Practitioner Course

Tapering Psychotropics - an interview with Dr Korn 

Expert guidance on safely and effectively tapering psychotropic medications using natural supports, clinical assessment, and patient collaboration.
Format

Online Course
1 lesson

Availability

12 Months OR Subscriber Pass

Duration

1 hour total

Presenter

Leslie Korn

About this course

Medication tapering in psychiatric care is a nuanced and complex process. It demands a comprehensive and integrative approach.

In this interview, Dr Leslie Korn offers expert guidance on safely and effectively tapering psychotropic medications using natural supports, clinical assessment, and patient collaboration. She shares foundational principles, readiness cues, withdrawal versus relapse distinction, nutritional and botanical interventions, somatic approaches, and lifestyle modifications to support nervous system regulation and mental health resilience.
What you receive:
  • A personalised certificate of completion including continuing education hours
  • Clear protocol explanations from some of the world's top practitioners
  • Clinical pearls for improved practice results
  • Access to your audio and video recordings via the App Store
  • A downloadable PDF of the presenter’s slides
  • Links to all referenced research papers and useful clinical handouts
  • Access to the community hub where you can get answers to your questions

From this course you will learn

  • How to assess patient circumstances and readiness for medication tapering
  • To distinguish withdrawal symptoms from relapse to guide clinical decisions
  • How to integrate nutrition, botanical medicine, and supplements to support tapering
  • Why collaborative taper teams are helpful
  • The concept of hyperbolic tapering and why it is superior to a linear reduction
  • How to employ mind-body and lifestyle strategies to optimise nervous system resilience and patient outcomes
  • How to create a comprehensive intake that goes beyond traditional medical history

What's in this course

Your Presenter

DR LESLIE KORN

Dr. Leslie Korn is a renowned integrative medicine expert, scientist, educator and author who specialises in the intersection of mental health and chronic physical illness. She began her training over 45 years ago in the jungle of Mexico and completed it in the “jungle” at Harvard Medical School in the departments of psychiatry and public health.

Dr. Korn has a PhD from Harvard Medical School in Applied Psychophysiology and Behavioural Medicine, an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health, an MA in Cross Cultural Health psychology and was a clinical fellow in the department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School where she introduced somatic therapies for mental health in 1985.

With over 40 years of clinical experience, she combines psychotherapy, nutritional and botanical medicine, and somatic therapies to support patients through medication reduction while addressing underlying psychiatric and physical health issues. Her pioneering work focuses on individualised, gradual tapering protocols that incorporate dietary, supplement, and lifestyle strategies to minimise withdrawal symptoms and promote lasting recovery. She has delivered extensive training for clinicians on integrative and naturopathic approaches to mental health medication management.

Dr. Korn’s compassionate, trauma-informed approach empowers patients to achieve optimal well-being beyond pharmaceuticals through a whole-person, evidence-based model of care.
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