Advanced Diploma Course
Naturopathic Nutrition
Welcome to a rich, rewarding, and deeply transformative experiential journey into the profound art of food as medicine. The Naturopathic Nutrition Advanced Diploma is a beautifully comprehensive pathway that mindfully combines our deep online training in the therapeutic use of nutrient dense food with fully creative, hands-on learning. This program invites you to experience the power of healing diets within your own life, grounding knowledge with experience as a foundation for confident, authentic professional clinical practice.
an experiential journey
into the Full Spectrum
of Food as Medicine
an experiential journey into
the Full Spectrum of Food as Medicine
Naturopathic Nutrition is far more than the study of standard dietary theories; it is a profound, experiential exploration into the living intelligence of food as a therapeutic tool for complete mind-body restoration. This advanced program invites you to understand nutrition through the timeless lens of pure nature cure—discovering how to balance the inner ecology, support systemic cleansing and rejuvenation, and ignite the body's innate vitality. It is a sacred educational path where you first witness the transformative power of therapeutic, nutrient-dense foods within the laboratory of your own life. By cultivating this personal alignment alongside your studies, you build the authentic wisdom and creative inspiration required to confidently guide others toward radiant, long-term health.
To support your current lifestyle, family dynamics, and professional commitments, this advanced diploma training is structured into two flexible phases designed to take you seamlessly from deep theoretical and experiential knowledge to master hands-on kitchen, consultation and program creation skills.
diet | culinary herbs | food as medicine | self care
Phase 1
healing diets Coach
Diploma Course
healing diets Coach Diploma Course
Online Foundation: All advanced students begin their journey by enrolling in the comprehensive Healing Diets Online Diploma Course. Here, you will study the core systems of nutrition at your own pace and establish your personal study schedule. Upon successful completion of these distance-learning modules, you will be awarded your professional Healing Diets Coach Diploma.
Study Timeline: This is a 12 month course, with a generous 18 month window for completion. Average 7 hours of study a week.
Phase 2
healing diets Immersion Training
Flexible Pace: You are welcome to attend this experiential training at any point that fits your needs, either during or after your online studies.
Flexible Pace: You are welcome to attend this experiential training at any point that fits your needs, either during or after your online studies.
- Advanced Graduation: Please note that the Healing Diets Immersion is offered on alternate years in Lake Worth Beach, Florida and Cheltenham, UK. Once you have completed both the online studies and the practical immersion, you will graduate with your Naturopathic Nutrition Advanced Diploma credential.
Course Details
Healing Diets Coach
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Curriculum Breakdown:
What You Will Explore
Curriculum Breakdown: What You Will Explore
Pillar 1
Cleansing & Liquid Medicine
Pillar 2
Systemic Deetoxification & Internal Ecology
Pillar 3
Functional Nutrition & Living Food Chemistry
Pillar 4
Ancestral Wisdom & Mind-Body Healing
Pillar 5
Lifespan Nutrition, Food Politics & Practice Building
Discover the profound clinical protocols of physical rejuvenation and traditional naturopathic detoxification.
Cleansing & Liquid Medicine
PILLAR 1
- Advanced Hydration Science: How the body utilizes water in cell, organ, gland, and systemic function; the systemic effects of dehydration; and water quality, structure, and preservation.
- Vibrational Water Dynamics: Exploring water as a container for intention.
- Therapeutic Fasting: The history, theory, and clinical practice of both water fasting and juice fasting (including methods of juicing).
- Liquid Therapeutics: Embracing liquitarian diets, green drinks, produce hygiene, and the targeted use of wheatgrass, chlorophyll, and Rejuvelac.
- The Purification Diet: Implementation and clinical transition pathways.
Master the mechanics of human pathology and learn how to safely guide the body through deep cellular purification.
Systemic Detoxification & Internal Ecology
Systemic Detoxification
& Internal Ecology
PILLAR 2
- Seven Stages of Disease Progression: An in-depth study of enervation, toxemia, irritation, inflammation, ulceration, induration, and fungation.
