ABOUT SSNT

School Information

SSNT seeks to make a contribution to the good health and well-being of the community through the teaching of professional level courses, and by means of the development, practice and utilisation of natural therapies.

The school is particularly concerned with training primary contact practitioners who are dedicated to helping people take responsibility for their own health and to include in all health guidance, the promotion of a balanced lifestyle. The holistic approach to health and the environment is, therefore, stressed, with particular emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion.

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The Southern School of Natural Therapies is situated in a recently renovated three-storey building at nos.21 - 43 Victoria Street in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy. We offer Degree courses in Naturopathy, Myotherapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Diploma's in TCM Remedial Massage (An mo tui na) and Remedial Massage, Certificate IV Massage and the Introduction to Naturopathy Certificate. The excellent facilities include The Alf Jacka Library which houses one of Australia's largest collections of natural medicine texts and journals, the student clinic's, three large lecture rooms with the latest audiovisual facilities, common areas for students and staff, together with student access to computers, the internet and photocopying services.

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HISTORY & AIMS OF THE SCHOOL

In 1961 Alfred Jacka formed the Victorian Branch College of the Australian National Naturopathic Association. The school and the Association have undergone a number of name changes in the intervening years to emerge respectively as the Southern School of Natural Therapies (S.S.N.T.), and The Australian Natural Therapists Association (A.N.T.A.).

Graduates of the SSNT Bachelor Health Science - Naturopathy are eligible to apply for full professional membership of the Australian Natural Therapists Association (A.N.T.A.), Australian Traditional Medicine Society (A.T.M.S.), the Complementary Medicine Association (C.M.A.), and the National Herbalists Association of Australia (N.H.A.A.).

In 1981 the school sought and obtained registration with the Australian Securities Commission as a Non-Profit Organisation. The basic goal of the school is the promotion of good health within the community, and this it seeks to achieve by providing students of naturopathy with training of the highest standard. The school's status as a Non-Profit Company ensures that any surplus of funds at the end of the year is directed back into the school in order to further improve the services it provides to its students and the community.

SSNT takes the view that naturopathy is a system of health care which should be complementary to conventional western medicine rather than alternative to it, and the school is constantly working towards bridging the gap between the two.