Claire Matthews
Verified Sep 2026
Revalidated
Post-op recovery
Home visits
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For MLD therapists
Be found for the training and experience that set your practice apart.
Create a verified patient-facing profile that brings your recognized training, current professional insurance, specialist areas, procedure experience, fees, home visits and reviews together in one place, with a live badge patients can verify from your own website.
Founding Membership is six months free, then $19 a month, with no payment when you apply. There are 150 founding places, shared across the UK and US. Apply by October 16, 2026 to claim one, while places remain.
Example profile as it appears in search
Claire Matthews
Verified MLD Therapist in Cheltenham · Registration number MLD-0042
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Verified Sep 2026
Revalidated
Told to us by Claire
Post-op recovery
Home visits
Evening appointments
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- Services
- Location & fees
- Reviews
- Contact
About Claire
I have supported people with postoperative swelling for eleven years, including clients recovering from liposuction, abdominoplasty and reconstructive surgery. I work within the timing and aftercare guidance provided by each client's medical team.
I also see clients living with lipedema and lymphedema for ongoing management, and I am happy to work alongside your consultant or lymphedema nurse.
What Claire can help with
Based on their training and stated experience. MLD is used alongside medical care, not instead of it. Always follow the advice of your medical team.
- Post-op recovery
- Lipedema
- Lymphedema
- Cancer-related swelling
- General wellbeing
Example profile. Illustrative therapist.
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Recognized training and current insurance, independently reviewed. Both documents are reviewed by a person before your profile is published.
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Searches led by procedure and condition. Patients seeking postoperative support can narrow their search by the specific surgery they have undergone.
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A live badge, linked to your profile. Patients can confirm your current registration status from your own website at any time.
Help patients understand why you are the right fit
Patients seeking MLD are rarely comparing distance alone. They want to understand whether a therapist's training is relevant to their needs, whether their professional insurance is current, which conditions or procedures they support, what they charge, whether home visits are available and what previous patients have said.
Whether your work centres on postoperative care following cosmetic, reconstructive or medically indicated surgery, lymphedema, lipedema, swelling following cancer treatment or general MLD, your profile is structured around the reason a patient is seeking support.
What a patient can filter by
- Post-op recovery
- Lipedema
- Lymphedema
- Cancer-related swelling
- General wellbeing
They can also filter by home visits, fees and the treatments you offer.
Patients searching after surgery can narrow it to the procedure. Every one of these is a filter:
General liposuction
BBL
Lipedema liposuction
Tummy tuck
Mommy makeover
Body lift
Gynecomastia surgery
Breast surgery
Vascular surgery
Orthopedic surgery
Facelift
What membership includes
How The MLD Register helps patients find you
Being listed only has value if the right patients can find you. We work continuously to build the visibility of the register and connect patients with verified therapists.
- Local discovery. Town and area pages help people searching for MLD support near them find suitable therapists nearby.
- Search optimization. The register, therapist profiles and location pages are structured around the searches patients actually make.
- AI visibility. Profiles and content are structured so AI assistants can understand the register and identify relevant qualified therapists.
- Patient-focused content. Useful guides answer the questions patients are already searching for and direct them towards relevant therapists.
- Professional referrals. We build awareness of the register across the lymphatic, surgical and wider healthcare community.
- Ongoing promotion. Social media, outreach, partnerships, PR and awareness campaigns help bring new patients to the register.
- Designed to generate inquiries. Detailed verified profiles help patients compare therapists, build confidence and choose who to contact.
- A growing network. Every member profile and Verified MLD Therapist badge increases the register's visibility, authority and recognition.
Let patients verify your status from your own website
A static logo can remain on a website long after the circumstances behind it have changed. The MLD Register badge is different.
The live MLD Register badge
It is linked directly to the therapist's current Register profile and served by The MLD Register. If the registration is no longer active, the badge changes automatically and no longer presents the therapist as currently registered.
This live connection is what gives the badge meaning: patients are not simply being shown a claim; they are being given a way to confirm it.
Your membership certificate
The downloadable membership certificate provides a complementary physical record for the treatment room or professional files. Printed use of the badge should always be accompanied by the therapist's registration number so that current status can be checked.
Specimen shown. Your own badge carries your registration number, and its wording follows what you tell us you do: therapists who state postoperative work carry the wording shown here. Your certificate carries your name, your registration number and your verification date.
Founding Membership
There are 150 founding places, shared across the UK and US. Apply by October 16, 2026 to claim one, while places remain.
Founding Member status records membership of the original founding cohort. It does not indicate a higher level of verification or clinical ability.
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Founding Membership
$19 / month
No payment when you apply. Six months free, then $19 a month.
Everything you need to be found and trusted by patients.
- SEO-optimized professional verified profile
- A photo gallery of your practice, up to 6 photographs
- Your own profile URL and a place on your town page
- Live "Verified Postoperative MLD Therapist" badge for your website, linking to your live status
- Registration number and printable certificate for your clinic
- Google rating and client reviews, with initials-only or anonymous options
- Post-op recovery and home-visit filters, so the right patients find you
- Lead generation - inquiries straight to your inbox, with stats
- Dashboard for instant edits and easy card billing
- Document-expiry reminders, timed to your own dates
- 25% off Therapy Webgenie website setup & hosting
Optional add-on, limited positions
Featured Placement
+$29 / month
Adds to your membership. Be seen first in your area.
