Okanagan Valley College of Massage Therapy
3400 - 30th Ave # 200 V1T 2E2 Vernon, BC, Canada

The OVCMT Student Clinic will reopen for 2021 on January 11! Book your spot today at ovcmt.com or call us 250-558-3719! Gift cards available

The OVCMT Student Clinic reopens for 2021 on January 11! Book online at ovcmt.com or call us 250-558-3718! Gift cards available

Appointments booking for the start January until end of March.

OVCMT is chatting with Rob today. Check it out https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_Q4TwYsuMSyCpsAR55TSkkw

Register for Free Weekly massages in our second year In-reach program! Students practice: Interview, Assessment, Massage techniques, and home care under an experienced RMT Supervisor. Book your spot today!

We're Ba-ack... and looking for mommas to register in our Maternity Massage In-reach program! Mondays Sept 14- Nov 9 at 4:30 pm or 6:00 pm Tuesdays Sept 8- Oct 6 at 10:15 am Wednesdays Sept 16-Nov 18 at 4:45 pm ... If you are interested please email [email protected] or call 250-558-3719

A sneak peek at OV’s top secret new learning lab!

Just thought we would share a few OV smiles!

Officially opening student clinic to the public again Sept 8th!! With new safety procedures and social distancing in place our students are ready to go!! Stay tuned for online booking access date!! #massage#facemasks#aprons#massagetherapy#ovcmt#massagetherapyschool

Super pumped to have students back on campus , even if you can’t see our smiling faces!

May 20,2020 Update: Due to additional Covid19 safety protocols, the OVCMT Student Clinic will be taking bookings starting September 8 2020.The safety of our students and patients is our priority and we look forward to seeing you in September. Have a great summer!!

As a response to the COVID19 crisis, OV has suspended classes moving to online instructional format beginning March 18 2020. All of our outreach and clinical programs have been suspended at this time. Currently this suspension is in effect until March 30 2019, but we are monitoring the situation closely and reacting as changes occur . We thank our staff, students, and the public for their ongoing support during this difficult time in BC. The Office of the Provincial Medica...l Health Officer, BC Centre for Disease Control and Ministry of Health has also recommended the immediate cancellation or postponement until further notice of all events with more than 50 people in attendance. If you require more information regarding the current provincial directives regarding the corona virus outbreak, please contact the links below: Interior Health https://www.interiorhealth.ca//Pages/Breaking-News-and-Inf Public Health Agency of Canada https://www.canada.ca//2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.ht BC Centre for Disease Control http://www.bccdc.ca//stories/2020/information-on-novel-cor For the latest government travel advisories related to COVID-19 visit https://www.canada.ca//20/latest-travel-health-advice.html. World Health Organization https://www.who.int/emergen/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

Covid 19 Update: Due to heightened precautions around COVID 19 in BC, the OVCMT student clinic will be closed until further notice. We appreciate your understanding during this time. The safety of our students and patients are of utmost priority and we will post updates as they become available. We appreciate your understanding an continued support during this difficult time.

Dissecting a Career - Katie Fairles You could say that Katie Fairles found her calling while dissecting a cadaver. It happened while she was completing her undergraduate degree, with a focus on Human Kinetics, at the University of Guelph. Katie had the opportunity to study human anatomy extensively in the school’s cadaver lab. Throughout the lab dissections that followed, she realized that massage therapy would allow her to combine her fascination with anatomy along with her ...passion for health and wellbeing. "I believe that the body's innate capacity to heal is fascinating, and is ultimately quite humbling from a clinical standpoint," says Katie, whose interest in anatomy eventually led her to become an RMT and a teacher at the OVCMT. However, her other interests hiking and the outdoors first took her across the Pacific. After university, I was fortunate enough to spend a year living and working in New Zealand. When my time there came to a close, I knew I wanted to move back to Canada but somewhere that allowed me to continue living the outdoorsy lifestyle I had learned to love while in New Zealand. Vernon filled that niche for me, she recalls. After completing her RMT studies at the OVCMT, Katie entered the teaching realm after seeing a post for a summer course that the college used to run. I loved it, and so I continued applying for further postings as they came up, she says. Employed by the college for the past three years, Katie currently teaches musculoskeletal anatomy to first-year students and pathology to second-year students. She also works at a women's health clinic outside of the college, which focuses on post-natal care for both moms and babies. I am quite interested in obstetrics and the role that massage therapy can play in the field, she explains. Known for running an organized and fast-paced classroom, Katie appreciates the small class size at OVCMT, allowing her to connect with her students on a more personal level. "I enjoy that teaching allows me to see clinical connections that I might not otherwise have the opportunity to make. Frequently, while teaching from an anatomy slide during a lecture, I will recognize a clinical relationship and see how I can use that to benefit my students and my patients. I find sharing these clinically significant anatomical relationships with my students to be the most exciting part of teaching. I hope that my students learn the importance of feeling inspired to continue to learn and grow in their practice, even beyond graduation.