Day Spa & Expat Community Therapist

Responsibilities

• Build repeat clientele among Mérida's large expat and long-stay retirement community
• Deliver therapeutic massage for regular wellness-oriented clients — deep tissue, lymphatic drainage, myofascial release, relaxation
• Serve Mérida's domestic upper-middle-class professional clientele as a day spa regular client base
• Conduct detailed intake and ongoing treatment planning for regular clients
• Provide prenatal and postnatal massage for Mérida's growing young expat family population
• Maintain consistent schedule with reliable client appointment management

Requirements

• Certified massage therapist with 1+ year professional experience
• Therapeutic modality knowledge — regular clients expect measurable outcomes
• English proficiency — Mérida's expat community is primarily North American
• Warm, consistent, relationship-oriented professional approach
• Reliability and punctuality — regular clientele relationships depend on consistency

Benefits

• IMSS, Aguinaldo, vacation + premium
• Tips
• Products provided

Work environment

Day spa or wellness center in Mérida. Consistent professional environment serving a loyal local and expat client base — professionally stable and personally rewarding for therapists who prefer long-term client relationships over resort volume.

About the role

The therapist embedded in a community. Mérida's expat community — estimated at 10,000+ North Americans living full or part-time in the city — has created a stable year-round demand base for therapeutic massage that is entirely independent of tourist seasonality. The therapist who builds a practice within that community has something that resort spa employment rarely provides: the continuity of knowing the same clients deeply, year after year.