Holistic nutrition for massage therapists
Become a Holistic Nutrition & Health Coach in as little as 6 months, or a Holistic Nutritionist in as little as 12 months, fully online and at your own pace. You’ll be able to offer a complementary nutrition service that supports your clients between treatments while opening up a second income stream.
Online · Self-paced · Accredited
INCLUDED: the Nutrition Business Blueprint, sold separately for $999, comes with your tuition. Tier 1: $2,546 CAD total
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Accredited: HCA, GAIN, NANP
What Changes When You Add a Nutrition Service
Massage therapists who add a separate nutrition service often describe the same before and after.
Where Many Therapists Start
- ✕Income capped by how many treatments your body can give
- ✕Thumbs, wrists and shoulders that ache by Friday
- ✕Clients asking about food, sleep and inflammation on the table
- ✕Watching the same tension return between appointments
Where This Leads
- ✓Consultations at a desk or on video that rest your hands
- ✓Training to answer the questions clients bring you
- ✓Recognized designations: RHNC, RHC and the path to RHNP
- ✓A separate nutrition service for people who want help with food, sleep and stress
The Last Treatment on Friday
Many massage therapists who come to us describe the same moment: the last treatment of the week, with sore thumbs, tired wrists and shoulders that have carried the load since Tuesday. They love the work and do it well, and they also know their bodies can only give so many hours to the table. The question of what the next ten or twenty years look like keeps coming back.
Then there are the conversations clients start once they are face down in the cradle: poor sleep since a new job, bloating after every meal, inflammation that never seems to settle, a diet that did nothing. They ask their therapist what she would eat, and without nutrition training there is only so much she can say.
Our students from massage therapy wanted to answer those questions properly, with training, a credential and a separate nutrition service of their own. They also wanted work their bodies could sustain for decades.
Let’s Say It’s a Wednesday a Year From Now
Your morning is two massage treatments with long-time clients, the work you love most. At one o’clock you open your laptop for a nutrition consultation, booked and recorded as its own service. Your client came to you for help with her sleep, her blood sugar and the stress she carries home, and today she tells you she slept through the night four times this week.
At three you meet a client on video who lives three provinces away and found you through a workshop you taught. Your hands rest for the whole afternoon, and by five you are finished, with energy left for your own evening.
You set how many hours go to the table and how many go to the desk.
What Adding Nutrition Gives You
Four reasons massage therapists add a separate holistic nutrition service.
Longevity
Hours that give your hands, wrists and shoulders a rest.
Depth
Answers for what clients tell you on the table.
Income
Nutrition consultations typically run about $100 to $120 an hour, depending on location.
Reach
Clients online, anywhere, well beyond your treatment room.
A Practice Your Body Can Sustain
Nutrition work sits beside your massage practice, and you decide how much room it takes.
Offer a Separate Nutrition Service
Many people want help with food, sleep and stress, and nutrition consultations give them a place to get it.
- ✓Offer nutrition consultations as a separate, fully insured service
- ✓Keep nutrition bookings and records separate, as your college requires
- ✓Grow at your own pace, a few sessions at a time
Work From Anywhere
Your nutrition practice travels with you.
- ✓Online consultations by video
- ✓Clients across Canada and beyond
- ✓Group programs, workshops and online courses
Look After Your Own Body
What you learn applies to you first.
- ✓Understand inflammation, recovery and tissue repair
- ✓Fuel long days on your feet
- ✓Live the habits you teach your clients
Three Steps to Your Nutrition and Health Coaching Designations
Talk It Through
Book a free call or download the program guide. Get your questions answered about time, cost, fit and scope.
Complete Tier 1
Most students finish in 6 to 12 months online, and you keep treating clients the whole way through. Register with HCA as an RHNC and RHC, with access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting.
Add a Separate Nutrition Service
Use the Nutrition Business Blueprint to design, price and offer your nutrition services. Continue to Tier 2 for the RHNP whenever you are ready.
