Online Courses
Learn on your schedule, wherever you are. Solo Spa Pros online courses offer flexible education for massage therapists, estheticians, and wellness professionals who want to keep learning and growing at their own pace.
Even though the courses are online, if you have questions or need support we are here to help. Feel free to reach out.
Select courses offer NCBTMB approved continuing education hours, with CE eligibility clearly noted for each course.
Explore the Current Online Workshops Available.
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What’s Included
Your registration includes four hours of live instruction, a participant workbook, employment-evaluation tools, compensation worksheets, interview-question guides, job-comparison activities, reference materials, and a certificate of completion for four NCBTMB-approved CE hours.
What to Bring
Please bring a pen or pencil. What might be useful to bring is a calculator, laptop, or smartphone with Calculator app. You are also welcome to bring a job posting, employment offer, compensation plan, or workplace policy you would like to evaluate during the course. This is a business lecture class: No massage table, linens, oils, or hands-on supplies are required.
Understanding Spa Employment
4 CE credit hours | Live Course | NCBTMB Approved
$79.00
Compensation, Expectations, and Career Decisions
A spa position can sound wonderful during the interview, but the advertised commission, flexible schedule, gratuity potential, and employee benefits may not tell the whole story. This practical course helps massage therapists look beyond the job posting and understand how an employment opportunity may actually affect their income, schedule, workload, physical well-being, and career satisfaction.
Through guided discussion, realistic examples, income calculations, and job-comparison activities, participants will learn how to evaluate the complete opportunity and make career decisions based on their professional, financial, and personal priorities.
In this course, participants will learn how to:
- Compare spa, resort, franchise, wellness-center, and independent-contractor opportunities.
- Differentiate between hourly, commission-based, service-rate, and blended compensation structures.
- Calculate more realistic earnings using wages, commissions, gratuities, bonuses, unpaid time, cancellations, and client demand.
- Identify responsibilities that may not be fully explained during the hiring process.
- Consider the effect of schedule gaps, required availability, cleaning, laundry, meetings, training, and sales expectations.
- Evaluate benefits, workplace policies, advancement opportunities, physical workload, and workplace culture.
- Recognize missing information and potential warning signs in job postings and interviews.
- Develop meaningful questions to ask before accepting a position.
- Apply the Recognize → Question → Document → Verify process when reviewing employment information.
- Compare opportunities according to income needs, schedule preferences, physical capacity, career goals, and personal priorities.
Location: TBD / Scottsdale
Dates / Times : Coming Soon!
What’s Included
Your registration includes eight hours of live, interactive instruction, a comprehensive participant workbook, solo-practice planning tools, startup and expense worksheets, pricing and income exercises, workload and appointment-capacity planning, client-policy and retention resources, marketing and referral activities, and an individualized 90-Day Solo Practice Action Plan, along with a certificate of completion for eight NCBTMB-approved CE hours.
What to Bring
Please bring a pen or pencil and a calculator or smartphone. A laptop or tablet may also be helpful for optional research and planning activities. If available, you are encouraged to bring information about your proposed services, pricing, potential business expenses, workspace costs, current schedule, or other ideas you have already developed for your practice.
You do not need to have everything figured out before class, that’s what the workshop is for. No massage table, linens, oils, or other hands-on massage supplies are required.
Going Solo
8 CE credit hours | Live Course | NCBTMB Approved
$149.00
A Business Building Workshop for Massage Therapists
Making the move from employee to independent massage therapist can create greater control over your income, schedule, workload, clients, and professional direction—but building a successful solo practice requires more than finding a room and setting your prices. This practical workshop helps massage therapists understand the business foundations involved in creating an independent practice that is financially realistic, professionally sound, and sustainable.
Through guided discussion, business-planning exercises, realistic income and expense calculations, and hands-on workshop activities, participants will develop their own practice framework while exploring business models, pricing, workload capacity, client policies, marketing, retention, and the practical steps involved in going solo.
Participants will leave with an individualized 90-day action plan for moving their practice forward.
In this course, participants will learn how to:
- Compare different solo-practice models, including room rental, private suites, shared spaces, home-based, mobile, contract, and hybrid practices.
- Define services, clientele, scheduling preferences, and other components of an individualized practice model.
- Identify common startup needs, operating expenses, business systems, and professional resources.
- Differentiate between service revenue, business expenses, and actual business income.
- Evaluate pricing in relation to expenses, income goals, appointment capacity, and sustainable workload.
- Determine a realistic number of appointments based on financial goals and physical capacity.
- Develop professional client policies addressing scheduling, cancellations, payments, communication, and boundaries.
- Create a client experience that supports rebooking, retention, referrals, and long-term professional relationships.
- Identify practical strategies for attracting initial clients through networking, referrals, local visibility, and ethical marketing.
- Evaluate how business decisions involving pricing, scheduling, workload, and client volume work together.
- Develop an individualized 90-day action plan for researching, preparing, launching, or strengthening a solo massage practice.
Location: TBD / Scottsdale
Dates / Times : Coming Soon!