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What Should I Charge?
This is an interesting question, not only for newly qualified therapists starting out, but also those in practice for a while. And there’s no right answer. You are free to charge what you want. I personally believe that it is important that some fee changes hands, even if it is a nominal one, but it…
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What Do You Think of the Competition?
What comes to mind when you hear the word “competition”? For many people, it conjures up a sense of threat. But I wonder if you have ever thought of the competition as an asset? A common topic of discussion among therapists is the challenge of isolation. Perhaps surprisingly, this is not just a feature of…
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What Horse Riding Taught Me About Therapy Practice: Part 2
Jumping, Ambivalence and the Power of Making Choices I’m the wimp of our family when it comes to any risk of physical injury. Where my brothers and sisters inherited the “neck or nothing” gene, I seem to have missed out. While they hunted and rode as children, I fell off and got such a scare…
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Accounting 101
I wrote sometime ago about ways you could make your accounting easier. See my post at “paperwork-blues” Many people struggle with the whole accounting thing, and I can see their eyes glaze over at the mention of it, but at its essence it is no more than a version of that child’s toy that I…
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A Business Plan for a Therapy Practice? You must be kidding!
If you are setting up a therapy business, you’re going to need a private practice counselling business plan. It seems over the top doesn’t it? You just want to help people, and don’t want to be bothered with all this business stuff. I get it. But before you close this post down in disgust, bear…
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Spending Time ON Your Practice
A reader of one of my newsletters wrote to tell me of her struggle to find time to work on her accounts. It reminded me of how often we can forget that running a practice is more than just seeing the clients. There are lots of little tasks that need to be done to keep…
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Where to Practice From? Location, location, location!
One of the key decisions in starting to practice is where to base yourself. It may seem like you have lots of options, or very few. Here are some ideas to consider, and help you choose:
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All About Business Cards
At a recent meeting of therapists I attended, one recently qualified therapist was describing the dilemmas that she had met in deciding on a design for her business cards. It’s an issue that can tie people in knots, and keep them stuck for long periods of time, while they work through their feelings. I thought…
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What’s in a Name?
How do you decide what to call your counselling or therapy practice? Do you use your own name, or do you opt for a name that conjures an image in the mind of potential clients or referrers? Do you choose something that captures the essence of the service you’re hoping to provide? Here are some…
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Paperwork Blues?
7 Tips for Easier Accounting It’s coming up to that time of year, when the deadline for submission of accounts and tax returns for self-employed professionals looms. If you haven’t got your 2019 accounts completed and submitted yet, it might be time to start thinking about it. Tax Payment 31 October is also the time…