Tag: attract more clients

  • And Now I Know…

    I’ve been making mistakes recently. Silly mistakes, frustrating mistakes, mistakes I wouldn’t usually make. Driving last week, I was thinking about the workshop I was giving on Saturday, Starting a Therapy Practice, and the challenges that starting a therapy practice presents. I was thinking about how there are really two closely interlinked sides to the…

  • Pushing Against Closed Doors

    I’ve written before about how we always have options in addressing an issue. Those options generally break down into the following groups: We can try to change the situation or the other person We can leave the situation or relationship We can change our own behaviour so as to fit in with the situation or…

  • EFT Video for Therapists: Hiding Things

    If my last blog post “Hiding Things” struck a chord for you, you might like my new tapping video. Try it out here:

  • Hiding Things!

    I have noticed recently how much energy I can invest in hiding things I don’t want other people to see, or even that I don’t want to see myself. I’ve known about this tendency of mine for a long time, but recently I notice it all over the place! It’s a product of all the…

  • 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…

  • 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:…

  • Facebook: a good servant or a bad master?

    To Facebook or Not to Facebook? I was at a family function recently at which an argument was raging about Facebook. The pro-camp was strongly in favour, citing the benefits of keeping in touch with family and friends, and being able to share photos and cute and inspirational sayings. The anti-camp were pushing hard, pointing…

  • 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…

  • 5 Common Mistakes Therapists Make in Marketing Their Practices

    So you want to promote your practice but aren’t sure how to go about it? Or you’ve taken some action but it hasn’t given you the results you’d like? In this article I will show you some of the common mistakes that therapists make, and how you can avoid them. The first and most common…