Patients trust Therapeutic Reflexologists; or at least, they should. In today’s post, we’ll explore the trust for your therapist based on the words of a previous patient that also happened to be a religious leader.
I sometimes offer Therapeutic Reflexology to prominent people in society. One such person was a pastor and as we spoke about Therapeutic Reflexology, the question was raised whether patients talk to me throughout the session or whether they just relax and say nothing. In my answer to the pastor patient, I mentioned that sometimes patients totally relax and even fall asleep during a session. The pastor was a bit surprised, especially since I often work with female patients and the pastor uttered the following words: “Your patients must really trust you…”
Those words remained with me especially since we live in a society where people are often taken advantage of, and the trust patients put in me as their Therapeutic Reflexologist never goes unnoticed. Every time I touch a patient’s feet (and sometimes other parts of their bodies), I realise what privilege it is to be entrusted with the person’s body. Therapy is always intimate as it involves touch and people do not usually just allow anyone to touch them and therefore it remains an honour being entrusted with a patient’s body.
Therapeutic Reflexologists are formally registered and professionally regulated healthcare professionals that offer a high-quality complementary therapy to patients as part of a multi-disciplinary healthcare team. Just like patients trust their medical doctors, or their physiotherapists, or their chiropractors, so they also trust their Therapeutic Reflexologists.
As a Therapeutic Reflexologist, I have the privilege of touching patients, but it is professional touch within the boundaries provided by the statutory council regulating the profession. Within the boundaries of professional treatment, touch is not only soothing and relaxing, but therapeutic as well. Therapeutic touch in the form of Therapeutic Reflexology, has often been described as one of the best forms of healthy touch. A patient once said that after a Therapeutic Reflexology session, she feels like she has really been touched like never before; and that was only touching of her feet. That is what Therapeutic Reflexology has to offer, a wonderfully relaxing form of therapeutic and healthy touch.
When patients relax and fall asleep during a treatment session, it does portray the trust they have in their therapist while experiencing the health benefits of stress relief and total relaxation.
Visiting a professionally registered Therapeutic Reflexologist, will ensure that you may also experience such trust in your therapist because the person is not only properly qualified and experienced to offer a healthcare therapy, but you can also be ensured of professional conduct that should instil more trust in you.
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Christo A. Scheepers: Therapeutic Reflexologist
DTR (Cum Laude), Ph.D.
AHPCSA: A11945
Pr. No.: 0737453
Tel. 072-800 7243