Presentations on the following topics are available for your group.
Other topics of interest to your group may be arranged.

Please note: Dr. Fisher has recently been swamped by requests for seminars on toxicity and detoxification and other topics. See the Toxicity and Detoxification/Medicinal Foods for Healing part of this web-site for seminars in the St. Petersburg/Clearwater/Sarasota area. If you are interested in scheduling a seminar, call Dr. Fisher. See Toxicity and Detoxification section of this web-site for descriptions of some of the most popular seminar presentations.

In order to increase availability of this information on toxicity and detoxification, seminar notes have been gathered into a workbook/cookbook, an audio CD of one seminar has been made, and a transcript of another seminar is also available. A research article is also included in the "complete seminar kit" that is now available on-line. With these materials, you can create a seminar in your home, or for a group you belong to, or send the seminar to a friend or family member in need. With the recipes, you can even create the "medicinal food" served at these seminars.

Additional requests for publications on a number of topics have been received. Watch this web-site for information on articles that will be available at a future date.

1. Depression and women.
Why does depression occur more frequently in women than in men? Is there anything women can do about this?

2. Trauma to Body/Mind: how trauma affects the immune system.
What happens to the body when trauma occurs? What happens to our ability to process information? What happens to the mind?
How can we help ourselves or others when trauma occurs?

3. Food as trauma, food as medicine: how to prevent and treat biological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral disorders.
When to treat disorders yourself. When to get help. Some guidelines to get you started… Some hands-on taste-testing of recipes for individuals with special needs.

4. Wellness check-ups: some guidelines for nurturing our relationships, our children, and ourselves.
What is normal and what should we be concerned about?
Screening for anxiety, depression, trauma, learning disabilities, ADD, adjustment disorders, oppositional disorder.

5. Learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.
What are they? What is the cause?
What can I do at home? What kind of help is available?
How can I decide when help is needed?
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act? What kind of accommodations may be available for me or my child?
What kind of verification is needed to apply for accommodations?

6. Bias in medical treatment or psychotherapy.
How do people sometimes get hurt or stuck in treatment?
Some things to watch for, particularly for individuals from "non-dominant" cultural groups--women, non-Caucasian ethnic heritage, gay or lesbian,etc.

7. Toxicity: the role of environmental exposure in biological, emotional, and cognitive disorders.
Xenobiotics, bio-accumulation, known and suspected developmental neurotoxicants; toxicity self-assessment; dysbiosis, endocrine disruption, immunologic dysfunction, neurotoxicity; foods to avoid, foods that protect; nutrients that support Phase 1 and Phase 2 detoxification.

8. Medicinal foods and supplements: healing chronic illness and toxic disorders. Hand-on seminar teaches how to cook with powerful herbs-- burdock, daikon, kombu/kelp, collards, shitaki mushrooms, umeboshi, legumes, and greens, foods and herbs said to cleanse the blood, dissolve fat, treat ADD, increase minerals to improve sleep and neurological functioning, provide amino acids and enzymes to stabilize moods and improve functioning, heal stress-related digestive disorders, detoxify the body, and strengthen the immune system.
Learn how to make "Hidden-veggie lentil power soup, Mellow carrot cake, Bone-density smoothies, Healing hummus, Golden carot soup, Hidden-veggie spinach stuffed lasagna, Barley-bean plots, Black bean cutlets, Coconut puffs, Chocolate mousse-- foods that can be adapted for low fat, vegan, celiac (wheat-free, gluten-free) diets for people with special medical needs. Organic foods served for taste-testing, and recipes are available.

Dr. Elizabeth H. Fisher
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
(727) 344-1110

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