Zoe Hamilton, RMT

As a practicing RMT since 2002, I often incorporate many of the instructional gems I learned from the personable and highly experienced instructors at OVCMT. In particular, I am grateful for the emphasis on professional behaviour and ethics, as time and again I have had both the opportunity to use what I have learned at OVCMT, and to witness examples of the absence of such professionalism. In one memorable incident, a colleague and former classmate laughingly remarked, “That was right out of communications class!” (And it was…thank you Pam!)

Many people ask if I grew up in Vernon when I tell them that I took my RMT training there. I didn’t, but chose to study there in part to experience my schooling in a new-to-me city, which has a beautiful reputation. I thoroughly appreciated my three plus years in the Okanagan, due in part to the climate and the geography. I really loved the local lakes, hiking hills, and Ski Mountain. I loved that if I was going to be immersed in school for more than three years, I could refresh myself simply by stepping outside into the sun, or gliding into the cool waters of Kalamalka or Okanagan lakes.

What I love about massage therapy is that it can be tailored to my preferences (as far as where, how and how often I practice) and that I find a lot about it rewarding, on many different levels. One of the things I find most satisfying is that regardless of the details of a patient’s situation, regardless of whether or not I feel that I have a thorough understanding of exactly what will help them best as far as treatment is concerned, I truly have the intention of helping them. They usually express finding the treatment beneficial to them to one degree or another.

I have had the unique opportunity to work on a patient who ended up taking the three year program in Vernon. I can’t help but appreciate the unique circles of growth that I, and now she, have experienced.  It makes me happy to share with others the wonderful, albeit challenging, years that I was blessed to experience at O.V.C.M.T., and can’t recommend it enough for those that are choosing to pursue their studies as an RMT.

Zoe Hamilton, RMT