Welcome to AM Academy. In the administration you will meet the following employees:
Susan Wichmand
General Manager
Trained as a Physician Certified Physiurgical Massage Therapist and Chair Massage Therapist with subsequent courses in sports injuries, trigger points, techniques for headaches and more. Susan teaches anatomy and the practical part of the program. She also teaches Chair Massage. She is a judge at DM & VM in massage.
Amalie Wichmand
Our mission is to provide in-depth training of the highest quality. This requires not only having the most competent trainers in the country, it also requires that our competent trainers possess special learning skills to pass on their knowledge, passion and personal competencies. Meet our talented trainers:
Thomas Raaschou
Trained as a licensed physiotherapist at AM Academy. Subsequently graduated as a body therapist. Courses in headache, migraine and acupuncture. Has played soccer at elite level and been a masseur for semi-professional cycling teams. Teaches massage/anatomy and movement analysis in our massage education program and treatment techniques in the sports specialty.
Charlotte Wichmand
Charlotte is a trained physician and works in the hospital sector. She is also a licensed physiotherapist from AM Massage School in 2016.
Charlotte continuously updates the school’s teaching material in Physiology and has developed the e-learning modules Anatomy & Physiology and Pathology & Pharmacology.
She teaches Physiology at Step 1 & Step 3. According to Charlotte, she is “Motivated to educate and impart knowledge about the body’s amazing properties and designs to students who have chosen to work with the body in focus”.
Christina Melby
Christina is a midwife since 2013. After her education, Christina worked as a midwife in labor and delivery until she started a private midwifery business in early 2020. Here she offers various treatments and courses for pregnant women and their partners. This includes birth preparation and pregnancy massage. With this background, Christina has both a solid education and broad hands-on experience when it comes to creating the best and safest environment for treatments with pregnant women. Christina teaches on our course in Pregnancy massage.
Jacob Hansen
Jakob has practiced as a physiotherapist since 1995 and currently works in his own clinic, Fysioteamet in Hellerup, where he has assembled a team of skilled therapists and trainers. Over the years, Jakob has trained and taken courses in both manual therapy and training, but since 2009 he has focused on improving his skills in functional neurology through Z-Health Performance, where he completed his Mastertrainer in 2015. Jakob’s great interest and area of expertise is therefore training, pain management and lifestyle optimization based on the nervous system. Jakob has also been teaching in the fitness industry since 1994, where he has educated and held courses for many instructors and personal trainers. The last 4-5 years, however, the focus has been on communicating functional neurology around the country at conventions, clinics, companies and in his own clinic.
Anja Schandorff
Trained school teacher, ACT teacher, Fitness instructor and Certified Physiurgical Masseur. In addition, Anja has taken several continuing education courses in massage including ADHD & Massage. Anja teaches Anatomy/Massage & Tactile Massage on our Massage Education program and she teaches all our Children’s Massage courses.
Aleksandra Zegalski
Aleksandra is a trained Physiotherapist and Osteopath, and has 7 years of clinical experience with training programs, manual treatment and exercise therapy. She has a holistic approach to the anatomy, physiology and function of the body, always looking at the whole body instead of just focusing on the affected area. Aleksandra believes that correct diagnosis is a crucial starting point for a successful treatment program.