Inverness salon providing complementary therapies to help cancer patients
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The Therapy Suite in Inverness provides treatments such as oncology massage to help people with cancer.
Rebecca Gethins, who runs the salon with her mother Pauline Hamilton, said it was important to provide such services somewhere that is not a medical setting.
She said: “It’s something that we are proud to offer in a salon setting and not a hospice setting – it gives the person the sense of normality, which is important.”
In addition oncology massage other treatments offered including reflexology, sports massage and Indian head massage.
As well as the upstairs relaxation lounge and treatment rooms there is also a hair salon downstairs at the Church Street premises which they were able to reopen last month following the Scottish Government’s guidance.
Mrs Gethins said they had reopened the reception area, two weeks before they were able to officially reopen, so they could answer the phones and book appointments.
She said: “We were inundated with clients – we have loyal clients. They felt safe in returning and I think that’s key – because we had the measures in place they felt safe and confident in returning to the salon.”
Mrs Gethins said her clients had been very supportive after they reopened because they were a local, family-run business and added: “They were happy to wait because we were very busy – we had appointments for weeks and weeks.”
She said that throughout the lockdown they had checked with customers to make sure they were okay. She said: “We were keeping them updated, letting people know what we were doing, and the prospective dates for reopening, things like that. Everybody has said that they are getting used to the new normal.”
Mrs Gethins said she felt it was safe for people to return to the city centre because businesses, both small and large, had put safety measures in place ahead of reopening.
She said: “Everybody is putting in the effort, as much as they can, and following the advice – it’s a safe place for everybody to return.”
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