• Centrally located only 5 minutes from Interstate 64
• Financial aid available, including Sallie Mae, a SLM financial company
Certified to Operate by SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education for Virginia)
• School is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association
• Build permanent clientele while still learning
• Potential earnings over $60,000 annually
The goal of Pate School of Neuromuscular Therapy is to raise the level of education both in and about the field of massage therapy. This has two very important facets. The first, to raise the level of education, focuses primarily inwards, towards our students and towards ourselves. The reason why our program requires more credit hours by far than most other Virginia schools is because we feel that the minimum needed by law is simply not enough. The basic knowledge is there, but the capability to provide the real therapy that can be achieved through touch requires more. So we promise that we will maintain the highest level of education possible, enabling you to follow a path of success. We will provide all the tools you will need to heal people while having a rewarding and fulfilling career in massage therapy. We will teach you to tailor therapeutic treatment to the individual, targeting the problems, not merely treating the symptoms. We believe that neuromuscular therapy offers an important, crucial, alternative therapy to drugs or surgery.
The second facet of our goal is to raise the level of public awareness of the benefits of massage therapy. The benefits are not just of general relaxation, as so many therapists do, but of the deep and long lasting healing that is possible through application of advanced techniques in neuromuscular therapy. It is our belief that people can live a life free of pain long after a doctor has labeled their pain chronic. In the case of injury and chronic pain, drug-free and surgery-free therapies can be of great value. By reducing or even eliminating the need for mind numbing drugs or painful surgery, you and your clients can achieve a higher quality of life. Our intention, with health fairs, community service, public awareness campaigns, and through our very own student clinic, will be to reach out to the community and demonstrate for them the full potential of neuromuscular therapy in conjunction with massage therapy. As you, our students, graduate as fully certified neuromuscular and massage therapists, you will also bring education to the general public as your own clients are added to the fold of believers. Read more here.
With our individually tailored two-step program we have implemented a means of enabling you, as a student, to become a nationally certified massage therapist within 8 months of training. This will allow you to accept pay for massages while continuing on with you advanced Neuromuscular certification. As an added bonus, because we do care and understand our students needs, you will always have access to our student clinic as a safe, familiar, and welcoming environment to perform your massages. Even after you graduate. Read more [link to ‘courses’ page paragraph that begins ‘we provide to complete programs’]
We, the Pate School of Neuromuscular Therapy, are the only school on the east coast to offer neuromuscular therapy as a certified course in conjunction with national massage certification. Please click here for more information on our Neuromuscular Therapy certification as well as other links pertaining to the art and science of neuromuscular therapy.
With our dedication to your education as a vehicle for spreading awareness about the great benefits of massage therapy, as well as neuromuscular therapy, we have a program that is double the hours required by the Nursing Board of Virginia (500 hours) as well as the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB). This is because we feel that the basics are not enough. As a potential massage therapist you have to choose from two routes. You can receive the basic training in massage therapy and be nationally certified in 6–8 months with other area programs but barely skim the surface of the potential of massage therapy. Or, you can be given the true tools of the profession and all of the information and techniques to truly help people. The choice is yours. Read more.
As you progress through our course of study, one of the most important benefits is the ability to build clientele. Wherever you choose to work and whatever your modality of massage, your clientele base is what supports you. We help you develop that base through a variety of means. We train you extensively in proper communications with clients. We teach you how to provide a safe, comfortable setting which provides for both you and the client. We give you in-school, hands-on practice in our student clinic where you will have the opportunity to interact and provide full length massages on the public. There will always be a fully certified massage therapist on duty as a clinic supervisor to answer any questions you or your client may have. These clinical massages are the basis for your permanent clientele. Both during your education and after graduation you will be able to use our massage rooms to help earn your way.
