Tag: Build a therapy practice

  • Private Therapy Practice: Practice Management

    I rarely write about practice management. This is probably because it has none of the “sex appeal” of the inner work, or money issues, or even marketing. Like most other therapists, I find the run of the mill housekeeping tasks associated with being a business owner at best mildly boring, and at worst, mind numbing.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • New Online Course “Marketing Your Practice”

    I am delighted to announce that a new online course is coming soon from This Business of Therapy and TherapyAcademy.ie. Presented by Jude Fay the new course includes 10 modules, with videos, text files and exercises to help you to integrate what you learn. Learn it at your own pace, at your desk. 10 hours…

  • Starting Out? Avoid these common mistakes!

    I’m often asked what in my view is the biggest mistake that people make when setting up a therapy practice for the first time. It’s hard to see what’s the biggest, but there are a few that crop up again and again. Spending too much time and energy on clients and their issues, and not…

  • Hidden Agendas

    As we start a new year, and may be making some new year’s resolutions, it’s a good time to ask ourselves what do we want for our practices over the coming year. It’s a straightforward question which can have a complicated answer because often we want many things, and some of the things we want…

  • Integrating Therapy and Business: Making Our Practice Our Own

    In my last article I spoke of how the journey to create a therapy practice can also be a journey towards personal integration. In this article, I look at this journey from the perspective of the second pillar of a successful therapy practice, Knowing Your Practice. In the second pillar, we build on our decision…