SL_PROFILE_LaMaison_0720_Layout 1 7 / 21 / 20 11 : 32 AM Page 1 by LEIGH STUART photography by NINA LEA PHOTOGRAPHY D PROFILE | Victoria Rappaport sees the inherent beauty in the world around her . This proclivity has served her well in the course of her 20 - plus - year career as a licensed medical aesthetician , master aesthetician , laser safety officer , and permanent cosmetics artist . Rappaport got her start in the aesthetics field while working for a family medicine practice . Inspired by the life - changing work of a derma - tologist who visited the office several times a month , and spurred forward by her desire to treat patients outside of the traditional healthcare model , she pursued studies in skin care and permanent cosmetics . She then began assisting the visiting dermatologist with patients and was , simply , “ hooked . ” Her passion for helping patients has only intensified in the years since . She steadily accrued extensive experience managing and leading medical spas , and these experiences informed her as she made overtures to open a medical spa of her own : La Maison House of Aesthetics , which she co - founded with Jon Peet , M.D . , who serves as medical director . Their goal : to offer a host of noninvasive and minimally invasive pro - cedures as a way to promote confidence in men and women . “ Opening my own spa has been my dream since I learned aesthetics , ” Rappaport says . “ We are not an ordinary spa . We are about wellness for both women and men . ” One such treatment includes an innovative therapy known as PRP , short for platelet - rich Seeing plasma . Designed to utilize the body’s inherent restorative capabilities , PRP incorporates throm - bocytes that have been separated out of the patient’s own blood and injected into areas where rejuvenation is desired . Rappaport , who worked previously in a hair loss surgery center , has seen firsthand the emotional Beauty All toll that hair loss can take on men and women alike . That’s why La Maison offers PRP microneedling sessions for the scalp . During such sessions , PRP is injected at points where hair regrowth is desired ; optimal results require a series of these sessions . Around La Maison also offers PRP for skin rejuvenation and a procedure with an intimidating name : the “ Vampire Facial . ” While this treatment may sound As co - founder of the forthcoming La Maison scary , it is simply microneedling of the patient’s House of Aesthetics in Newtown , Victoria own harvested platelets into the face with the goal of achieving healthy , fresh - looking skin . Rappaport inspires confidence and promotes Additional nonsurgical procedures offered will include a nonsurgical “ face - lift ” package wellness for men and women alike . ( consisting of Botox , a filler such as Juvéderm , SUBURBANLIFEMAGAZINE.COM JULY 2020 80 |