Whenever you are going to start something new it can be daunting or intimidating. Making a change to a new career plan is a really big deal!
This is going to be one of the major parts of your life as soon as you start the process of enrollment and hopefully for many years to come after you graduate and work as a massage therapist.
It’s just not good enough to simply throw at dart at a dartboard full of massage therapy school names and start your training at whatever one on which the dart lands closest.
What should I look for in a massage therapy school?
As you work on making your decision, stop for a moment and think about what’s important to you.
Maybe sit down for a morning cup of coffee, pull out a notepad, and start writing down your thoughts about what you want to get out of receiving massage training.
Once you’ve done that, you can begin to think about how you can get what you want.
For example, if you put on your list – “I want to be good at what I do.”
That would mean you would want to search for a school that you can feel confident would help you to become good at massage therapy.
So then, think about ‘how’ would a school help you to become good at massage therapy.
Drilling down, an example of how a school could help you accomplish this goal would mean that you would get real, hands-on training. When you are doing a physical job, you have to have practice and be helped through the physical techniques in order to build your confidence so you can know if you are good at massage therapy.
Another part of this would mean that if you have questions or need help, you would have to feel comfortable asking the instructor for help and the instructor would have to both know very well how to help you and they would have to have the time to specifically spend with you and you alone for a moment or more to where you could be sure you knew the answer to your questions.
Really sitting down and thinking through all of this and writing it all down can help you to find the real answers to determine which school is going to be right for you. With those things clearly in mind, you can then begin researching and contacting massage therapy schools and talking to them – asking them clear and concise questions and being certain you know when you begin that you have chosen the massage training institution in an informed way that you won’t have to doubt in the future.