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Meet the Team
London Therapists team Claire Mendelsohn, Sarah Collins and Aruna Dackombe have over sixty years of collective experience in professional holistic therapy practice and training. Our shared vision - and passion - is to provide accessible, flexible and affordable fast-track massage and beauty training courses that will teach you how to offer your clients bespoke treatments that will help them maximise their wellbeing.
Claire Mendelsohn, Founder & CEO
Claire is the owner and founder of holistic massage and beauty therapy training company London Therapists, massage for cancer training provider Empatherapist and CMA and IICT accredited touch therapy training organisation Cuddle Professionals International. Claire holds the CMA certified Integrative Oncology qualification and has her own private therapy practice in Richmond, south-west London. A member of the Guild of Holistic Therapists and the Guild of Therapy Lecturers. Claire is also accredited by the Humanists Non-Religious Pastoral Support Network, and is a member of the Chaplaincy team at Kingston Hospital in Surrey.
Sarah Collins, Haworth Tutor
Sarah began her holistic therapy career over twenty years ago. After taking PTLLS at level 4, she combined her therapy work with teaching for London Therapists, Yorkshire Massage & Beauty Courses and Face the World. Sarah has written and taught courses including Aromatherapy, Ayurveda Massage and Reflexology, as well as tailored courses in spas, hotels and in hospices. As well as teaching, Sarah sees her own therapy clients. Writing and teaching holistic therapy and natural beauty courses gives Sarah a wonderful opportunity to share her experiences, and encourage other therapists to offer treatments to help clients maintain their well-being.
Aruna Dackombe, Exeter Tutor
Aruna has been teaching in the area of health in FE colleges for over 20 years and holds a BSc in Health sciences and DTTLS (Cert Ed) teaching. In the past she has run her own therapy practice, taught many holistic workshops designed by herself for the local community, run regular baby massage classes, volunteered with hospice care and still teaches adults in FE on a variety of health and wellbeing topics. She also provides workshops around the area of mental health. Aruna is keen to help those wishing to further develop their skills and guide them through the process in order to draw out the innate qualities that help us live with our true potential.
Accreditation
All our course diplomas are accredited by the International Guild of Complementary Therapists and Westminster Insurance. You will be able to arrange insurance and practice professionally on successful completion of your course.
London Therapists is registered with the UK Register of Learning Providers: UKPRN:10036674
International Guild of Complementary Therapists
We are fully accredited for professional membership, insurance and CPD points by IGCT. The Guild promotes holistic practitioners and course providers, offers recognised professional accreditation for holistic and complementary courses, and is home to an idea-sharing hub for all of us to come together and learn from each other.
Membership benefits include:
Grow your business by reaching more people
Advertise your courses and therapies by discipline and location
Control your own dedicated profile page in the Guild Directory
Receive recognised professional accreditation
Receive the Guild Membership certificate and badge
Display the Guild logo on your website and stationery
Qualify for competitively priced complementary practitioner’s insurance
Post articles on the IGCT blog
Enjoy and contribute to the quarterly newsletter
Post on IGCT social media channels
You can pay monthly or make savings of 20% by paying for the full year. All subscriptions are for a 12 month period.
£ 7.50 per month | £ 75.00 per year
To join IGCT please click below
Course Content
You won't be bogged down with lots of course work or case studies - our courses are designed to teach you the safe techniques for each massage or beauty therapy with all the theory you need contained within a comprehensive course book. We will teach you all you need to know - professional etiquette, benefits, health and safety, contraindications and getting insured, as well as all the practical techniques, under close, constant supervision. This will ensure that, once qualified, you will practice in safe and professional manner and provide a service that is a credit to you and of enormous benefit to your clients.
Syllabus
All our holistic massage training courses begin with an informal but important run-through of your course notes, and there is plenty of opportunity to ask questions.
All courses include the following content:
Professional ethics
Client consultation and record keeping
Insurance options
Safety and hygiene
Possible contraindications to the treatment
Preparation of the client, room and supplies
Basic Anatomy and Physiology
Client aftercare
Course time is spent for the most part on the practical aspects of the therapy being learnt, and all students are encouraged to undertake additional private study at home using their training manual and text books.
CPD Points
Improving your skills and knowledge through Continuing Professional Development is the responsibility of every professional across all industries. It is considered across all industries that CPD points, units and credits all relate to the same thing, CPD Hours. The definition of CPD Hours is the time spent for someone to be in “active learning”. Active learning defines the actual time spent learning something relevant for their Continuing Professional Development objectives. A great example of this would be 1-day accredited CPD training course. If the training starts at 9 am and ends at 5 pm, with a 1-hour break for lunch, the CPD Hours would be 7.
Our courses are fully accredited for CPD points by IGCT.
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