Group Work and Mind‑Body Programs

Have you ever considered the impact of food on mental health? In this episode, I am joined by a renowned expert in mental health, nutrition, and trauma, Dr. Leslie Korn.

Leslie shares how she works with clients and other clinicians to integrate nutrition as a tool to support mental health. I am so excited to be sharing her story with you today.

We talk about a holistic approach to healing mental health and trauma and the role of nutrition in creating and maintaining health. Leslie gives her insight into how she got interested in bringing nutrition into her practice, the first steps to take if you want to integrate nutrition into your practice, and where she sees her business going next.

What you'll find in this episode:

• How she works with her clients and other clinicians
• The first steps of integrating nutrition into your practice
• Why you have to look at nutrition holistically for mental health and trauma
• What sparked Leslie's interest in nutrition
• What Leslie wishes she knew when starting her practice
• Her visions for the next chapter of her practice

About Leslie:

Leslie Korn is a renowned expert in mental health nutrition and the treatment of trauma who has provided over 60,000 hours of clinical treatment using non-pharmaceutical methods for mental and physical illness. She is the founding director of the Leslie Korn Institute for Integrative Medicine. She is Certified in Functional Nutritional Therapy, National Board Certified in 2 forms of Bodywork therapies. She completed her graduate training at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health. She has served as a clinical instructor and clinical supervisor at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and was faculty at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and clinical preceptor at Bastyr University.

Originally from Boston, Dr. Leslie ran a clinic in rural indigenous Mexico for over 25 years. She was a National Institutes of Health research scientist in mind-body medicine, was a Fulbright Scholar on indigenous medicine.

She is the author of Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: A Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection (Norton, 2016), The Good Mood Kitchen (Norton, 2017), Natural Woman, (Shambhala, 2020) Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature and the Body (Routledge, 2012), Multicultural Counseling Workbook (Premiere Publishing, 2016), and Preventing and Treating Diabetes, Naturally, (DayKeeper Press, 2019 ) She works with clients and teaches clinicians in the application of mental health nutrition.

Connect with Leslie:

Website | Institute

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