Alabama Massage Therapy

Alabama massage therapy requirements can be found at the Alabama Department Of Health's website. The website address is www.almtbd.state.al.us . Here is a link to their website.

650 hours of massage therapy instruction at an accredited school are required to get a massage therapy license in the state of Alabama. A therapist in this state is also required to be nationally certified by the NCETMB prior to obtaining a license in Alabama. This means the massage therapist candidate must take and pass the national massage therapy test in order to get a state license in Alabama.

Contact information for NCETMB is:

National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork

8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 300

McLean, VA 22102

Phone numbers for the NCETMB are toll free (800) 296-0664 or long distance (703) 610-9015.

The NCETMB website is NCBTMB.com.

You can contact the Alabama State Board by writing them at

Alabama Massage Therapy Board

Keith E. Warren, Executive Director

610 S. McDonough Street

Montgomery, AL 36104

or by calling them at

Phone: 334-269-9990

The fax number is: 334-263-6115

The e-mail address is ALMTBD@aol.com

Once a therapist has taken and passed the national certification test, he/she must buy a $1,000,000 Personal Liability Insurance policy and take it along with certified transcripts from massage school, verification of the national certification test, and a cashier's check or money order for $25 to the Alabama state board in order to get a state license.

Once a massage therapist has successfully obtained his/her license in Alabama, he/she must take 16 hours of continuing education classes every two years in order to renew it.

After going through all of this to get a license, be very careful to take the required CEU classes on time so that your license does not expire!