Occupation Atlascomplementary therapist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c2a29b8d-1042-4766-a162-e174c7a77421
complementary therapist
Complementary therapists use a range of complementary and alternative therapies to work simultaneously with the clients` body, mind, and spirit in a holistic approach. They offer practices and services for holistic wellbeing, health maintenance, health education, health promotion and prevention of illness, along with the sustainable treatment of certain illnesses, especially chronic illnesses. Their practices include but are not limited to acupuncture, aromatherapy, banotherapy, homeopathy, and herbal medicine.
Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
SRCSocial · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.41
- R Realistic4.45
- C Conventional3.76
- I Investigative3.65
- A Artistic1.53
- E Enterprising1.31
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Physical Therapist Assistants (31-2021.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (7)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- carry out preventative internal medicine interventions
- develop therapeutic relationships
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow-up on healthcare users' treatment
- human anatomy
- human physiology
Optional (66)
- acupressure
- acupuncture methods
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- applied kinesiology
- apply a holistic approach in care
- apply acupuncture
- apply aromatherapy
- apply massage therapy
- apply systemic therapy
- attend to sophrology clients
- auriculotherapy
- ayurveda medicine
- balneotherapy
- behavioural therapy
- breathing techniques
- characteristics of plants
- communicate with customers
- complementary and alternative medicine
- conduct a homeopathic consultation
- conduct cupping therapy
- conduct physical examinations
- deliver sophrology exercises
- dietetics
- electrical stimulation in acupuncture
- energy therapy
- ensure safety of exercise environment
- etiopathy
- fasciatherapy
- first aid
- give massages
- give shiatsu massages
- homeopathy
- homeopathy remedies
- identify energetic meridians
- inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits
- iridology
- kinesiology
- kinetics
- movement techniques
- multi-professional cooperation in health care
- offer advice on diet-related concerns
- osteopathy
- pathologies treated by acupuncture
- phytotherapy
- play therapy
- prepare oils
- prepare sophrology session
- prescribe exercises
- prescribe topical therapy
- promote healthy lifestyle
- promote mental health
- reflexology
- reiki
- relaxation techniques
- safely instruct about fitness
- select acupuncture points
- shiatsu
- skin types
- sophrology
- sterilization techniques
- tai chi
- therapeutic massage
- traditional Chinese medicine
- types of aromatherapy treatments
- types of essential oils
- vojta therapy
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 7 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
homeopath
6 shared · 12 more of its ownfollow-up on healthcare users' treatment, develop therapeutic relationships, human physiology, ensure safety of healthcare users
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sophrologist
6 shared · 26 more of its owncarry out preventative internal medicine interventions, follow-up on healthcare users' treatment, develop therapeutic relationships, human physiology
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acupuncturist
6 shared · 27 more of its ownfollow-up on healthcare users' treatment, develop therapeutic relationships, human physiology, ensure safety of healthcare users
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shiatsu practitioner
5 shared · 17 more of its ownfollow-up on healthcare users' treatment, develop therapeutic relationships, human physiology, ensure safety of healthcare users
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traditional chinese medicine therapist
5 shared · 18 more of its ownfollow-up on healthcare users' treatment, develop therapeutic relationships, human physiology, ensure safety of healthcare users
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herbal therapist
5 shared · 21 more of its ownfollow-up on healthcare users' treatment, develop therapeutic relationships, human physiology, ensure safety of healthcare users
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specialist chiropractor
5 shared · 66 more of its owndevelop therapeutic relationships, human physiology, ensure safety of healthcare users, human anatomy
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physiotherapist
5 shared · 85 more of its owndevelop therapeutic relationships, human physiology, ensure safety of healthcare users, human anatomy
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