All students who successfully complete a training course with Therapy Training School will receive an Accredited Diploma. This will enable you, the student to seek professional therapist insurance to practice and to become a member of a professional organisation allowing you use letters after your name.

The accrediting bodies are:
Guild of Holistic Therapists and the parent organisation: The Guild of Beauty Therapists and also the International Natural Healers Association (INHA)

The type of Diploma awarded will vary according to the type of study that has been undertaken. Please see below for details and options:

1. On-site therapist training (Stoke-on-Trent, London, or other designated premises)
Award: Diploma

2. Distance Learning Course (Correspondence course)
Award: Diploma (Distance Learning)
   
3. Distance Learning Course with Assessment
Award: Advanced Diploma (Distance Learning)

1. On-site therapist training (Stoke-on-Trent, London, or other designated premises)
All students who successfully complete an on-site training course with Therapy Training School will receive an Accredited Diploma. These courses are offered at our premises in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in London on specified dates or by arrangement at your premises. See our website for full details.

This Diploma is accredited by the Guild of Holistic Therapists and the parent organisation: The Guild of Beauty Therapists and also the International Natural Healers Association (INHA).

After passing an on-site course you are entitled to become a member of the INHA. Upon receiving your membership fee and approval of your application you would be registered with the International Natural Healers Association and would be entitled to use the letters RH, INHA (Registered Healer, International Natural Healers Association) following your name. Members receive a Certificate of Membership and have the option for a free listing in the INHA International Directory of Therapists and can then benefit from their world-wide referral service.

Successful students are also entitled to join the Guild of Holistic Therapists (a branch of the Guild of Beauty Therapists) and to obtain insurance to practice through this organisation. When you join the Guild as an associate member you are entitled to use the letters MGHT after your name. If you join as a full member you can take out insurance to practice with the Guild.

International Natural Healers Association (INHA)
Membership Fee:   $25.00 per year (includes free entry in directory and free referral service)
E-mail:                  inha@earthlink.net
Website:               www.internationalhealers.com 
 
The Guild of Holistic Therapists (and the Guild of Beauty Therapists)
Guild House, 320 Burton Road, Derby, DE23 6AF
Tel: 0845 21 77 383          
Website:               www.beautyguild.com  
For Guild Membership:
Tel: 0845 21 77 383
Dave Postle:          dave@beautyguild.com
GHT Full Member (includes £2 million treatment,
public and product liability insurance)           £85.00
GHT Associate Member
(does not include insurance cover)               £55.00

If you do not wish to join the Guild then you can still take out insurance with a number of insurance agencies in the UK. The following organisation offers insurance to cover the courses offered by Therapy Training School.

Towergate Professional Risks
5 Airport West, Lancaster Way, Yeadon, LS19 7ZA 
Tel: 0113 391 9555      
Tel: 0113 391 9556
E-mail:                  professionalrisks@towergate.co.uk 
Website:               www.towergateprofessionalrisks.co.uk

2. Distance Learning Course (Correspondence course)
All students who successfully complete any one of the Distance Learning Therapist Training Courses offered by Therapy Training School are awarded a Diploma (Distance Learning).

Our Distance Learning Courses for Therapists are also all accredited by the Guild of Holistic Therapists, the Guild of Beauty Therapists and the International Natural Healers Association (INHA).

You may apply to join the INHA or the Guild of Holistic Therapists (Associate Membership only). You may then use the appropriate letters after your name: RH INHA and/or MGHT.

This Diploma allows you to arrange for you own professional insurance to practice via a wide choice of UK Insurance companies. If you wish to join any specific organisation (other than the GHT or the INHA) it is your own responsibility to check that they accept and approve Distance Learning Courses.

Please note: From April 2008 we will be also able to provide details for worldwide insurance cover. This would allow any student, anywhere in the world to obtain insurance to practice professionally.

3. Distance Learning Course with Assessment
Any student who passes a course of Distance Learning who would like to join the Guild of Beauty/Holistic Therapists as a full member (and to take out Guild insurance) must first pass an Assessment. This is a practical demonstration of their skills (taking no more than 60 minutes) that would be carried out by an approved Assessor in a location that would be as close as possible to the student’s home or premises in the UK.

Once a student has successfully passed their course test and case study we can then arrange for an Assessment to take place. The student would deliver a therapy using the Assessor as the client and thus demonstrate their knowledge and skills with the therapy.

Within 5 days of the Assessor submitting a favourable report to Therapy Training School the student would receive an Advanced Diploma (Distance Learning). The cost of the practical Assessment is: £50.00

Any student who completes a Distance Learning Course and is awarded a Diploma (DL) can decide at any point to upgrade to the Advanced Diploma. A new Certificate would be issued upon successful completion of the Assessment.