NTA Australia/New Zealand
NTA AU/NZ | Who We Are
The NTA began as a vocational nutrition school in Olympia, Washington, USA in 1997 with the primary goal of training health care practitioners in the practice of Nutritional Therapy.
Originally a program designed for licensed medical practitioners, the NTA trained thousands of medical doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists and naturopaths throughout the United States and Europe.
The NTA was encouraged to make this unique nutritional training available to a wider audience, and today has trained more than 8000 Nutritional Therapy Practitioners from all over the world.
In 2015 NTA Australia and New Zealand became the sister branch of NTA USA and offers the only Diploma of Functional Nutritional Therapy in the Southern Hemisphere.
“NTA AU/NZ offers the only independently funded functional and ancestral–based nutrition Diploma program in Australia and New Zealand.”
NTA AU/NZ Offers a Unique Program
NTA AU/NZ offers the only independently funded functional and ancestral–based nutrition Diploma program in Australia and New Zealand.
Should you choose to study with us, our expanded curriculum and functional clinical skillset training will place you, as one of our Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners™ (FNTPs), at the leading edge of Health and Wellness.
For details about what makes our program unique, read our Diploma Prospectus.
What does a Diploma Qualified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner mean?
A Diploma qualified Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner is a title which ensures the practitioner has done significant Functional Nutritional Therapy hands on clinical work as part of their training and a minimum of 1200 contact hours. Many programs these days are only online, offer no hands on, one on one clinical training for their students and are not nationally recognized in Australia or New Zealand. Our Diploma program includes 289 clinical hours alone.
With 8,400+ practitioners world wide, if you’re ready to truly get to the root cause of your health check out our Practitioner Directory.
“Students are taught the BIO-INDIVIDUAL nutritional requirements for every single one of the trillions of cells in the human body.”
It’s called - True Root Cause Resolution
There are quite a few organisations offering nutrition tuition online, with varying levels of curriculum. Some cover many different dietary theories and promote plant-based diets. Several incorporate a spiritual approach and encourage self-development.
Our program is unique because it looks at ALL contributing factors to health and wholeness (mind body and spirit) but with the difference that our FNTP program offers real, hands-on evaluative tools and a functional-medicine-style approach to not only determine the bio-individual physical root cause of a health issue but also to support the exact needs of the individual client from all of those perspectives.
No templates, formulas, diets or one size fits all protocols. The NTA AU/NZ is founded on the work of nutritional pioneers such as Dr Weston A. Price and Dr. Francis M. Pottenger, whose research demonstrated the need for whole food diets.
Although the NTA teaches bio-individuality and isn't opposed to vegan/vegetarian diets, students are taught the BIO-INDIVIDUAL nutritional requirements for every single one of the trillions of cells in the human body. A Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner™ is focused on meeting those exact requirements. Download the "Cellular Downward Spiral" to understand why.
In addition, FNTPs work like detectives, collecting a full health history as well as data that may seem irrelevant to other people, but is actually a vital piece of the puzzle. Was the client born by cesarian? Where did they grow up and what were they eating? Did they have chronic ear infections as a child? How is their dental health?
Nutritional pioneers Dr Weston A. Price and Dr. Francis M. Pottenger
And this is where FNTPs really shine. Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners are taught how to access the innate intelligence of the human body to locate the source of dysfunction and identify which nutrients and strategic support will help the body heal itself.
This is done using reflex points and the neuro-vascular and neuro-lymphatic pathways that surround every organ system in the body. It’s not muscle testing; it is simply using the body’s internal communication through networks of nerves.
It sounds like magic, but it’s pure and simple human physiology. Read about the physiology of the Functional Clinical Assessment.
An FNTP will then perform a Functional Clinical Assessment
Hear from Our Alumni
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"The Nutritional Therapy Association teaches sound, foundational, principle-based nutritional coursework in addition to functionally-based techniques that can be used to assess nutritional status and progress on an individual basis."
Nora Gedgaudas - FNTP, CNS, Best Selling Author
Primal Body Primal Mind -
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"The Nutritional Therapy Association has one of the soundest, most thorough, and most accessible nutrition training programs I've seen. I've gone through several nutrition certifications, and this is by far the one I recommend the most."
Margaret Floyd Barry - FNTP, RWMP, CGP, CHFS, Author, Speaker
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"...the FNTP Certification is becoming well-known and respected in the healing community across the United States and even the world. I was hired to be the nutritionist in a cutting-edge integrative medical clinic soon after graduating from the FNTP program, and my FNTP Certification carried a lot of weight with the doctor who hired me."
Doug Walsh - FNTP
Olympia, Washington -
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"As a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, I guide people towards better health by using a holistic and foundational approach to nutrition. I believe that a properly prepared, nutrient-dense diet full of whole, nourishing foods can help restore health and vitality."
Mickey Trescott - FNTP, Author, Creator of AIP Certification
Autoimmune Paleo
