Practitioner present view · Internal
One treatment is the start. A year is the relationship.
This is how we deliver the journey the website promises. Walk the client through it in the room — the same four stages they saw online, now with what to say and do at each one.
Public page → sets the expectation. This page → keeps it. They draw on one shared journey model, so they always match.
Before you start · the reframe
Hospital medicine discharges. Aesthetic medicine cultivates.
The whole flip is one question: not “What is wrong?” but “What do you want?”
The journey · four stages
What the client sees · what you do
- 01
The consultation
£50, fully redeemed against your first treatment.
The client sees
Thirty minutes with Eli or Galina, including digital skin analysis — pigmentation, sun damage, hydration, sensitivity. You leave with a written First-Year Map: what, when and why, phased across twelve months.
You deliver
Playbook §2 · §3The journey is born here. Listen first, present outcomes not injection sites, close with a sequenced choice — and send them home with a written First-Year Map.
Say
- Open: “When you look in the mirror, what would you like to feel?”
- Close with choice, never yes/no: “Skin quality this season and the under-eyes in spring — or the reverse? Which bothers you more day to day?”
Do
- ✓Full-face assessment at rest and in animation
- ✓Digital skin analysis (the £50 redeems against treatment)
- ✓Photograph everything — your continuity instrument
- ✓Write the one-page First-Year Map together
Sets up the next visit
Pre-book the 2-week review before they leave — it is printed on the Map.
Watch out
No flaw-cataloguing, no same-day pressure, no “risk-free” language. POMs are discussed here only — never online.
- 02
The foundation
Your first treatment — with a review built in.
The client sees
The first treatment on your map, followed by a two-week review where results are photographed, checked and refined. The review is part of the treatment, not an upsell window.
You deliver
Playbook §5 · §6Deliver the first treatment, then run the 2-week review like a ward round — photograph, refine, and only then re-open the Map.
Say
- “Your review is part of this treatment — shall we put it in now? I have Thursday the 14th.”
- “I’d rather see you ten minutes too early than a month too late.”
Do
- ✓Treat the first item on the Map
- ✓At 2 weeks: photograph and compare against baseline, with the client watching
- ✓Check and refine — small corrections now prevent quiet dissatisfaction
Sets up the next visit
Secure the next date before they leave — target ≥65% rebooked.
Watch out
The review is a clinical touchpoint, never a place to sell beyond what the Map already contains.
- 03
The rhythm
Maintenance scheduled by biology, not marketing.
The client sees
Each treatment has a biological interval — when collagen production peaks and fades, when bio-remodellers settle. Your next visit is set by that mechanism, and we show you the science behind every date.
You deliver
Playbook §4 · §7 · §9Maintenance scheduled by biology, not demand. Each treatment class has its own follow-up rhythm — see the protocols below.
Say
- “Here is when biology will ask for the next visit” — never “come back to buy more.”
- Window nudge: “You’re entering the window where Profhilo starts to fade — here’s the link if you’d like to stay inside it.”
Do
- ✓Tie every date to the biological interval (the protocols below)
- ✓Use the 5-template follow-up pack via Fresha / WhatsApp
- ✓Keep facials as the standing ritual between phases
Sets up the next visit
Each treatment class’s chain sets the next visit automatically.
Watch out
No urgency mechanics — “we’re filling up fast” is banned (off-brand and an ASA risk).
- 04
The annual edit
Once a year, the whole plan is reassessed.
The client sees
Skin changes; goals change. Once a year the full plan is re-examined against new photographs — treatments that earned their place stay, the rest are edited out.
You deliver
Playbook §8 · §12Once a year, reassess against fresh photos. Keep what earned its place — and say the ethical “no”.
Say
- “My honest advice is: not yet — let’s sequence the proven things first.”
- “If you only do one thing this year, it isn’t this — it’s X. Then let’s revisit.”
Do
- ✓Full reassessment with side-by-side photos
- ✓Edit the plan down as happily as up
- ✓Mondays: the 15-minute metrics huddle
Sets up the next visit
The edit writes next year’s Map — and the loop repeats.
Watch out
A client refused honestly returns and refers; a client over-treated quietly disappears.
Stage 03, in detail · the follow-up engine
Every treatment names its own next visit
This is the connective tissue. Each class has a biological rhythm; the client already saw the short version (“Then · …”) on the menu. Here is the full chain, and the line to say.
Biostimulators (Sculptra)
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Day 0
First of 2–3 sessions
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Wk 4–6
Next session(s)
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Mo 3–6
Your own collagen peaks
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Mo 12–18
Top-up
“Your collagen keeps building for months after the last session — we’ll see the real result in spring.”
Bio-remodellers (Profhilo, skin boosters)
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Day 0
Session 1
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Wk 4
Session 2 locks it in
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Wk 8
Review
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Mo 6–9
Maintain
“The second session a month from now is what locks the result in.”
HA fillers
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Day 0
Treat
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Wk 2
Review & refine
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Mo 12
Annual reassessment
“HA is reversible — we review at two weeks and reassess yearly; dissolving is always on the menu.”
Energy & microneedling (also peels, laser, RF, fat-freezing)
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Day 0
Session 1 of ~3
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Every few wks
Build the series
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After series
Review
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1–2×/yr
Maintain
“Each session builds on the last — three is where the structure changes.”
Regenerative flagship (exosomes, PRP, polynucleotides)
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Day 0
Short series begins
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Mo 3
Review
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Mo 12
Fold into the annual edit
“The science here is young — we under-promise, review at month three, and fold it into your yearly plan.”
Facials — the rhythm-keeper
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Monthly–quarterly
Standing ritual between phases
“This is what keeps everything else looking its best between phases.”
Prescription-only — consultation path only
These never get an interval, price or booking link in public — the website keeps them consultation-only and so does this view.
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Expression lines (prescription-only)
Consultation only. Never name the medicine, price it, or state its interval in public (Reg 284 HMR 2012; CAP 12.12).
Softening expression lines -
Filler correction (prescription-only)
Consultation only — a safety service, never sold from a price list.
Filler correction & dissolving
The leave-behind · §3
Every consultation ends with this on paper
The written First-Year Map is the single most powerful retention instrument — and the medico-legal plan record. The website now promises it, so every client must actually receive one.
- Month 0–1 Phase 1 · Foundation First treatment, plus the 2-week review — pre-booked on the Map.
- Months 2–4 Phase 2 · Build The core of the plan; every interval gets its biological “why”.
- Months 5–11 Phase 3 · Rhythm Maintenance scheduled by biology, not demand.
- Month 12 Month 12 · The annual edit Full reassessment with photos. Keep what earned its place.
Optional items are labelled “enhancements, not corrections”. Indicative year total may be edited down.
Whole team · §10
Retention never tips into a breach
- ●Never name a POM in public — no toxin brand names anywhere. Public framing is always “consultation for lines and wrinkles” (Reg 284 HMR 2012; CAP 12.12).
- ●No remote prescribing, ever — face-to-face assessment before any prescription-only medicine.
- ●No before/after of toxin results in public; signed, dated, unmanipulated consent on file before any case photo is published (CAP 3.45–3.50).
- ●No urgency mechanics, no fear appeals, never “risk-free”. Under-18s: no cosmetic injectables.
- ●Substantiate or shelve “award-winning”, “1000+ treatments”, “100% satisfaction”.