Hair, Beauty, Complementary Therapies and Make-Up

Wellness and Holistic Therapies aim to help the overall well-being of an individual, by balancing mind, body and spirit. The use of various therapies, like massage, can reduce stress and tension and improve the flow of energy to encourage the body to find balance and improve physical and psychological well-being. The use of these modalities will help to heal naturally and can support individuals cope with and overcome health issues.

Wellness is one of the fastest growing industries in the UK. If you would like to achieve a healthy lifestyle and support others to do the same, then this course is an ideal starting point

To apply for this course, you'll need:

• a passion for wellness and holistic therapy industry
• SCQF level 5 qualifications
• a complete application with a comprehensive personal statement
• age 16 or over
• a desire to excel in the nail industry.

If you don’t have formal qualifications but have life experience, then we’ll also consider you for a place, so please do apply.

This course offers a great introduction helping you to develop a toolkit to promote health and wellbeing. With the emphasis on practical skills, you’ll spend a lot of time training in our own commercial salons, providing treatments to external clients. You’ll also cover several theory aspects, to give you essential knowledge and understanding.

Due to Wellness therapies being such a fast-changing industry our aim is always to ensure that your course develops the current skills and knowledge required for positive progression, therefore some of what you study on the course may change.

Here’s just some of what you may study:

• you’ll explore what’s involved in a healthy balanced diet and lifestyle. You’ll use your knowledge to advise clients on how to improve and maintain their health and wellbeing by incorporating healthy eating and exercise routine.
• you’ll learn how to perform individualised massages on the body, face, and scalp, neck and shoulders. You’ll use a range of techniques for different treatment plans.
• you'll learn to perform a traditional head and scalp massage to suit the client requirements and produce the desired effect.
• you'll learn to perform a facial massage routine using a variety of techniques to reduce stress and tension and induce relaxation.
• you’ll look at what causes stress and how this affects the body both physically and psychologically and develop skills in stress management strategies, such as visualisation, breathing techniques and relaxation to destress and improve well-being.
• you’ll may be encouraged to gain valuable work experience through helping with community and college events.

When you successfully complete this course, you may progress to: Wellness and Holistic Therapies SCQF Level 7. Exploring your future career options which could include: Self-Employed Holistic Therapist, Holistic Therapist within a Spa, Holistic Clinical Practitioner or in a supporting role to conventional medicine in a clinical practice.

You’ll build transferable essential skills in meaningful contexts to help you become more effective in life, learning, and work.

• You will gain effective communication skills along with problem solving abilities
• You will gain valuable practical skills through work experience in the college clinics/salon and through helping with community and college events.
• You’ll develop skills in researching a range of wellness therapies and look at body structures/systems, and how wellness and complementary treatments can benefit how they function. 
• You will develop skills in providing appropriate client aftercare, home care and product advice. 
• Digital skills to help use within the wellness and holistic industry and every-day life.

Federation of Holistic Therapies (FHT)

Simpsinns Ayrshire -Spa

Ayrshire Healing Centre

When you successfully complete this course, you may progress to:

• Wellness and Holistic Therapies Level 7 
• exploring your future career options which could include: Self-Employed Holistic Therapist, Holistic Therapist within a Spa, Holistic Clinical Practitioner or in a supporting role to conventional medicine in a clinical practice.