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Choices in Private Therapy Practice
One of the skills of being self employed in private therapy practice is learning to make choices that serve us. That’s easy to say, but not always so easy to do! And sometimes it’s hard to know what choice might serve us best. Why we choose one option over others is complex and individual, and…
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Private Practice Counselling Business Plan
About to start a counselling private practice? And looking for an easy-to-follow guide on writing a business plan that works? Our private practice counselling business plan template is for you! But before getting into the specifics let’s first first address 2 key questions… What is a business plan? Quite literally, it’s a plan for your…
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Isolation
One of the most common things that I hear from therapists in private practice is that they feel isolated. They work one on one with clients, they meet their supervisor or their own therapist, but they notice the lack of other human interaction at work. There’s a balance to be found between pulling back when…
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What am I proving and to whom?
I have recently become more aware of how much energy I put into proving my worthiness. In some respects, this is not new to me, but recently the extent of it is becoming clearer. I am trying to prove I am good enough to deserve love, appreciation, support, reward, rest, a place and more. It’s…
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VAT on Counselling and Psychotherapy Fees
When Counsellors and Psychotherapists provide services to clients for a fee, and, where those fees exceed the €37,500pa threshold, those services are liable to VAT at 13.5%. Once the threshold is reached, all of your fees are subject to VAT, not just the excess over the threshold amount. Last July, Counselling and Psychotherapy services were…
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Adding a little love to your marketing!
Adding a little love to your marketing! In February we celebrated Valentine’s Day. You could be forgiven for thinking it was about sales of cards, chocolate, and flowers, or that it was just for the young ones. It has got bent and twisted out of shape over the years, so much so, that many people…
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IACP Conference Presentation
I recently spoke at the IACP Annual Conference on the topic, “The Private Practice of the Future.” If you missed it, you can find a video of the presentation here. On the same day, Dr Terry Lynch spoke about how therapists have in his view deferred too much to the medical profession in relation to…
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Managing Your Practice and Personal Integration
As with all business aspects of private practice, managing our practices offers us many opportunities to grow and develop as a person. Many people see our work as distinct and separate from business, and part of my mission is to change that perspective! In previous articles I have written about how engaging with the business…
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If money was my sister…
Like practising counselling and psychotherapy, self-employment is a personal development process. As we meet each new situation in our practice that asks something of us, whether it is learning to market ourselves, or finding appropriate rooms to work in, we are offered an opportunity to grow into the person we need to be at that…
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Integrating Therapy and Business: Growing Your Practice
I have previously written about how the journey to create a practice can be a part of our journey towards personal integration. In my previous articles, I wrote about the first two pillars of a therapy practice in this context. You can find these articles here (The Business of Therapy: A Journey Towards Integration?) and…