How to Build a Successful Private Practice - LONDON

Training from the Human Givens College

Being a good counsellor or therapist isn’t the only thing you need to be able to fill your practice with clients. This course gives you essential business and marketing skills, time-saving devices, pricing tips and much more so you can concentrate on what you do best – helping your clients…

• The essential actions to take when starting your practice from scratch – what’s worth spending money on and what’s not
• Confidence to take on your first client(s) or increase your client intake until you have a full practice
• Clear systems for starting or growing your counselling / therapy practice
• A good understanding of what’s worth spending money on and what is not
• Tools to ensure clients easily find you, trust that you can help, and then book sessions with you
• Clarity about how long to work with a client – average timings and outliers (for stress, trauma, panic attacks, relationships, etc); when to keep a client and when to let a client go
• Key information that will help you decide how much to charge and when/whether to be flexible
• Time-saving methods for client management: intake, treatment, ending well and future follow up
• How to manage yourself as a business owner – when to work hard, when to take time out
• How to make your therapy practice fit in with the lifestyle you want to live – and what to do to avoid becoming overwhelmed
• When (or whether) to let go of your full or part-time work and shift to letting your counselling practice support you financially
• How to get your 9 emotional needs met while working for yourself
• How to define your ideal client(s) and where to find them
• Protocols for working with children (and ways to keep their parents in the loop without breaking confidentiality)
• Practicalities: taking payments, tracking your numbers, meeting your targets, turnover v’s net income, paying VAT (or not), paying tax, chasing non-payments
• Creating a healthy, open attitude and language around money and finances
• How to set up your therapy practice to be financially successful 

Tutor:

The course is taught by Jennifer Broadley, a Human Givens psychotherapist, with thriving private practices in Aberdeen and Dundee. Jennifer also has extensive business and marketing experience. 

Who is this course for?

Suitable for those just starting out in private practice, and those who have been in business for a while.

Price: £192 per person

For further information and booking head to here to the Human Givens website