Advanced Certification in Integrative Mental Health Care with Chinese Medicine

📅 Program Duration: January 2027 to March 2028

The Advanced Certification in Integrative Mental Health Care with Chinese Medicine is an advanced professional education program designed to provide healthcare practitioners, acupuncturists, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners, and integrative healthcare professionals with foundational and applied knowledge in integrative mental health care from a Chinese medicine perspective. The program integrates classical Ben Shen theory, psycho-emotional regulation principles, acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, wellness preservation strategies, and modern neuropsychiatric foundations within a contemporary integrative healthcare framework.

This program aims to:

Introduce foundational Ben Shen theories and integrative psycho-emotional care principles within Chinese medicine.

1. Introduce foundational Ben Shen theories and integrative psycho-emotional care principles within Chinese medicine.
2. Develop evidence-informed understanding of integrative mental health care.
3. Strengthen practitioner competencies in supportive communication, patient engagement, and wellness-oriented care.
4. Integrate acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine approaches into psycho-emotional wellness support within professional scope.
5. Enhance practitioner awareness of neuropsychiatric foundations, mental health conditions, safety considerations, and referral pathways.
6. Promote ethical, collaborative, patient-centered, and trauma-informed care approaches.
7. Develop critical appraisal and evidence-informed clinical reasoning skills in integrative mental healthcare.

Admission Requirements

Applicants must meet one of the following eligibility requirements:

1. Registered Acupuncture or Traditional Chinese Medicine Professionals.

Applicants must be in good standing with the applicable regulatory authority in their jurisdiction, where regulation exists.

2. Healthcare Professionals Authorized to Practice Acupuncture

Regulated healthcare professionals whose legislated scope of practice includes acupuncture and who are legally authorized to perform acupuncture in their jurisdiction. Examples may include physicians, chiropractors, physiotherapists, nurses, or other regulated health professionals where acupuncture is within their authorized scope of practice.

3. Senior Students

Students enrolled in the final year of an accredited acupuncture or Traditional Chinese Medicine education program.

MEET DR. YANG

Professor Changqing Yang, PhD, L.Ac., is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, and clinician specializing in Traditional Chinese Medicine approaches to emotional and mental health. He founded the Ben Shen (Rooted Spirit) clinical system and holds a PhD in Psychiatry from Kobe University, after clinical psychiatry training at Aichi Medical University in Japan.

With more than three decades of clinical, academic, and research experience — including serving as President of the American Institute of Mental Health in Traditional Chinese Medicine — Professor Yang brings exceptional expertise in both classical Chinese medicine and modern mental healthcare to CITCM’s Advanced Certification in Integrative Mental Health Care with Chinese Medicine.