Ema Melanaphy's Qualifications & Professional Credentials
Ema Melanaphy
Founder of ReikiEma
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Usui Shiki Ryoho (Reiki) Level 2
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Date of certification: 10/01/2020
Certification from: Ann Singleton, Reiki Master Teacher, UK Reiki Federation member and CNHC-accredited NOS level 3 Reiki Diploma Course Teacher
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Professional-level Certificate (alongside Professional Insurance and a Reiki Master Lineage back to Mikao Usui (the founder of Reiki), this qualification entitles a person to begin offering Reiki professionally, in the United Kingdom).
Usui Shiki Ryoho & Usui Reiki Ryoho (Reiki, Eastern & Western style methods) Master Teacher Certificate
Date of certification: 30/10/2021
Certification from: The Reiki Academy - Torsten Alexander Lange, Reiki Master Teacher, UK Reiki Federation History Ambassador.
Professional-level Certificate (alongside Professional Insurance and a Reiki Master Lineage back to Mikao Usui (the founder of Reiki), this qualification entitles a person to teach Reiki courses, to attune people to Usui Reiki at all levels up to and including this level, and to issue certificates and Reiki Master lineages to anyone they attune.
Usui Shiki Ryoho: Professional Practitioner Diploma (as verified by the UK Reiki Federation and CNHC)
Date of certification: 28/03/2022
Certification from: Ann Singleton (CNHC-approved Diploma Course)
Professional-level Diploma Certificate accredited by the UK Reiki Federation as meeting the CNHC's (Complementary Natural Healthcare Council) standards and requirements for Reiki Registrants - including at least 9 months between Reiki level 1 and completion of the course, 10 Case Studies of 4 treatments each, an assessed treatment, answering a series of questions to establish the practitioner understands and can apply the ethical and professional competency requirements of CNHC registrants, and providing Insurance and all Reiki qualification certificates. The CNHC is a voluntary Regulator, and according to the General Medical Council , Medical Professionals in the UK can refer patients to CNHC registrant practitioners. Membership of this register shows a deep commitment to professional standards, ethics and integrated healthcare. It is a marker of trust, and working to meet all the requirements of this qualification took Ema 2 and a half years to attain.
Current CNHC Certificate of Registration (originally issued 04/2022)
Date of certification: 06/04/2025-6
Certification from: The Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council
Registration number: CNHC06607
Current (valid) Certification issued by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. This certifies Ema Melanaphy's status as a currently Registered Reiki Professional Practitioner, and means that Ema is regulated by the CNHC, and appears on their Register (available and searchable online here). It also authorises Ema Melanaphy to use the CNHC logo in relation to Ema's professional Reiki practice (for humans).
UK Reiki Federation - certificate of recognition as an Animal Reiki Professional Practitioner
Date of certification: 11/04/2022
Certification from: UK Reiki Federation
When the Reiki Council's Animal Reiki Profession was introduced by the UK Reiki Federation, Ema was one of the earliest Members in North West England to apply for Animal Reiki accreditation. The accreditation requirements were reassuringly rigorous, and involved an application form, competency questions, submission of case studies and sending in in certification and Animal Reiki professional Insurance for verification and validation. As one of their certified Animal Reiki Practitioners, Ema Melanaphy appears on the UK Reiki Federation's Searchable directory for Animal Reiki Practitioners, which you can access here.
Pregnancy Massage (including abdominal massage) Diploma
Date of certification: 17/04/2023
Certification from: Gateway Workshops
This is Ema's Pregnancy Massage diploma certificate. A face-to-face course, with practical and theory training, and a tutor assessment.
"Natural Lift" Facial Rejuvenation Massage
Date of certification: 18/08/2024
Certification from: Gateway Workshops
Reiki for Animals Certificate
Date of certification: 17/03/2021
Certification from: Jo Rose, Animal Physical Therapy, Applied Behaviour and Courses
Continuous Professional Development certificate having spent one day of in-person training with the teacher, in December 2020, and having completed several Animal Reiki case studies, as well as homework assignments. As a Professional Reiki Practitioner for humans at the time, having been volunteering regularly at the RSPCA offering Reiki to the cats and dogs there, for 9 months at this point, this certificate qualified Ema to add Reiki for Animals to their Professional Insurance, in order to add it to their Professional Services, when the lockdown restrictions ended.
Holistic Acupressure Practitioner/Foundation-level Shiatsu Certificate
Date of certification: 01/09/2021
Certification from: Shiatsu College (Manchester)
This certificate was awarded to Ema after completion of the first year of a 3-year Shiatsu Diploma course (which took 2 years, due to the pandemic preventing normal teaching and practice treatments during the lockdowns and Social restriction rules. Ema was the only 1st year student to complete the course requirements and to receive this certificate, in their year group. Completion of the first year of this level 4 (CNHC-accredited) Diploma course enables Ema to offer student-level Shiatsu, and Holistic Acupressure (the certificate awarded for completion of the first year, has since been changed to "Bodywork for Wellbeing" from Holistic Acupressure). This certificate requirement included 50 Shiatsu pratice treatments given, 3 professional Shiatsu treatments received, attendance at 2 full days of training per month (22 days per year), home study and assignments, as well as an Anatomy and Physiology Course, and practical assessments.
Therapeutic Meditation Teacher Certificate
Date of certification: 02/12/2020
Certification from: Ann Singleton, Meditation Teacher and Usui Reiki Master Teacher
This is Ema's Therapeutic Meditation Teacher qualification. The course was carried out remotely with assignments, online live teaching and practice, and a final live practical and case study assessment. Ema is certified to offer 121 and group meditations, as well as recorded therapeutic meditations, in a range of different styles, for different therapeutic and lifestyle/wellbeing requirements.
This is Ema's "Natural Lift" Facial massage Practitioner Diploma certificate. A face-to-face course, with practical and theory training, and an in-person practical tutor-assessed treatment.