Category: Personal Development

  • Being Seen

    “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” Jerry Seinfeld This quote from Jerry Seinfeld beautifully captures the…

  • The Hidden Value of Action

    There are two main schools of thought when it comes to how to do things: that we should get ourselves into alignment with what we want before we take action (or in other words, wait until we feel ready) or that we should take the action anyway. Personally, I move backwards and forwards between these…

  • The Moving Stupids

    The team of therapists I work with in Naas recently moved to new premises at the Osprey Business Centre. It’s an exciting move for us. As with any transition, there’s a period of letting go of the old and finding my feet in the new. I have decided to leave behind some of the bits…

  • EFT Video- Calming the Panic Around Change

    The Sky is Falling In!! When setting up a practice for the first time, or when taking some big step in your practice that asks you to move out of your familiar zone and into something different, it is natural that strong feelings can arise. There’s the anxiety: What is going to happen? The self-doubt:…

  • Getting To More Than Enough

    I have spoken in previous articles about the 3 Phases of a Therapy Practice: Not Enough, Just About Enough and More Than Enough. I have also explored some of the aspects of moving from the first phase to the second. Today, I’d like to look at the work needed to move to the More Than…

  • Moving to the “Just Enough” Stage in your Practice

    When I left my job in the accountancy profession to finish my training as a therapist, I was surprised by how difficult I found the transition to being self-employed. I had been self-employed before, so I thought it would be easy to do it again, this time as a therapist. What took me most by…

  • 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…

  • The Support Inside

    Often the challenge for therapists around what needs to be done to create the practice they want is not a lack of information. It’s not that people don’t know what to do. In truth, if you want to find out how to do pretty much anything, Google will give you the answer. In this high…

  • Assertive Skills to Make Your Practice More Profitable

    Assertive behaviour can help to create a more profitable therapy practice. Often confused with aggressiveness, which is concerned with winning, Assertiveness is stating clearly and directly what you want or how you feel about a situation. It is a both/and position rather than an either/or, and is based in mutuality of respect for ourselves and…

  • It’s Not as Solid as it Looks

    A friend shared his good news with me. Many years after starting his training, he finally achieved accreditation as a psychotherapist. I was delighted for him, as it hadn’t been the easiest or most direct journey for him. As we talked about it, he said to me, “It taught me that things are not as…