Episode 149 - Becoming An Aromatherapist - The hows and whys

Learn the hows and whys of becoming certified in aromatherapy. Who are the licensing agencies and which ones count. You can get certified at TheAromaScienceAcademy.com.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, hey, everybody, this is Wendy Selvick with the Oily
Academy podcast. I'm going to talk a little bit today
about becoming a certified aroma therapist and why would you
want to be a certified roma therapist, what benefits, what
are the different levels. I'm just going to kind of
go through what I know and maybe it'll help some

(00:21):
of you all. Like, I became a certified a roma
therapist about ten years ago, and I took an online course.
It was a big, hefty course. It took me nine
months to get through the material and to do it.
It was like a two hundred hour course. This two
hundred hour course qualified me to be a Level two

(00:44):
certified aroma therapist rather than a Level one. However, at
the time I took it, I didn't even know there
was a Level two or a level one. I just
just the course I found that I wanted to take,
so I didn't I stumbled into it. I didn't know.
But I'm glad that I am a Level two because
as a Level two and I've taken it a little further,
you can register. So what you do is you get

(01:06):
certified with the school and then you can apply to
become a certified Aroma Therapist with NAHA. So you can
find out more information at NAHA dot org if you
really want that that extra certifying agency, you know, that
stamp of approval. There really is a difference in some
of the schools that are out there. So I've found,

(01:28):
you know, if you just search certified aroma therapists and
there's some little little school little classes and courses that
are nothing compared to what the NAHA requires for you
to actually be a NAHA approved certified aroma therapist. So
I like, I've seen a little ninety nine dollars course
out there and it's it takes like eight hours to

(01:48):
you know, to take the course. Okay, so a minimum
for a Level one certified aroma Therapist with NAHA is
a fifty hour course. That's the minimum. And so if
you just become quote a certified roma therapist by any
fly by night course out there, it does it. It's
not really recognized in the professional realm. So you just

(02:11):
want to make sure you don't jump on any course
that you know is advertised to you on Facebook and
it says, hey become a certified a room with therapy
with us. You know, well, who's us and does the
NAHA recognize that group. That's what your big question should
be because, like I said that, you know, it can
be an eight hour course and they can call you

(02:32):
a certified roma therapist and they can charge you fifty
bucks and they made money and they told you you
could do that. But the NAHA isn't going to laugh,
you know, at your course. It's not recognized professionally. So
so let's talk about first about why would you even
want to be a roma therapist because it is not

(02:54):
considered a medical profession. It is not state sponsored, you know,
like for most people, depending on which state you live in,
for most people, you know, it's not something that the
state like regulates, and you know, there's not a lot
of clinics and a lot of roma therapists out there.
But as a level one certified a roma therapist, you

(03:17):
could work in a spa or if you know, maybe
you work in a chiropractor's office or a clinic of
some kind and they want to use a roma therapy.
There are actual hospitals now that have a roma therapy programs. Now,
I believe to work in that regard you would need
to get up to the level of what's called a
clinical roma therapist. So there's there's three actual levels that

(03:43):
I am aware of. And again I'm telling you what
I know. So let me give you my disclaimer. I'm
not a doctor, I'm not a legal counsel. I'm just
giving you laypersons advice of what I've learned through the industry.
You'll have to like dive in a little bit more
if you would like, you know, if you're really wanting
to pursue this. But you can find information at NAHA

(04:05):
dot org on their three professional levels of certification. The
first one is level one. And again that's like for
somebody who wants who you work in a spa. You
want a little bit of legal protection even like like
to say, hey, yeah, I do know a little bit
about what I'm talking about. You want a certificate to

(04:26):
hang on the wall. You know, Susie as a certified
aroma therapist and she can help guide you in which
oils to use when we're doing our SPA treatments and
this and that you know, like you could you that
would benefit you if that's what you do it. Also,
you might want to just do it for yourself and
for your family or for your business. Like if you're

(04:48):
in a young living business or another company's you know
who you sell central oils, you could be a certified
aroma therapist and give a little bit more credence to
what you recommend. You used to have to make sure
you watch your legal legal ease. You're you're wording. You know,
you're you're still even as a roman therapist, you're still