What You Will Learn
The Institute offers two tiers that build on each other, so you can grow your education and credentials as far as you like. Tier 1 is a complete diploma on its own: in 6 to 12 months you can register as an RHNC and RHC and offer nutrition as its own service. Tier 2 is optional, for therapists who want to work with more complex cases, and over 75% of Tier 1 graduates continue to it when they are ready.
Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach
You already read the body through your hands. Tier 1 teaches what shapes it from the inside: how food, digestion, blood sugar, inflammation, sleep and stress affect the way a client feels and recovers, and how to coach the habits that help your treatment hold between visits. You practise on client cases from your first course.
Fundamentals of Integrative Nutrition
Assess what a client eats the way you assess what you feel on the table: find what their diet is missing and build meals around food quality that support recovery and energy. The course includes a full lesson on Ayurveda.
Principles of Holistic Health and Nutritional Medicine
Uncover the hidden contributors behind tension and inflammation that keep coming back, such as food sensitivities, environmental exposures and gut disruption, and adapt nutrition for every client at every stage of life.
Integrative Nutritional Science
Understand what blood sugar, digestion, hormones, detoxification and cellular energy are doing when a client tells you they feel exhausted, sore or slow to recover, so you can explain every recommendation in a way they trust.
Health and Nutrition Coaching
Build on the listening skills you use in every treatment. Lead the intake, the coaching conversation and the follow-up, support clients with stress, sleep and nervous system balance, and help them keep their plan going between appointments.
✔ Before you graduate, you complete five client case studies, including a recorded coaching session.
Holistic Nutritionist
Your massage training gives you a running start here. You go deeper into the body systems and learn to work through complex cases that involve several systems at once, the clients with long health histories who already book with you.
Human Anatomy and PhysiologyExempt
Learn every body system well enough to see how a change in one affects the others.
✔ Already covered by your massage training. You skip it and save months.
Pathology and Advanced Symptomatology
Go beyond the conditions listed on an intake form: understand how they develop, read a full set of symptoms, recognize red flags and know when to refer.
Mind Body Nutrition
You already feel how stress settles into the body. This course shows you the rest of the picture: the nervous system and the brain, the glymphatic system, brain aging and dementia, mental health, eating for brain health, and how thoughts and long-term stress shape disease, with practices that can change the way a client lives.
✔ You finish with comprehensive case reports and the confidence to guide clients with complex health histories.
✔ Our massage therapist students are exempt from Anatomy & Physiology, cutting months off their timeline.
They Brought Nutrition Into Body-Based Work
In Their Own Words
What students and graduates say about studying with us.
★★★★★
Within 1 year, I had completed the course and am currently assisting clients towards leading a healthier lifestyle through proper diet and exercise. I absolutely love being a Nutrition Coach and am constantly learning.
Andrea
★★★★★
I love the fact that it works perfectly for someone that has a very busy schedule because you can do the program all at your own pace and on your own schedule.
Hope
★★★★★
The online platform is easy to use, the staff is helpful, the programs are in-depth but easy to follow and the knowledge that I have gained is priceless!
Lulu
★★★★★
I realized that I wanted to help others who were wanting to live a healthier lifestyle but just didn’t know where to start.
Sharah
★★★★★
I was so worried that with my busy schedule, I would never be able to finish the holistic nutrition coach program. But, I finally did! I really enjoyed this program and I’m so excited to begin my practice.
Megan
★★★★★
I loved the fact that it was online and that it was flexible and the support I received from the school and from my classmates is what helped me succeed.
Melissa
You Won’t Be Doing This Alone
Your enrolment comes with people who help you through every course and into work with clients.
Practitioners
Who Still See Clients
The people who teach the program work with clients themselves and answer your questions directly.
Worldwide
Community of Students and Graduates
Study with massage therapists and other hands-on health professionals who keep asking why, and graduate into a network of practitioners around the world.
Student Support
A Team Who Gets to Know You
Reach the team by email or phone for help with your schedule, your coursework or anything in between. They take time to get to know every student, and graduates mention them in their reviews again and again.
The Thoughts That Keep People From Starting
“Will my college allow it?”
