Welcome to the 
Kneaded Energy School of Massage
Student Clinic

Note: If you are interested in taking advantage of our Student Clinic, please call the office at 336-273-1260 and get your name, phone number and email address on our waiting list.  The Student Clinic is open to Kneaded Energy clients.  Not everyone is a good candidate for clinic.  Therefore, we would like each person who is interested in taking advantage of our student massage to visit one of our professional therapists first.  Our professional therapists will assess your situation, provide specialized treatment and determine if you are a good clinic client. 

In clinic, you will be treated like a real client, however, the work you receive is from a student and in the clinic the work represents what the students have learned to that point.  Our clinic massage therapy is about the student, not the client.  The student cannot take requests for specific work.  In clinic, you can only book with a student therapist once during their enrollment.  These clinic sessions are not private and treatment room doors may remain open after the client is on the table and draped.  A supervisor will enter the treatment room at various times during the session, to observe and/or assist as needed. The cost of the clinic is $30 for a 1 hour massage.

 About our Clinic

We believe that after our students learn the techniques of massage therapy that will "make a good therapist", the students need the practice of working directly with the public.  This is the time to help the students to challenge their massage therapy techniques and also practice their customer services and business skills. 

Each student, in addition to learning massage therapy techniques, must also develop a solid business understanding and first class customer services skills.  Our clinic incorporates practicing to greet clients, perform an informative intake, listen to the client's expectations, rebook clients, manage a schedule and complete all the behind the scenes work that is involved in a private practice; such as laundry, restocking, and cleaning the treatment rooms. 

Throughout our Professional Massage Therapy Diploma Program, the students practice on eachother in the classroom setting and they are expected to practice on friends and family outside of the classroom.  Once we complete a certain percentage of classroom techniques, it's time for the student to put their skills to the test, relying on all they have learned - and this is where the student clinic comes into the curriculum.

The clinic setting takes place in the Kneaded Energy private treatment rooms.  This is one of the many benefits of being surrounded by a successful private practice.  This opportunity gives each student a first hand working knowledge of working in a private practice, but with supervised assistance.  Being in a treatment room, versus the classroom, allows the student the ability to incorporate all aspects of being in a treatment room...but with a supervisor to ask.  They begin to think about simple remedies for what happens with the music stops, where are the kleenex, where do I set my oil bottle, the client feels the room temperature is too cold, is there a pillow for their head.  These are real life situations our students find themselves, but being able to learn the art of multi-tasking in a session, of which they are supervised, makes them far better to address more serious situations that can occur during a treatment.

As the owners of a massage therapy school and a private practice, we have found that the actual massage therapy time is only a small portion of what it takes to make a successful massage therapy practice.  It is our belief, our commitment and our calling to help each new massage therapy student learn the full expectation of future employers and/or understand what is involved in making their own practice successful, if in the future they choose to open their own practice upon graduation. 

If you want to take advantage of our Student Clinic, please call the office at 336-273-1260 and get your name, phone number and email address on our waiting list.