(05:09):
not a doctor, and you're you're not treating or prescribing,
and you you have to be careful about mixing, you know,
like you don't want to. It's not all about your sales.
It's all about their health, you know, and helping people.
So but you know, if you get certified, that you
get walked through the legal the legalities of that, so
you would have a clear guide. But I have found

(05:34):
with working my young living business that it was really
nice to say, you know, I'm a certified a roma therapist.
And and because of that, I had studied a lot
of different essential oils, like way more than most people,
and I I had them in my mind. I like
I knew and understood and it's like, okay, you have

(05:55):
somebody dealing with stress. Immediately, I know, with a top
five oils that they should use because I've studied it,
and so I can just I could give recommendations. I
could just say, hey, if it were me, these are
the ones I would use according to what I've studied.
And then depending on the state that you live in,
the regulations are a little different. I live in Colorado.

(06:17):
We have a wonderful law that protects natural practitioners, and
anyone who in aroma therapy, you know, falls under that.
And so I can basically have a really if I
have a really great legal form that people sign before
I talk to them about romatherapy. It has some very

(06:38):
specific things that you know, the state of Colorado says
it has to have, and I follow that. And as
long as they they know what my level of education
is and they know that I'm not regulated by the
Board of Health and they know, you know, there's certain
things that they sign up, then I am free to

(06:59):
discuss these oils and how that can benefit their health
with them, and I'm free to work as an aroma
therapist in that way. So again, every state is different.
And I have actually so I have been working. Yeah, yeah,
I haven't heard much from me lately, but I have

(07:20):
been working and I created a course that is online
and it follows all the NAHA standards and you can
take it and become a certified aroma therapist with the
Aroma Science Academy. So my website's the Aromascience Academy dot com.

(07:40):
You can become an aroma therapist with that course, and
then if you want to become a NAHA certified aroma therapist,
you can present the certificate from that course. Plus they
also require a course, an anatomy and physiology course that
you have to take. So the two certificates together, can
you presented to the NAHA as an application to become

(08:04):
NAHA certified. And I talked to them personally. I talked
to the people at NAHA and they were like, yeah,
have your students send us their their certificate from your course,
and then they also have to prove that they've taken
an anatomy physiology course. Now they have a list of
kind of like approved what's considered an approved anatomy physiology course.

(08:27):
The one that I took was approved, so if you
are interested, I can send you the link. I'm not
associated with that one at all. I just this is
the one I took and it was ninety nine dollars
and it took me about a weekend to get through it.
So I can help you and guide you with that
if that's the course you are interested in doing. So

(08:48):
let's talk about aroma therapy and how it benefits your gosh,
your life, your business, your family. I mean, I'm so
into the oils and so into natural health. I am
very extreme. I'm one of the extreme people. I'm that person.

(09:09):
I mean, I work for a nonprofit organization for twenty
years doing natural health research, and we like treat We
do come up with treatment plans and help in the
nonprofit realm and world right. So not in my sales
of young Living and anything in that realm, I'm like
in the nonprofit realm that I work. We help orphanages

(09:30):
and help kids in South Africa and Swaziland, in the Philippines,
in Thailand, in Costa Rica, in Panama, and a couple
other places. We help different agencies there with their nutrition
programs and with natural health treatment programs, Like we help
them come up with ways to help their kids with

(09:53):
cancer and help their kids with you know, different things,
because we're able to do that and we have programs.
We just have programs set up for that. So I
have seen so much research and so much out there
that supports your health naturally, like I choose. I always

(10:15):
choose the natural way. So I do have a doctor.
Actually I don't at the moment. My doctor just moved.
I've got to find a new one. But I have
a natural path and I've always had the two, so
I always have their their different they're competing fields, you know,
the natural path world versus the doctor world, and they
they don't always agree. But I like to have two opinions.