Nutrition counselling sits outside massage therapy scope, so it can’t be offered under your RMT registration. Your holistic nutrition designations give it a scope of its own: as an RHNC and RHC with HCA, you have access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting, so you offer it as a separate, protected service. Your college sets the rules for keeping the two apart, such as how you describe each service and how you keep records, so check with yours, and admissions can talk it through with you on a free call.
“I already spent years in school.”
Tier 1 takes most students 6 to 12 months online, studied between bookings, and you keep treating clients the whole way through. Your massage training already gives you a foundation in how the body works, and the anatomy, physiology and pathology courses in Tier 2 build on it.
“When would I study?”
The program is self-paced, so you study between clients, before your first appointment or on your days off. Courses open in sequence, so you always know what comes next, and the practitioners who teach the program answer your questions directly.
“Will clients pay for nutrition?”
Nutrition consultations typically run about $100 to $120 an hour, depending on location, and video sessions let you reach clients well beyond your treatment room. The Nutrition Business Blueprint, sold separately for $999, is included with your tuition and walks you through designing, pricing and offering your services step by step.
“What if it’s a waste of money?”
Tier 1 leads to two recognized designations, the RHNC and RHC, with access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting. Payment plans spread the cost over up to 6 months, and eligible students can use an RESP or the RRSP Lifelong Learning Plan.
Add a Nutrition Service With a Recognized Credential
Begin with Tier 1, the Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach Diploma, and register to offer nutrition consultations after 6 to 12 months of online study.
Tier 1: Holistic Nutrition and Health Coach Diploma
About 1,000 hours · Fully online · Self-paced
$2,546
CAD total · GST-exempt · Payment plans available
INCLUDED WITH YOUR TUITION
Nutrition Business Blueprint
Find your focus, build your brand, create content that leads to clients, price your offer and build your client pipeline.
Sold separately for $999. Included with your enrolment.
- ✓Four course terms, about 1,000 hours or 6 to 12 months, at your own pace
- ✓Eligibility to register as an RHNC and RHC with HCA
- ✓Access to insurance that covers nutrition consulting
- ✓A support team who answers your questions
- ✓A worldwide community of students and graduates
- ✓A clear optional path to Tier 2, the RHNP and Board Certification eligibility
Prefer the full two-tier program, about 12 to 24 months? Enrol for $3,650 in total. Not sure yet? Book a free call.
Affirm and Klarna at checkout offer some plans up to 24 months. ESDC certified for RESP and RRSP Lifelong Learning Plan use. Ask admissions about the $400 bursary. Graduates typically charge about $100 to $120 an hour, depending on location.
Designed for Practice
Anyone with a phone can look up facts in seconds. What clients look for in a practitioner is judgement: someone who listens to their story, sees how the pieces fit together and knows what to do first. Each course builds that judgement one client case at a time.
The ROOTS Method™
ROOTS is the clinical reasoning method taught in every course. It gives you a clear way to work through a client’s story, decide where to begin and know what comes next. You practise it case by case from your first course.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I offer nutrition services and keep my massage therapy registration?
Do I need more science before I start?
Can I keep treating clients while I study?
How soon can I start offering nutrition sessions?
Can I see nutrition clients online?
What does it cost, and can I pay monthly?
Is NutraPhoria Integrative Health Institute accredited?
How is a holistic nutritionist different from a dietitian?
➜Email admissions@nutraphoria.com with any other question and the team will get back to you.
For Those Who Keep Asking Why
Our students include massage therapists and other hands-on health professionals who share one habit of mind: they want the whole story behind how a body feels, and they read the research themselves to find it. Here they become Health Detectives together.
INCLUDED WITH YOUR TUITION
Nutrition Business Blueprint
Step-by-step guidance for designing, pricing and offering your nutrition service.
Sold separately for $999. Included.
$2,546
Tier 1 · CAD total · Payment plans available
Book Your Free Call With AdmissionsFree call · No obligationP.S. Admissions can offer a $400 bursary that applies to either tier and stays valid for 10 days once it is offered. Book a free call to ask about it and get your questions answered before you decide.
➜You can also email admissions@nutraphoria.com
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