Hypnotherapist, Foot Health Practitioner, Reflexologist & qualified in Indian Head Massage
30/10/2025
⭐️Reflexology on a chilly day/evening*⭐️
Heated blanket, optional heated fleece on top 🥰
Reflexology helps with the following:
💫 Improves mood
💫 reduces stress
💫 promotes wellbeing
💫 boosts circulation back to the heart
💫 releases tension
💫 helps sleep 😴 / reduces insomnia
💫 helps reduce pain in your body and mind
£40, 40 minutes in addition to personalised consultation, choice of aromatherapy and hot towels to cleanse and warm the feet!
The diary is pretty much full until mid-October but please remember I do operate a cancellation list so please let me know if you would like to be added to it 🥰
Business hours are:
Monday to Wednesday 9am-9pm
Thursday 9am-6pm
Friday 9am-5pm
Saturday 10am-12pm
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Almost everyone asks me this question every time I tell them what I do for a living or when they book in for their first foot appointment! Here is my story as to why I chose Feet.....
My first interest in feet began some 20 odd years ago when I was 19 years old when I had an ingrown toenail. I was covered under my dad’s insurance policy at Bupa so went in and had the infected side nail cut which left a neat scar and meant the rest of the nail was saved. Then about 6 weeks later the other side became ingrown! I was no longer covered on my dad’s insurance so I went to the doctors surgery to have the rest of the nail removed. They injected the nerves at each side of the toe and when it was numb they put an elastic band round my toe, got pliers and pulled the nail off in one go! I was so fascinated that, much to my mum’s embarrassment, I asked to see the nail and they had to retrieve it from the clinical waste - it still had glittery nail varnish on it!
Meanwhile, I was working full time in the Bank of Scotland. I looked into a podiatry course at Uni but 3 years at Uni seemed a lifetime, plus I was use to having a wage, I was saving for my first flat and if I resigned from the Bank I would have to pay back the money (around £2k) because I was half way through the Bank exams. Life plodded on, I bought my flat, got a degree in Financial Services, got married in 2002 and had two boys. Then a series of life changing events took place - my dad passed away suddenly in 2008, the financial crisis happened a few months later and I split up with my husband in 2009. At work there were constant restructures which meant I was constantly reapplying for my job. It was very stressful and although I was desperate to increase my working days they couldn’t be honoured due to a recruitment freeze. After a couple of years of going through restructures I decided something needed to change. I needed something that would fit in with the boys and would enable me to work and earn more. I remembered about Feet! I looked on-line again at Uni but there was no way I could do three years at Uni and NHS placements with the boys being 5 and 3 years old. After more research I discovered a Foot Health Practitioner course. The theory part of the course was completed at home and a five day practical was then held at the college in Cornwall. The main differences between this and podiatry is you cannot advise on the bio-mechnics of the feet, can’t prescribe medicine, operate or work in the NHS. I enrolled on the course and starting studying. I was still working 2 days in the Bank when I applied for a part-time job working for the Institute of Bankers, where I completed my Bank exams, and became a Tutor and an Exam Verifier for them for three subjects. This would all be based at home with the occasional visit to the office in Edinburgh.
When the next re-structure came along I ticked the box to be considered for Voluntary Redundancy. 16 years ‘service meant 16 months’ worth of pay if I got it which would help while finished the foot course and set up my new business. Plus my now husband Michael had moved in with us (into a new home still in West Linton) so had the security over another wage coming in to the house. I ended up getting I got a job in the restructure - GUTTED! I was placed in a job share again with the same colleague as previous restructures and although we worked very well together she also had ticked the box to leave as she wanted to be an occupational therapist. I persuaded her that we should both write to HR as a FTE of 1 to apply for ‘bumping’ which means that if someone was at risk of redundancy but wanted to stay and their skill set matched ours then we could effectively swap! HR found a match – a guy who had three kids and did not want redundancy so got our job and it all worked out perfectly. I left the Bank in December 2011 and at the end of February 2012 I went to Cornwall to complete the practical to qualify as a Foot Health Practitioner. This was an intense course. We were put up in a lovely student house near the college. The night before the final practical we were all a bit tired and stressed. On of the students on the course was a reflexologist offered to give us all reflexology. While another student was having her treatment the reflexologist said to her, ‘oh you don’t have a gall bladder’ and she was like. ‘no I had to have it removed!’. I was like NO WAY! I knew I had to learn Reflexology and signed up to the course with the same college straight away.
I set up my mobile foot business 6th of April 2012 – nice timing with the new tax year. This, studying Reflexology, with wfh for the institute was a perfect balance, and fitted round the boys perfectly. In July of that year Michael proposed in Dubai, we then went to the Maldives and a couple of weeks after I got home I realised I was pregnant! As I was due the baby in early April - again nice timing with tax year! Michael and got married in the December and I continued with my Foot Business until 4 weeks before Murray was born. On one of my last appointments my client, and friend, John who is a financial adviser asked me if I was going to return to feet once I’d had the baby. I said hopefully one day but not for a few years as nursery fees then were £45 a day and earning money doing feet was too unpredictable although I could continue with the Institute work though. John asked if I would consider working for him due to my Financial Services degree and FCA regulatory experience. It was perfect, great people and local workplace so no commute. I started working for John in January 2014 when Murray was 9 months old. I resigned from the Institute, paused my Reflexology studying and packed away my foot tools!
Fast forward 5.5 years I took the massive step (leap!) to go back to feet. The lightbulb moment happened when I was at my friend’s house for drinks one night. Her friend asked me how my job was going. I replied and I said ‘it’s good but not really what I want to do’. He then said, ‘well, what do you want to do?’ and I said, ‘I’d love to have my own Foot Clinic and complete my Reflexology course’. He replied, ‘well why don’t you then?!’ And I was like ‘I don’t know - I think I will!’ Life really is too short to muck about. So October 2019, Feet Treats was born - a clinic set up in a room in my house which has a separate entrance and right beside the utility room for my foot spa sink. Clearly just meant to be! Absolutely living the dream with over 160 clients….until Covid-19 happened!
Since setting up the business, I have qualified in verruca removal using advanced electrolysis and I qualified as a Reflexologist on 7th of March – sadly I’ve not had much chance to do it except on Michael and the boys…..but when Covid 19 is finally over I am looking forward to offering a wide range of foot treatments which you can find under ‘Services’ on the page. The Ultimate Feet Treat is the Full Works (toenails trimmed and filed, hard skin removed as well as any corns removed) followed by a foot spa with foam, foot scrub and then back on the warm bed for Reflexology, with aromatherapy (optional).
I absolutely cannot wait to get back to treating your feet, it really is the best job ever.
