This Business of Therapy

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  • Business and Finance Fundamentals for Private Practice: Free Masterclass

    Free Masterclass with Jude Fay and Emma Murphy John Lowe (the Money Doctor) and Emma Murphy of Opal Success recently presented a great live event “Business and Finance Fundamentals for Private Practice.” The event wasn’t recorded, but many attended and there were many requests for a replay. So Emma and I got together earlier this…

  • The One That Got Away…

    Disappointments and failures can hold us back from risking again

  • Therapy Practice, Resistance & The Third Way

    Resistance helps us to stay safe and know the limits of our abilities. But like a young child, it shouldn’t be in charge!

  • Choices in Private Therapy Practice

    One of the skills of being self employed in private therapy practice is learning to make choices that serve us. That’s easy to say, but not always so easy to do! And sometimes it’s hard to know what choice might serve us best. Why we choose one option over others is complex and individual, and…

  • Isolation

    One of the most common things that I hear from therapists in private practice is that they feel isolated. They work one on one with clients, they meet their supervisor or their own therapist, but they notice the lack of other human interaction at work. There’s a balance to be found between pulling back when…

  • VAT on Counselling and Psychotherapy Fees

    When Counsellors and Psychotherapists provide services to clients for a fee, and, where those fees exceed the €37,500pa threshold, those services are liable to VAT at 13.5%. Once the threshold is reached, all of your fees are subject to VAT, not just the excess over the threshold amount. Last July, Counselling and Psychotherapy services were…

  • Adding a little love to your marketing!

    Adding a little love to your marketing! In February we celebrated Valentine’s Day. You could be forgiven for thinking it was about sales of cards, chocolate, and flowers, or that it was just for the young ones. It has got bent and twisted out of shape over the years, so much so, that many people…

  • If money was my sister…

    Like practising counselling and psychotherapy, self-employment is a personal development process. As we meet each new situation in our practice that asks something of us, whether it is learning to market ourselves, or finding appropriate rooms to work in, we are offered an opportunity to grow into the person we need to be at that…

  • New Online Course “Marketing Your Practice”

    I am delighted to announce that a new online course is coming soon from This Business of Therapy and TherapyAcademy.ie. Presented by Jude Fay the new course includes 10 modules, with videos, text files and exercises to help you to integrate what you learn. Learn it at your own pace, at your desk. 10 hours…

  • Integrating Therapy and Business: Making Our Practice Our Own

    In my last article I spoke of how the journey to create a therapy practice can also be a journey towards personal integration. In this article, I look at this journey from the perspective of the second pillar of a successful therapy practice, Knowing Your Practice. In the second pillar, we build on our decision…