Butterfly Touch for Carers

 A NEW proactive way to support unpaid carers and alleviate NHS pressure.

LAUNCHING JAN 2026

“Do not underestimate the power of your touch, and the strength in your gentleness”

Butterfly Touch for Carers

 A NEW sustainable way to support unpaid carers and alleviate NHS pressure.

“Do not underestimate the power of your touch, and the strength in your gentleness”

Introducing “Butterfly Touch for Carers”

Who is this course for?

Award winning Butterfly Touch Therapies Training would like to give special thanks to St Columba’s Hospice Care, Lisa Kerr Holistic Therapies Lead and the Carers who volunteered their time to participate in the creation of this workshop and course.

This training course equips carers with gentle touch techniques and holds, usable with the person they care for at home, or between two carers. These techniques bring comfort, relaxation, and peace to the cared-for individual, fostering a deeper connection. They also provide vital stress relief and relaxation for carers.

The dual aim is to improve carer wellbeing by preventing burnout, thereby ensuring sustainable, high-quality care. 

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Butterfly Touch for Carers: A NEW eLearning course for carers.

Teaching gentle techniques to bring relaxation, comfort and connection to carers, and the people they care for.

Our new program  ‘Butterfly Touch for Carers’ course, is a solution that can help mitigate the escalating pressures on NHS resources. The 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK are an essential part of the healthcare ecosystem, but their well-being is often overlooked, leading to burnout and crisis situations that inevitably fall back on the NHS.

Our new elearning program offers a proactive and cost-effective intervention to support this group.

This program equips carers with simple techniques to prevent burnout and maintain their well-being. By investing in this training, the NHS can help ensure the continuity of high-quality home-based care, reduce emergency admissions due to carer breakdown, and ultimately alleviate the strain on an already overstretched healthcare system.

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EXCLUSIVE LAUNCH OFFER

To celebrate the launch, we’re giving away a free video demonstration of one of the core techniques from the course:
a gentle, safe Hand Treatment that:

✔ Calms the nervous system
✔ Soothes anxiety or restlessness
✔ Brings comfort and grounding
✔ Strengthens connection between carer and cared-for
✔ Can be used by family carers and professional teams alike

This technique is quick to learn, works beautifully in care homes, hospices, community care, palliative settings, and at home — and supports carer wellbeing too.

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The UK’s Unpaid Carer Crisis

The UK faces a growing demand for care services, outstripping current supply. With an aging population and more individuals living longer with chronic conditions, the need for sustained care is rising. Approximately 6.5 million people in the UK are unpaid carers—one in eight adults—contributing an estimated £183.7 billion in support annually.

These carers dedicate themselves to loved ones, often experiencing significant personal challenges. Many suffer from increased stress, anxiety, burnout, and social isolation, neglecting their own health and financial well-being. This strain can also negatively impact the quality of care provided, potentially leading to a breakdown in the caring relationship.

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Some Kind Words

The course was perfect. Very relaxing and informative. I also liked how you could see how to do things as a giver and a receiver
The biggest takeaway for me would be the breathing techniques, and the reflexology on the hands which can be done anywhere.
Going forward I feel I can learn to relax more.

About Butterfly Touch Therapies Training

Marie is an award winning, fully accredited CPD Training Provider – having won the FHT Tutor of the Year award twice, and been a finalist three times, for her course ‘Complementary Therapies in Cancer Care for Reflexology, Reiki and Massage’. The course has also resulted in two students also winning the FHT Student of the year award.

Marie’s journey into therapies began in 1994 when her Mother was diagnosed with cancer. She saw the relief and relaxation she received through Aromatherapy massage and Reiki at our local hospice. She also saw how much she missed the touch and valuable ‘me time’ when she became too ill to attend the hospice. This inspired Marie to become a therapist herself after her mother had died, and soon progressed to becoming an accredited trainer, holding workshops all over the UK and Australia, before eventually converting her course into a hugely successful eLearning platform.

This new course, comes from a deep passion and belief that carers often go under the radar, and that they could benefit greatly from learning just some gentle techniques. 

Marie Duggan

ATL, IIHHT, ICHT, CST & Reiki Master/Practitioner
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Email: marie@butterflytouchcarers.com

Butterfly Touch Carers is a course supplied by Butterfly Touch Therapies Limited – a company incorporated in England and Wales under number 11194385 whose registered office is at:

67 Duke Street, Darlington, Co. Durham, DL3 7SD UK

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