Name: Christa Alyssa Kidd RMT
Email: christaalyssa@gmail.com
Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx
country: Canada
Message: I just wanted to write and thank you for your frank words on B.C.\'s crazy laws about who may be called a Massage \"Therapist\". I have been working on people since I was 5 and have been a Registered Massage Therapist in Edmonton, AB and in England over the past 8 years. As I have just moved to B.C. a week ago and realized that I am no longer acknowledge here as a Massage Therapist I am having a huge personal identity crisis. The very thing I was so proud of being seems to feel like it\'s been stripped from me because of the laws here. I\'ve been know as Christa Alyssa Kidd the Massage Therapist and now I don\'t know what to call myself and feel ashamed because of my 800 hour massage course I took that just doesn\'t match up to their 3000 hours. I know that the hours of schooling taken will never make a Massage Therapist. It is in you or it\'s not. I truly feel that having the ability to intuitively understand another persons body and touch and help balance them doesn\'t
even come from a school. Techniques learned in Massage schools are very benefitial but you are very very very right, massage is as old as the world is. It\'s very sad that so many good Massage Therapists cannot be acknowledge due to legislation.
On a side note I am looking for work and trying to find my place here. If you can help point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. Also if there is anything that I can do to support your school in anyway please don\'t hesitate to ask.
Sincerely,
Christa Alyssa Kidd
3 comments:
Why would you move to a province that requires more education without checking into it first hand??? BC has the second highest requirements after France where it's a 4 year university program. Why should you be allowed to work when you haven't fulfilled the scholastic component? It's the just like we don't let doctors from other countries practice in Canada? Alberta doesn't even have a regulatory body.
Do they not let you write the exams if you have enough hours of practice built up?
One problem that I see is that it would be very hard to have the required knowledge to meet their standards without the course, so even if you could take the exams it would be very difficult to pass them. Maybe that says it all.
They have these standards to protect the public from harm, not to prevent you from working. If you meet their requirements you can work no problem.
There has been very little evidence of harm from unregistered massage therapists
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