves by learning to listen to their bodies and themselves.

Process for Registration for Nourish Your Body

• RSVP by phone (206-579-2757) or email (allott@dynamicpaths.com) for
  Free April 17: Introduction: How to have more energy and mental clarity

• If you choose to attend, you will be able to registrar on April 17th or can mail in a check for the appropriate amount with your name, address, email and phone number. Be sure to mail the registration to the mailing address not the address of the group.
  
  
  Mail-in check for appropriate amount
  Cost: $280 total for all 4 groups, if paid in full by April 24th.
  $340 total for all 4 groups, if paid after April 24th.
  Seating is limited.
  
  The mailing address is:
  Dynamic Paths
  PMB 6604
  10002 Aurora Ave N # 36
  Seattle, WA 98133
  

• The location of the group is:
  Elements Hall
  BodySong Healing and Arts Center943 North 89th St.Seattle, WA 98103

From I-5 (North or South): Take the 85th St. exit. Follow exit West, past two lights (crossing Wallingford and Aurora/Hwy. 99). Take next Right, onto Linden Ave., heading North. Drive four blocks, turn right onto 89th St. BodySong is on the South side of the street, with a brown fence. Street parking only, please.

From Aurora/Hwy. 99 (Southbound): Turn Right onto 85th St. Take the next Right, onto Linden Ave., heading North. Drive four blocks, turn Right onto 89th St. BodySong is on the South side of the street, with a brown fence. Street parking only, please.

From Aurora/Hwy. 99 (Northbound): Turn Left onto 90th St. Take next Left, onto Linden Ave., heading South. Drive one block, turn Left onto 89th St. BodySong is on the South side of the street, with a brown fence. Street parking only, please.


Any questions please contact Dr. Kristen Allott:
Phone: 206-579-2757
Email: allott@dynamicpaths.com

Testimonial for Wellness In Action

As the Director of A Positive Alternative, I wanted to include a quick note about the huge positive impact that Dr. Kristen Allott has had upon our clients at A Positive Alternative. We are still the only gender-specific, non-12 step oriented alcohol and drug treatment program in the region.

Dr. Allott has been working with our clients for over a year, providing nutritional, lifestyle and wellness guidance. This has all been for the purpose of assisting clients in gaining greater awareness of their bodies, helping clients to understand the impact that food and activity have on increasing the sense of well-being that we believe is extremely necessary for people making the transition from addictive use of alcohol and substances into an alcohol and drug-free life.

Feedback from clients has consistently confirmed that her methods are critically useful. We are very fortunate that Dr. Allott has continued to be willing to offer her workshops to our clients on an ongoing basis.

Dr. Allott is the first Naturopath we refer to when a client has a need for a personal physician – especially in the areas of emotions, difficulty with withdrawal, a need for depression or anxiety to be addressed, as well as for those who would like to begin a safe process of transitioning from using standard antidepressants to a more natural approach.

Having known Dr. Allott for over 5 years, gives our entire staff a confidence in her methods, her scientific and research orientation, her personal commitment to wellness for all, and her compassion for our clients.

In addition, I have personally attended her workshop for professionals, which includes her great width of knowledge that is made extremely accessible for mental health care professionals to pass on to their clients. Her handouts, lectures and question and answer format make her an amazingly wonderful gem in the realm of empowerment both of the clinician and their clients. I would HIGHLY recommend her upcoming workshop.

Catherine Trestrail ACSW,MSW, CDP
Founder and Director of A Positive Alternative (since 1990)
www.apositivealternative.com

Wellness in Action Series

The Wellness in Action Series is for mental health professionals and other providers who have clients whose diet is impacting their mental and physical well-being. Often an individual’s emotional history and lack of understanding of her physical body’s needs contribute to her food choices. The series will give you the tools to help your current clients make healthier moment to moment choices and help you market to a new clients.

By providing your clients the resources to have a better

relationship with their body,

you are empowering them to have a better

relationship with themselves.

Benefits:
· Receive support on presenting diet change information to clients.
· Learn techniques that help your clients dialog with their bodies better about dietary causes of anxiety, depression, sugar addition and weight gain.
· Receive handout and the opportunity to roll play and practice in a supportive environment.


Fats: fire starters, fire fighters
Friday February 15, 2008 9am to noon
Learn how to explain the importance of good fats as part of well-balanced nutrition and which bad fats need to be limited. Learn how the type of fats in a diet contribute to depression, aggression, bipolar disorders2, obesity and chronic diseases such as diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.


Presenting protein: if you can teach it, you can own it
Friday March 14, 2008 9am to noon
During the first part of this group, you will receive detailed handouts and scripts to help enter into dialogue with clients. After we discuss the impact protein can make on improving health, you will have the opportunity to explain the importance of protein for maintaining energy and mental clarity as well as preventing anxiety and depression.


Encouraging exercise: changing self-image
Friday April 11, 2008 9am to noon
Learn how to encourage reluctant clients to exercise and appreciate the qualities of self-curiosity, self-observation, and self-compassion. When exercise is integrated into the values systems of the individual it becomes a, integral part of the client’s life.