(10:37):
So if I go to the doctor and he says
I've got this issue and the only you know, surgery
is the only way. Well I go to my natural
path and say, well, what's your opinion and he's like,
oh yeah, well we would treat it this way and
do this, this and this and it's all natural and
you know, and it's like okay. So I have a
second opinion. And I always suggest people do that, Like

(11:00):
you need to have two opinions from the two different realms,
otherwise you'll you'll only go one direction and it's not
always in your best interest. Well that was kind of
a that was a rabbit hole. Sorry, but anyway, So
I did the certified aroma therapy because I'm like, I
want to know the good, bad, the ugly, right, And

(11:21):
so I learned a lot of things about aroma therapy.
I learned a lot of things about different oils. There
are some oils you got to be really just be
a little bit more careful about, and you don't want
to take a whole lot of them. And there's certain
oils you don't want to take internally. In certain some
you do are fine, but of course you've got to

(11:42):
make sure your oils are pure. The industry is so polluted,
so polluted, ninety five percent or more of the oils
out there are are They come from the perfume industry,
not the health industry. So they come from perfume vats,
which means they're distilled in vats that have aluminum and
heavy metals that get leached into the oils. And now

(12:05):
you think you have a pure oil, but it's actually
got some aluminum in it. Let's say you want you
have you know, like a skin major skin issue or
skin cancer or something like that, and you just want
to support your health naturally, right, you want to put
something on there that on PubMed dot gov. You can
go research boswelia, which that's that's frankincense. You can go

(12:27):
research that term, I dare you frankincense, boswelia and the
word cancer and on PubMed dot gov and see what
kind of research comes up. All right, blow your mind.
But you're just wanting to support your skin, support your
health in a natural way. And so you put a
couple of drops of frankincense with a little carrier oil

(12:47):
on that spot you have that's been diagnosed, you know whatever,
And instead of supporting your health and supporting your your
body's ability to regenerate, you are now actually with aluminum
feeding cancer. Like you, you have to be so careful
about the oils you use. They have to be distilled

(13:09):
in surgical stainless steel. They cannot have thinners added to them.
I have literally talked to people and who have said
to me, well, the thinners can't be that bad. They're
just just adding a tiny little bit. But it's gonna
make you know, makes it cheaper. Right, so they can
sell Frankinson's for thirteen dollars a bottle instead of you know,
fifty dollars a bottle. Well, it's kind of like an

(13:30):
ounce of gold. If I wanted to buy an ounce
of gold for twenty eight hundred dollars, that's let's say
that's the real price of it. And now I've got
a company offering me an ounce of gold for one
thousand dollars. I know I'm not getting seventeen hundred dollars
worth of gold. I mean, it's clear. It's the same

(13:52):
kind of concept. You don't buy a fifteen dollars bottle
of frankincense. It's just you know it. It means they've
put chemicals in it, they've thinned it out, they have
done something to it, or it's synthetically made in a
lab where they can just make as much as they
want instead of weight on the harvest and weight on

(14:13):
the natural cycles of the trees and the flowers and
the plants. I mean, there's one hundred ways they can
cut it and make it cheaper, but every single one
of those ways involves destroying the actual oil itself. When
you add something a chemical to an oil, it stops
its rotation. So like the molecules inside, Like if you

(14:35):
look at the molecules of an oil under a microscope,
they are still moving. They are alive. They are, you know,
they are the immune system of the plant that's active
and alert and working. And if you want a therapeutic value,
you need a live oil in your body. But if
you add a just a touch of a chemical to
it and anything to that oil, all this molecules stop moving,

(14:59):
they start stop rotating, they are no longer alive. They
smell good, but they don't do anything for you. Like
you you can't add thinners, you just can't. It's totally changes.
You might as well just not use essential oils. I mean,
just go buy some cheap junk and whatever. But like
to smell stuff, but you're if you're using this for

(15:21):
the benefits of your skin, the even smelling it, you
are getting it into your brain. You do not want
toxic chemicals in your brain. Like, don't do it. So anyway,
another another rabbit hole. Sorry, but this is you know,
this is the truth of the matter, and a lot
of people don't know. And I learned all of those

(15:42):
things while I was doing aromatherapy and getting my certification.
So the aromatherapy certification is something I can offer to you.
Now I've been working, like I said, I've been working
for months now, I'm putting together a course that you

(16:04):
can take and you can become certified and you can
learn from me. And I've just been in the industry
for a long time and have been doing this for
a long time, and i have a lot to teach people,
and I'm so excited about it. So the course is
available at the Aromascience Academy dot com. If you are
listening to this podcast, I've got a cupeon for you.

