To update your entry in our THERAPISTS DIRECTORY, all you have to do is
fill in the Therapists Update Form with your new details.

This is quite simple to do, and is designed to help you remember everything you may need to change in your directory entry at the same time. It also allows us to process your new information and update your entry on the website quickly and easily.

The amount of information you can include in your entry has to follow a standard format.
To remind you of what you can or cannot include,
please refer to the Guidelines on this page, before you complete the form.

Please note: We will only update your entry if the new details are submitted through the form.

GUIDELINES FOR UPDATING YOUR ENTRY

Firstly, please check how often you can update your entry...

There is no restriction on how often you can change essential details in your Directory entry...
i.e. Contact details, website address, practice name or address, removing obselete/expired registrations or memberships etc.

There is a restriction on how often you can change some other details...
i.e. Adding new qualifications/registrations; adding new therapies to your list; removing therapies you no longer practise; adding or removing towns or areas of practice, or changing the wording in your profile.
These types of changes are limited to one set of changes per entry, per year.

Adding new Therapies:

To remind you - a single entry, showing all the details you submitted, can be listed under a maximum of five different therapy headings within the directory.

The list of therapies shown in the 'Therapies Offered' section of your entry corresponds to the therapy headings you selected to be listed under, when you filled in the original registration form.

Your entry shows exactly the same details on whichever page it is displayed, except that the individual therapy corresponding to that page is highlighted in the 'Therapies Offered' section of your entry, and also included at the top, in the entry header.

However many therapies you practise, your choice of therapies from the lists on the form can be the only ones shown in the 'Therapies Offered' section of your entry.
If a therapy is not included in the drop down lists, or in the therapy index, there is no page for that therapy yet, so it cannot be shown in the list on your entry, only in your profile at the end.

If you start practising a new therapy, and would now like your entry to be added to the corresponding page, please select the new one from the list in the drop down box on the form.
If your new therapy is not listed, it means there is not yet a page available for that therapy, but you can mention it in your profile instead.

If you're already listed on the maximum five therapy pages, your entry cannot be listed on another therapy page, unless you drop one or more of your previous selections. If you don't want to drop one, just alter the wording in your profile to mention your additional therapy(ies).

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Adding or removing Qualifications /Memberships / Registrations:

There is no limit to how many you wish to include, but don't forget to tell us about any that are obselete and need to be removed.
If you're currently studying, and are likely to gain more than one qualification around the same time, wait until you have them all together, rather than send us details of them one at a time.

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Rewriting or altering your profile:

The profile shown on the right side of your entry is limited to around 150 words, so if you'd like to add new information, please keep within this limit.
If you'd like to rewrite some, or all of it, please be specific about what is to be left in or taken out of the original wording.

Remember to only give information about the work you do, and the way you approach it, that will be relevant to potential clients. Your name, qualifications, website address and where you practise, etc. are already shown elsewhere in your entry, so there's no need to use up words by repeating the same details in the profile.

When you've finished, read it back to yourself and imagine that you're a potential client. Are you putting yourself across in the best possible way, so that clients will feel confident about approaching you? Also consider whether the information you've given will still appear relevant in a few months time, or will it soon look out of date and need changing again?
A few hints:
It's best not to include sentences such as: "I've been practising for three years", as this type of statement has to be changed regularly as time passes. A suitable alternative could be "I've been practising since 2003".
Or this: "I will be completing a course in Reflexology in June". If you're studying a new therapy, leave this information out until you have your qualifications, then add the details to your entry all at once.
Likewise, short term special offers like "Half price treatments in March", or displaying specific prices or opening times is not advisable, as you may need to change these more frequently than other information. Instead you could just say "regular special offers and discounts available, see my website for details"

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Changing other details:

When including new *email or website addresses, please make sure they are spelt correctly and useable.
We automatically create a link from the directory to your own website if you have one, so make sure that the url you give us is an active address. It can be frustrating for potential clients to click on a link that just leads to a 'page cannot be displayed' notice.

Likewise, ensure that new phone numbers intended for display are given correctly.

Remember to use the email address that you normally use for business enquiries, if applicable.

If you need to change the locations of where you practise, remember that this is limited to a maximum of six towns on your entry. If you add any new ones, you may need to remove others to keep within the limit.

Don't forget to let us know if you still/now offer home or workplace visits to your clients.

*Our anti 'spam' policy for email addresses:
Internet marketing companies regularly harvest email addresses from directories such as this, which can result in an increase in unsolicited emails (spam) being sent to your address. As an anti-spam measure, to help cut down unwanted mail being sent to you, we display most email addresses unlinked, and replace the '@' sign in each address with 'AT'.
Genuine people who wish to contact you by email then just have to copy and paste the address into their mail program, and replace the AT with the correct sign. This is quite easy to do and there is an explanation of how to do it on every page.

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