This Business of Therapy

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  • Earning Enough as a Therapist – Limiting Factors

    Recently, I wrote about the numbers you needed to work on in order to replace your day job with a life as a self-employed therapist. As I said then, in looking at trading a full-time employment position for a full or part time self-employed position, the questions are far more complex than working out the…

  • How Do I Earn Enough as a Therapist so I Can Give up the Day Job?

    Good Question. And on the face of it, this is an easy one to answer: Have sufficient clients paying you a sufficient rate to give you what you want to earn. So if you want to replace a €30,000 a year job, and if your expenses amount to €5,000 per year, you will need to…

  • Look At What Technology Can Do For You…

    The technological age has brought many changes, and not all of them are positive. Relationships changing with the advent of mobile phones, social media and instant information. The old ways are dying out, I hear people say, we aren’t talking any more, we pay more attention to virtual friends than real ones. In other words,…

  • Technology Overwhelm?

    Technology Overwhelm? Are you scared by how quickly the world is changing? Are you tyrannised by your email inbox? Daunted by the idea of online banking? Terrified of the idea of online counselling? Or are you addicted to non-stop information? You’re not alone! The pace of change is staggering. Do you realise that it’s only…

  • Personal Safety

    Working as a self-employed therapist or counsellor, you don’t have the same support structures as there might be within an organisation. Most counselling centres will have small numbers of people, and are unlikely to have security staff. In fact, you may be the only person working on the premises. This is also the case when…

  • Personal Power

    I often hear therapists talking about self esteem, and how a lack of self worth can hinder them in taking action to grow their practice. An important ingredient of self-esteem is personal power. Many people react negatively to the word POWERFUL assuming it means threatening or domineering. As many have experienced being on the receiving…

  • How I Run My Practice – Online Counselling and Psychotherapy

    I spoke to Donijka Monk of IOCPS, (Irish Online Counselling & Psychotherapy Service) about her experience of working with clients online. Background (Donijka speaking) I’ll start by giving you some background into how the IOCPS came into being. Both Mary and & I trained together under Dr Jim O Donnoghue in Castlebar. The training was…

  • Marketing Your Practice – What Makes You Stand Out From The Crowd?

    It’s something I hear at least once a week: “There are so many therapists qualifying these days. How will there ever be enough clients to go around?” I don’t know if there are lots of therapists coming into the system, perhaps there are or there aren’t, but maybe there’s a better way of looking at…

  • Kibera

    It was one of those defining moments, where the world turns on its axis, and everything I thought I knew and believed in started to crumble. I was standing on a railway track looking down on the Kibera slum, just outside Nairobi, where it’s estimated that anything from 200,000 to 1m people live in a…

  • Referrals and Referral Fees

    Referrals are probably the most common way that therapists and counsellors get new clients. Many of them come through personal recommendations, from colleagues, friends, existing or former clients, or through other professionals, such as doctors. Sometimes more formal arrangements are in place, where referrals are made in return for a fee or other consideration. Typically,…