(16:27):
So the course itself is three hundred and ninety nine
dollars and I priced that pretty low compared to other
companies that I found that teach them that are approved
by the NAHA. You really do. If you want to
be in the professional world, you've got to have a
course that the NAHA would recognize. And they have a

(16:49):
list of like fifteen points that have to be covered
in this course or it's not NAHA. You know that
NAHA wouldn't look at it, and so I anyway have
developed it according to their standards. And I'm a NAHA
level to certified a Roman therapist, so they you know

(17:09):
this course, you would take this course and then if
you wanted to be in the NAHA and you want
to be a part of that organization. You would present
this certificate plus an anatomy physiology certificate, which again I
told you I can get you hooked up with a class.
The cost about ninety nine dollars to get that completed.
And it's not I don't get anything off of that.

(17:32):
That's not it's just the course that I took that
the NAHA already approved for me, so I know that
that's an approved course anyway. But I have a coupon
code for anybody from the podcast who hears this and
who's interested, and you can get one hundred dollars off. Okay,
So the coupon code is just the word friend, and
I just set that up and so feel free to

(17:55):
use that and take one hundred dollars off. So that
course is only two hundred ninety nine and it is
a fifty hour credit course, so like it's going to
take you a while to get through it, and I
do try to make it so that you will be successful.
So there's there's gosh, how many lesson plans seventeen I
think a total, And at the end there's multiple choice

(18:18):
questions of every lesson and the final exam is taken
from those multiple choice questions at the end of each lesson.
So if you know the answers to those multiple choice questions,
you will do fine on the final So I just
try to make it so that you learn, but you're
not overwhelmed because there's so much material and the course

(18:39):
itself you learn everything from. You know, just the basics
of safety. You learn about the all the legalities and
how to search like in your state and find out
what the exact legalities are. You actually go through the
profiles of twenty different essential oils and like a couple

(19:01):
of them oregano, rose vetever, sweet orange, a laneling, frankincense, rose, marry, geranium, lavender,
carrot seed, cedar wood, and then a bunch more. There's
like twenty total you're gonna go through and like you're
going to know everything about like how those oils are used,
the history, the botanical description, how they are grown, like

(19:24):
the best way for them to be grown, the harvesting,
How much you know you get out of a batch
of oranges. How many oranges does it take to get
a thing of essential oil. You know you're gonna learn
what part of the plants are used, the therapeutic properties,
the toxicity, and the safety data, the precautions and what

(19:46):
they blend well with. Like that's the basic stuff you're
going to learn off of each of the oils, and
then you're gonna learn how to blend them with the
top notes, based notes in the middle notes. And then
you're going to do five complete, five case studies where
the information will be presented to you. You've got you
know Joe who's here. He's a computer I don't know, scientist,

(20:12):
and he works at a dusk job a lot, and
he's got a lot of stress and he has a
hard time sleeping, you know, and it's going to walk.
Then you are going to present this case of how
you would treat this person, how you would recommend to
this person. And yeah, and then I'm I am with
you all, I am all the way through. You have

(20:32):
an opportunity to communicate with me and any questions you
have and we will just work through to you really
understand how to become and a Roman therapist. And I
think it's going to be great. So anyway, if you
if you aren't interested in that, then please make your
way over to the Aroman Science Academy dot com and

(20:55):
please use that coupon code to get one hundred dollars
off and then also the CES. The credits are recognized
by the NTCP, which is the Natural Therapy's Certification Board.
They are responsible for making sure people who go through
care and do rain drop training and get certified as

(21:17):
a rain drop specialist. They certify that and they are
available at NTCB Certifications dot org. So they've also recognized
my course that it's legit and that the CES will
be recognized by people who are doing rain drop training
as well. So all right, that's it for today. If

(21:38):
you have any questions, shoot me an email info at
the Oil Academy dot com and I will see you
next time. I'm thinking about just starting to focus on
specific oils, So like the next podcast will probably be
on like let's do black pepper, and we'll talk all
about the ins and outs of black pepper, and I'll
do some of the education that I do in the

(22:00):
on the therapy training so that you kind of get
a feel for that, but that you can learn and
know that, hey there's a podcast just on black pepper.
I've wanted to know how to use that oil. You
can go find it and go work through it. All right,
see you next time here on The Oily Academy podcast