The Lone Therapist - A new resource

A mental health resource pack which you can download below, entitled The Lone Therapist, has been created by Sue Frazer and Lindsey Nicholas from ABMT and Gina Lilley from Amatsu Therapy. This is part of an initiative by newly-formed Mental Health Working Group within GCMT (the Council for Soft Tissue Therapies). The Lone Therapist is designed to support massage therapists in terms of the mental health implications of their work. In biodynamic therapy, we already understand the intrinsic connection between emotional and physical health and this understanding informs much of the interactive material in the resource pack. In particular,  we hope it will support and encourage other massage modalities to recognise the emotional implications of the client/therapist relationship.
 
It is an interactive, visually orientated document and is still a work in progress, and we are interested in how it works for you in terms of its flow of ideas and the linked sections. It is available for anyone to download and feedback would be helpful, particularly in terms of how it might be of use to you.
 
This resource document offers:

• support for you in terms of your own mental well-being as you go about your practice as massage therapists.

 

• the opportunity for you to deepen your awareness of what might be going on between you and the client in relationship,  beyond the physicality of the therapy you are providing.

 

• help to use this knowledge to create good boundaries and confidence to encourage and refer clients to mental health therapy.

 

• more detailed insight into the intrinsic relationship between emotional and physical health.

 

• case studies and a section on massage on trauma

 

• advice and recommendations on self-care.

​Written by: Lindsey Nicholas

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