Caren Benstead

Caren Benstead is the principal of The Well School and founder of The Well Retreat, a wellbeing boutique on the Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire border. Caren has been running her massage business since 2008 and has grown it from a mobile massage service offering remedial massage, clinical aromatherapy treatments and clinical Pilates classes to today where she runs a wellbeing centre with a studio, three treatment rooms, a blending room and a therapy garden. This beautiful space is also home to The Well School which offers an IFPA accredited diploma course with CPD courses in massage, aromatherapy and business support. 

Caren is passionate about seeing therapists flourish in their business which is why she runs “The Wellbeing Collective”, a six month business programme that supports wellbeing therapists in subjects such as marketing, social media, selling, accounting and all other areas that wellbeing therapists need to be experts in when they run their own therapy businesses.