Welcome to Reidman College – International College for Complementary and Integrative Medicine.
As the leading college in the field of the Integrative and the Natural medicine in Israel for over 30 years, Reidman College is the embodiment of the vision of Ms. Sally Reidman, who immigrated to Israel in 1983 from Los Angeles, California, USA with the mission of “Healing Ourselves; Healing the Planet”.
In 1987 she founded a small school for holistic massage based on the above mission. She believes that when you touch someone, you touch their soul. And, when touched appropriately, besides bringing physical relief to sore muscles, massage could provide a profound psychological experience for the recipient. Over the years that small school grew to be the largest college in Israel for Complementary and Integrative Medicine. Having accumulated almost 35 years of experience and reputation, “Reidman” is now Israel's leading college in the field of Integrative and Natural Medicine with graduates working in every sector of Israel society; including hospitals and the National Health funds.
As of today, September 20th, 2021, Reidman College has over 3495 students with 426 of them being in the Chinese Medicine department. There are approximately 75 administrative employees and 511 part-time teaching faculty spread out over the campuses with 104 of them in the Chinese Medicine department.
Reidman College students benefit from a wide range of training programs available for therapists combining Traditional Natural Medicine with research-based allopathic medicine. The programs are taught at a high academic-level and are recognized both by universities and colleges abroad and by professional associations of the complementary medicine field both in Israel, China, the U.S. and Europe. The college offers both multi-year and shorter enrichment programs and courses offering a broad and in-depth professional education for therapists and the general public.
Reidman College consists of 5 campuses spanning the length and breadth of the country and is comprised of 5 vocational schools. Each one of the Schools offer a wide range of multi-year programs along with shorter programs and individual courses for therapists and the general public.
1.The School for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) comprised of the Philosophy and Theory of Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Nutrition and Manual Therapy- of which students can choose either Tuina or Shiatsu. (4-years program)
2.The School of Natural Medicine, which includes studies in Western allopathic Medicine, Orthomolecular and Holistic Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, (recognized by both the American Herbalists Guild and Israel Herbalist Association) and Naturopathy (4-years program). Naturopathy is recognized by the Israel Naturopathy Association.
3. The School for Somatic Therapies, is comprised of various Massage therapies, Reflexology, Tuina & Shiatsu studies (3-years program). The programs are recognized by the American Association for Massage and Bodywork along with the Israel Association for Massage & Bodywork and the Israel Reflexology Association.
4. The School for Holistic Psychotherapy which is made up of two distinct training tracks. 1) Body-Mind Psychotherapy- an original program approved by the European Association for Body Psychotherapy and 2) Transpersonal Psychotherapy which is also an original program approved by the European Association for Transpersonal Psychotherapy (4-years program each)
5.The School for Holistic Coaching consist of an original program approved by the Israel Association of Coaching. (2-years program.)
Additionally there is an original Holistic program for Therapists and/or parents wanting to work with children. (2-years)
Since the covid-19 pandemic, in the last 2 years the college expanded it’s frontal teaching system to offer more of it’s course availability to VOD and ZOOM learning; thus enabling students a wider variety of learning options to suit their needs. These options have proven to be extremely popular. We have built two video recording studios at the main campus headquarters located in Tel Aviv/Ramat Aviv. Additionally, each classroom is equipped with the latest technology enabling students who cannot attend, to participate in their class a ”Live” option so they do not have to miss lessons if unable to attend physically due to isolation, illness, vacation or any other reason.
At Reidman College, our mission of “Healing Ourselves” Healing the Planet” along with the 5 values we hold is the basis of the management and operation of our business. These ideals of Professionalism, Teamwork, Family, Excellence and Dignity are a prime motivating force of our service-oriented administration and faculty. Through their apprenticeship clinics, our students are prominent throughout the country providing free and low-cost treatments to hospital patients and various non-profit institutions where there are sick and poor people. We also have a career placement office actively working to find jobs for our qualified graduates.
We sincerely believe in the advancement of Natural Medicine working side-by-side with conventional medicine through integration and cooperation as the Medicine of the future.
We welcome your inquiries.
