Integrative Care: Primary Care and Mental Health

The Integrative Care network is an online professional learning community designed to increase the knowledge and implementation of integrative care involving primary and mental health care across Wyoming.

Integrative care is the care a patient experiences as a result of a team of primary care and behavioral health clinicians, working together with patients and families, using a systematic and cost-effective approach to provide patient-centered care for a defined population. This care may address mental health and substance abuse conditions, health behaviors (including their contribution to chronic medical illnesses), life stressors and crises, stress-related physical symptoms, and ineffective patterns of health care utilization.

Network participants include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers, counselors and others involved in primary care and mental health services.

UW ECHO in Integrative Care is a collaboration with the University of Wyoming College of Health Sciences Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, with funding by a generous grant from the McMurry Foundation.

View our comprehensive clinical toolkit that includes curated links to evidence-based resources, screening tools, and practical worksheets to support implementation in clinical practice.

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Session information

Sessions are held on Wednesdays, bi-weekly from 12:00-1:00 pm MT via Zoom.

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In this session, historical trauma and complex grief will be defined. Multi-layered, complex effects on the health and well-being of individuals, relationships, families, communities, and generations will be discussed. This session provides the foundational material for the September 23 session on healing modalities for historical and intergenerational grief and trauma in integrative care.

In this second of a two-part presentation on Historical and Intergenerational Grief and Trauma, several healing modalities will be presented within individual, relationship, organizational, community, and policy levels in the context of integrative care.

This session introduces foundational nutrition concepts and explores how they apply in real life. We’ll review basic guidelines, eating patterns, and the benefits of nutrition—while also addressing why it can be difficult to put these into practice and how healthcare providers can better support patients.

This session explores the relationship between nutrition and mental health, including how eating patterns, dietary quality, and nutrient intake impact brain function and emotional well-being. We’ll also discuss practical strategies and the role of nutrition within a broader mental health care approach.

This session challenges common narratives around “healthy” and “unhealthy” foods. We’ll explore how language, culture, and beliefs shape our relationship with food—and how shifting that perspective can support both physical and mental health.

This session explores eating disorders through both clinical information and lived experience. We’ll examine how they present across individuals, why they are often overlooked, what treatment and recovery may look like, and how to identify resources to connect individuals to appropriate care.

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