Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a complementary therapist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a complementary therapist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Complementary therapists use a range of complementary and alternative therapies to work simultaneously with the clients` body, mind, and spirit in a holistic approach. They offer practices and services for holistic wellbeing, health maintenance, health education, health promotion and prevention of illness, along with the sustainable treatment of certain illnesses, especially chronic illnesses. Their practices include but are not limited to acupuncture, aromatherapy, banotherapy, homeopathy, and herbal medicine.

Also known as naturopath, sustainable health practitioner, natural health practitioner, complementary practitioner, holistic therapist, traditional therapist, complementary medicine practitioner, complementary therapy practitioner, practitioner in complementary medicine, natural medicine therapist, alternative therapist, alternative medicine therapist.

Professionals 73 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: shiatsu practitioner, 65%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
shiatsu practitioner 65% covered sophrologist 62% covered traditional chinese medicine … 49% covered herbal therapist 47% covered aromatherapist 45% covered complementary therapist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from complementary therapist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a complementary therapist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A complementary therapist needs 7 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • carry out preventative internal medicine interventions communication, collaboration and creativity
  • follow-up on healthcare users' treatment communication, collaboration and creativity
  • develop therapeutic relationships communication, collaboration and creativity
  • human physiology health and welfare
  • ensure safety of healthcare users assisting and caring
  • human anatomy health and welfare
  • accept own accountability communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a complementary therapist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Complementary therapist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a complementary therapist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.