Scottish Enterprise Awards 2021

33 | Scottish Enterprise Awards 2021 A wellness facility offering non-invasive and gentle solutions to skin rejuvenation, health, nutrition, and weight loss, Bio Clinic is led by founder Ruth Strachan. Essentially, after years of work across various salons and clinics in her area, gaining experience working for the NHS in order to fully understand the challenges facing people in their wellness journeys, Ruth and Bio Clinic has dedicated itself to providing empathic, sensitive, and lasting wellness solutions that won’t break the bank or require long recovery times. Bio Clinic, when asked to define itself, calls itself an ‘advanced skin and wellness clinic’. This means that whereas many of its competitors in the wellness industry offer invasive and sometimes incredibly uncomfortable treatments, many of which may be unsuitable for people looking for a less intensive introduction to professional skincare, it provides evidence-based treatments that focus on external treatment and gentle care. Founded by Ruth Strachan in June of 2018, Bio Clinic’s commitment to operating in this way started with her. Fundamentally, she wished to cultivate a clinic with a less aggressive approach to medical aesthetics that would instead take a more empathic, change-over- time tack to its treatments, with each treatment enhancing looks and giving a client a chance to relax away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, taking time for themselves. In this manner, Ruth has managed to develop an establishment that offers a wide range of treatments, all of which follow her non-invasive mantra. These treatments can help a client in tackling everything from skin rejuvenation to weight loss, acne, rosacea, pigmentation, fluid retention, cellulite, skin tightening, wound healing, scar reduction, pain management, and overall health and nutrition help. Additionally, by offering such a comprehensive list of services, a client is sure to find something in her repertoire that will help them; they can also benefit from Ruth’s overall health and wellbeing knowledge during their visit to the clinic in order to gain advice, help, and direction. With over 20 years of experience in health and wellbeing, Ruth’s career has spanned all manner of clinics and salons in Aberdeen, working as a beauty therapist at each of these and gaining knowledge, further training, and notoriety as a skilled and diligent worker. Moreover, during this time she worked at the city centre salon, a hugely technologically and procedurally advanced salon at the time, and one of the first salons in Scotland to offer CACI treatments. During her time working for this clinic, Ruth herself cultivated her skills with non-surgical and non-invasive treatments – skills that would eventually lead her to setting up Bio Clinic – and specialising in non-surgical face lifts and weight loss therapies in particular. After studying and graduating with a diploma in nursing, Ruth found her passion in preventative medicine and patient health in particular. Thus, nursing became her new passion, and she spent 11 years working for the NHS in the field of public health, where her capabilities and knowledge as a healthcare professional grew and became truly exemplary, allowing her to enter the medical aesthetics industry with a depth and breadth of experience under her belt. An advocate of clients taking back their healthcare through dietary measures, wellbeing, lifestyle changes, and more, Bio Clinic has gained notoriety as one of Scotland’s top aesthetic clinics, and will continue to develop this reputation as it moves towards the future. Company: Bio Clinic Contact: Ruth Strachan Website: bioskinclinic.co.uk Oct21423 Most Advanced Skin & Wellness Clinic - North Coast