- Shown first in search results for your area, above other listings
- A "Featured" label on your result card
- One of only 4 Featured positions in your area
- Your area is checked for a free position on the next step
Reserve your Featured position now. No payment is taken today. Featured is free for the same six months as your membership, then billed monthly with it.
Featured placement increases visibility; it does not indicate a higher level of verification or clinical endorsement.
Reserve your Featured positionFounding Member status. Therapists accepted within the founding cohort keep the Founding Member designation while their registration is active, and the preferential rate depends on continuous membership.
No payment is taken when you apply; full details in the Membership Terms.
How joining works
1. Apply and reserve your place
Create your secure member account as a Founding Member and securely enter your card details with Stripe. Nothing is charged today. Your founding place and monthly rate are reserved, subject to successful verification.
2. Tell us about your practice
Answer a few short questions and upload your recognized MLD training certificate and current professional insurance schedule through the secure dashboard. A person reviews your application against the published Verification Standard. We aim to review complete applications within a few working days, then prepare your profile and draft your professional bio.
3. Review and approve
Review the profile we prepare, edit anything you wish and approve it for launch. At The MLD Register's public launch your profile goes live and you receive your registration number, membership certificate and live MLD Register badge for your website. Nothing is charged when it goes live, because founding membership is six months free, then $19 a month.
If anything needs clarification, we explain exactly what is needed and give you 14 days to resolve it. If it cannot be resolved, or your documents do not arrive within 30 days, your reserved place is simply released and nothing is charged.
Independent by design
The MLD Register is not owned by a training school, insurer or professional body, which preserves an independent standard for therapists and patients alike. It is owned and operated by Truly Empowered Ltd, the company behind Therapy Webgenie and VerifiedPractitioner, and funded through published membership fees. Every therapist must meet the same published Verification Standard before being listed.
Each profile brings reviewed training and current insurance together with fees, reviews, home visits and therapist-reported procedure experience, helping patients compare their options with confidence and contact you directly.
Featured placement changes visibility only. It does not alter what is reviewed, confer a higher verification status or imply greater clinical ability.
What we verify
Independently reviewed
Recognized postoperative MLD training and current professional insurance, checked by a person against the published standard before your profile goes live.
Therapist-reported
Specific surgeries and postoperative procedures, fees, home visits, practice locations and your professional biography. You are required to keep these accurate under the Code of Conduct.
Not assessed
Clinical competence, treatment quality and patient outcomes. Verification relates to the documents reviewed, and patient reviews remain separate from it, with their source clearly identified.
Membership of The MLD Register cannot guarantee patient inquiries, search-engine rankings or inclusion within AI-generated results.
Frequently asked questions
Which training programs are accepted?
The Register accepts defined qualifications from recognized MLD schools and specifically accepted specialist programs. The full list and the criteria used are published within the Verification Standard. Recognition is program-specific. Acceptance of one program does not mean that every course delivered by the same provider is accepted.
My original MLD certificate is several years old. Can I still apply?
Yes. An accepted original qualification does not expire solely because of its age. The separate Revalidated status is available where an accepted refresher, review or update has been completed within the previous 24 months.
My practice is principally postoperative rather than lymphedema-focused. Is the Register relevant to me?
Yes. Patients can search by the particular surgery or postoperative procedure they have undergone, including procedures undertaken for cosmetic, reconstructive or medically indicated reasons. Your recognized training is displayed separately from the procedure-specific experience you report, and we do not independently audit caseload numbers, years of experience or treatment outcomes.
What happens to the documents I upload?
Training and insurance documents are stored securely and are not displayed publicly. Access is limited to the people responsible for verification. The public profile displays the outcome and relevant details of the review rather than the underlying documents. Full details in our Privacy Policy.
What happens if my insurance document expires?
The Register issues reminders in advance of the recorded expiry date. Where a replacement document is not supplied, the public profile is suspended and the live badge ceases to display active status until current insurance has been reviewed.
What happens if my application cannot be accepted?
We explain the reason clearly and allow 14 days for missing or clarifying evidence to be supplied. If the matter cannot be resolved, the application is closed and your reserved place is released. Nothing has been charged, and nothing ever is.
Who operates The MLD Register?
The MLD Register is owned and operated by Truly Empowered Ltd, the company behind Therapy Webgenie and VerifiedPractitioner. The company brings more than 20 years' sector experience empowering therapists and health professionals. The MLD Register is independently owned and is not affiliated with or endorsed by a training school, insurer, professional body, charity or the NHS. The longer story is on our About page.
Reserve your founding place
Make your training easier to understand, your status easier to confirm and your practice easier to discover. Founding Membership is six months free, then $19 a month, with no payment when you apply. There are 150 founding places, shared across the UK and US. Apply by October 16, 2026 to claim one, while places remain.