FREE 6-HOUR LIVE WEBINAR ON NUTRITION & EMOTIONAL REGULATION FOR LICENSED THERAPISTS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8TH, 2026 @ 10:00 AM TO 5:30 PM ET
Why Some Clients Won’t Respond To Talk Therapy Alone, & How To Tell When Gut-Brain Health Is Causing Psychological Symptoms
In this free 6-hour Webinar, you'll discover how to screen digestion, eating patterns, and health history, recognize when three or more signals point to a physical contributor to the psychological symptoms you've been treating, and refer to the provider who can act on it.
Taught live by Dr. Vicki Steine, DSc, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate in nutrition.
6 CE CREDITS + LIFETIME ACCESS to the recording available for purchase after free registration.
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Nutrition & Emotional Regulation Starts In:
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9 Board-Approved CEs
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What You'll Discover During The Nutrition & Emotional Regulation Webinar
How to screen a case for nutritional and gut-brain factors, read the signs, draw the scope line, & refer to the right healthcare provider so your client gets the help they need.
Understand How The Gut Affects Mood, Stress & Focus
See how the gut and brain affect each other through the vagus nerve, the stress response, the immune system, and the compounds gut bacteria produce. You'll get the plain-language version of each one to easily explain it to a client in session, which lets you confidently point a client toward care beyond psychotherapy without it sounding like a hunch.
Know The Key Signs That Show Symptoms Are More Than Just Psychological
Walk through gastrointestinal presentation like bloating, abdominal pain or a stress-gut correlation; energy patterns like afternoon crashes or fatigue that sleep does not fix; brain fog and concentration difficulties with no psychological explanation; dietary patterns like irregular meals or meal skipping; and physical health history like extended antibiotic use, an autoimmune condition or a thyroid condition. You'll know how many have to be present before a case needs a healthcare provider, which is at least three across categories. That is the point where you can tell psychotherapy alone is not going to be enough for this client.
Know Which Physical Factor Fits Which Presentation
Understand how nutrition, gut health, inflammation and the microbiome are each described as contributing to mood, stress response and thinking. You'll know which of them to ask about when a client describes low mood that has not responded to therapy, fatigue out of proportion to their sleep, irritability around meals, or difficulty concentrating. This is the data you can bring to a healthcare provider to best help the client.
Add Seven Questions To Your Intake That Change What You Find
Be able to add seven questions to the intake you already run to surface a possible nutritional contributor at the start of treatment rather than months into it. It covers digestion, dietary patterns, how energy and mood relate to food, physical health history, and whether stress shows up in the body. You'll get the questions themselves, the language for introducing them so your client understands why you're asking, and where in the session they belong. You'll also see the self-report measures for tracking this week to week, two of which you already run.
Know Where Your Advice Has To Stop & Who Takes It From There
Know which of twelve clinical tasks sit inside psychotherapy and which do not. You'll see the seven you can do yourself, including the stress reduction and breathing work already in your practice, and the five you cannot, from recommending supplements to interpreting lab results. You'll know which concern belongs with primary care and which belongs with a registered dietitian. And you'll have an answer for the client who asks you directly what to eat.
Make Sure Your Client Actually Gets The Help You Referred Them To
Know how to make a referral sound like an addition to the work rather than the end of it, and exactly what to write to the receiving provider. You'll know what to say to the five most common responses, from the client asking whether to take probiotics, to the one already on a self-directed elimination diet, to the one who does not want to see another provider at all. And you'll have the follow-up steps that tell you whether your client went and what the provider found. That is the difference between giving a client a name and getting them care.
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Nutrition & Emotional Regulation Starts In:
When Youth Therapy Gets Stuck: Trauma, Anxiety, and Emotional Dysregulation in Children
What You'll Discover During The Nutrition & Emotional Regulation Webinar
How to screen a case for nutritional and gut-brain factors, read the signs, draw the scope line, & refer to the right healthcare provider so your client gets the help they need.
Break A Panic Attack Into The Four Parts You Can Treat
See how to separate any panic attack into its four components: the thought, the physical arousal, the emotion, and what the client does in response. Then map those onto the antecedent, behavior, consequence cycle so you can see which response is keeping the attacks coming, and cover anxiety sensitivity and the role of the amygdala in language you can use with a client.
Separate A Panic Attack From Panic Disorder & Agoraphobia
Know how to identify the presentation you’re witnessing. A panic attack is four or more sensations that peak fast, and it can appear in any anxiety presentation. Panic disorder is different: at least one attack that came out of nowhere, followed by fear of the next one and the avoidance that follows. Agoraphobia can show up with panic disorder or without it, and the two often travel together.