Cost for the Series:
$240 for all three parts when received before Jan 25th
$270 for all three parts when received after Jan 25th, Deadline Feb 8th.
Limited to 12 people

For Applications click: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcnhgs2r_0cbcvn7fm

Question? Please call Dr. Kristen Allott at (206)579-2757
or visit www.dynamicpaths.com

Dr. Allott is developing a year-long training program and is seeking continuing education credits. This series is in development, does not provide CE credits.

How to Rebuild You Brain Group

I have long believed that as medical science has not been asking what the brain needs in terms of nutrition to function. To better educated the clients of Dynamic Paths, I am excited to announce that I am now offering a group for established clients at Dynamic Paths. This group will focus on providing more information than can be offered in individual sessions. After offering a Wellness Group at A Positive Alternative (www.apositivealternative.com) for the last year, I can see the benefits of individuals learning more about how proteins, sugars and fats affect their energy and mental clarity. With this information, I see that people can better moment to moment decisions on eating because they are better to understand and integrate what their body and emotions are telling them.

I am so committed to people getting this information that if you attend six of the ten sessions offered. I will offer you a free 45 minute individual session.

Rebuilding your Brain by listening to your Body Wellness Group

Wednesdays from 6 to 8 pm
$80 per Group
Must Reserve a seat by Monday before Group

Oct 10th: Discussion on the philosophy of Chinese Medicine. Suggested reading Five Spirits by Lorie Eve Dechar.

Oct. 24th: More Energy and More Mental Clarity: Why when you eat is as important and what you eat.

Oct. 31st: Labels: How to know what you are eating.

Nov 7th: Dialoging with the Committing: Getting the Critic out of the CEO seat.

Nov 14th: Planning for holiday eating and stress.

Dec 5th: Sugars: Not all sugars are created equally.

Dec 12th: Diet for Lowering Cholesterol: What fats to keep.

Jan 2nd: Making New Year’s Resolutions continue through out the year.

Jan 9th: Fats: Promoting Health Promoting Disease.

Jan 16th: Olympic Athlete Syndrome

Addiction Free without AA

• Have you been looking for Outpatient Treatment for Alcohol or Drug use that is not based on AA or the 12-steps as the basis of Recovery?
  
• Have you had mixed feelings about seeking treatment, partly because you still are very high functioning in many areas of your life, despite your drinking or use? (The majority of our clients are quite high functioning).
  
• Would you like to be part of a program with small groups (no more than 8) that focuses on skills for not only getting free of addiction, and addresses other psychological issues that are intertwined with drinking/drugs?
  
• Would you prefer a program that focuses on Therapy vs. court orders to treatment because of DUI’s and group members who are just marking time? (We carefully screen our clients in order to have a supportive, positive group experience for everyone.)
  
  A Positive Alternative is a Radically Different Approach to Alcohol & Drug Treatment – the only one of it’s kind in our Region. Here are just a few of the ways We Are Different:
  
  1) All our Therapists are Master’s Level Trained Clinicians with decades of both Addictions AND Mental Health experience.
  2) We believe that Groups need to consist of members who can easily identify with each other. Our Adult Groups are Gender Specific with separate Women’s Outpatient Program and Men’s Outpatient Program. In addition, our College Student’s Program to Prevent Addiction works to change addictive patterns, yet does not insist upon abstinence as a lifelong pattern.
  3) We incorporate the latest research in addiction therapy into our programs, including Motivational Enhancement, Cognitive Therapy, including Coping, Habit Change, Relationship and Self-Care Skills training, Mindfulness Meditation, Nutrition and Physical methods that effect well-being and brain recovery.
  If you would like more information, please see our website at www.APositiveAlternative.com or call 206-547-1955
  

Alternative Healthcare for Low-income & Homeless People

AHAC, Alternative Healthcare Access Campaign, was initially formed in August 1999 by a small group of students and homeless advocates, who were concerned that the benefits of alternative healthcare were becoming exclusively available to the wealthier segments of society. Previously, the Sound Clinic provided full service alternative and conventional healthcare to the downtown Seattle community until its closure in 1997, which created a void in accessible alternative healthcare for low-income & homeless people.
In 2006 it was estimated that nearly 6000 people were homeless in the Seattle area, according to the one night count of Seattle King County Coalition for the Homeless. Studies show that people in stressful circumstances (such as homelessness & unemployment) are more likely to also suffer from ill health. As alternative healthcare's focus is on disease prevention and restoring the body's natural balance, it is a strong tool for re-establishing and maintaining health in this population. One of AHAC's primary goals is to establish onsite clinical services at social service centers for low-income and homeless people to help address this need.
Since October 2000, AHAC has delivered more than 5000 free treatments at our service sites to close to 2300 people, giving us a nearly 50% return rate.

For more information contact:
AHAC
Address: PO BOX 45364 Seattle, WA 98145
Phone: (206)925-3322
E-mail: ahacseattle@gmail.com