Tag: psychotherapy

  • EFT Video for Therapists: Hiding Things

    If my last blog post “Hiding Things” struck a chord for you, you might like my new tapping video. Try it out here:

  • Hiding Things!

    I have noticed recently how much energy I can invest in hiding things I don’t want other people to see, or even that I don’t want to see myself. I’ve known about this tendency of mine for a long time, but recently I notice it all over the place! It’s a product of all the…

  • Ten Things You Need To Know About Setting Up Practice

    Setting up in practice as a therapist for the first time, there’s a lot to think about. If you’ve never been self-employed before, it can be a bit overwhelming. Where should you start? What should you give priority to? The client work is really important, and it’s what you want to do, but it’s not…

  • Facebook: a good servant or a bad master?

    To Facebook or Not to Facebook? I was at a family function recently at which an argument was raging about Facebook. The pro-camp was strongly in favour, citing the benefits of keeping in touch with family and friends, and being able to share photos and cute and inspirational sayings. The anti-camp were pushing hard, pointing…

  • 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…

  • Using EFT (Tapping) to Support Your Therapy Practice

    Have you heard of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or tapping to support your therapy practice? I have been a fan for about ten years now, and use it every day to support me in my practice. I liked it so much that I trained to become a practitioner, and received my AAMET Level 2 Certificate…

  • 13 Ways to Market Your Therapy Practice Without a Website

    You’d like more clients, but technology isn’t your thing and you don’t want to go down the route of getting your own website. No problem. There are many ways to put yourself out there. Maybe you can find a couple that will work for you from the ideas below: Business Cards Whether it’s handing them…

  • Investing in Your Therapy Practice

    It can take 3 years or more to get any new practice off the ground, and even then, some struggle for ever to earn sufficient income to support themselves. Often the response to that is to “tighten the belt” or trim expenses to the minimum in order to make ends meet. However, there is another…

  • It’s Not as Solid as it Looks

    A friend shared his good news with me. Many years after starting his training, he finally achieved accreditation as a psychotherapist. I was delighted for him, as it hadn’t been the easiest or most direct journey for him. As we talked about it, he said to me, “It taught me that things are not as…

  • What is Your Message? Creating Promotional Material

    So you’re creating a piece of promotional material for your therapy practice, or getting someone to create it for you. Maybe it’s a flyer or a brochure, maybe it’s a website. Maybe it’s a presentation you’ll be giving. Where do you start? One of the differences between promotional material that works, and that doesn’t work,…