Conduct An Interoceptive Assessment & Run The Exposure
Watch Ashley Smith conduct an interoceptive assessment live, then learn to run the exposures in session: how to choose the exercise for the sensation the client fears most, how long to stay with it, what to say while the client is having the sensation, and how to set up the practice they do between sessions. You will get her decision rules for when a client repeats an exposure and when they move to a harder one, the self-report measures for tracking progress week to week, why safety signals have to come out before in vivo work, and how imaginal exposure brings the client's thoughts into it.
Know When Breath Retraining Helps Panic & When It Does Not
Discover which automatic thoughts and core beliefs drive panic, how to build self-talk a client can actually use during an attack, and where self-compassion fits. Then learn what mindfulness is and is not in panic treatment, and when breath retraining is useful versus when it is contraindicated.
Handle The Medical Side Of A Panic Case Without Overstepping
Understand why a full medical workup belongs early in a panic case and what it rules in as well as out, what your role is on the parts of the plan you do not control, and how to talk with a client and with the other providers on their case. You will leave with language that stays inside your scope and keeps the rest of a client's care lined up with the exposure work instead of pulling against it.
Know Exactly What To Do When A Client Panics In Session
Be able to move a stalled panic case forward using four specific methods. When the client stops doing the exposures between sessions, how to bring in their values and use rewards and consequences to get adherence back. When a client will not give up a safety signal, what to do about it. When the family accommodates every avoidance, what to say to them. And when a panic attack starts in your office, what to do for the rest of the session. You will also learn how to sequence interventions when panic shows up alongside another presentation, and how to close treatment on the right goal.
Step 1 / 2
Register For This Free 6-Hour Clinical Summit On June 2nd
Somatic Interventions Clinical Summit: Body-Based Healing for Trauma Clients When Talk Therapy Has Failed
See how the gut and brain affect each other through the vagus nerve, the stress response, the immune system, and the compounds gut bacteria produce. You'll get the plain-language version of each one to easily explain it to a client in session, which lets you confidently point a client toward care beyond psychotherapy without it sounding like a hunch.
Walk through gastrointestinal presentation like bloating, abdominal pain or a stress-gut correlation; energy patterns like afternoon crashes or fatigue that sleep does not fix; brain fog and concentration difficulties with no psychological explanation; dietary patterns like irregular meals or meal skipping; and physical health history like extended antibiotic use, an autoimmune condition or a thyroid condition. You'll know how many have to be present before a case needs a healthcare provider, which is at least three across categories. That is the point where you can tell psychotherapy alone is not going to be enough for this client.
Understand how nutrition, gut health, inflammation and the microbiome are each described as contributing to mood, stress response and thinking. You'll know which of them to ask about when a client describes low mood that has not responded to therapy, fatigue out of proportion to their sleep, irritability around meals, or difficulty concentrating. This is the data you can bring to a healthcare provider to best help the client.
Be able to add seven questions to the intake you already run to surface a possible nutritional contributor at the start of treatment rather than months into it. It covers digestion, dietary patterns, how energy and mood relate to food, physical health history, and whether stress shows up in the body. You'll get the questions themselves, the language for introducing them so your client understands why you're asking, and where in the session they belong. You'll also see the self-report measures for tracking this week to week, two of which you already run.
Know which of twelve clinical tasks sit inside psychotherapy and which do not. You'll see the seven you can do yourself, including the stress reduction and breathing work already in your practice, and the five you cannot, from recommending supplements to interpreting lab results. You'll know which concern belongs with primary care and which belongs with a registered dietitian. And you'll have an answer for the client who asks you directly what to eat.
Know how to make a referral sound like an addition to the work rather than the end of it, and exactly what to write to the receiving provider. You'll know what to say to the five most common responses, from the client asking whether to take probiotics, to the one already on a self-directed elimination diet, to the one who does not want to see another provider at all. And you'll have the follow-up steps that tell you whether your client went and what the provider found. That is the difference between giving a client a name and getting them care.
Nutrition & Emotional Regulation Starts In:
6 HOURS OF SCREENING QUESTIONS, SCOPE DECISIONS & REFERRAL PRACTICE FROM A CLINICIAN WHO TRAINED ON BOTH SIDES OF IT
Dr. Vicki Steine, DSc, LCSW, Left Clinical Practice To Study Nutrition But Returned As A Therapist With A Doctorate In Nutrition On A Mission To Help Clients In An Even Deeper Way
Most therapists who take an interest in nutrition read a book about it. Dr. Steine went back to school and earned a doctorate in it, intending to leave clinical practice for good. The further into the training she got, the clearer it became that she could not separate nutrition from psychotherapy, and that is what brought her back to therapy. She has been building the subject into training for other clinicians ever since, including the Nutrition and Mental Health Clinical Certification Program from eCare
Dr. Steine’s doctorate is in nutrition, and her license is in clinical social work, so she works from both sides of that line, and she practices cognitive behavioural therapy, so she teaches this in language you already use. What she brings to the October 8th Webinar is six hours on the practical half: which questions to add to your intake and how to introduce them, how many signals it takes before a case needs another provider, which concern belongs with primary care and which with a registered dietitian, what to say when a client asks what to eat, and how to follow up so you know the client got the care they need.
