Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health - A Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection

Diet is an essential component of a client's clinical profile. Few therapists, however, have any nutritional training, and many don't know where to begin. Here, mental health nutrition expert Leslie Korn provides clinicians with a practical guide to the complex relationship between what we eat and the way we think, feel, and interact with the world.
Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health offers the mental health clinician the principles and practices necessary to provide clients with nutritional counseling to improve mood and mental health. It takes clinicians step-by-step through the essentials for integrating nutritional therapies into mental health treatment. This second edition thoroughly updates the book's foundations of practice and content and enhances the application strategies by providing phase-based steps to implement nutritional therapies in clinical practices of all kinds. It addresses additional diagnostic categories, including neurodiversity, PMS, dementia, and BPD; includes new recipes; identifies new nutrients and supplements based on cutting-edge research; and much more.

About the author

Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, is a traumatologist specializing in integrative medicine. Author of ten books, she trains and supervises clinicians in mental health nutrition and consults to Indigenous communities. She has lived in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for 50 years.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Korn
• Assisted by: James Lake (Foreword)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.01.2026
• EAN: 9781324053842
• ISBN: 978-1-324-05384-2
• Illustrations: 73 black-and-white tables; 3 black-and-white illustrations
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Diet; HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition, Popular medicine & health, Dietetics & nutrition, Diets & dieting, Health psychology, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Dietetics and nutrition, Popular medicine and health, HEALTH & FITNESS / Mental Health, Coping with / advice about mental health issues or topics, Health: Diets and nutrition, PSYCHOLOGY / Health Psychology