Device physics, Fitzpatrick typing, fluence settings and supervised hands on practice for nurses, therapists and clinic teams.
Most operators learn laser hair removal from the supplier who sold them the machine. That training covers the buttons. It rarely covers why a setting that works on Fitzpatrick II causes a burn on Fitzpatrick V, or what to do in the twenty minutes after it happens.
This course teaches the physics underneath the settings, then puts you on a diode and an IPL platform under supervision until your parameter choices are yours rather than a preset.
Program overview
Laser hair removal is one of the highest volume treatments in Australian aesthetics and one of the most commonly performed by undertrained operators. Burns, hypopigmentation and paradoxical hair growth almost always trace back to a parameter choice made without understanding selective photothermolysis.
The program covers both diode laser and intense pulsed light platforms, because most Australian clinics run both and they behave differently on the same skin type. You finish able to justify every setting you select and to recognise an adverse event while it is still manageable.
Course curriculum
The program moves from laser science to supervised device operation, so you understand both the physics and the clinical judgement behind every treatment decision.
Burns, erythema, blistering and hypopigmentation, with protocols and referral pathways.
Is This Right for You?
Registered nurses adding laser hair removal to an existing scope, either inside an aesthetics clinic or when setting up a treatment offering of their own.
Qualified therapists moving into a medically supervised clinic environment who need formal laser safety and technique training to work alongside clinical staff.
Owners who need documented evidence that every operator on the floor has been trained on the specific platforms the clinic runs.
Priya N., registered nurse, Sydney
It depends on the state. Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania require a licence. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, the ACT and the Northern Territory do not. Nursing registration does not exempt you from state radiation licensing where it applies.
Plan for six to eight sessions spaced four to eight weeks apart, then maintenance. Hair grows in cycles and only follicles in the active growth phase respond, which is why spacing matters more than session count. Facial and hormonally driven hair typically needs more sessions than body areas.
All six, with different devices and parameters. Higher Fitzpatrick types carry greater risk of burns and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation because there is more competing epidermal melanin. Longer wavelengths, longer pulse durations, lower fluence and effective cooling are the levers. The course covers the parameter logic for each type rather than giving you a preset chart.
Diode laser and intense pulsed light. Both are covered because most Australian clinics run both and they require different parameter reasoning on the same patient.
Yes. Practical sessions run at our Chatswood rooms at Suite 1101, 1/5 Railway Street. Theory components can be completed before you attend.
Aesthetics Consults, Suite 1101, South Tower, 1/5 Railway Street, Chatswood NSW 2067
Phone 02 8526 4838