This Business of Therapy

Tag: therapy fees

  • What am I proving and to whom?

    I have recently become more aware of how much energy I put into proving my worthiness. In some respects, this is not new to me, but recently the extent of it is becoming clearer. I am trying to prove I am good enough to deserve love, appreciation, support, reward, rest, a place and more. It’s…

  • Moving to the “Just Enough” Stage in your Practice

    When I left my job in the accountancy profession to finish my training as a therapist, I was surprised by how difficult I found the transition to being self-employed. I had been self-employed before, so I thought it would be easy to do it again, this time as a therapist. What took me most by…

  • What Do Therapy and Criminal Law Have in Common?

    It’s hard to imagine two professions that are less alike than psychotherapy and criminal law. Or so you’d think! After all, criminal law deals with laws and rules, with evidence, argument and ultimately, with winning or losing. Not concepts that you learn in therapy training! I had the pleasure recently of meeting a group of…

  • How Well is Your Practice Performing?

    How do you know you’re earning enough to pay your bills? You may remember that this was a question I addressed some weeks ago, when I showed you how to calculate the Break Even Point for your practice. (You can read the article here.) Calculating the Break Even Point gives you an idea of the…

  • 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…

  • How Do I Break Even in my Therapy Practice

    How Many Clients Do I Need Or How Much Do I Need To Charge In Order To Breakeven Your total income from your practice is affected by 2 main factors: the price you charge, and the number of hours you work for which you get paid. A change in one factor leads to a higher…

  • The Old Stories Are Still The Best…

    Remember those bedtime stories you loved as a child? Remember how they made you feel warm and comfortable inside, as you knew every word and every twist and turn of the story? Remember how, even though you knew it was coming, even though you knew it was only a story, you still felt the start…

  • Time to Get those Figures in Order!

    It’s that time of year again, when those green forms from the Revenue appear in the letter box, and you promise yourself that this time next year it will be a different story. This time next year, you’ll have found a way of keeping track of your practice finances, so that you’re not facing a…

  • Don’t Confuse the Map with the Territory!

    Someone told me recently that I can make the issues I write about here seem easy and enjoyable, and of course, that’s how I want it to be. However, there’s a saying in therapy, “Don’t mistake the map for the territory.” I was reminded of this sharply at a workshop at the weekend when the…

  • Value for Money

    Value for money is so subjective, isn’t it? And it’s also a very personal thing. What is a necessary expense for one of us, is a frivolous luxury for another, and vice versa. Writing about our values and beliefs about money recently left me thinking about the value we place on experiences and on things, and…