What do these people all have in common?
They are ACARET Accredited Educators - AAEds.
Why should you join them?

Pat Barrance of Iowa
Elysia Bates, CT
Dwight Byers of Florida
MaryAnn Chirichella of New York
Linda Chollar of California
David Cook of New York
Stephenie Cooke of Arkansas
Corrine Corcoran of New Jersey
Annette Dill of Maryland
Connie Hubley of Maine
Bill Flocco of California
Lynn Gray of New York
Jan Head-Pasquariello of California
Christine Jensen of Connecticut
Deborah Kortyna of Arizona
Lourdes Wellness Center of New Jersey
Teri Magnan of Rhode Island
JulieBeth Mezzy of Virginia
Judith Morey of Ohio
Lilian Morten of Florida
Jay Vanden Heuvel of Wisconsin
Catherine Vestraci of Maryland
Susan Watson, IL

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Update on National Curriculum Task Force


The ACARET Board of Directors and committee members are moving rapidly toward setting the new national standard for reflexology curriculum and minimum hours for certification. This has been an arduous task as ACARET’s aim is to be inclusive and seek to accommodate as many educator’s programs as possible while moving toward a higher standard of education for reflexology in America.

Key points of consideration in ACARET's role of helping create standards for the reflexology profession are:

  • ACARET’s Role: “Creating standards of excellence in reflexology education through accreditation credentialing of educators and reflexology curricula.”
  • ACARET’s Mission: To promote, advance and uphold standards in education for the profession of reflexology in America. We offer a voluntary accreditation process for teachers and reflexology curriculums. We do not provide or write teaching manuals or detailed curriculum.
  • Why Accreditation: Professionalism, Recognition, Credentialing, Connection, Commitment, Support, Growth, CAM Guidelines Compliance. Accreditation says, “This program or this educator meets the highest standards of excellence in the industry.”
  • Who Benefits from Accreditation: reflexology students, current & future educators, school owners, the profession, the consumer.
  • ACARET’s serves the reflexology profession as the Accrediting Organization to support self-regulation, a code of ethics and setting uniform educational standards for reflexology education by: evaluating competency of teachers, establishing a standardized core curriculum, accrediting educators and curricula (programs not schools) and evaluating adult learning dynamics.


Industry surveys reveal a wide range of opinions but a collective enthusiasm and unity of mind that the time is now for our profession to raise the minimum educational standards. As we move into the future with a focus on reflexology being recognized as a CAM practice by the White House Commission on CAM, we will rise to meet the guidelines of the WHCCAM.

Those guidelines call for training of CAM teachers and practitioners and for developing uniform courses, accredited by professional bodies (ACARET). Learn more about the WHC Report on CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) at the Reflexology Association of America website.