Instructor: Dawn Schmidt, LMT

Expand your understanding of trauma and somato-emotional restrictions.  This course addresses massage treatment considerations for safe and ethical therapeutic relationships, to minimize potential adverse impact of touch interactions.  Discussion of the practitioner’s fiduciary responsibility regarding ethical, legal and safe psycho-spiritual boundaries and communications.  Explore concepts of quality and quantity of touch which may support change or may trigger adverse reactions.  This course concludes by exploring a basic ethical framework to help you create and maintain a safe, ethical, and legal therapeutic relationship.

Satisfies WA's ethics requirement.

What to Bring: Yourself, your questions, your experiences, your pen!

Class Date: May 17, 2025
Class Times: Saturday 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Live Webinar (please click on the link for details)
Cost: $70
Cost/Hour: $17.50/hr
CE Hours: 4

Other Classes Offerings by Instructor:

• Treat the Feet (Seattle March 9, 2025) - 8 hours
• Diaphragm: Myofascial Connections Beyond Breath (Seattle June 1, 2025) - 8 hours
• Ethics for Washington LMTs (Live Webinar August 17, 2025) - 4 hours (satisfies WA's ethics requirements)
• Treat the Knees (Seattle October 26, 2025) - 8 hours