Experience Summary

Emma Holly established the largest and most successful educational training company, Restore Therapy, offering scar tissue therapy courses. Launching in 2017, we have trained over 2,000 therapists in-person globally and many more have enrolled onto the advanced online theory course. Emma and her team of tutors have been teaching physiotherapists, lymphoedema therapists, massage therapists and other manual therapists’ techniques to support recovery after surgery or injury.
Emma has presented at UK and international conferences, updating physiotherapists, sports therapists, clinical nurse specialists and cosmetic and breast surgeons on the topic of scar massage and self-scar care.
Charitable work has been a big part of Emma’s career, she organised over 550 therapy treatments for Invictus Games participants since 2018, supporting UK’s largest ever disability event with a team of scar therapists in Sheffield in 2019. Emma has also supported the establishment of scar clinics in many major cancer centres around the UK including Barts Hospital Trust, The Royal Marsden Trust, The Dimbleby Centre and many more. Restore Therapy is currently supporting the charity Dans Fund for Burns providing volunteers to offer scar massage at their annual retreat for burn survivors.

Employment Details

Restore Therapy Limited
Position: Director
Role: Delivery and development of scar therapy training courses. Managing a team of professional therapy tutors and administrative support staff.
Start date: December 2020. Ongoing position
Restore Scar Therapy Clinic
Position: Therapist
Start date: April 2012. Ongoing position
Role: In Harley Street I offer clinical scar therapy appointments with a team of therapists, treating individuals after injury ad surgery. Scar massage and use non-invasive devices (LymphaTouch and Deep Oscillation) and instrument assisted massage tools for recovery after surgery or trauma creates scar tissue.
Previous to 2012:
I was resident in Switzerland for 4 years and before this was a self-employed therapist

Key presentations and talks:

2024 Massage Therapy Association of South Africa ‘Scar Massage’
2024 Association of Breast Surgery Conference ‘Scar massage after radiotherapy’ 2024 i-Breast Book webinars ‘Scar massage’
2023 Australian Physiotherapy Association webinar ‘Scar tissue, fascia and manual treatment: Key information for physiotherapists’
2023 Scars Berlin, ‘Scar Stretch: What are we hoping to achieve?’ 2023 OncoPlastic Nurse Specialist Education Day ‘Scar Management’
2023 Australasian Lymphology Association Symposium ‘Working with Scar Tissue’
2022 and 2023 Therapy Expo ‘Scars and Adhesions: Considerations for treatment’ ‘Cupping Scar Tissue’ 2019 Federation of Holistic Therapists Conference talk on scar massage
2017 and 2018 Sports Massage Association Conference talk on scar massage

Relevant Professional Courses

Lymphoedema Management for Manual Therapists, Lymph Training Academy with Jane Wigg (ongoing- commenced Oct 2024)
Emergency first aid training renewed 2023
RockPods (negative pressure therapy) RockTape UK, 2022 Award in education and training, 2021
Keinisotaping, Daniel Lawrence, RockTape UK , 2021
Understanding Our Connective Tissue Mechanism (Level 1 2017 and Level 2 2018) Willem Fourie Oncology massage training 2018
Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork 2015
ITEC Body Massage, Anatomy and Physiology, Clare Maxwell Hudson School, London 1993

Conferences Attended

Association of Breast Surgery 2024 Wound Care Today 2024
Scars 2023 Berlin
ScarCon, Conference on scar tissue and healing, Belgium and Netherlands, 2016, 2017 Federation of Holistic Therapists 2018
Sports Massage Association 2017, 2019 British Fascia Symposium 2017

Professional Affiliations and registrations

Member Federation of Holistic Therapists and Sports Massage Association
ICO Registered Data Protection Register, our registration number is: ZA319029