Principal
Mrs. Brenda M Lomas Dip IAN, Dip CE, FCMA

Mrs. Brenda Lomas has had a long and successful career as a Natural Therapist and business woman.

She played a major role with her late husband in the fight for Government recognition and registration of Chiropractors in South Australia.

Mrs. Lomas has made a great deal of time available over the years to serve the profession in a voluntary capacity.

She was a founding member and inaugural Federal Secretary of the Complementary Medicine Association [CMA] and served as the inaugural CMA representative in South Australia until 1990 and then represented Queensland for some years.

Mrs. Lomas has had interests in various business ventures including the distribution of therapeutic goods to the profession and is now the Managing Director of several leading companies serving the profession as sponsors, manufacturers, suppliers and educators.

A message to students...

  “ while it is important that natural therapy training be based on sound basic sciences we must not forget that they also form the basis of the art of natural healing.

At The College of Somatic Studies we encourage the moulding of these two concepts to produce professional practitioners that appreciate this important balance. Just as our logo depicts , we believe - Science must co-operate with Nature “

Established

The College of Somatic Studies was established in 1983 to provide educational courses for natural  health practitioners through distance education.

In order to cater for the educational needs of students, as well as to satisfy the requirements of accrediting bodies, it was decided that the courses MUST be of tertiary standard, flexible in the way they could be studied and relevant to the Natural Therapy profession.

This allowed the College to be one of the first to gain National Training Recognition for its programs of studies and more recently full articulation with Charles Sturt University as discussed in more detail further on.

All subjects provided by the College are designed to assist people to become competent Natural Therapists qualified to be accepted by natural therapy associations, the regulatory practitioner bodies.

The unitised structure of the College subjects also attracts students from a wide sector of the health industry and/or profession.

Whether it be to simply update their knowledge or to enter a different section of the natural health field, the College draws students from retail health food and pharmacy outlets through to medical practitioners, pharmacists, nurses, masseurs, herbalists, homoeopaths, nutritionists to mention only a few.

Aims of the College

The College aims to enhance professional practice and advance the creation, application and extension of knowledge in Natural Therapies by providing National Recognised Training courses at a tertiary level.

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