Arizona was the first state to implement comprehensive training requirements spelling out who can use a laser, how much training is required and who can provide the training. The Arizona Department of Health Services (formerly known as the Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency (ARRA)) oversees the certification of laser operators, medical directors, and health professionals. Other states have implemented similar regulations based on the Arizona model.

EALA is one of the few training centers to receive AZDHS approval in all six laser training certification areas. EALA offers ARRA approved courses to instruct its students as medical directors, health professionals, laser technicians, and laser safety officers. In the state of Arizona, you must be certified by AZDHS to legally work with cosmetic lasers and intense pulsed light (IPL). You are also now required to have documentation of RF training as well. Every Arizona business using cosmetic lasers and IPL must have a medical director that is certified by AZDHS and there must be a laser safety officer on record. Additionally, both the facility and each laser device must be registered with the AZDHS. The penalties for non-compliance are costly and significant so it is essential that all rules are followed.

For doctors, nurses, estheticians, cosmetologists, and career changers residing and working outside of Arizona, EALA provides exceptional multimedia, online classes covering the same subjects as taught in our Scottsdale and Nevada locations. These classes can be taken in conjunction with our live clinical classes to complete the training, or as stand-alone classes.

In addition to laser operator, medical director, health professional and laser safety officer classes, we also have created several microneedling classes, chemical peel classes, and a dermaplaning class. All of these are offered as hybrid live/online courses, and most courses are also offered 100% online. Click HERE to see all of our course offerings.

EALA is the creation of nationally acclaimed educator and practicing Master Esthetician, Kristin Groop, The Laser Chick®. She has a background in adult education for over 34 years and was an adjunct faculty member of the Maricopa Community College System. Kristin is licensed in the State of Washington as a Master Esthetician and Educator and in the State of Arizona as an Esthetician, Esthetic Instructor, Cosmetic Laser Operator and Laser Instruction Supervisor.

After spending seven years as the lead instructor for the nation’s largest laser training school, and listening to feedback from faculty, estheticians, and the thousands of students she had taught, Kristin came to realize that overcrowded classes with a poor student to faculty ratio was impacting both the quality of the education received as well as the employability of the graduates.

Rather than be a part of a “degree mill” focused on profit, not student success, Kristin created the curricula for Esthetic Advisor Laser Academy in 2011 knowing that there was a better way to train laser operators to increase their skill set and comprehension of the subjects taught. She has used her passion, experience and extensive knowledge to create the most comprehensive laser and medical esthetics training courses available. She is a national speaker, educator, and has been featured in several international esthetic magazines (les nouvelles magazine, etc.).

No, we can’t do government funding as the class time is too short. We also don’t artificially increase our pricing for our training to show a “discount” that isn’t really a discount.