Seeking remedial & pregnancy massage therapist

Are you passionate about supporting people on their fertility, pregnancy, or new parenthood journey? Do you love working with those trying to conceive, undergoing IVF, or navigating pregnancy and postpartum recovery?

We’re looking for a skilled and caring massage therapist to join our team at Fertile Ground Health Group – one of Melbourne’s most highly regarded fertility and perinatal practices in natural health. This is a unique opportunity to grow your massage career in a purpose-driven, collaborative, and supportive environment.

Why Choose Fertile Ground Health Group?

For over 25 years, Fertile Ground has been synonymous with exceptional care in reproductive medicine. Our practitioners are well respected among medical specialists and industry experts. We pride ourselves in providing care defined by integrity, compassion, and expertise.

Collaboration and co-creation are at the heart of how we work. We believe this shared approach creates the richest learning environment – one where practitioners, patients, and the entire support team benefit. It’s a space that fosters continuous growth, connection, and professional evolution.

Massage Therapist Position Eligibility

To be eligible for this position, you already have passion, interest and experience as a Massage Therapist in fertility, pregnancy and/or postpartum massage, and beyond.  Ideally, you love working with people trying to conceive, those who are pregnant and new parents, and you want to simplify your practice to focus on being a fantastic practitioner and dedicating your efforts to growing your patient reach and massage career with the support of Fertile Ground.

Great skills and passion for massage is required, along with your desire to develop referrer relationships (with our help) to achieve collaborative patient results. Additional training in fertility or pregnancy massage will be highly regarded, but not essential. Mentoring is available for our signature treatments for fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum (mother roasting) massage.

What We Offer

You’ll receive dedicated business management and admin support, so you can focus on what you do best – caring for your patients. You’ll be part of a collaborative team of well-known and respected professionals, with opportunities to co-create, grow, and thrive in your career.

At Fertile Ground, we support you from every angle – with the tools, mentoring, and guidance to develop your professional profile and build a fulfilling practice. With new patients ready and waiting, and the strength of our trusted reputation behind you, you’ll have the opportunity to grow a thriving, full practice with ease.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for an experienced Massage Therapist who:

  • Is ready to hit the ground to establish a fulfilling practice.
  • Values collaboration and has an ability to develop referrer relationships and patient results.
  • Is willing and wants to establish themselves as a leader in the massage profession.
  • Understands the value of community cultivation, through methods such as social media, writing blogs, potential speaking opportunities (to health professionals or patient groups), and/or running small workshops, classes or support groups (in person or online).

Massage Session Times

You will need to commit to a minimum of two massage sessions (days) per week, with a minimum of 4 massages per session. There is immediate room for more sessions than this or growth if desired. You will be working in one of Australia’s most intentionally beautiful and vibrant clinic spaces with an extensive dispensary supplying the entire clinic’s prescription needs at The Melbourne Apothecary.

Room availability:

  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Friday
  • Saturday

Apply Today

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career, email your cover letter and resume to Sarah Sanelli, Practice Manager, at management@fertileground.com.au

“Touch was never meant to be a luxury, it’s a basic human need.” – Irene Smith

On The Way Toward Parenthood

Understanding the Foundations of Parenthood

Our parenting experience starts long before the birth of our first baby. How we were parented and what happens to us along the way informs the parents we become. Any form of trauma is worth revisiting when contemplating parenthood. Traumatic events in childhood and adulthood can complicate how we feel about many things associated with becoming a parent and many are buried deep, often to enable us to continue to function.

Embracing Fluid Parenting Styles

Yet our parenting style it is not set in stone. The parents we become remain fluid if combined with insight and intention to be the parent you want to be. Each decision and choice we make can be reversed and redirected with reflection and courage.

The Challenge of Being the Parent You Needed

It is not easy to be the parent you needed but did not have. It will stretch you into your own grief, your sadness and sense of loss whilst asking you to be the adult in the room, stronger, kinder, and wise. I can’t think of another life experience that requires this fundamental shift in selfhood.

Recognising Unconscious Patterns in Parenting

I say courage because it truly does take a tangible, felt experience of gut-wrenching clarity that you just did or said something to your child that you thought you would never repeat or hear come out of your mouth. We often don’t want to repeat the errors of our own parents, but it does not have to mean a complete swing away from the model they presented us with. Rather than a knee jerk alternative we would do well to sit with that duality and take control in thoughtful decision making by making different choices that may have been harmful or hurtful in the past.

Impact of Family Narratives on Parenthood

How we were raised may also impact our very desire to be a parent. Family stories can shroud any feeling of delight or reward that might be possible if you were treated poorly, devalued, disrespected, or disregarded. Similarly, the choice to not parent can become fraught if the family narrative only holds parenthood as the established value of worth. Reproductive adversity on the way to parenthood can truly mark us. Much of what can happen can be traumatic. How do you then flip that and suddenly be happy about pending parenthood when the cost has been so great.

Coping with Reproductive Adversity

There is no shortage of material when talking about this legacy in counselling. Many do not realise the mark life has left on them when thinking about raising children. Meeting your newborn baby carries you into your own newborn state of parenthood. Just like your newborn you will need to feel your way with your senses and what your sensible, adult brain thinks should happen often does not transpire. What you want your baby to do does not match with how they are and the adjustments you do or do not make are likely to either make or break you.

Counselling: Navigating Parenthood’s Challenges

How you learn to care for your children will be informed by how you were cared for by your parents. Even the things you cannot directly remember are often held within us to be revealed in time. Big and strong emotions often accompany parenthood in ways that confound us. It is so common to have a client say to me I am so different to how I thought I would be, and I don’t understand where this is coming from. Then the work begins. In counselling, we thread our way through the many experiences life has provided in order to make sense of our responses and take charge of what we want to do differently.

Empowering Positive Changes in Parenthood

It can feel very scary and make us very vulnerable, but it is possible to make great changes. We don’t have to continue to harm and hurt our children just because that is what was done to us. It is possible to hold a profound intention to do it differently just with an intention to do so. Allow the intention to take you into action and demonstrate to yourself and your family what is in your heart. Learning to understand the legacy of your life experiences and how it might impact your behaviour is to be applauded. What better investment is there in caring for those that are considering, trying to, or encountering themselves as parents.

Written by Suzanne Hurley, Perinatal & Fertility Counsellor at Fertile Ground Health Group

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