This Business of Therapy

Tag: contracting with counselling client

  • More About Contracts with Clients

    recently, I wrote about contracts with clients, and the value of committing them to writing. I was talking there about the explicit contract, the practical issues of how the structure of the work will look. While the terms of the explicit contract are discussed and agreed, there is another level at which the contract is…

  • Contracting with a Therapy Client

    One of the first things we are taught in training to be a counsellor or therapist, is about contracting. One of the tasks of the first session with a client is to set out and agree the terms of the contract. Do you commit your contract to writing? It’s not essential, but certainly something you…