New Practitioner

[Jewel]

Hi Everyone,

I've been reading this forum for a year or so, but this is the first time I've posted. I qualified as a Reflexologist in July and am trying to start a practice working from home. I have a suitable treatment room all set up, and have been working hard to get some clients.

However, I am finding that people are testing me when they come for their first visit by expecting me to tell them, through working the feet, all their health problems. It is especially the men that are doing this. I try to explain that it's not really a diagnostic therapy, although I have picked up some things, but it's beginning to sap my confidence.

My second problem is that people come once and expect an instant cure. They say they'll see how they feel before considering a second treatment. I do give out the AOR and my own leaflet, which explains that a course of treatments are likely to be necessary, especially if the health problem is a long term one, but people are very impatient. Most of these clients have not had Reflexology before, so maybe I'm attracting the wrong sort of clients - if there is such a thing.

Perhaps I should add that I do have a few regulars where the Reflexology is really helping them, but I'd like some advice on how I should manage these situations and what I should say.

Many thanks in anticipation