No matter where you find yourself in your aesthetics career, as someone who has been through it all, I have learned along the way that it is imperative to have a mentor with you at every step.1 Mentors can be called many things and wear many hats – advisors, guides, confidants, counsellors, consultants, therapists, gurus, tutors, trainers, coaches – and can embody all of these along the course of someone’s journey.
From being freshly qualified in foundation toxin and fillers to having a successful clinic and perhaps working with brands and being a key opinion leader, everybody can benefit from someone to guide and challenge them.
According to the Cambridge dictionary, mentorship is defined as ‘the activity of giving a younger or less experienced person help and advice over a period of time, especially at work or school’.2 Within aesthetics, it is not just help and advice, but clinical…