Specialties
Our goal is to ensure that Institute for Therapeutic Massage (ITM) graduates exceed the expectations of the massage, bodywork, health and wellness community as competent, qualified, and ethical professionals, all while learning to become a massage therapist, personal trainer, and shiatsu practitioner in New Jersey.
Our philosophy of education is to utilize a combination of academic study and hands-on techniques to incorporate late breaking research, and thus offer the students who study and learn at our massage school, with 6 locations in New Jersey, 5 hospital affiliations, and a low student to teacher classroom ratio, the highest level of knowledge and skill to work safely and effectively. We recognize that every prospective student has different needs and all of our massage, personal training, and shiatsu program information sessions are held one on one with an admissions advisor to provide you the individualized attention required. Call us to schedule a tour 973-839-6131
History
Established in 1994.
The Institute for Therapeutic Massage was established in 1994 by Lisa Helbig, LMT, and in April of 2001, the school became accredited by the Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation (COMTA) - the only specialized accreditor recognized by the United States Department of Education (DOE) with a primary focus on massage education, and helping students become massage therapists.
Our Tinton Falls, Monmouth County location, was added in 1999, and our first hospital-based training program was started in 2000 at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ-Newark, Essex County). We have since opened 2 more hospital-based programs, with our Morristown Memorial Hospital location opening in 2002, Morris County, and Community Medical Center, in Toms River, Ocean County in 2006. In 2013 we moved our Newark classes to Bloomfield, NJ.
Meet the Business Owner: Lisa H.
Lisa Helbig, LMT - Executive Director & Owner
Lisa Helbig, LMT, is the Founder, Executive Director, and Owner of the Institute for Therapeutic Massage (ITM), the school she founded in 1994. Her career began when she became a massage therapist in 1990, upon graduating from the Jacksonville School of Massage Therapy, Florida. While building her private practice, and working for Nordstrom Spa, Lisa's great success created the vision to combine her long standing background as a corporate trainer with her love of massage therapy to develop a school that provides students with the high level of education she felt necessary to the field. Lisa has also been instrumental in the development of other massage and aesthetician schools (both before and after opening ITM), massage based curriculums, hospital based massage programs, community / charity based outreach, CEU based videos, and a book on hot stone massage, which was published by Running Press, and continues to sell 10 years later.
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