Excellent course! Highly recommend for anyone wanting to learn more about essential oils and aromatherapy. It was great for beginners and experienced users too. The pace and flow were spot on.
Aromatherapy: Clinical Use of Essential Oils

Learn the skills to bring aromatherapy into your own practice. This online aromatherapy course provides an evidence-based overview of essential oil therapy and current aromatherapy practices. It covers the latest research, safety guidelines, and therapeutic applications of essential oils, providing a robust foundation for their use in various healthcare settings as well as for self-care and home use. You will explore a comprehensive list of essential oils, their clinical uses, and the scientific evidence supporting their benefits for conditions such as anxiety, sleep disturbances, headache, nausea, and fatigue. This course emphasizes patient safety, including identification of aromatherapy contraindications, safe aromatherapy combinations, and best practices for individualized patient care. Whether you are a nurse, physician, therapist, dentist, or other health professional, this aromatherapy course will equip you with the knowledge and skills to safely and effectively incorporate essential oil therapy into your patient care. Continuing Education Credits This course has been designed to meet Minnesota Board of Nursing continuing education requirements for 15 contact hours and may be eligible for CE credit from other professional boards that allow self-documenting of continuing education activities. It is your responsibility to check with your regulatory board to confirm this course meets your local requirements and, if necessary, to provide them with the certificate of completion you get if you pay for and fulfill all the requirements of this course.
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Marian Smith
5.0
Reviewed Jun 1, 2020Hannah Morton
5.0
Reviewed Nov 4, 2019This class was well organized and involved the perfect blend of listening and participation. It was a perfect introduction to essential oils especially for those working in clinical settings.
Margaret Couillard
4.0
Reviewed Aug 24, 2019Good course. Difficult to navigate back to review information already presented. It would be ehlpful to have a drop down for Week 1, Week 2 etc
Rizlekica Zg
5.0
Reviewed Apr 15, 2020This course was incredible! :) It taught me a lot, instructor was great, interesting and even though English isn't my mother tongue, I understood everything. This is awesome start for the topic about Aromatherapy. :)
If there will be an Aromatherapy second course, I'm certainly going to take that class asap.
Susan Fernandez
5.0
Reviewed Jul 23, 2019I loved this course! I have been involved with EO's for many years, but only for my own use. I have always purchased them already blended and have not known how to blend them myself or different delivery methods. I am very happy to have learned all the things I learned from this course as I plan to volunteer at Hospice and I can use this alternative comfort care on patients if they decide they want it as another tool to help them. Thank you so much for this great course!!!!!
Terri Lea Mays
5.0
Reviewed Jun 12, 2020I thoroughly enjoyed this course. I have been using essential oils for many year but mostly when I take a de-stress bubble bath. I am happy I now know about phototoxic issues with some essential oils since I am often in the sun. I had no idea of this issue. My mother is 91 and I would like to use aromatherapy with her and now that I am more informed, I may offer her massage or inhalation suggestions. Thank you.
Alyssa Marie Onyia
5.0
Reviewed Apr 25, 2020Excellent overview of aromatherapy and some of its major uses, safety considerations, and supporting evidence. I look forward to using what I learned in my clinical practice but also my daily life!
Rebecca Warren
5.0
Reviewed Jul 8, 2019Enjoyed the class, particularly the chemistry behind how essential oils interact with the body.
Paula Sanchez-Romeu
4.0
Reviewed Sep 6, 2021I love the way Janet teaches throughout the course. Her explanations are clear, concise and very informative.
What I think is that most of what she shares is only kept in the voice of the videos, not on the slides. So the slides are not really a helpful in the course, and I think they ougt to be. It would be great if they could capture and summarize what Janet is talking about in each lecture. For instance, in order to take notes during the different lectures, I could not rely on the slides, I had to listen to the video many times, pause it, take my own notes, go back and listen again, an so on. So looking at the slides on the screen was actually not helpful. Jane's narrative was what I had to focus on and summarize it myself.
