This Business of Therapy

Category: Managing Your Practice

  • Working with Others

    Do you work with others in your practice? Perhaps it’s not as formal as a partnership, but arrangements with other practitioners are common in therapy. Often people come together to share costs and otherwise have little interaction, but if you can co-operate with others around you in relation to some of the common tasks, it…

  • Employed or Self-Employed?

    So you’re in a job and thinking of becoming self-employed? Or maybe it’s some time since you’ve been in the workplace, and you’re weighing up the choices. It’s a big step, bigger than you might think, so if you’ve never worked for yourself before, think carefully before making the leap. The thing most people underestimate…

  • Could Your Practice Use a Little Discipline?

    I have been writing a book about starting a practice, and as I have been honing the framework of what I want to say, the word discipline keeps coming to mind. Discipline is a loaded word for me. It conjures images of rigid formations and punishment for infringements of rules. It reminds me of harsh…

  • If your therapy practice were a car, who’s driving?

    If your therapy practice is a vehicle, are you an owner, a driver or a passenger? Think about a car for a moment. You can enjoy the advantages of a car in different ways. You can own the car, drive someone else’s car, or be a passenger in someone else’s car.

  • Using EFT (Tapping) to Support Your Therapy Practice

    Have you heard of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or tapping to support your therapy practice? I have been a fan for about ten years now, and use it every day to support me in my practice. I liked it so much that I trained to become a practitioner, and received my AAMET Level 2 Certificate…

  • What Do Therapy and Criminal Law Have in Common?

    It’s hard to imagine two professions that are less alike than psychotherapy and criminal law. Or so you’d think! After all, criminal law deals with laws and rules, with evidence, argument and ultimately, with winning or losing. Not concepts that you learn in therapy training! I had the pleasure recently of meeting a group of…

  • How Well is Your Practice Performing?

    How do you know you’re earning enough to pay your bills? You may remember that this was a question I addressed some weeks ago, when I showed you how to calculate the Break Even Point for your practice. (You can read the article here.) Calculating the Break Even Point gives you an idea of the…

  • Running A Therapy Practice from Your Home

    You’re starting a counselling business, or thinking of changing your therapy rooms. You have a spare room at home which is currently gathering dust and junk, why not use that? There are some obvious advantages. There’s no rent to pay. You can save on travel time and costs. If a client cancels or changes their…

  • SWOTting Your Therapy Practice

    You’ll probably have heard the term SWOT Analysis. The acronym stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. It’s a commonly used management tool for identifying where your practice is, and helping you to identify priorities and strategies. Sounds a bit over the top for a therapy practice? Maybe, or maybe not. Often, when talking to…

  • Managing Your Personal Cash Flow

    I’ve written before on the subject of cash flow management, but it’s so important that it’s worth writing about again. The work in a therapy practice can come and go, sometimes with little warning, so it helps to have some strategies in place to help to manage your own finances. Here are a few tips…