
DIPLOMA IN BARIATRIC PSYCHOLOGY & MINDFUL EATING (DPBAC)
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2nd Edition Begins – 100% Online | October 2025
Learn evidence-based tools that integrate mental health, mindful eating, and sustainable well-being.
Program Curriculum
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Why choose DPBAC 2025?
✔ Comprehensive, evidence-based approach
The DPBAC combines the latest advances in bariatric psychology, mindful eating, and mental health with an integrative approach that transcends the weight-centric model. You will learn effective tools to support bariatric patients from a compassionate, person-centered perspective.
✔ Internationally recognized training
This diploma is endorsed by IFSO LAC (International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders – Latin American and Caribbean Chapter), ensuring up-to-date training and professional recognition.
✔ Flexible methodology and real clinical application
With a combination of asynchronous modules and monthly clinical supervision, this program adapts to your learning pace while you delve into real clinical cases, ensuring practical application from day one.
✔ Expert teachers and professional network
You will be part of a community of health professionals with experience in psychology, nutrition, bariatric surgery, and more, guided by a teaching team specializing in mindful eating, emotional regulation, and metabolic interventions.
✔ Transform your professional practice and your own well-being
This certificate program not only provides you with tools to improve your patients' quality of life, but also invites you to strengthen your self-care and mental health, promoting more effective interventions aligned with well-being.
Professionals Transforming Health

+ 400 graduates from the Health & Consciousness School
They have elevated their health practice to a more comprehensive and effective level, achieving better results while strengthening their professional skills. Psychologists, nutritionists, dietitians, coaches, and other mental health professionals who now stand as ambassadors of this approach.
What does it include?
24/7 Online Platform: Use your email and password to access an educational space with classes, audiovisual resources, and practical tools, advancing at your own pace from any device with an internet connection.
Complete Modules: These include masterclasses, clinical assessment and intervention tools, complementary resources, and live clinical supervision and PAC integration sessions.
Self-Care Space: Audio recordings of contemplative practices, self-awareness exercises, and inspirational material for the well-being of professionals.
Interactive Forum: Share questions and experiences with teachers and classmates to enrich your learning.
PAC Workshops: Experiential laboratories of the PAC Diploma to integrate tools such as Mindful Eating, ACT, and CFT, among others, with a focus on therapist care and personal transformation.
Bariatric Clinical Supervision: Live meetings to apply PAC tools to bariatric patients, with a focus on person-centered care.
Who is this program for?
✓ For mental health professionals and other healthcare professionals who wish to adopt a mindful and integrative approach when supporting bariatric patients. Its goal is to transform the way psychological health is approached, promoting a humanized, effective, and evidence-based intervention:
- Psychologists & Psychiatrists: Professionals seeking to integrate practical tools based on Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Compassion, addressing the emotional and behavioral factors that influence patients' relationship with food and their psychological well-being.
- Other Health Professionals with an Interest in Mental Health: Aimed at nutritionists, dietitians, nurses, physical therapists, and occupational therapists with university training who wish to complement their practice with an interdisciplinary, conscious, and mental health-centered approach.
This program is ideal for those seeking to deepen their knowledge of strategies that promote sustainable habits, respect body diversity, and improve patients quality of life by integrating effective tools into their professional practice.
DPBAC Objectives
✓ GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
To train health professionals in the comprehensive psychological approach to bariatric patients, providing tools to promote sustainable changes in eating behaviors, lifestyle habits, and body acceptance, thereby improving quality of life and preventing complications throughout the process.
✓ SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
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To acquire effective tools for psychological support throughout all stages of the bariatric process, while integrating into the multidisciplinary team.
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To implement an approach grounded in Mindfulness, compassion, and positive health, moving beyond the traditional weight-centered model.
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To address body- and food-related suffering through a trauma-informed model, promoting emotional regulation and adaptation to changes in body image.
Program Curriculum MEP+PB=DPBAC

What does your participation in the DPBAC Diploma include?
✓ Access to a complete educational platform.
✓ Clinical supervision sessions with experts.
✓ 20 educational modules + bonus with specialized content.
✓ Over 40 masterclasses with leading international teachers.
✓ Self-care program with practices designed for the professional's well-being.
✓ Clinical templates for case formulation and tool application.
✓ Guided meditation audios (Mindfulness, Mindful Eating, ACT, and CFT).
✓ Step-by-step guides for consultation and practical application.
✓ Supplementary educational material, including readings and audiovisual content.
✓ Technical support to ensure a smooth experience.
✓ Internationally recognized final certification.
Get to Know Our Faculty

Msc. Ps. Pamela Maercovich
Founder and Director of Escuela Salud & Consciencia (Health & Consciousness School), creator of the PAC integrative approach
As the creator of the PAC Diploma, I will facilitate the program together with a team of internationally renowned guest lecturers, who will complement our efforts by joining us on the educational platform to bring about a humanizing transformation of the food paradigm.
Let me introduce you to my international faculty team
Asynchronous classes on educational platform

Dr. Sergio Aparicio
Surgeon - IFSOLAC President

Ps. Siomara Chahuán
Bariatric Psychologist - Academic Director, DPBAC - Former NPCO Management Team

Msc. Ps. Monserrat Reséndiz
Bariatric Psychologist

Enzo Arias
Bariatric Psychologist - IFSO LAC Mental Health Representative

Jorge Vásquez
Bariatric Kinesiologist - IFSO LAC Coordinator, Physical Medicine Subcommittee

Nt. Marcela Ortiz
Bariatric Nutritionist - NPCO Member

Dr. Arturo Zumaeta
Bariatric Psychiatrist

Nut. Antonieta Latorre
NUBAMET President

Dra. Yudith Preiss
Doctor and Bariatric Nutritionist

Dr. Matías Sepulveda
SCCBM President
DPBAC Prices and Fees 2025
Includes everything described below:
Schedule your admission interview and reserve your spotTuition Fee:
$80.000 CLP - $80USD
Enrollment Fee:
$2.800.000 CLP
$2,380,000 (15% discount for early registration) - $2,240,000 CLP (20% discount for SCCBM & IFSOLAC members).
Payment Facilities:
Discount for single payment or up to 24 credit card installments in Chile. School agreement installment option (no discount).
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