Tag: counselling practice

  • Business and Finance Fundamentals for Private Practice: Free Masterclass

    Free Masterclass with Jude Fay and Emma Murphy John Lowe (the Money Doctor) and Emma Murphy of Opal Success recently presented a great live event “Business and Finance Fundamentals for Private Practice.” The event wasn’t recorded, but many attended and there were many requests for a replay. So Emma and I got together earlier this…

  • The One That Got Away…

    Disappointments and failures can hold us back from risking again

  • Therapy Practice, Resistance & The Third Way

    Resistance helps us to stay safe and know the limits of our abilities. But like a young child, it shouldn’t be in charge!

  • Is Social Distancing leaving you with time on your hands?

    Special offers to help your practice My Online Workshops are on special offer… The Business of Therapy: Starting a Therapy Practice is €9.99 (€85 off) for the next five days only (2nd to 6th April 2020): Use this link Marketing a Therapy or Coaching Practice is €9.99 (€85 off) for the next five days only…

  • VAT on Counselling and Psychotherapy Fees

    When Counsellors and Psychotherapists provide services to clients for a fee, and, where those fees exceed the €37,500pa threshold, those services are liable to VAT at 13.5%. Once the threshold is reached, all of your fees are subject to VAT, not just the excess over the threshold amount. Last July, Counselling and Psychotherapy services were…

  • Integrating Therapy and Business: Growing Your Practice

    I have previously written about how the journey to create a practice can be a part of our journey towards personal integration. In my previous articles, I wrote about the first two pillars of a therapy practice in this context. You can find these articles here (The Business of Therapy: A Journey Towards Integration?) and…

  • 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…

  • My Own Best Boss

    I’ve often said in these articles that when we are self-employed we are both the boss and the employee. I was thinking about that recently, and wondering what sort of a boss I would like to be to myself? The job of the boss is many layered. The boss Directs the business Monitors progress Supervises…

  • 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…