Integrated Medicine is a positive move forward that is being embraced by many Health Professionals, including many Health Authorities, and at CAREA Centres of Excellence we are thrilled to be the first reflexology qualification to be a part of this multi-disciplinary and inclusive approach. Reflexology is an awesome therapy, but often a client will also benefit from other support, a nutritionist or chiropractor for example, and the aim is that our graduates be sought after for inclusion in the growing number of health centres that offer Integrated healthcare and wellbeing and Integrated Medicine. A growing number of GP’s and Consultants are exploring and setting up Health Centres that include other health practices ~ including DuoPody Reflexology.

Integrated Medicine also means that our students will learn about a multi-faceted approach to treating a person. No long list of contra-indications to reflexology because you will learn an evidence-based approach that can be applied to all ages and all conditions. This is why there is a level 6 unit module and it is only taught at CAREA Centres teaching the OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Applied Reflexology for Integrated Medicine.

The desire to be the best reflexologist possible which is achieved by learning and graduating from a CAREA Centre of Excellence!

* Over 18

* Many applicants have been out of education for a long time, but what they do have is work and life experience and this will be an important factor and carry a great deal of weight in your application.

* Literacy and good command of English language

* IT skills (sufficient to word process and forward assessments electronically – or be willing to learn!)

* Motivation to have good study habits outside the classroom as assessments will include giving, evaluating and recording treatments.

* Each CAREA Centre of Excellence will ask you to complete their application form and will discuss with you what the training entails, but you will be safe in the knowledge that wherever you choose to learn, the core curriculum, the syllabus and all the assessments are to the same high standards.

No formal qualifications required, but it is important to recognise that at Level 5 you will be expected to think for yourself and take responsibility for making decisions about how to apply reflexology skills. You will not be learning a one size fits all treatment routine, you will be learning Duopody Reflexology as your foundation knowledge of the body systems, but then you will learn how to apply your knowledge of how illness effects which systems/organs and then with other treatments you will plan and identify your treatment that will be specific to each person for every treatment you give. This means you will need to be able to analyse, to evaluate, to interpret and to review.

No, you do not need to be medically trained to study with us and you don’t need to have studied any other level of reflexology either

EXCELLENT COURSE, EXCELLENT TUTORS = EXCELLENT PRACTITIONERS

Training is for a minimum of one academic year, and although the number of hours per day (and therefore the number of days in class) may vary, the actual number of taught hours will be the same. It is this commitment to every element of reflexology training and the commitment to being fully and appropriately scrutinised and regulated by CAREA, OTHM the International Awarding Organisation and Ofqual the National Framework Regulator, that results in this qualification providing you the opportunity to Learn without Limits.

Every student/learner is issued with bespoke manuals for each of the 8 units. Every student is issued with bespoke training aides. Every student studies for and submits the same assignments and it is all these things that ensure that you are on the very best training course possible. Doesn’t it make absolute sense to learn the very best techniques right at the start of your reflexology path? Yes of course it does! And the CAREA Centres recognised this which is why the have studied themselves so that they can be awarded the coveted Licence to Teach DuoPody, NEPIP and CALM and these are the treatments your clients will want as they have the greatest health benefits. These are the treatments that Doctors and other Health Professionals are already recognising and so they will also search out the graduates that practice these life enhancing treatments. But the CAREA Matrix is not all of the story as you will learn the theory and application of many other treatment protocols.

There are so many life skills that educate us.   At Level 5 the main challenge is thinking, using your brain to work things out, as opposed to being told things that you then do!    At the beginning of your training you are taught all the systems of the body reflected on the feet and how to use your thumbs, fingers, hands to work your way through them, but later on in you learn which of those systems, or parts of those systems are most relevant to use in a specific treatment.   You will learn multiple other treatment protocols, some from ancient medicine such as meridians, chakras.   You will learn how to ‘read’ the feet from a psychological/emotional perspective.  You will know treatment protocols for specific times of life from birth to end of life.  

You will take all the skills you have learned as far as treatments are concerned, you will add them to what you know about your study clients, or fellow students if working in class, and you will combine all of this with what you see and feel on their feet together and you will become a ‘Health Detective’.   You have a pile of clues, you put them together and work out what is the best, most relevant way to treat.   It takes time in class and at home to build up to this stage of course, but learning it all, realising how each new skill or treatment or theoretical evidence or understanding is leading to the stage where you solve the health crime and provide the appropriate treatment is exciting – very exciting!

So in answer to the question ‘can I still study at level 5’, if you are excited by the prospect of taking responsibility to find a truly suitable treatment for each and every person you treat, and if you are excited by the prospect of learning to use your own judgement, to be able to analyse and interpret.   And then review your plans and reflect, then this should be the course for you. 

Reflexology as a career is incredible, no matter what level you train at or what technique you use, but with this particular qualification you are taking that further step into highly specialised practical skills that thrill and excite and provides an expertise that will also thrill and excite your clients.