Safe, Effective Deprescribing with Functional
An Online Training to Equip Providers with Safe Strategies for Deprescribing Medications & Eliminating Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms
Enroll now in the Functional Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal Intensive Training to learn effective functional medicine strategies to help your patients safely withdraw from antidepressants. You’ll gain an evidence-based clinical toolkit and carefully-managed tapering protocols to minimize patient withdrawal symptoms and chart a path toward medication freedom.
Most clinicians are trained extensively on starting antidepressants, yet few are taught how to stop them. This gap in training leaves patients vulnerable to the debilitating effects of antidepressant withdrawal syndrome—insomnia, brain fog, mood swings, agitation, and more. Research shows up to 55% of patients experience significant withdrawal symptoms, yet safe, structured tapering guidance remains absent from most psychiatric education.
It’s time to close that deprescribing knowledge gap.
In this online intensive training, James Greenblatt, MD, functional medicine pioneer and best-selling author of Functional Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal, shares a proven, patient-centered approach to deprescribing. You’ll learn how to identify and treat the root causes driving withdrawal distress, and develop personalized tapering protocols that minimize withdrawal symptoms. You’ll gain functional medicine strategies that address biochemical individuality and nutrient depletion—all to support patients in achieving lasting recovery beyond medication dependence.
This training provides the clinical skills, protocols, and confidence to safely guide patients off antidepressants—whether to reduce dosage or discontinue completely—while protecting their mental health and restoring quality of life.
Because prescribing is only half the job; knowing how to help patients safely withdrawal is the skill our profession can no longer ignore.
PROGRAM FORMAT: Fully online training combining self-paced curriculum, an exclusive webinar lecture, and two (2) live, online sessions providing live faculty guidance and trainee Q&A time (available as recordings for those unable to join)
ENROLLMENT FEE: $499
PROGRAM START & LIVE TRAINING DATES: Training program begins December 9, 2025. Live sessions are scheduled for December 9th and 16th.
THIS INTENSIVE TRAINING IS IDEAL FOR: MDs and DOs (including psychiatrists, pediatricians, and family and general practice physicians), NDs and NMDs, nurses and nurse practitioners, psychologists, therapists, social workers, physician assistants, dietitians, and other health and mental health clinicians.
ACCREDITATION: 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
What You’ll Gain from the Functional Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal Training
- Understanding Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome: Assessing why certain patients experience severe withdrawal symptoms and others do not.
- Biochemical Imbalances & Personalized Treatment: Exploring how nutritional deficiencies, such as those involving essential vitamins and neurotransmitter synthesis, impact withdrawal severity.
- Functional Medicine Deprescribing Protocols: Evidence-based protocols that integrate personalized lab testing and nutrient repletion to ease the tapering process and improve patient outcomes.
- Ethical Considerations in Psychiatric Prescribing: Emphasizing the importance of informed consent and educating patients about the risks and side effects of long-term antidepressant use.
Discover the science behind the bestseller and clinically-proven model outlined in Functional Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal.
Antidepressants were designed to revolutionize psychiatric treatment. However, many patients face significant challenges while taking them, as well as when attempting to discontinue these medications—with some patients remaining on SSRIs or SNRIs for decades. Add to that, every patient presents a unique biochemistry that requires careful testing and treatment fine-tuning to ensure successful and comfortable withdrawal.
This training provides clinicians with the tools to guide patients through a safer, more individualized withdrawal process using a functional medicine model outlined in Dr. Greenblatt’s bestseller, which specifically addresses protocols for discontinuation of SSRIs and SNRIs. This model addresses the root causes of withdrawal symptoms, offering key insights for enhanced withdrawal and tapering. By integrating lab testing, nutrient repletion, and personalized protocols, you’ll discover a valid path for practitioners to help patients discontinue antidepressants and achieve recovery on their terms.
What’s Included in the Psychiatry Redefined
Functional Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal Training
- Live Sessions: Join Dr. James Greenblatt for two (2) live discussion sessions to examine curriculum, key topics, practice strategies, helpful tools, and real patient cases.
- 6 Hours of Clinician-Led Curriculum: Discover curriculum on wide-ranging functional and integrative medicine research, new applications, and effective treatments.
- CME Credits: Master new skills while you gain 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
- Exclusive Lecture: Gain additional insights into antidepressant efficacy with, Nutritional Augmentation to Improve Antidepressant Efficacy with James Greenblatt, MD.
- Supportive Community: Connect with faculty and peers on an invaluable community forum to discuss cases, treatments, and practice management tools.
- Self-Paced Study: Learn at your own pace with online curriculum and ongoing faculty support.
Antidepressants shouldn’t be a life sentence. Enroll now to help your patients find lifelong relief.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to identify the symptoms and challenges associated with antidepressant withdrawal
- The importance of patient education regarding the risks and side effects of antidepressant medications
- Comprehensive understanding of how biochemical imbalances impact withdrawal severity
- Specific interventions for preventing debilitating neurological and psychological symptoms
- Protocols for analyzing and addressing key biologic and micronutrient deficiencies
- How to implement functional medicine laboratory tests and integrate personalized tapering strategies to support discontinuation
- Guidelines for testing and recommendations for supplementation and augmentation
- Practical clinical pearls gleamed from Dr. Greenblatt’s 30+ years of clinical experience and research
Clinician-Led Education & Guidance
Discover a new way to treat mental illness from James Greenblatt, MD—a psychiatrist with decades of clinical experience in functional medicine and nutritional psychiatry.
James Greenblatt, MD
A pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, James M. Greenblatt, MD, has treated patients since 1988. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Greenblatt currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA for nearly 20 years, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine.
An acknowledged integrative medicine expert, educator, and author, Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific evidence for nutritional interventions in psychiatry and mental illness. Through three decades of practice and research, Dr. Greenblatt is a leading contributor to helping physicians and patients understand the role of personalized medicine for mental illness.
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He is the author of eight books, including the best-seller, Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD. His updated edition of Answers to Anorexia was released in October 2021 and his newest book, Functional & Integrative Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal is available now.
Dr. Greenblatt is the founder of Psychiatry Redefined, an educational platform dedicated to the personalized, evidence-based treatment of mental health. Psychiatry Redefined offers continuing online education, CME-approved courses, webinars, and a professional Fellowship in functional and integrative medicine for mental illness. To learn more, please visit www.JamesGreenblattMD.com.
Join Dr. Greenblatt to learn effective and essential strategies to help your patients withdraw safely.
Training Fee:
$499
All refunds must be requested within seven (7) days of enrollment. In order to qualify for a refund, learners must have progressed through less than 10% of the educational content in question. All refunds will be processed minus a 10% transaction fee.
Questions? Please email training@psychiatryredefined.org.
