Many if not most massage therapists are dedicated to service, healing, and nurturing others. This is a wonderful, admirable focus, and a great reason for becoming a massage therapist and entering the massage business.

This orientation sometimes comes at the expense of the therapist taking care of him or herself. Massage therapists often put all of their emphasis on taking care of others, to their own detriment. One of the ways they may neglect themselves is financially, believing that being “profitable,” or “financially successful” is “selfish” or is not “service-oriented.” Being a “successful massage business person” may conflict with other identities they hold for themselves, such as “caregiver,” “nurturer,” or “spiritual person.”

Unfortunately, if as a massage therapist you do not create massage business success to make ends meet financially, you will soon need to find other employment and therefore literally unable to afford sharing your healing gifts with those who need them.

At Crystal Mountain we believe that massage therapists can be both service-oriented AND financially successful, nurturing AND profitable. Our goal is to help you balance caring for yourself with caring for others, physically, emotionally, AND financially. Part of this balance is having at least a basic understanding of massage business skills.