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What is the Difference between Beauty and Complementary Therapy Qualifications in the Same Subjects?

by Carole Preen

As the registrar for Complementary Health Professionals (CHP), one of the UKs leading professional associations, we are reviewing qualifications every day. Not only do we check qual...

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...

What will it be like Returning to Work after Lockdown?

by Carole Preen

Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on the complementary therapy industry and it is particularly hard when you are a self-employed sole trader. As a result, the question all compl...

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...

Why Bother being a Member of a Professional Association?

by Carole Preen

Ever since I first qualified in complementary therapies way back in 1993 (massage therapy was my first qualification), I have belonged to a professional association and have done so...

Why Do Some Therapists Make it in Business and Others Do Not?

by Carole Preen

This is a question me and Joyce were discussing recently as we have both been tutors in aromatherapy and massage over the last few decades.