Tag: Therapy

  • Managing Your Practice and Personal Integration

    As with all business aspects of private practice, managing our practices offers us many opportunities to grow and develop as a person. Many people see our work as distinct and separate from business, and part of my mission is to change that perspective! In previous articles I have written about how engaging with the business…

  • Be Kind to Yourself

    Without fail, whenever I talk to therapists about issues they have with running their practices, they will say, “I just don’t understand why I find it so hard. I know I do good work. I sit in front of my clients and I know I can help them. So why is it so hard for…

  • Counselling and Therapy: Vocation or Profession?

    During a recent conversation with a colleague, I was talking about the 2013 IACP survey of members which said that the average billable hour is charged at €44, and that one in three charges €30 or less per hour. A more recent Uncommon Practitioners survey suggested an average of €60 an hour for Irish respondents. In both…

  • Standing Up For Ourselves

    Two years on from the publication of the IACP’s 2013 report following their members’ survey, and I’m still intrigued by the findings. For me the most striking comment is: The major issue in the profession is the depressive effect of the recession, in terms of impact on clients and their perceived inability to fund treatment.…

  • Changing it Up

    I’ve spoken before about getting focussed, whether it be on what you want, on a niche or target market, or on the way you see yourself in your practice. Today, I want to talk about changing things a little. Why on earth would you want to do that? I come from a big family, and…

  • Contracting with a Therapy Client

    One of the first things we are taught in training to be a counsellor or therapist, is about contracting. One of the tasks of the first session with a client is to set out and agree the terms of the contract. Do you commit your contract to writing? It’s not essential, but certainly something you…

  • Where Do I Start?

    Being the one who  runs the practice, as well as the one who provides the service, means that sometimes there’s just too much to do in the available time. I’m sure you’ve had the experience, I know I have; the to-do list that just keeps growing no matter how fast or efficiently you clear the…

  • More About Accounts – Balance Sheet

    What’s a Balance Sheet? A Balance Sheet is a statement of the assets and liabilities of a business or entity at a point in time, expressed in money. Assets are things owned by the business. Liabilities are things owed by the business. Although the contents and layout may vary according to the size and nature…

  • Limiting Beliefs

    One of the ways in which we can limit ourselves, whether in the context of our practice, or in life generally, is through our unconscious beliefs about money. Most people are unaware that these beliefs can be running in the background, subtly influencing how we live our lives. Therapists will probably be more aware than…

  • What Horse Riding Taught Me About Therapy Practice: Part 2

    Jumping, Ambivalence and the Power of Making Choices I’m the wimp of our family when it comes to any risk of physical injury. Where my brothers and sisters inherited the “neck or nothing” gene, I seem to have missed out. While they hunted and rode as children, I fell off and got such a scare…