Building Healthy Therapeutic Relationships

Carolyn Tague

4hrs/4CEs

Saturday, April 13, 2024, 2:15pm-6:15pm

This is a Hybrid Course

“What is a therapeutic relationship and why will it help my practice?” We will look at our own individual preferences when it comes to receiving support (therapy) and a context for assessing our clients’ preferences for support. Many healthcare providers face burnout, fatigue or worse: apathy. This seminar will offer a practical, easily understood framework for practicing from a place of compassion, even in the face of deep suffering.  Understanding true self-care will be our final topic with tools for creating our own care plans.

About Carolyn Tague :

Carolyn Tague has been doing massage therapy in hospitals since 2006, including UCSF, California Pacific Medical Center, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and Laguna Honda Hospital. She specializes in massage therapy for out-patients and in-patients with cancer, neurological challenges, and complex chronic Pain. She is a member of the Academic Collaborative of Integrative Healthcare, where she serves on the Hospital Based Massage Therapy task force. She is also a preferred practitioner and member of the Education Forum Subcommittee with the Society for Oncology Massage (S4OM.org), an international organization for massage therapists working in the field of oncology. She presents at many national conferences and teaches internationally, including in Japan and Mexico. In addition to her work at UCSF Osher Center, Ms. Tague is the founder of Tague Consulting, which offers education for massage therapists on working with medically complex clients and consultation with medical centers on developing or growing massage therapy services.

More recently, Ms. Tague has co-founded the Association for Massage Therapists in Healthcare (AMTiHC.org) which hopes to expand and support the field of massage therapists working in healthcare. She co-authored the textbook “Hands in Healthcare: Massage Therapy for the Adult Hospital Patient” published by Handspring Publishing in 2021. She also has published research and numerous articles that can be found in Massage Magazine, Journal for Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies, and Global Advances in Health & Medicine.