Your Consultation Before Treatment

It is a short conversation before your first treatment — a few minutes, in the treatment room, not a separate appointment or a separate charge. Your therapist asks about your general health, anything you are currently being treated for, and what you want from the session. It is how the treatment gets adapted to you rather than delivered from a script, and yes, every new client has one.

Broadly: any medical conditions or medication, recent surgery or injury, whether you are pregnant, areas that are painful or sensitive, and what you are hoping the session will help with. You are never obliged to give a reason for declining to answer something — but anything you leave out is something the therapist cannot work around.

No. We are massage therapists, not clinicians. We do not diagnose, we do not treat medical conditions, and nothing said in a consultation is a substitute for advice from your GP or another registered healthcare professional. What the consultation establishes is whether massage is appropriate for you right now, and how it should be adapted if so.

There are circumstances where a treatment should be postponed or modified — among them fever or an active infection, recent surgery, some skin conditions in the area to be worked on, and certain circulatory conditions. Pregnancy does not rule massage out but does change how it is done. If something in your answers means we should not treat you today, we will say so and explain why rather than proceed.

Our credentials are Wat Pho Certified, Member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT), Fully Insured. You can read more about the practice and the training behind it on our about page.

We will recommend which of our treatments best suits what you have described, and say honestly when massage is unlikely to be the right answer for what you are dealing with. If you would rather start from the problem, our common problems pages set out what people typically come in with and which treatments tend to suit each one.

Yes. Your therapist will ask how you responded to the last treatment and adjust pressure, focus and duration accordingly — that feedback is more useful than the first consultation, because it is based on how your body actually reacted rather than on what either of us predicted.

We are at 54 Kelly Street, Greenock, PA16 8TR. Opening hours are Monday 10:00am–8:00pm; Tuesday 10:00am–8:00pm; Wednesday 10:00am–8:00pm; Thursday 10:00am–6:00pm; Friday 10:00am–8:00pm; Saturday 10:00am–8:00pm; Sunday 10:00am–8:00pm. Call 01475 600868 or book online at any time.