Integrative mental health, cognitive behavioral therapy, and holistic wellness are arguably more important than ever. This is driving a demand for quality treatment centers, practitioners, and holistic wellness solutions. In response, Saybrook offers credentialed and flexible mind-body medicine programs—a holistic approach to support mental and physical wellness.

What is mind-body medicine?

As one of the leading complementary approaches to health care, mind-body medicine offers holistic, evidence-based therapies to support physical, emotional, social, and mental health through stress management and thought regulation. Instead of focusing solely on physical symptoms, holistic therapies address the root causes of illnesses, which might include emotional stressors, cognitive patterns, and social influences. By targeting health from this perspective, these evidence-based therapies aim to provide sustainable wellness solutions, going beyond just symptom relief.

Applications of Mind-Body Medicine

Applications of mind-body medicine include tai-chi, yoga, cognitive behavioral therapy, and relaxation techniques such as hypnosis and meditation, which attempt to center the mind into a state of flow and relaxation. Patients have found relief from symptoms of common ailments such as anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, and even cancer treatments as a result of mind-body methods such as mindfulness, hypnosis, and stress reduction.

Saybrook’s mind-body medicine programs

We offer graduate-level degree programs, certificates, and specializations that allow students the flexibility to study multiple mind-body medicine techniques. These include integrative health and wellness coaching, integrative and functional nutrition, biofeedback, clinical hypnosis training, mindfulness applications, or contemplative end-of-life care.

For graduate students, we offer the following master’s degree program. Completing the master’s in mind-body medicine degree program qualifies you for one of our Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine programs.

For doctoral students, we offer the following Ph.D. programs where you can delve deeper into specialized research and methodologies that will prepare you to lead in the field of mind-body medicine.

For those interested in expanding their skill sets in mind-body medicine, we offer the following certificate programs to advance your portfolio and professional skillset through comprehensive training in specific mind-body medicine techniques.

Our programs provide the training needed to improve a patient’s well-being through relaxation and stress management techniques from around the world.

What can you do with a degree in mind-body medicine?

We have alumni working in a variety of mind-body careers and settings, providing their patient’s treatment and guiding them to a higher standard of living and mindfulness. They include:

  • Private practice
  • Integrative medicine and wellness centers
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Family medicine
  • Medical centers, hospitals, community health, primary care
  • Medical spas and yoga retreat centers
  • Corporate wellness centers
  • Public health
  • College and university campuses

The human mind is a powerful tool for the wellness of the body, and by applying the principles and evidence that support mind-body medicine, students and graduates can impact their communities in observable and useful ways.

For instance, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is commonly used by those who receive their Ph.D. in mind body medicine to improve a person’s quality of life. CBT is a talk therapy structured to help a patient identify and cope with emotional challenges and poor mental health. It can be used to overcome trauma, resolve relationship differences, and treat mental illness when traditional medicine is ineffective or unavailable.

Another example of mind-body careers in medicine is holistic health care, which is a broad approach to boosting the quality of one’s physical, mental, spiritual, and social life. Holistic health care careers offer practitioners flexibility in helping their patients develop coping skills to improve their lives.

What sets Saybrook mind-body medicine programs apart?

With a mind-body medicine degree from Saybrook, students will be prepared and confident in their abilities to ease the stress of their patients. Saybrook’s curriculum and its faculty are leading the fields of integrative health, mind-body science and research, and integrative medicine to help our graduates make an impact in their respective healthcare fields.

Saybrook University’s Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine is designed for passionate learners who wish to dive deep into the intricacies of the mind-body connection. For those who value flexibility, our mind-body medicine degree online offering ensures you can study, complete coursework, and attend classes either remotely or through our hybrid program.

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