This Business of Therapy

Tag: home based therapy practice

  • An Introduction to The Business of Therapy

    The popular workshop “The Business of Therapy: Starting a Therapy Practice” which has been running for 5 years is now available on line from TherapyAcademy.ie. If you don’t have time to attend in person, or the dates or venues don’t suit you, this may the course for you. With a full written course, and covering…

  • What Do You Want For and From Your Practice?

    What is your desire for your practice, for your clients, and for yourself? It’s an interesting question, and I wonder how much time you have given to it. How much detail can you create about your desire before you interrupt yourself with something. It might be, “I never get what I want,” or, “It will…

  • Criticism Kills Off Our Desire

    In a recent article about the creative process of setting up in practice, I wrote about how we can interrupt our desire by judging it. Criticism is toxic to creativity, whether it comes from others or from ourselves. I have a big inner critic. Some years ago, I worked with a coach who gave me…

  • Earning a Living From Therapy Practice

    A recent article in the Irish Times said that an average family spent between €45, 000 and €50, 000 between running their home and car, food, property and water tax, education and childcare. This figure does not include income tax, PRSI or USC, nor does it include provision for retirement. If we estimate that those…

  • What If The Boss Won’t Pay?

    At a recent workshop at the IAHIP offices, a group of newly and nearly qualified therapists brainstormed their associations with the word “Business.” After the course, I was reflecting further on our discussion and, in particular, on the question of cancellation fees (always a good topic for an animated discussion among therapists). I was thinking…

  • What do Smoking and Building a Practice Have in Common?

    I started smoking when I was about 14. I didn’t much like the taste of cigarettes, but I persisted. There were lots of cigarettes about which made it easy. My parents discouraged us from smoking, but since they smoked themselves, it didn’t have much effect! Smoking filled a lot of needs for me. Like many…

  • Stuck on a roundabout in your practice and can’t get off?

    Sometimes when growing our practices, it’s like being stuck on a roundabout from which we can’t exit. How might your beliefs or perceptions be blocking your path?

  • Running A Therapy Practice from Your Home

    You’re starting a counselling business, or thinking of changing your therapy rooms. You have a spare room at home which is currently gathering dust and junk, why not use that? There are some obvious advantages. There’s no rent to pay. You can save on travel time and costs. If a client cancels or changes their…