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The Big Drop – Have You Thought About A Pension?
Some years ago, one of the financial institutions ran an ad that asked, “Are you ready for the big drop?” The big drop was, of course, the gap between our income before retirement and after retirement. The point being made was that some people have insufficiently provided for their pension. Are you one of those?…
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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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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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Can the Client Pay?
Twice recently, while discussing with therapists who might be their ideal clients, the question of clients’ ability to pay came up. Or rather, it didn’t come up. Neither of the therapists in question mentioned ability to pay as a criteria they would consider in forming an idea of their ideal client. And yet, both of…
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Summertime and the Living is Easy…or maybe not! Coping With Seasonality
It’s been a glorious summer, sunshine all the way. But for some practitioners, any summer, and a fine one in particular, is not the good news it might be. For many reasons, the holiday season can result in a fall off of work for counsellors and therapists. Clients feel better, they go on holidays, or…
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Who Minds the Shop?
A couple of years ago, my therapist had to drop out of the work at short notice due to a sudden illness. I can still remember the shock of learning that she was going to be absent for several months, and the difficulty I had in dealing with it at the time. My therapist had…