This interactive ChairCare+ certification training is designed to bridge the gap between beauty and mental health. Created specifically for stylists, barbers, estheticians, makeup artists, and beauty educators, this course equips professionals with the awareness, language, and confidence to recognize emotional distress, respond with empathy, and protect their own mental well-being. Through a trauma-informed and liberation-focused lens, participants will learn practical tools to create safer, more supportive environments, for both their clients and themselves.
Meet Your Facilitator
Ashley Palmer, LCPC, CCTP Founder of ChairCare+ |Licensed Therapist | Former Hairstylist
‘Mental health care that travels from the salon chair to the board room’
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Before becoming a therapist, Ashley spent over a decade behind the chair as an Afro-textured hairstylist and educator. Her work in the salon deeply influenced her understanding of emotional wellness, self-image, and the power of safe, affirming spaces. Listening to clients share their stories sparked her passion for helping others heal, particularly those navigating identity, beauty, and belonging.
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That experience became the foundation for her transition into mental health. Today, Ashley is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, and advocate for liberation-centered care. Through ChairCare+, she bridges her two worlds—beauty and mental health—by equipping stylists, barbers, estheticians, makeup artists, and beauty educators with the knowledge and confidence to support both their clients’ and their own well-being.
Ashley’s work is rooted in a trauma-informed, liberation-focused framework that honors community care, authenticity, and healing in all spaces, especially those where transformation begins, from the salon chair to the boardroom.
In This Course, You’ll Learn How To:
It’s time to care for the person behind the chair.
Learn how to protect your peace, and your clients’.
