This Business of Therapy

Tag: therapy practice finances

  • 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…

  • My Own Best Boss

    I’ve often said in these articles that when we are self-employed we are both the boss and the employee. I was thinking about that recently, and wondering what sort of a boss I would like to be to myself? The job of the boss is many layered. The boss Directs the business Monitors progress Supervises…

  • Hidden Agendas

    As we start a new year, and may be making some new year’s resolutions, it’s a good time to ask ourselves what do we want for our practices over the coming year. It’s a straightforward question which can have a complicated answer because often we want many things, and some of the things we want…

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  • Dirty Nappies and Sticky Toffees

    When I was growing up, a cousin, about four or five years younger than me, asked his mother (in the hearing of several of us older kids) to chew his toffee for him because it was too hard. He never lived it down. At the time, I dismissed him as immature and childish. In recent…

  • John’s Story

    I have written on many occasions on the link between our beliefs and values about money and wealth and the direct impact they have on our ability to create a financially viable therapy practice. Recently, I have been working with a client who has been exploring his struggle to earn a decent living in his…

  • Clients Come Through People

    Where does the income in your practice come from? Well, obviously from the fees you receive from clients or organisations who pay on the clients’ behalf. But that’s only part of the story. We none of us exist in isolation. There is a constant process from birth to death of interacting with our environment. Basic…

  • Poverty Consciousness

    I was in my twenties when I first heard the expression “Poverty Consciousness” and I immediately related to it in myself. I understood it then as expressing a presumption that there is a finite amount of resources to go around and so everything I get takes from someone else. It expresses a bias in perception…

  • Working with Others

    Do you work with others in your practice? Perhaps it’s not as formal as a partnership, but arrangements with other practitioners are common in therapy. Often people come together to share costs and otherwise have little interaction, but if you can co-operate with others around you in relation to some of the common tasks, it…

  • If your therapy practice were a car, who’s driving?

    If your therapy practice is a vehicle, are you an owner, a driver or a passenger? Think about a car for a moment. You can enjoy the advantages of a car in different ways. You can own the car, drive someone else’s car, or be a passenger in someone else’s car.