Tag: therapy supervision

  • Minding Your Business of Therapy

    Over the last week, I’ve been making suggestions about how you might use the Therapy Practice Business Assessment as the basis for making some changes to your therapy or counselling practice in 2016. So far, we’ve looked at three areas: Knowing Your Practice, Growing Your Practice and Valuing Your Practice. (You can read the blog…

  • The Challenges of Working In A Rural Practice

    One of the questions that comes up for counsellors and therapists is where to base their practice, and one of the options is to live and work in the countryside rather than the town or city. Being one of few or perhaps the only practitioner in a rural area has its advantages, mainly that there…

  • The Value of Peer Support

    It can be a lonely enough profession, this business of therapy, can’t it? Where friends who work for banks, or semi state organisations, or the corner shop can moan and groan about their work, we can’t reciprocate can we? And even if we did, there’s that sense that nobody except another therapist really gets it,…

  • Cancellations

    A reader asked me how he could engage with people who regularly cancel their sessions. Cancellations can be a pain in the neck. You need your income and also want to work in a satisfactory way with clients. Cancellations can interrupt both. I won’t go into all the issues that could be giving rise to…

  • The Value of a Good Supervisor

    Supervisors matter. In fact, a fledgling therapist can be taken to an unimaginable level based solely on the supervisor they have. Supervisors serve many roles for the practicing therapist: They see the big picture. I can only see what I am doing from my own limited perspective. I’m too close to the action I’m involved…