ONLINE FOUNDATIONAL COURSE

Integrating Aromatherapy in Palliative Care

A clinically grounded, evidence-based course for healthcare professionals who are ready to bring the healing potential of aromatherapy into hospice and palliative settings - safely, confidently and with genuine patient-centred care

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'The course was deeply informative but also empowering. I have been able to confidently use techniques and oils with my clients and their families. I am very much looking forward to attending Carol's next course in the future'


Danielle M.
End of Life Doula, Auckland, NZ

You chose this work because you care deeply. But does it feel like something is missing?

Palliative care calls for a different kind of presence. You're not just managing a set of symptoms — you're sitting with a human being at one of the most profound moments of their life.

You want to offer care and comfort that goes beyond medication.
You want to ease anxiety, minimise pain and suffering and all the while
create moments of peacefulness for your patients and their families.

 In reality, the clinical setting doesn't always make space for that.
Protocols are built around the biomedical model.
Holistic care is valued in principle — but rarely given the practical tools it deserves

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You sense there is more that you would like to offer.

 

Perhaps you've witnessed how a familiar scent can calm an anxious patient, or how a gentle hand treatment can open a meaningful conversation where words were simply not enough.

 

You want to be able to offer this deeper level of connection to those in your care but you need the knowledge, safety framework and clinical confidence to do this properly


Then this is the course for you!

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When aromatherapy is integrated into 

clinical care, something special happens


Aromatherapy is not a replacement for medical intervention - it's a meaningful addition to it.

When applied with the rigour and care this course teaches, it becomes a genuine tool for holistic support.

By bringing this knowledge into practice, here's what your patients can experience:

  • A reduction in anxiety and emotional distress without any unpleasant side-effects
  • Improved comfort and sleep quality through carefully selected aromatic inhalation and skin absorption methods
  • A greater sense of personal empowerment through collaborative decision-making, choosing their own oils and methods of application   
  • A trusted space that acknowledges their human wholeness emotionally, socially, spiritually and physically 
  • Strengthened connections between the patient, their family and their healthcare professionals through a shared, sensorial experience

'The emphasis of such aromatherapy intervention is to bring the person to the present moment, provide respite from their process of dying and in doing so, impart a sense of peacefulness and acceptance'

Carol Rose 

Integrating Aromatherapy in Palliative Care

This is a self-paced online foundational course — designed specifically for Healthcare and Allied-health professionals working in palliative or hospice settings.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience and evidence-based aromatherapy, Carol walks you through everything from essential oil science and safety, through to working directly alongside patients with compassion and clinical integrity.

 

'Tools of the Trade'
Essential & Fixed Oils

What essential oils and fixed oils are; how to determine quality, purity and integrity, and the basics of essential oil chemical composition

Essential Oil Safety & Toxicity

Toxicity, adverse skin reactions, and the correct procedures for handling reactions - so you can practise with confidence and full clinical responsibility

Safety & Storage in Healthcare Settings

Everything you need to know about purchasing, storage, stock management and general safety in a clinical environment

Getting to Know an Essential Oil

Develop your appreciation for scent, understand the basics of olfaction and the intimate relationship between smell and emotion - then practise with an oil of your choice

Essential Oil Profiles for Palliative Care

In-depth profiles of four key essential oils specifically suited to the palliative care setting

Working Alongside the Patient

Creating a safe and trusted space, opening the conversation, inclusive decision-making, selecting oils, and introducing blending for the individual.
Includes clinical case studies

Methods of Application: Inhalation

Revisit olfactory physiology, understand the limbic system, and learn when and how to use aromatic inhalation safely in a palliative setting

Methods of Application:
Skin Absorption

Essential oil dilution, calculating concentrations, preparing personalised blends, massage applications, and aromatic bathing - all adapted for palliative care

Integrating Aromatherapy
into the Clinical Setting

Multi-professional collaboration, policies and clinical guidelines, documentation, and the practical administration of aromatherapy within your healthcare environment

Creating & Preparing an Inhaler Stick

Step-by-step practical guidance on creating a personalised aromatherapy inhaler stick - including preparing your own patient instruction leaflet

