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Love What You Do: Jillian Lane

One MTTI-WellSpring graduate finds success helping injured people recover through massage therapy.

KANSAS CITY, MO (May 15, 2009) – Jillian Lane never planned on becoming a massage therapist. Sure, she’d given her moms and sisters neck and shoulder massages when they’d had headaches and had always seen massage as positive, but she’d never considered massage therapy for a career. That was, until, after going to a four-year college and realizing that she didn’t want to sit in a cubicle all day, something just clicked.

“It just sort of dawned on me one day, honestly,” Lane says or her decision to become a trained massage therapist at MTTI-WellSpring. “I knew the first day that I had made the right decision! It definitely exceeds my expectations as a career!”

After graduating last August and passing her NCBTMB in October, Lane has been working as an independent contractor with a chiropractor doing prescribed massage on patients that have suffered from an injury. Lane is fully in charge of all the billing in her practice and because most of her patients are injured, she has to bill insurance companies and/or lawyers for her services.  “This involves a lot of paper work, keeping up with files, etc. I really enjoy it because I get to work with people who are in pain and could really benefit from massage, but would normally not be able to afford it,” She says. “In my practice, I incorporate trigger point therapy, myofascial techniques and other "deep tissue" approaches to treat people who are in a lot of pain. The next modality that I would like to incorporate is Cranial Sacral. I see a lot of migraine sufferers that I think could really benefit from it.”

Lane credits much of her success as a massage therapist to her education at MTTI-WellSpring. “I felt like everyone there truly believed in the benefits of massage and wanted to share that experience w/ everyone they could,” she says. “When I was interviewing, I was proud to tell my interviewer where I was educated because I think it is one of the best programs in the area.”

In her time working in the industry, Lane has learned a few lessons though. One piece of advice she has is to take the NCE right away and to have fun and enjoy all the bodywork. “Once you are out get regular bodywork yourself. I know that seems obvious, but it gets hard to make time for yourself, and we put a lot into our profession both mentally and physically. It's important to make time for you to practice what you preach and get regular bodywork.”

If you think massage school is for you, check out the programs and curriculum offered at MTTI-WellSpring, one of Kansas City’s and Lawrence’s  top massage schools. With more than 20 years of health and wellness experience, MTTI-WellSpring offers diploma programs in massage therapy, fitness training and wellness, along with continuing education classes in massage, fitness, energy healing and general wellness for both professional development or personal enrichment.