Confident Care: Techniques For Sensitive Client Areas

The Uncomfortable-Comfortable Class

NCBTMB/NYS approved 8 CEs

Saturday, April 11, 2026
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Rochester, NY

$175 USD

Learn the skills and confidence to treat sensitive and often-overlooked areas of the body effectively.

Register Here

Confident Care: Techniques for Sensitive Client Areas

Professional, Ethical, and Effective Treatment for Often-Avoided Regions

Treating sensitive areas doesn’t have to feel risky, awkward, or uncertain. It should feel confident, clinical, ethical, and purposeful.

This 8-CE, hands-on treatment course gives massage therapists the skills, communication tools, draping protocols, and clinical confidence to professionally and safely treat sensitive areas of the body that are often overlooked, yet critically important for client outcomes.


What You’ll Walk Away With

  • Clinical confidence working sensitive areas

  • Clear communication strategies for client education & consent

  • Proper draping protocols for safety & professionalism

  • A stronger understanding of why these areas matter therapeutically

  • Practical, transferable techniques you can use immediately

  • Increased trust from clients

  • More complete, effective treatment sessions


🔥 Course Overview

Many areas of the body are frequently avoided in massage therapy — not because they aren’t important, but because therapists lack confidence, training, or clear communication strategies.

This course is designed to change that.

Through hands-on practice and expert guidance, you’ll learn how to work with sensitive regions ethically, safely, and with clear intention, so your clients receive the comprehensive care they actually need.

You’ll learn:

Purpose & Benefits

  • Why these areas must be treated

  • How they affect mobility, pain, posture, and function

  • How proper treatment improves long-term outcomes

Communication

  • How to confidently explain treatment necessity to clients

  • How to receive informed consent

  • How to guide clients during sessions

Hands-On Techniques

You will work on:
✔ Pectoralis
✔ Ribs & Sternum
✔ Subscapularis
✔ Abdominals
✔ Iliopsoas
✔ Inner Thigh
✔ Glutes

All with clear therapeutic purpose, proper draping, and professional execution.


🎯 Learning Objectives & Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

✔ Understand the therapeutic benefits of treating sensitive regions for pain & mobility dysfunction
✔ Communicate clearly and ethically with clients about working sensitive areas
✔ Demonstrate proper draping protocols for professional treatment
✔ Apply effective pectoralis techniques and explain their benefits
✔ Apply effective subscapularis techniques and explain their benefits
✔ Apply effective abdominal techniques and explain their benefits
✔ Apply effective ribs & sternum techniques and explain their benefits
✔ Apply effective iliopsoas & inner thigh techniques and explain their benefits
✔ Apply effective hip techniques and explain their benefits

This is a confidence-building clinical upgrade for ethical, results-driven practice.


🧘‍♂️ Hands-On, Ethical & Clinically Driven

This is a fully hands-on class focused on:

  • Clear instructor demonstrations

  • Partner practice

  • Proper informed consent procedures

  • Communication role-play

  • Safe, professional draping protocols

  • Immediate clinical application

You won’t leave wondering if you’re doing it right — you’ll know you are.


🧾 What Students Need to Bring

Please bring:

✔ Pen
✔ Water bottle
✔ Massage medium (oil, lotion, etc.)
✔ Massage table
✔ Linens
✔ Printed hand-out or laptop


🕒 Course Details

Course Title: Confident Care: Techniques for Sensitive Client Areas - "The Uncomfortable-Comfortable Class"
Total CE Hours: 8 CE NYS/NCBTMB approved
Format: Live, Hands-On
When: March 21st, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Where: 100 Elmgrove Park, Rochester, NY 14624


🚀 Who This Course Is For

This course is perfect for you if:

  • You avoid certain areas due to uncertainty

  • You want stronger ethical & professional confidence

  • You work with complex pain patterns

  • You treat mobility dysfunction

  • You want to provide truly comprehensive care

  • You want to build deeper trust with your clients

  • You want to eliminate hesitation in sensitive work


Ready To Register?

I'm looking forward to seeing you there! Walk away with additional tools in your "toolbelt" to help your clients with MFR and NMT techniques. Do you have any questions? Contact Shawn at [email protected]

Register Here

Frequently Asked Questions