Betty — independent masseuse in Melbourne

What a personal masseuse should be

This is the standard I use for a personal masseuse. One person, one table, the west of Melbourne. Betty is the name I give when someone in Werribee should not have to come into town.

• One client at a time Not a row of tables turning every half hour. A personal masseuse works the body in front of her, then the next person — never a factory.
• Answers the phone and keeps the time You call, a person picks up, the hour is yours. No receptionist reading a script. No disappearing number.
• Hands that read the back She works what is tight today, not a laminated menu recited the same way for every walk-in.
• Private enough to actually exhale A quiet room, not a shopfront window on a main road. You should leave the street at the door.
• Close to where you live The west of Melbourne should not mean a crawl into the CBD for a proper hour. Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Point Cook, Tarneit, Wyndham Vale — stay west.
• Clear and professional Massage. Clothes stay on. No hard sell at the door, no extras menu, no confusion about what the hour is for.
• You walk out worked, not rushed The session finishes when the work is done, not when the next buzzer goes. That is the whole point of seeing one person.