Safe Harbor education partners offer courses and experiential learning for those with mental health issues, their loved ones, and mental health professionals. They also offer discounts to Safe Harbor followers and provide financial support to Safe Harbor programs. If you are interested in becoming an education partner, please contact us. We are excited to be affiliated with our first partner:
Integrative Mental Health for You (IMHU)
IMHU has an online, user-friendly platform that offers 25+ courses by experts in integrative mental healthcare. Their offerings draw from the best in evidence-based complementary and alternative treatments. Individuals will find useful information about managing specific mental disturbances from an integrative mental health perspective. Healthcare providers can obtain Continuing Education Credits as they improve knowledge and expand skills.
Two Unique Offerings from Emma Bragdon, PhD, a recognized leader in the field and the Founder/ Director of IMHU: A Certification program in “How to Effectively Support People in Spiritual Emergency” (psycho-spiritual crisis). Also, a one week live seminar in Brazil to learn about an exciting paradigm that combines Western integrative mental health approaches with care from “Spiritist” medical intuitives and healers.
Use Coupon Code “SafeHarbor2” for a 10% discount on the following courses (except Brazil seminar)
FREE- Introduction to Integrative Mental Health
Slide presentation by medical doctors gives the basics of how to care for yourself and your family from an integrative perspective without over-relying on psychiatric medications.
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FREE-From Over-diagnosis and Over-medication to Empowering New Choices
Learn where we have arrived after practicing over-diagnosis and over-medication in mental health…and receive resources to improve mental health more naturally.
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9 Psychiatrists Transforming Psychiatry: When Psych Meds are No Longer #1
As you meet these 9 pioneering psychiatrists you will come to better recognize the kind of psychiatrist you might want to consult or collaborate with—or become!
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FREE- Psychosis: What is it?
Review different perspectives about psychosis and get a free book that gives an enlightening perspective from qualified experts on appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
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Relief from Bipolar: When Psych Meds are No Longer #1
A Bipolar diagnosis is not a life sentence—it can be managed as a condition, often without medication.
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Going Beyond Anxiety and Depression: Improving Well-being Without Medication
Learn effective ways to overcome moderate depression and anxiety more naturally and avoid the toxicity of psychiatric medications.
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Strengthen Attention, Reduce ADHD–Naturally
Attention can be remedied effectively in a natural way that avoids the side-effects of psychiatric medications.
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Possible Cures for Autism
Explore research that reveals new pathways to minimize the effects of Autism for many on the Autistic Spectrum.
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Ibogaine: A Non-Pharmaceutical Road Out of Addiction to Opioids and More
Learn about a plant from Africa that has been effectively used for centuries to interrupt addiction, increase awareness, and open individuals to greater well-being.
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The Power of Peer Support: A Survey
Mental health organizations that train and employ workers in peer support are finding they can enhance the positive potential for recovery and healing in clients as well as optimize morale in workers.
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Nutrition & Mental Health
Psychiatrist Pam Shervanick gives practical knowledge on nutrition and micronutrients to improve mental health via 4 online webinars.
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Membership in IMHU’s A-V Library
With a membership you can, at your convenience, freely dip into any of IMHU’s unique video interviews with people who illuminate a new path for psychiatry and psychology.
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10 Reasons to Add Spirituality to Mental Healthcare and Why
People who feel disturbed recover more quickly when their spirituality is addressed and given a meaningful role in healing and healthcare. More Info.
How to Effectively Support Someone in Spiritual Emergency: 5 Online Webinars
Understand and learn from an expert about the basics of how to manage psycho-spiritual, transformative crises within yourself or with ones you care for. More info.
FREE-Spiritual Emergency: What is it?
Learn from the experts about this very normal category of human experience that has been confused with mania or psychosis. More info.
Live Practicum: Achieve Certification as a Spiritual Emergence Coach
After taking the 5 online webinars about Spiritual Emergency—the Practicum gives you live experiential exercises and training to help you become more confident in coaching others. More Info.
A New Paradigm of Mental Healthcare: Brazil’s Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals and Community Centers
A week long live seminar in Brazil exposes participants to a model of integrative care that attends to body, mind and spirit with a special emphasis on spiritual healing that has been used since the 1890s.
Dr. Bragdon facilitates special groups of health professionals to explore the theory and practice of Spiritist Community Centers and Spiritist Psychiatric Hospitals in Brazil. The amazing wellness paradigm that Spiritists have developed in Brazil is integrative: attending to body, mind and spirit (with the belief in reincarnation and karma).
Contact EB@IMHU.org for a $50 discount in the Brazil Seminar
More InfoAdditional Education
There are a variety of other sources of education for integrative mental health unaffiliated with Safe Harbor. Consider Mad in America Continuing Education, the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health, and the Walsh Institute video series. Also see our Practitioner Events summary for further conferences, seminars and training.
*IMHU is a not for profit charitable organization recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3. Safe Harbor and IMHU have an affiliate agreement whereby Safe Harbor obtains some funding for directing students to IMHU’s courses.