Faculty drawn from thirty years of Tennessee massage practice.
Our faculty have spent their careers in the work — on tables, in clinics, in the field. They're not academics describing massage from the outside; they are practitioners teaching what they actually do.
Bill Mullins III, L.M.T., N.M.T.
Institutional Director & Lead Instructor
Bill Mullins has been a Licensed Massage Therapist and educator in Tennessee for thirty years. A 1996 graduate of the Cumberland Institute for Wellness Education here in Nashville, Bill has held faculty and director roles at some of Middle Tennessee's best-known massage programs — including Southeastern Institute, where he served as Director of the Massage Clinic, and Miller-Motte Technical Institute.
Bill has served as a member of the Tennessee Board of Massage Licensure since 2017 and is a recognized Continuing Education instructor for the State of Tennessee in Tennessee Law, Ethics, Postural Assessment, Reflexology, Self-Care and Body Mechanics, and Total Body Stretch.
In addition to his Tennessee LMT license, Bill holds advanced training and certifications in Neuromuscular Therapy, Positional Release, Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy, Intraoral Massage, Medial Myotherapy, Cranio-Sacral Massage (Upledger Institute), and Qigong Massage (trained in Beijing).
Credentials
- Licensed Massage Therapist — Tennessee
- Neuromuscular Therapist (NMT)
- Tennessee Board of Massage Licensure — Member, 2017–present
- TN CE Instructor (multiple subjects)
- Cumberland Institute, 1996
- A.A., University of Phoenix, 2023
Steve Cram
Co-Founder & Owner
Steve Cram is a co-founder and owner of the Nashville Institute of Massage & Bodywork. Steve also owns two Massage Envy franchise locations in greater Nashville — Brentwood North and Green Hills. Together with the Bellevue and Belle Meade locations owned by his business partner Joe Szablewski, these four affiliated studios employ dozens of Licensed Massage Therapists serving thousands of clients each year.
Steve helped found NIMB after seeing first-hand, year after year, the growing gap between the demand for qualified massage therapists in Middle Tennessee and the supply coming out of existing programs. NIMB is his answer to that gap: a school built by people who already employ massage therapists, designed to train the kind of practitioners they themselves would hire.
Joe Szablewski
Co-Founder & Owner
Joe Szablewski is a co-founder and owner of the Nashville Institute of Massage & Bodywork. Joe owns two Massage Envy franchise locations in greater Nashville — Bellevue and Belle Meade — alongside the Brentwood North and Green Hills locations owned by his partner Steve Cram.
Joe brings the operational and franchise-side perspective to NIMB's leadership team. Running busy ME locations day in and day out has given him a clear view of what working LMTs actually need on day one of their careers, and that perspective shapes how NIMB structures its curriculum, clinical hours, and post-graduation support.
The people who guide every applicant.
NIMB's three-person admissions team is the first point of contact for every prospective student. They walk applicants through the entire process from first call to enrollment, help families navigate payment options, and are the day-to-day point of contact for current students. Reach the team at admissions@nimbtn.com.
Angela Lopez
Admissions
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Susie Gordon
Admissions
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Andrea Serrano
Admissions
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