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Helping people with bad eating habits as a nutritional therapist

Would you like to establish yourself in the field of nutritional counselling and complete a recognized and well-founded training course on the subject? Then training with a diploma as a nutritional therapist is certainly an exciting and worthwhile option, especially as the certificate meets the requirements of the EMR and, with the appropriate registration, results in health insurance approval. The course is completed on a part-time basis and concludes with a diploma thesis. Graduates benefit from comprehensive medical expertise during their subsequent professional activities in nutritional counseling and can provide therapeutic and advisory support to healthy and sick people with regard to their nutrition. They know about the most important dietary measures for the various clinical pictures and also advise their clients on food supplements and vital substance therapy. Trained nutritional therapists can also perform body fat measurements and give professional lectures on nutrition-related topics with flying colors.

After successfully completing the course, participants are qualified to open and run their own nutritional counseling practice.

Would you like to help people with bad eating habits to change them successfully? Would you like to help sick people to maintain a healthy and personalized diet?

Then the best thing to do is to search for educational opportunities at Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch - the largest education portal in Switzerland. Experienced and renowned schools offer you comprehensive documentation on the individual courses free of charge and without obligation. Informative guides give you valuable tips on planning your further education.

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Almost all training courses to become a nutritional therapist can be completed while working, and many allow you to continue working full-time. However, some diploma courses require you to reduce your working hours, for example to 60 percent for a course with 2000 hours of training over a period of two years. Please contact the Schools of Nutritional Therapy directly to find out when a reduction in your workload is necessary.

It is generally not necessary to have an apprenticeship qualification to train as a nutritional therapist, but you should bear in mind that training as a nutritionist is not federally recognized (with the exception of the Bachelor's degree in Nutrition and Dietetics) and therefore does not constitute adequate training for an apprenticeship qualification. In individual cases, however, please ask the schools directly whether vocational education and training (VET) is expected for the training.

As the job titles nutrition coach, nutrition consultant and nutrition therapist are not protected terms, they can be used for a wide variety of training courses and continuing education, further training in nutritional counseling. All three terms can describe the same professional activity, so it is important for you as a prospective student to obtain comprehensive information about the individual courses directly from the respective schools for all three training qualifications. The easiest and quickest way to do this is to use our non-binding contact form.

The scope of training as a nutritional therapist can vary greatly depending on the degree and school, so that no general statement can be made in this regard. At least 150 hours of specialist training are required for EMR recognition of method no. 68, as well as 600 hours of conventional medical basics, unless you have already completed this with other training in the field of complementary medicine/complementary therapy. Of course, you can also attend training courses with fewer than the 150 hours required by the EMR for health insurance recognition and only attend a seminar on nutrition on one or more weekends. However, this type of training is not suitable for working as a nutritionist. Within three years, you can also complete a bachelor's degree in nutritional counseling, for example, and in this way train comprehensively at a Universities to become a nutritional therapist / nutritional counselor.

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