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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
Personal Information
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Julia Braden

Julia Braden

Ypsilanti,MI

Summary

Client-focused professional with exceptional listening skills and a professional mannerism. Strong phone skills for effective communication and addressing client needs. Successful spa manager, achieving profitability within two months. Key strengths include top-notch client care, reliability, creativity, hard work, and natural-born leadership abilities.

Overview

34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Reiki, Energy work, Customer Care, and sales

Self-employed
01.2023 - Current

Massage Therapist

Ann Arbor Therapeutic Massage Clinic
01.2011 - 01.2022
  • Provided massage to clients
  • Increased sales by 30%
  • Customer serviced clients, and increased client retention

Massage Therapist

Relaxstation
01.2010 - 01.2022
  • Employed by Relaxstation as a Massage Therapist
  • Won an award through Current Magazine – readers voted me Best Massage Therapist of Washtenaw County 2012
  • Came back year 2022 for 1 to 2 days a week

Chair Exercise Instructor

Jewish Community Center
01.2010 - 01.2019
  • Taught Chair Exercise once a week

Massage Therapist

Self-employed
01.1997 - 01.2011
  • Provided massage services to regular clients and other health care professionals to best serve their needs
  • Very profitable
  • Also worked on a referral basis with other healthcare professionals to increase sales
  • Ran a therapeutic gift basket business in Asheville, NC (North Carolina), promoting therapeutic products
  • Oils used by other Massage Therapists were purchased by mail
  • Visited Michigan regularly providing massage therapy for several clients
  • Opened and operated a small health spa in Asheville, NC
  • Services included massage and natural spa treatments for groups
  • Contract workers were hired to supply quality services to clients
  • Training of the business was included

Sales Representative

World Book
01.1991 - 01.1993
  • Worked for World Book selling encyclopedias
  • Worked with children and parents
  • Voted best in sales for Hillsdale County

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Recreational Therapy

Eastern University of Michigan
Michigan
01.2019

Associate’s Degree - Liberal Arts

Washtenaw Community College
Michigan
01.2010

Certificate - Reiki Level 1 And 2

Wake Up! Reiki School of Personal Development
Fort Collins, CO
07.2009

Certificate 625 Hours - Massge Therapy And SpaTreatments

Florida College of Natural Health
Florida
01.1996

Skills

  • Empathetic
  • Compassionate
  • Good listener
  • Punctual
  • Reliable
  • Customer care
  • Soft sales
  • Windows - Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Gift certificates
  • Refunds
  • SOAP documentation

Certification

  • Eastern University of Michigan, Bachelor’s Degree in Recreational Therapy, unfinished, 01/01/14 to 02/26/19
  • Washtenaw Community College, Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts, completed on 01/10/13
  • Florida College of Natural Health, 624 hrs, 12/31/96

Accomplishments

  • I won an award through Current Magazine – readers voted me Best Massage Therapist of Washtenaw County in 2012

Personal Information

Citizenship: U.S. S. Citizen

Additional Information

  • I took five-month courses on Mastering the Ego in 2023
  • I took inner child work courses on the inner child, and learned from psychologists and social workers about being authentic

I use support groups to be the best version of myself

I am a lifelong learner

I believe in always improving myself through self-studying and learning from others

Timeline

Reiki, Energy work, Customer Care, and sales

Self-employed
01.2023 - Current

Massage Therapist

Ann Arbor Therapeutic Massage Clinic
01.2011 - 01.2022

Massage Therapist

Relaxstation
01.2010 - 01.2022

Chair Exercise Instructor

Jewish Community Center
01.2010 - 01.2019

Massage Therapist

Self-employed
01.1997 - 01.2011

Sales Representative

World Book
01.1991 - 01.1993

Bachelor’s Degree - Recreational Therapy

Eastern University of Michigan

Associate’s Degree - Liberal Arts

Washtenaw Community College

Certificate - Reiki Level 1 And 2

Wake Up! Reiki School of Personal Development

Certificate 625 Hours - Massge Therapy And SpaTreatments

Florida College of Natural Health
Julia Braden