Your Massage Practice

Your massage practice can be a rewarding and satisfying way to earn money. Okay, so you have finished massage school and you have your license in hand. Now you need to consider whether you want to

work for someone else or set up your own practice.

Will you work for someone else? If so, start looking at massage therapy job listings and, of course, what your massage therapy income will be. set up your practice, what will you call it? Will you just use your own name or will you choose a real business name?

If you set up your own massage therapy career practice, will it be an outcall practice only?

Will it be an in-the-office practice?

Will it be a combination of in-office massage and a lot of housecalls?

Will it be a chair massage practice? Or will you use both table and chair in and/or out of the office? Will you set up a home office and massage area? Will you rent space somewhere in town?

You should choose a massage therapy logo or a branding for your business. What will it look like?

So many decisions to be made regarding your massage therapy career, so little time to launch your massage therapy career.

Let's take a few moments to further discuss massage therapy career options that are available to you if you do not want to go into business for yourself right away. Just a few are listed for your exploration:

Work in a spa.

Teach massage therapy in a massage school or college.

Work in a chiropractic or a physical therapy office.

Become a hospital based massage therapist.

Perform sports massage therapy with a sports team.

Be a massage therapist on a cruise ship.

Write about massage therapy and/or your massage therapy career.

Work for a company or for yourself that provides chair massage only to clients.

Here are some other options for your massage therapy practice.

Go to work for Massage Envy or one of the other massage-therapists-in-a-box that are popping up all over the country.

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