“Teaching therapists to reduce the impact of scars and help promote recovery is hugely rewarding”
Emma Holly has grown a reputation for excellence as a scar therapy specialist and educator with an expanding team of tutors in UK and overseas. Over 2,000 enrolments onto her courses from a variety of therapy specialisms including physiotherapy, massage, lymphatic drainage and other therapy specialisms. Emma launched her therapy training school in 2017 and has spoken internationally on the subject of scars including Scars 2023 in Berlin, running workshops at the Australasian Lymphology Symposium 2023 in Auckland, Workshops and talks at Therapy Expo in UK 2021, 2022 and 2023, Sports Massage Association (SMA) Conference 2017 and 2019, a speaker at The Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT) Training Congress 2019. She has a clinical practice at Ten Harley Street – London’s most famous street for health professionals. Further details of her private clinics can be found at www.restoretherapyclinic.co.uk.
In 2016 Emma had the first national press coverage for Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork™ and has continued to gain publicity for her work and has been awarded Complementary Therapist of the Year by FHT (highly commended) for her work with scars and recovery. Emma has developed her own modality inspired by her early learnings within ScarWork™ – but wanting to provide a more open and client led approach to scar treatment – stressing the importance of early intervention and self-scar care to work together and prevent complications, rather than be reactive. The Restore Scar Therapy training program introduces multiple treatment variations through the Basic, Practitioner and Specialist scar therapy courses.
Charitable work is very important for Emma, in 2016 she established the first ScarWork clinic to be based at a local charity. Having witnessed the difference this made, she began donating training to for physiotherapy and complementary therapy staff at other cancer charities including Peace Hospice, Breast Cancer Haven, The Christie NHS Trust Manchester, The Mulberry Centre, St Christopher’s, Shooting Star Chase and Trinity Hospice. Other charitable work has included travelling to Bosnia to treat scars of some victims of war (through Healing Hands Network Organisation). Through Help for Heroes Emma has organised a team of ScarWork™ therapists to donate over 550 treatments for the Invictus Games athletes in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2023 Emma and her teaching team supported Dan’s Fund for Burns donating over 40 treatments to burn survivors.