Another important point is this: I'd recommend the use of tables to summarize the information provided on EOs. For instance, for Week 4, a table with the EO names in rows and a columns to indicate (with a simple checkmark) if the oil is used to treat pain or anxiety, would be great. The same goes for Week 5 when dealing with nausea and fatigue. I had to draw those tables myself in my own notes, in order to be able to fix in my what each EO was good for. In a nutsell, bullet points on slides are quick to draft and share, but graphical information is way more useful for learning purposes.
Hope this feedback helps! It was a great course to take. I'll be making the most of it in my everyday practice :D.
Edzahi mrn
5.0
Reviewed Feb 20, 2021this course it worth studying contain almost all necessary information needed for aromatherapy treatment and if you prefer convectional medicine instead of allopathic medicine you can go for it .
Sasikarn Buddhavana
4.0
Reviewed May 25, 2020The course is really good. All important knowledge that you can use in everyday life and provide to others. But there's no feedback from teacher,nor asking question. Only have student discussion group. This is the only thing i think should be improve.
Ma Teresa T Ignacio
5.0
Reviewed Dec 8, 2020It has been a very satisfying time to learn in this course. It allowed me to learn how to be more professional in approaching the use of essential oils in as a non-pharmacological adjunct to address health issues. It has given more confidence in helping those who are really interested in using aromatherapy as an assistance to their medical issues. The research results presented gave me a confidence boost to promote its use in a very safe way. As an engineer who is very conscious of safety I am highly encouraged to fiercely promote and advocate safe practices. And the certificate will certainly provide me with more authority to discuss its safe use. My deepest gratitude for this opportunity. I hope there is more advance course dealing with the chemistry of essential oils; biochemistry of essential oils?
Magda Callero
5.0
Reviewed Nov 2, 2022Curso muito bom, dinamico, apresenta o que precisamos ver, com metodologia simples de compreender, sem perder na qualidade.
Fiz este curso para complementar um outro, presencial, e o resultado foi maravilhoso. Consegui juntar uma boa base de conhecimento, que me deixou mais tranquila para atuar de forma segura.
A base de referencias que este curso apresenta é incrível, e serve de consutas para sempre.
Só tenho a agradecer ao Coursera e a Janet.
Giselle Moro
5.0
Reviewed Jun 7, 2020Janet Tomaino is an educator in the broadest sense of the word. She conducts the course with the perfect balance between softness, objectivity and generosity of content, so that at the end of the course, the student is very confident about the content learned. I am very grateful for providing guidance on how to implement an aromatherapy program in an institution.
Lesa McFadden
5.0
Reviewed Apr 21, 2021Great course. I learned a lot and have become interested in incorporating the use of essential oils into my practice. I believe I have a good foundation upon which to build my knowledge and training.
Chie Mitsunaga
5.0
Reviewed Oct 2, 2019Every video lessons were easy to understand for me, beginner of aromatherapy. I learned a lot about aromatherapy that will help with my and my family's healthcare. Thank you very much!!
Kellen M. Sá
5.0
Reviewed Mar 4, 2022O curso é muito bom, especialmente pelo conhecimento compartilhado sobre a experiência e vivência em aromaterapia clínica por profissionais de saúde de outro país, nesse caso EUA.
Leonila Augustine Kilinguen
5.0
Reviewed Sep 17, 2020Thank you so much for this great opportunity offered to us from DOST Philippine and special thanks to my professor for her expertise Janet Tomaino, DNP and Coursera management.
刘岳鹏
5.0
Reviewed Oct 10, 2019I think i got basic knewledge and uesful technique about aromatherapy in clinic and i can’t wait to practice them in my real life. Thanks.
Dominic George
5.0
Reviewed Jun 26, 2019Great introduction, various area of the subject covered. Even first time EO users may learn more than scratching on YouTube.
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