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Lies, damn lies and perceptions
I recently had to complete my application to renew accreditation. It’s a tedious task, filling out all the details, gathering all of the information, the CPD certs, the client hours and so on. I am a member of three professional bodies, so this is a task I have to perform fairly regularly.As you do when…
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The Power of Decisions
Decisions made a long time ago may now be out of date. They run in our minds like a computer virus.
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We Live in Interesting Times…
Uncertainty If you asked me a month ago about certainty, I would have told you that while I always have plans, none of them are set in stone. I thought I had learned to hold my plans lightly!!Some weeks ago, I travelled to the US for a conference. Before I went, I took a photo…
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Is Social Distancing leaving you with time on your hands?
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How Wrong Was I?
I love personal development work. I’ve been doing it for more than 30 years and I can’t get enough. But sometimes it’s a defense for me. I would prefer to go back and look at some awful experience in my past than I would to do something for my therapy business that’s challenging and new.…
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Running on Empty
I have written before about how we relate to our practices. I regularly use the analogy of a growing child to describe the developmental stages of your therapy business. If you’re looking to grow your therapy practice, it may help to think of it as a young child. If your practice were a young child,…
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How does my practice grow?
One of the questions I hear a lot from therapists is “How does my private counselling practice grow?” I was a curious child. One of my favourite books growing up had a poem called, “How does the aspirin know where to go?” Unfortunately, the book didn’t answer the question and all these years later I…
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What they didn’t tell you in school…
I often think that creating a therapy practice is a bit like leaving school. Do you remember your last year in school? The restrictions of timetables, classes, homework and early bedtimes on school days were stifling. The comparative freedom of work or college was inviting. I thought my elder siblings had it so easy with…
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Private Therapy Practice: Practice Management
I rarely write about practice management. This is probably because it has none of the “sex appeal” of the inner work, or money issues, or even marketing. Like most other therapists, I find the run of the mill housekeeping tasks associated with being a business owner at best mildly boring, and at worst, mind numbing.…