Becoming a Licensed Massage Therapist #1

Becoming a LMT -

To become a Licensed Massage Therapist you will need:

• Courage (not a lack of fear, just a will to do what's best for others in spite of fear)
• A genuine desire to help people and to make sacrifices to give to people
• Schooling/Testing
• Licensing

Something I have learned lately is that when making big decisions and big changes in your life, it's a good idea to know who you are.  Draw a pie chart of the most important parts of who you are.  Consider if this new direction for your life will be true to nurturing the biggest parts of who you are.

I have been massaging friends and family since I was about eight years old.  This really helped direct me to the career choice.  They were wonderful to encourage me and critique me in ways that prove to be invaluable today! Everyone was impressed by my growing strength and that motivated me to keep giving.

If you have not had this background of practice that is okay.
Practice as often as possible and take Anatomy and Physiology classes if that is available to you.
It helped me a lot to be involved in those kinds of classes as well as health class and health club.

Yes, massage therapy is a great profession and pays well, but don't be like me and forget that you have to build clientele.  Depending on the environment you will be working in, you might not make even $200 a week starting out, so some kind of back-up would be advisable to pay the bills until you have enough customers to cover your needs.