Treating Emotional Pain: Acupuncture and Herbs for Anxiety, Stress, and PTSD

Dr. Michael Berletich presents practical Chinese medicine approaches for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and stress, with acupuncture and herbal strategies for immediate use.

Michael Berletich
Michael Berletich

Course Overview

Emotional disturbances are at epidemic proportions in our modern world. According to many experts, most of our patients are anxious to some degree. This is an area where Chinese Medicine has a great deal to offer. In this brilliant lecture, Dr. Michael Berletich covers anxiety, depression, PTSD, stress, and trauma from a deep perspective, relating back to the Yi Jing and other classical references. Dr. Berletich covers basic diagnostics, acupuncture point prescriptions, and relevant point modifications. The course also delves into herbal prescriptions for treating emotional pain, including modifications that can help any practice. This lecture will provide each viewer with tangible, clinically relevant ideas they can put to use right away.

Objectives

  • Participants will gain a background in commonly treated emotional pain disorders including Anxiety, Stress, PTSD, and more from a Chinese Medicine Diagnosis viewpoint.

  • Participants will learn clinically relevant acupuncture protocols and comparative point modifications that can assist them in treating emotional pain disorders of all types.

  • Participants will learn clinically relevant formulas and compare and contrast formula modification protocols that can be used in treating a wide array of emotional pain disorders.

  • Participants will learn common single herb modifications they can use to augment existing formulas they are using for other complex problems, in order to help with emotional pain disorders.

  • Participants will be able to identify and use triads of emotions in the five element system, as well as learning the tidal hexagrams associated with the various organ-networks.

Outline

  • 0 hrs - 30 min

    Introduction Discussion on prevalence of anxiety and trauma and looking closer at the 12-organ network

  • 30 min - 1 hrs

    The 5 elements and their associated emotions and the roles of different organs in treating anxiety

  • 1 hrs - 2 hrs

    Specific points and relevant theory regarding the treatment of anxiety, emotional pain, and PTSD

  • 2 hrs - 3 hrs

    Building and modifying formulas to treat anxiety, stress, PTSD, and emotional pain

Teacher

Michael Berletich

Dr. Michael Berletich has been teaching for over 30 years. He received his Masters in Chinese Medicine (2005) and his clinical Doctorate in Chinese medicine (2016) from OCOM. He's worked the past 23 years as Professor, Clinician, Department Chair and Dean. He also maintains a busy private practice.

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$129

More Details
  • CPDs:

    Approved By: AACMA (3), ANTA (3), ATMS (3), Acupuncture NZ (3), Standard Certificate (3), NCCAOM (3)

  • Language: English

  • Course Type: Recorded Seminar

  • Course Length: 3 h

  • Course Notes: There are no notes provided with this course.

  • Access Period: Lifetime

$129