Setting the Professional Standard in Head Lice Education
The Shepherd Institute exists to elevate the head lice industry, ensuring that no child is left suffering due to misinformation, improper treatment, or lack of access to qualified professionals.
Through rigorous in-person certification training, we prepare individuals to become highly skilled, medically-informed head lice treatment specialists.
Our Founder & CEO, Katie Shepherd, is internationally recognized as one of the foremost authorities on head lice biology, treatment protocols, and industry standards.
With nearly two decades of hands-on clinical experience, she oversees the country’s only nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education, and access to treatment for children affected by head lice.
Her work has helped:
Ensure treatment access for families regardless of ability to pay
Provide up-to-date lice education to universities and schools
Raise the professional bar within an often misunderstood industry
Now, through the Shepherd Institute, she trains the next generation of professional lice specialists.
our standard
Discover the research, mission, and evidence-based strand-by-strand methodology that has shaped professional lice education nationwide.
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become certified
Train in person under one of the world’s leading head lice experts and earn certification in the Shepherd Method.