Nutrition & Emotional Regulation Starts In:
Here's What You Can Do After This Webinar (And What You'll Miss)
WITH THIS WEBINAR:
You know which clients need more than psychotherapy alone
You have an answer when your client asks you what to eat
You know whether it goes to primary care or a dietitian
You know whether your client went & what the provider found
WITHOUT THIS WEBINAR:
The case stalls & nothing in the formulation explains why
The food question ends the conversation
The referral is a guess about who might help
You give your client a name & never hear about it again
6 CE credits + Lifetime Replay + A BONUS Clinical Guide Are Available For Purchase After Registration (You Will Be Redirected Automatically)
Nutrition & Emotional Regulation Starts In:
6 CE credits, Lifetime Replay & Clinical Tools: Available For Purchase After Registration (You Will Be Redirected Automatically)
Frequently Asked Questions
What exactly is this Webinar, & what do I get for registering?
A free 6-hour live Webinar on October 8th with Dr. Vicki Steine, DSc, LCSW, covering how nutritional and gut-brain factors may be showing up in your caseload: what to screen for, how many signs it takes before you refer, where your scope ends, and how to hand a case to the right provider. Registration is free, and 6 CE credits plus lifetime access to the recording are available for purchase after you register.
Is this really free, or do I need to buy something to attend?
The 6-hour live Webinar is free to attend LIVE. 6 CE credits and lifetime access to the recording are a paid upgrade offered after you register, and you are welcome to attend the full training without it.
Is this live, or a recording being run as a live event?
Live on October 8th. Dr. Vicki Steine presents in real time across the six hours.
October 8th is a Thursday & I have clients. Do I have to be there for the whole six hours?
Come for the hours you can. Lifetime access to the full recording is available for purchase after you register, so anything you miss live is still yours to watch whenever a case calls for it.
Am I going to be told to give clients nutrition advice?
No, and a full module is spent on why not. Dietary guidance sits outside psychotherapy scope, no supplement or protocol is recommended at any point, and you will leave knowing which twelve clinical tasks fall on which side of that line.
I have taken trainings on this that were too theoretical to use. How is this different?
Four of the six learning objectives are about what you do rather than what you know. You leave with the seven screening questions, the five categories of signs, the threshold for referral, and the scope line drawn task by task
I have already read about the gut and mood connection. Will this be too basic?
The reading covers the science. This covers what you do with it in a session: the questions to ask, how many signs it takes before you refer, where your scope ends, and what to say when a client pushes back.
I have no nutrition background at all. Will I be lost?
No. It assumes no prior nutrition training, and every concept arrives in clinical terms rather than nutritional ones.
I am an LCSW, LPC or LMFT, not a psychologist. Is this Webinar for me?
Yes. It is built for licensed mental health professionals across disciplines. To check CE approval for your license type and state, use the Board Approvals button at the bottom of this page
I am trained in CBT, ACT or EMDR. Will this conflict with what I already practice?
No. It adds a screening and referral layer to the assessment you already run, and changes nothing about how you treat.
How many CE credits can I receive, & how do I get them?
6 CE credits from the Nutrition & Emotional Regulation Webinar with Dr. Vicki Steine, DSc, LCSW. Available for purchase after you register, and earned live or on demand.
Can I get the recording if I cannot attend live?
Yes. The full 6-hour recording with lifetime access is available for purchase at the next step, once you register for the Webinar.
Are the CE credits approved for my license?
To check approval for your license type & state, scroll to the bottom of this page & click the Board Approvals button.
Scope and Limitations Disclosure:
This training provides licensed mental health professionals with a clinical framework for understanding anxiety, including the cognitive, emotional, behavioral & physiological processes that drive & maintain anxious patterns, avoidance cycles & reinforcement patterns, common anxiety presentations including generalized anxiety, panic & high-functioning anxiety, & evidence-informed interventions drawn from cognitive-behavioral & acceptance-based approaches. Content teaches clinical application of these frameworks only & does not reproduce any proprietary assessment instrument or worksheet. This training does not offer certification & is not a substitute for clinical supervision or formal training. Participants are encouraged to apply content within their individual scope of practice & in accordance with applicable professional & ethical guidelines.
Commercial Support Disclosure
Dr. Vicki Steine, DSc, LCSW, BCHN, IFNCP is an independent clinician & continuing education presenter specializing in holistic nutrition and clinical social work. This training does not require participants to purchase any additional products, books, or materials to complete the training.
