Sylla Sheppard-Hanger 是註冊芳療師、自然療法師，Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy芳療學校的創辦人及校長，也是NAHA美國國家芳療協會的安全委員會主席。
Sylla Sheppard-Hanger www.atlanticinstitute.com has thirty-some years experience and personal research into bodywork and essential oils as a Natural Health Care Practitioner, licensed Massage Therapist, Aromatherapist, and licensed Cosmetologist. Her fascination with aromatherapy has led her to study with the most knowledgeable people in the field of aromatic and medicinal plants, essential oil research, herbology. In 1993, she completed the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Program, Purdue University, Indiana, and continued to complete the International Training in Essential Oils: Advanced Studies - Parts 1 & 2 (1996-7). She was a founding member of the American Aromatherapy Association (1988) and served two terms on the Board of Directors. Sylla is an active participant in the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA), as Chair of the Safety Committee. She is the Founder and Director of the Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy (Tampa, Florida) www.AtlanticInstitute.com and author of The Aromatic Spa Book (2007), The Aromatic Mind Book (2008), The Aromatic Child Book (2008). The Aromatherapy Practitioner Correspondence Course (revised 2000), and the Aromatherapy Practitioner Reference Manual (1995), a complete reference book of over 350 aromatic plant extracts, with phytochemical, clinical and botanical indexes. Sylla founded and directed the volunteer team for the United Aromatherapy Effort, Inc. (UAE) a non-profit charity whose mission is collection and dissemination of donated aromatherapy products and chair massage to those affected during critical incidents and emergency work and to soldiers in Afghanistan. Since 1996, Sylla has been involved with Dr.Trevor Stokes of the University of South Florida in an on-going research project titled Psychosocial Aromatherapy Research Project (PARP) using aroma in children with autism and other disorders. Sylla is Certified from the graduate program learning Structural Energetic Therapy - rehabilitative massage for acute and chronic pain relief. She also maintains a private Aromatherapy practice (as a licensed massage therapist and cosmetologist) in Tampa, Florida, where she resides with her husband, and two cats.
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