Positive Health Online

Limits of Self-Prescribing

by Paul Houghton

The customer should get what the customer wants, but what is that exactly? Some come in expecting to talk to an expert. Others want the client-servant treatment. Quite a few would ...

Massage, Sex and Supervision

by Su Fox

This article focuses on the erotic aspect of body massage and why practitioners and clients rarely get turned on, despite there being some similarities between some of the rituals ...

Offering a Quality Service?

by Mark Kane

What makes the service you offer to your patients good quality? What is quality? By what standard do you want your work evaluated? Do you believe that what you offer is beyond comp...

Park Attwood Clinic - An individual approach to health care

by Glyn Lewis

In Britain there is one well established residential clinic where people who are chronically ill may receive treatment of body, soul and spirit. It is unique, and deserves to be ...

Portrait of Natural Health Clinic

by Tazdin Jivraj

In this article on the portrait of Natural Health Clinic, the author provides a summary of this clinic which he runs, and also shares his views on when people do seek alternative t...

Practical Advice for Reflexologists and Complementary Therapists

by Sue Ricks

In this article the author offers advice on how Reflexologists and Complementary Therapists can improve the quality of their service to keep and attract more clients.

Practical Protection for Practitioners

by Kay Zega

This column is aimed to help practitioners practise in a professional manner which protects them and their clients. The author shares her views on what a Professional Practice is...

Professional Advice for Complementary Practitioners

by David Balen

In the light of increasing scrutiny of alternative and complementary medicine by the general public, the legal and medical professions, and the media, this article offers practical...

Regulation of Group 2 Complementary Therapies

by Carole Preen

Carol Preen tackles the regulation of three Group 2 therapies which she practises, Aromatherapy, Massage and Reflexology, and how they will affect the business of these therapists....

Return to Wellness: Traumatic Consequences of Inadequate Self-Care

by Kay Zega

This article is a very frank and open account of how a therapist and healer took her own health and well-being too much for granted. She tells the reader how she over-worked and ov...

Some myths about practice building

by Allan Rudolf

For most adults, their single most time-consuming activity is work. Yet unfortunately very few people find full satisfaction in theirs. I believe lack of satisfaction in work is a ...

Ten Steps to a Healthy Complementary Therapy Practice

by Celia Johnson

Based on her 13 year career as a massage therapist, Celia Johnson sets out a 10-point plan to advise newly qualified therapists how to create a successful and fulfilling practice.<...

The Healer as an Instrument for Wholistic Healing

by Dr Daniel Benor

Regular columnist Dr Daniel Benor looks at how many caregiver factors contribute to enhancing the effectiveness of clinical intervention. The effectiveness of caregiving can be enh...

The Wounded Healer: Boundaries in the Client/Therapist Relationship

by Anon

This article examines the ethics of maintaining safe boundaries between client and therapist with an aim to encouraging those entrusted with the care of vulnerable clients to look ...

Voluntary Self-regulation of Complementary Therapies

by Carole Preen

This article discusses the issue of multi-disciplinary establishments that have sprung up over the past few years to cater to the concerns of multi-disciplinary therapists about ha...

Wander-Full, Wonder-Filled Thinking

by Caroline Barrow

The author starts enthusiastically by discussing the different passions that people have from golf and fishing to crochet and knitting. Yet, how often does one take time to think a...

What Therapists Need from a Professional Association - An Aromatherapy Perspective

by Sue Jenkins and Ian Smith

It is really important that therapists understand what they should get in return for their hard-earned subscriptions and, in turn, how they can influence the professional associati...

Who Treats the Therapist? - A Therapeutic Journey

by Stuart Robertson

The author looks into the workings of therapists in general, their insecurities, uncertainties and belief systems, and how they can break some of these modes.

Whose opinion counts, anyway?

by Mark Kane

Everyone has their own opinion about the effectiveness of complementary therapies. As a practitioner of complementary therapies I have to make choices and evaluate the therapies th...