Certificado en Terapias Integrativas y Prácticas de Sanación

With increasing student and practitioner interest in exploring culture, spirituality, and healing options, including the use of integrative therapies, the Center offers a post-baccalaureate Certificate in Integrative Therapies & Healing Practices. This innovative, interdisciplinary graduate program enables students to acquire advanced knowledge and skills to enhance their professional careers, their own lives as well as the lives of their patients.

Students can individualize coursework and focus on an area of interest:

Health Coaching

Clinical applications – including botanical medicine, mind/body interventions, music, and essential oils

Leadership in Optimal Healing Environments

Nature-Based Therapeutics

Benefits of our Graduate Certificate:

Individualized program-based unique learning needs

Flexible scheduling options/formats including online and distance learning

Faculty: world-class researchers, teachers, and clinicians

Community-based learning within healthcare institutions and community organizations

Individuals who already have a graduate-level degree or who are unsure whether they want to pursue a graduate degree will be able to enroll in the program and receive an official certificate from the University of Minnesota. Should participants decide to continue their studies, certificate credits may transfer to a master's or doctoral program.

The Bakken Center's certificate is a  graduate-level program . It can be completed concurrently with another graduate program or completed independently.

The School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota is the first school of nursing to offer a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in nurse anaesthesia, nursing informatics, and health innovation and leadership. The school provides its students with a world-class opportunity to learn, lead, and discover in a dynamic learning and research environment. Our faculty are nationally and internationally renowned for their leadership, practice expertise, and research discoveries. Many are professionally engaged in community practices that ground them in the front-line health care challenges and insights of our time.

Today the school ranks 12th among nursing graduate schools by U.S. News and World Report . As part of a premier research institution, the School of Nursing faculty is engaged in discoveries and initiatives with our public, private, and community partners. Applied research and development are enhanced by collaboration with other professions, including the University’s Academic Health Center, including the schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, public health, and nursing. The school has a uniquely integrated relationship with its largest clinical partner, the University of Minnesota Health. This Nursing Collaboratory facilitates research, education, and evidence-based practice in numerous ways.