Additional Essential Oil
Profiles

Extended profiles for two more essential oils - expanding your practical toolkit to safely support patients
with life-limiting illness

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This course is for those who want to deepen the important work they already do

For Healthcare and Allied-health professionals who know there is more to offer - and want the clinical grounding to offer it well. This course is for those who want to:

 

✔️ Move beyond symptom management and provide evidence-based care that reaches the emotional, spiritual, and social dimensions of their patient's experience

✔️ Bring a genuinely holistic approach into their palliative or hospice clinical practice 

✔️ Integrate complementary therapies safely and confidently, with a clinically rigorous professional foundation

✔️ Offer practical, personalised tools that create meaningful moments of comfort for patients and their families

✔️ Deepen their capacity to be truly present with patients and walk away with the knowledge to make that presence therapeutic

 

No prior aromatherapy knowledge is needed
This is a foundational course where you start from scratch and finish with clinical confidence

'This holistic integrative resource needs to be read by every palliative care clinician. Truly inspiring'


JENNY COLEMAN, RN
Cancer Support Nurse Specialist

Build your clinical confidence to integrate aromatherapy safely and effectively for those in your tender care

 

This course was built from the inside out by a specialist palliative care nurse who is at ease, fluent and conversant with nursing research, palliative care and aromatherapy worlds and where they intersect.
Every module reflects the reality of clinical practice, not just the theory

Clinically grounded

Every oil selection, every method of application and intervention is considered through the lens of palliative care - including cautions,
contraindications and documentation appropriate to a healthcare setting

Evidence-based

The science of essential oils - chemistry, quality markers, safety data — is taught with rigour. 
This is professional  evidence-based education

Patient-centred

The course places the patient's unique experience at the heart of everything. From opening
conversations to collaborative decision-
making, you learn to integrate aromatherapy in a way that genuinely
honours the individual

Practically applicable

Hands-on practicals, case studies, PDF guides, quizzes, and step-by-step instruction mean you finish the course with real, usable skills - not just knowledge

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$497NZD

One Payment - Instant Access

âś“ 9 core modules + 2 bonus modules
âś“ Module quizzes throughout
âś“ Practical sessions with downloadable
PDF guides
âś“ Clinical case studies
âś“ Self-directed learning materials
âś“ Prerequisite status for future in-person
training
âś“ 12 months access to course content

 

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$249NZD

Payment Plan: NZD $249 × 2 · 30 days apart

âś“ 9 core modules + 2 bonus modules
âś“ Module quizzes throughout
âś“ Practical sessions with downloadable
PDF guides
âś“ Clinical case studies
âś“ Self-directed learning materials
âś“ Prerequisite status for future in-person
training
âś“ 12 months access to course content

 

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Interested in organisation-wide access?

If you're a Hospice Manager or Team Leader looking to provide this training across your organisation or team, please get in touch to discuss group discount options. Pricing is available on application.
Email: carol@thearomary.co.nz

About Carol

Decades at the intersection of clinical care and holistic healing

Carol Rose is a Specialist Palliative Care Nurse, Clinical Aromatherapist, Educator, and Author. She has spent her career working alongside patients, families, and hospice teams in some of the most tender moments of human life - and she brings that depth of experience into everything she teaches.


Her work is rooted in both the rigour of clinical nursing and the sensitivity of complementary care. She has authored one of the very few texts to bridge palliative care and aromatherapy with genuine academic and clinical integrity.


Carol does not teach theory from a distance. Everything in this course has been lived, applied, and refined in real clinical settings - with real patients, real families, and real hospice teams

Carols qualifications include:

• BSc (Hons) Palliative Nursing • Registered Nurse (RN) • Diploma in Aromatherapy (Dip Aroma) • Remedial Massage Therapist (RMT) • Specialist Palliative Care Nurse • Clinical Aromatherapist • Educator •
Author — Integrating Clinical Aromatherapy in Palliative Care (published by Singing Dragon: UK)

Common Questions

''This will empower those experiencing cancer and terminal illness, as well as their families, loved ones and caregivers, at all stages of their journey and beyond - but most importantly, 
Carol Rose's words will touch your heart'

 Jennifer Rhind, writer, author and essential oils consultant 

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