This Business of Therapy

Tag: money beliefs

  • Reviewing the Situation

    I’ve written before about my belief that money is a bit of a shadow in our profession, and probably for everyone at some level. It’s a subject I have a lot of interest in, having some money related trauma in my past, and from my earlier career in accountancy. I recently came face to face…

  • Assertive Skills to Make Your Practice More Profitable

    Assertive behaviour can help to create a more profitable therapy practice. Often confused with aggressiveness, which is concerned with winning, Assertiveness is stating clearly and directly what you want or how you feel about a situation. It is a both/and position rather than an either/or, and is based in mutuality of respect for ourselves and…

  • Are Negative Thoughts Holding Your Practice Back?

    Do you have negative thought patterns that are getting in the way of you having the practice you’d like to have? No? Maybe? Ask yourself if any of the following are familiar? There are very few clients out there No one has any money People are making other choices, such as Reiki, or Homeopathy, or…

  • Truth or Myth? Common Beliefs About Money and Wealth – Part 2

    Did you resonate with any of those beliefs about money and wealth in my last post on the subject? Did any of them stir any thoughts or feelings for you? Perhaps you can relate to these? Money is the root of all evil. A difficult one this, as it has all the authority of two…

  • Truth or Myth? Common Beliefs About Money and Wealth – Part 1

    For some years now I have been interested in exploring commonly held beliefs about money and wealth. My interest is in how the beliefs that we learn growing up  may shape our actions and behaviour as adults. We are all familiar with the one about not being good enough, either in ourselves, our families and…

  • Struggling to Earn Enough in your Practice? Check Your Income Set Point

    If you struggle to earn enough in your counselling or therapy practice, there may be many reasons for that. Some of those reasons may be external ones, such as the financial climate, or the location you practice in. However, there may also be internal factors at play. The following exercise can help to identify one…

  • In your Therapy Practice: Don’t Confuse Cost Savings with Cost Effectiveness

    One way to sabotage your practice is to confuse cost savings with cost effectiveness. Some costs have to be incurred in order to run your practice. Some are optional. Some costs will generate income for you down the road, others will not. Some costs will bring other benefits, such as developing your skill base, or…

  • Fees and Mind Set

    Another limiting factor to earning enough as a therapist is our mind set about charging an economic fee. The factors that affect what a therapist is willing to charge will include: What I believe is ethical or moral to charge people who may be in pain, What I believe clients are willing or able to…

  • 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…

  • 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…