- The Reversal Path: Sequential steps to reversing dietary and lifestyle disease and managing acute detox symptoms with supportive naturopathic treatments.
- Organ Cleansing Protocols: Theory and hands-on practice for targeted internal flushes:
- Gastrointestinal System: An in-depth study of the digestive system interwoven with the enteric nervous system ("the second brain").
- Bowel cleansing and profound digestive tract restoration.
- Liver and gallbladder cleansing and stomach healing.
- Kidney stone cleansing and complete urinary system support.
- Lymphatic cleansing and immune system fortification.
Bridge the gap between modern biochemical nutrition and the vibrant life-force energy within raw, living foods.
Functional Nutrition & Living Food Chemistry
Functional Nutrition & Living Food Chemistry
PILLAR 3
- The Biochemistry of Food: Understanding the therapeutic roles of minerals, vitamins, proteins, starch, fats, sugars, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients, tissue salts, and pre/probiotics.
- The Living Kitchen: Practical culinary mastery including sprouting, food dehydration, the therapeutic use of nuts and seeds, and fermenting living food and drinks.
- Raw Food Therapeutics: Managing the transition to increasing raw food, nutrient density, overcoming raw challenges, and understanding critical clinical contraindications.
- Nutritional Harmony: The laws of efficient food combining, assimilation of nutrients, and the cellular effects of pH via the alkaline diet on physical, mental, and emotional health.
- Oils and Fats: Beneficial vs harmful oils and fats, therapeutic properties of healthy oils, methods of oil extraction, and their direct impact on cellular longevity.
Expand your practice into the energetic properties of food and the delicate psychological dynamics of nourishment.
Ancestral Wisdom & Mind-Body Healing
Ancestral Wisdom & Mind-Body Healing
PILLAR 4
- Traditional Elemental Energetics: Introduction to the Five Elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether) and their direct relationship to human diet.
- Ayurvedic Constitutions: Deep study of the biological humours (Vata, Pitta, Kapha and Tri-Dosha), the six tastes (sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, astringent), the three Gunas, and balancing the doshas with healing culinary spices.
- The Psychology of Eating: Healing deep-seated food habits, rewriting personal mealtime stories, and addressing food addiction, emotional eating, and eating disorders.
- Food & Consciousness: The profound axis between gut health and human cognition, exploring how diet and gut health mitigates or triggers anxiety, depression, and emotional imbalances.
- Oils and Fats: Beneficial vs harmful oils and fats, therapeutic properties of healthy oils, methods of oil extraction, and their direct impact on cellular longevity.
Learn how to adapt your knowledge for every phase of human life while navigating global food systems and launching a thriving clinic.
Lifespan Nutrition, Food Politics & Practice Building
Lifespan Nutrition, Food Politics & Practice Building
PILLAR 5
- Nutrition Across the Lifespan: Tailoring custom therapeutic diets for:
- The Politics and Ethics of Food: A critical look at factory farming, genetically modified foods (GMOs), the corporate seed industry, slave labor in the food supply chain, Codex Alimentarius, harmful food additives, and the reality of public research funded for private gain.
- Pre-pregnancy planning, pregnancy, nursing, babies, and children.
- Adolescence, athletics (maximizing nutrient density), and menopause.
- The elderly, health recovery/building, and supportive diets for individuals on pharmaceutical medications.
- Environmental & Social Consequence: Navigating the economic and societal costs of animal products and championing food sovereignty, organic farming, biodynamics, and permaculture.
- The Conscious Vegan Kitchen: Successfully increasing plant based foods in the diet, practical application, vegan/vegetarian baking, menu inspiration, and replacing meat, dairy, and eggs seamlessly.
- Professional Practice Mastery: Turning your knowledge into a sustainable livelihood. Learn how to create a sacred consultation space, build consultation and program-creation skills, establish practice ethics, and utilize modern marketing and website promotion to build your client base.
