This Business of Therapy

Tag: private practice

  • Sustainable Momentum

    Do you remember when you first learned to ride a bike? Do you remember the wobbling from side to side, and the many times you had to put your foot to the ground to steady yourself. And then one day you got it. You pushed off confidently, turning the pedals steadily and rhythmically, judging the…

  • Running A Therapy Practice from Your Home

    You’re starting a counselling business, or thinking of changing your therapy rooms. You have a spare room at home which is currently gathering dust and junk, why not use that? There are some obvious advantages. There’s no rent to pay. You can save on travel time and costs. If a client cancels or changes their…

  • The Sound of a Train in the Distance

    Did you see the recent IAHIP bulletin in relation to Statutory Registration of Counsellors and Psychotherapists? It directed members’ attention to the website of CORU, the body charged with regulation. Or perhaps you saw the announcement from IACP that mandatory Garda vetting is to take place for all IACP members from late 2014, and will…

  • Core Skills for Running a Therapy Practice

    Ever wonder if you’re cut out for this business of running a therapy practice? If so, you’re not alone. Most of us received little or no training in how to set up or run a professional practice. If you’re lucky, skills and knowledge you gained before training will stand to you now. Here are some…

  • The Hare and the Tortoise

    You’ll have heard of the fable about the hare and the tortoise, in which the hare keeps running backwards and forwards urging the tortoise to go faster, challenging, criticising, and demeaning the tortoise for being so slow. Remember how it ends? That’s right, the tortoise, slow, ambling and unexciting makes it to the end first,…

  • How Should I Structure My Therapy Practice?

    It’s probably not a question you’ve considered, but what structure do you see your business of therapy taking, sole trade, partnership or company? Most therapy practice are sole practices, ie one person practising on their own. A much smaller number operate as partnerships, and still fewer as limited liability companies. In legal terms, the main…

  • Seven Ways to Manage Negative Thought Patterns

    A couple of days ago I wrote about the impact that negative thought patterns can have on our practices, through making us unaware of opportunities, or blocking our ability to move forward. Here are seven ways to manage or shift negative thought patterns that might be getting in your way: Acknowledgement: Acknowledge the Negative Thought…

  • 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…

  • The Wood and The Trees

    Looking down on the earth from an airplane you can easily distinguish mountains and rivers, woods and plains, and all the various contours of the surface of our beautiful planet. You can tell where the cities meet the country, and where the fairy fort was once part of the field. Standing on the ground, however,…

  • 5 Strategies for Having a Stress Free Practice

    “Work would be great if it weren’t for the clients” was something I heard regularly in my former occupation as an accountant. It was said tongue in cheek, but really spoke to a truth about the ambivalence that many feel about their work, and not just in accountancy. We’d like it to be easy and…