About Restore Scar Therapy
As leading educators in scar therapy training, we’re transforming how practitioners approach scar treatment through evidence-based education, practical expertise, and ongoing professional support while working with the wider community impacted by scar tissue.
Our mission
Our mission is to improve access and education on scar management. We have already had a significant impact, sparking change as more healthcare professionals learn through our courses, talks and webinars.
Our Pledge
We pledge to provide free treatment every time we run a course to help enable access to scar therapy to those that are unable to afford it.
Our Impact
Restore Therapy have been spearheading change through our comprehensive education program, improving aftercare for people with scars since 2017. With evidence led training, we have enabled thousands of professionals across the globe to provide more comprehensive scar care.
Our Story
Founded in 2017 by leading scar therapy specialist Emma Holly, Restore Scar Therapy has grown to become the UK’s foremost provider of scar therapy education, now building a global teaching team. Building on classical Sharon Wheeler ScarWork fascial techniques, Emma incorporated her massage skills to develop an innovative and client centered approach. Incorporating a variety of non-invasive treatment options in her courses, such as negative pressure therapy, commonly known as cupping, and kinesiology taping. Lockdown limitations to face-to-face practice provided an opportunity for Emma to develop better ways clients can support their own recovery with self-scar care.
Today, our Restore methodology combines simple, effective manual techniques with accessible online learning resources, ensuring practitioners develop lasting expertise in scar therapy. Working alongside a highly skilled team of specialist tutors, we’re expanding our reach globally, with teachers based across England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Our commitment to advancing scar therapy practice has led Emma and our team to speak at prestigious international conferences, including Scars2023 in Berlin, the Australasian Lymphology Symposium in Auckland, and the Association of Breast Surgery Conference 2024 in the UK.
Emma, together tutor Tina Glynn run a clinical practice in London’s renowned Harley Street. We continue to innovate in scar therapy training while also building a global community of skilled practitioners through our dedicated Restore Scar Therapy directory and online support group.
Making scar therapy accessible
The Restore Scar Therapy Pledge: We believe everyone deserves access to effective scar therapy. Through our pledge, we’ve provided over 2,300 free treatments, with a commitment to reach 5,000. These supervised clinic sessions offer vital experience for practitioners while making specialist treatment accessible to those who need it most.
Free treatments are booked via the supervised clinic booking system on our Restore Scar Therapy directory. Share these details with anyone who may benefit from a free scar treatment with the supervised students, or if you are a therapist with a scar, come and try and treatment and see how effective our techniques are.
Training with us is a win-win for you as a practitioner as well as those living with scar tissue.
The Restore Therapy OFFICE Team
Emma works closely with her remote administrators, Janice Frowde (right) and Stacey Salter (left). Janice Frowde is our Course Administrator, she is responsible for the day to day running and setting up of the courses, helping to find venues, invoicing and credit control – she keeps everything on track!
Stacey Salter is our Systems and Marketing Administrator. Based in Wales, she works on our social media, the smooth running of the Restore Scar Therapy Directory to help people ‘find a scar therapist’ and manages the online learning platform for our courses.
Our UK Tutors
Led by Emma Holly, our teaching team brings together specialists from massage and fascial treatments, physiotherapy, oncology, women’s health, and sports therapy. Each instructor brings unique clinical expertise and extensive teaching experience, ensuring you learn from practitioners who understand the complexities of different scar types and treatment approaches. Our diverse teaching team share a common goal: advancing scar therapy practice through comprehensive, practical education.
Global community of scar therapists
Therapists who have completed our courses have the opportunity to list their details on our Restore Scar Therapy Directory .
Our Global Teaching Partners
We want to make in-person as well as online scar therapy training available internationally. Our global partners share our commitment to high-quality training and help extend the reach of Restore Therapy’s teaching to professionals around the world. They have invested in extensive training in the Restore Therapy method and techniques and independently organise and present the in-person training components of the Restore Therapy courses. All learners are enrolled onto the same online elements for all courses. We already have a global partner for the Oncology Scar Specialist in New Zealand and for the Scar Therapy Practitioner Ireland. Training is being completed by our new partners in Australia who will be teaching the Oncology Scar Specialist and we plan to extend with new global partners in the future.
How to become a global Restore teaching partner
Global teaching partners are required to invest in mastering the techniques and materials. They are expected to enrol as an attendee on the course they would like to teach and Understanding Scars to deepen their theory knowledge. They will follow a program of development, with a requirement to return to attend the course they wish to teach multiple times and lead demonstrations under observation before progressing to lead their own courses.