Immersion Details
Healing Diets
Step into a delicious, delightful, hands-on experience that provides the true practical foundation for the inspired, creative preparation of therapeutic, nutrient-dense foods. This immersive training brings magic and inspiration directly into your personal relationship with food, giving you a grounded foundation to confidently share this life-changing knowledge with future clients.
- The Living Foods Kitchen: Participate actively in establishing the daily rhythms of a living foods kitchen.
- Nutritional Progression: Learn to guide individuals fluidly from therapeutic cleansing protocols to vibrant, long-term health building.
- Gourmet Raw Foods: Master the exquisite arts of gourmet raw food preparation to make healing lifestyle adjustments truly beautiful and satisfying.
- Practitioner Consultation Skills: Engage in focused lectures interspersed between kitchen hours, focusing specifically on professional client consultation and personalized program creation skills.
Healing Diets Immersion
Course Fees
Online Foundation (Healing Diets Coach)
Online Foundation
(Healing Diets Coach)
Your Naturopathic Nutrition Advanced journey begins with the comprehensive, mentored Healing Diets Coach online diploma course. There are two payment options as follows:
Option A: Payment in Full
Investment: $2,000 (Single one-time payment)
Option B: Time Payments
Investment: 12 monthly payments of $200
In-Person Healing Diets Immersion
Securing Your Place: A non-refundable registration fee of $1,000 is required to reserve your place in the immersion training.
The Balance: The remaining balance of $1,500 is due 90 days before the first day of your chosen session.
If you wish to commit to both the online studies and your in-person immersion from the start, you are welcome to enroll in both together. To arrange simultaneous enrollment, simply contact the school directly. We will personally coordinate your training dates and issue a dedicated, Stripe invoice tailored directly to your journey.
Board Accreditation & Professional Credentials
- Recognition: The Naturopathic Nutrition Advanced Professional Diploma is fully accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP), the American Alternative Medical Association (AAMA), and the Complementary Medical Association (CMA).
- Mid-Way Qualification: Upon completing your online studies, you will receive the Healing Diets Coach Diploma, accredited by the AADP. Advanced Graduation: Upon the successful completion of both your online modules and the in-person immersion, you will receive your Naturopathic Nutrition Advanced Diploma.
- Professional Board Status: As an advanced graduate, you qualify as a board-accredited Alternative Medical Practitioner with the AAMA.
- Membership & Insurance: Graduates are fully eligible to become professional members of the prestigious Complementary Medical Association and are prequalified for comprehensive, discounted practice liability insurance through Westminster Insurance.
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The Freedom to Evolve: Your Path to Naturopathic Nutritionist
At the School of Natural Medicine, your education is a living, flexible journey. You are never locked into a single choice, and your credentials scale seamlessly alongside your growing passion.
- Upgrading Your Online Study: If you begin your journey on the Independent Self-Healing Track today and later decide you want to practice professionally, you can seamlessly upgrade to the Mentored Healing Diets Coach Diploma at any time by simply paying the tuition difference.
- Stepping Into Clinical Immersion: For students on the Mentored Healing Diets Coach Diploma track, your online studies lay the foundational groundwork. Whenever you are ready, you can transition into hands-on training by enrolling in our expert-led, in-person Healing Diets Immersion Training to graduate as a Naturopathic Nutritionist. You move forward entirely at your own pace.
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Stephie Hensen HDNC AMP
Holistic Nutrition Advanced Practioner graduate
“I can still remember my first assignments and how excited I felt when I was doing them. I loved the fact that each module covered different topics but based around one. The Healing Diets Immersion was one of the best experiences of my life. It was so nice to meet you, Bonny, and to learn so much about raw food. It was such a wonderful experience and I felt so good! I have learnt so much and feel confident to go out there and help others. I would recommend this course to anyone as all could benefit from this wonderful learning journey.”
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