Tag: business start up

  • Willingness to Create a Practice

    There’s a saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Taking that first step, and each of the steps that comes after it asks our willingness to move. Willingness is an essential attribute of being a small therapy practice owner. Not just willingness to do the client work, but also…

  • I Don’t Want To Be Like That…

    For some time when I first started practice, I was plagued by calls from an online advertising agency who wanted my business. Their approach was pushy and aggressive, persistent and intrusive. They always managed to call when I had just started to eat, or relax with a book. It drove me mad. I felt like…

  • 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:

  • Ten Things You Need To Know About Setting Up Practice

    Setting up in practice as a therapist for the first time, there’s a lot to think about. If you’ve never been self-employed before, it can be a bit overwhelming. Where should you start? What should you give priority to? The client work is really important, and it’s what you want to do, but it’s not…

  • 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…

  • If your therapy practice were a car, who’s driving?

    If your therapy practice is a vehicle, are you an owner, a driver or a passenger? Think about a car for a moment. You can enjoy the advantages of a car in different ways. You can own the car, drive someone else’s car, or be a passenger in someone else’s car.

  • 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…

  • The 3 Stages of a Therapy Practice

    In any business whether it’s a global manufacturer, a corner sweet shop, or a professional practice, the business passes through a number of distinct phases. These are not dissimilar to the growth of a seed to a mature tree, or a person from a baby, to a child and adolescent, into an adult. These stages…

  • 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…

  • Does the Word Networking Fill you with Terror?

    Go on, how do you really feel about networking? For me, I can’t imagine anything worse than a room full of people I don’t know. I even find it hard to be part of a room full of people I do know, let alone strike up a conversation with strangers. Does this sound familiar? So,…