All Massage Therapy CE Class Options:
Person-Centered Care for Pregnancy and Postpartum
NCBTMB approved
6 CE hours, live in-person
This course is designed for LMTs seeking to understand the realities of pregnancy and postpartum and how to adapt their massage therapy sessions to provide meaningful, layered support for this special group of clients. This engaging class includes participant discussion, live demonstration, and hands-on practice.
Participants will build a foundation of knowledge about common physical, emotional, and social changes clients experience during the transformational perinatal phase and how to accommodate their unique needs. Topics include: benefits and contraindications specific to perinatal clients, understanding and communicating special considerations, client positioning, safe and confident draping, massage techniques, and marketing best practices.
This course offers an abbreviated version of the 6-hour Person-Centered Care for Pregnancy and Postpartum, and is available on-demand so participants can learn at their pace. This asynchronous course engages participants through workbook reflections, knowledge checks, a case study, and a message board for direct interaction with the instructor. This course qualifies as an Interactive Distance Learning Course in the state of Oregon.
Foundations of Perinatal Massage
NCBTMB approved
2 CE hours, virtual, on-demand
This course combines calming and gently energizing techniques to support nervous system regulation. This revitalizing approach focuses on the areas where modern-day tension lives: the upper back, neck, shoulders, face, and scalp. Through a sequence of 50 intentional techniques that alternate between soothing and stimulating, participants will learn how to help clients shift out of stress mode and into a state of rest, ease, and groundedness. By supporting healthy circulation and releasing chronic holding patterns in the head and upper body, this work offers both immediate relaxation and a deep sense of overall wellbeing. Techniques are performed with the client fully clothed and seated in a chair, followed by adapted applications on the table.
This massage therapy approach is especially supportive for clients navigating stress, mental fatigue, poor sleep, tension headaches, and mood fluctuations. The alternating rhythms of the techniques help regulate the nervous system, improve focus, ease emotional overwhelm, and support mental clarity. Participants will learn how their work directly influences client nervous systems and how to apply this rich set of techniques to any therapeutic practice.
Head Massage for Mind & Mood
NCBTMB approved
8 CE hours, live in-person
Best of Head Massage for Mind & Mood
NCBTMB approved
4 CE hours, live in-person
This course offers an abbreviated version of the 8-hour Head Massage for Mind and Mood, with a focus on techniques for the head and face that support deep relaxation and ease. Techniques are performed with the client fully clothed and seated in a chair, followed by adapted applications on the table.
Treating the Feet
NCBTMB approved
4 CE hours, live in-person
Feet function as the body’s shock absorbers and are often the hardest worked of all body parts. Unfortunately, many of our clients experience foot fatigue on a regular basis and a one hour massage session does not allow enough time to care for and fully address the issues of the feet.
Learn and experience a specialized four-part foot treatment employing 4 different products and massage therapies as follows: 1) foot soak with compression, 2) circular effleurage with abrasives, 3) foot mask with plantar massage, and 4) rejuvenating foot massage with lotion.
The client is comfortably seated during this relaxing 30-40 minute treatment. This foot treatment can be offered as an add-on service to a full body massage or it can be a focused session on its own. Add this to your menu of services to expand your support of clients and increase your income.
Facial Fusion Massage
NCBTMB approved
5 CE hours, live in-person
Stress is reflected in the face when facial muscles become tense and tighten. Unconsciously, we contort our face and creases appear across the surface of the skin as the pressures of the day intensify. This class includes a blend of facial massage techniques that are not only relaxing and rejuvenating, but beneficial for reducing the effects of stress, tension, and aging on the face. The treatment includes facial lymphatic strokes, face lifting massage therapy techniques, relaxation/rejuvenating strokes of various depths and styles, moist heat applications, hot stone strokes and focused stimulation that benefits sinus problems, tension headaches and migraines. Facial massage is an excellent addition to your massage therapy offerings. It can be added in full as a 50-60 minute treatment or in part at the end of a massage therapy session.