The business of therapy : how to run a successful private practice

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Title:

Author:

Hodson, Pauline L, author.

ISBN:

9780335245635

Personal Author:

Hodson, Pauline L, author.

Publication Information:

Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

xx, 144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The Consulting Room -- So what about your space? -- Access -- The bell -- Entrance hall -- The bathroom -- Quiet please, therapy in progress -- But is it clean? -- A breath of fresh air -- No one must know I am here -- First impressions -- The blank screen -- What about us? -- A shared room -- Clinics, institutions and the NHS -- Sometimes we have no choice -- 2.The Clients -- Getting started -- First impressions -- Private practice -- Finding clients -- Professional registers -- What do you do? -- Developing your reputation -- Raising your profile -- The website -- First encounters -- Engaging with the client -- Meeting -- A fee-paying client -- 3.Money Matters -- How do I know how much to charge? -- What can the market bear? -- Reviewing your fees -- Billing -- Payment -- Unpaid bills -- Holidays and missed sessions -- Holidays -- Missed sessions -- Good practice -- 4.Paperwork -- Stationery -- Keep tidy -- Referral systems --

Contents note continued: Professional letters -- Professional notes -- Confidentiality -- Professional wills -- Insurance -- Income tax -- Your home as your business -- Continuing professional development (CPD) -- Ethical issues -- Data protection -- Emails -- The paper trail -- A question of time -- 5.Boundaries -- Protecting the client/therapist boundary -- Neighbours -- The boundary between you and your client -- The boundary of time -- The question of gifts and artefacts -- Crossing the boundaries -- Extending the therapeutic space -- Telephone calls, emails and letters -- Telephone sessions -- The crisis telephone call -- Couple work -- The therapist's boundaries -- The dependent therapist -- Interest, curiosity or nosiness -- Self-promotion -- Invitations -- 6.Support Systems -- A professional training -- Theory -- Therapy -- Supervision -- Recharging your batteries -- Professional resources -- A drink and a peer group -- Inappropriate support -- Family and friends --

Contents note continued: When extra support is necessary -- Well-being -- 7.Maintaining Your Practice -- Feast or famine -- A movable feast -- Securing the business -- Taking a break -- Taking a sabbatical -- An unconscious choice -- Your professional community -- Mistakes -- Enactments -- But can we say "No'? -- Trust your work and your colleagues -- 8.Endings -- Dilemmas -- Life is tough -- Interruptions -- A change of plan -- A fortunate profession -- A working retirement -- A critical mass -- Full retirement -- Planning ahead -- No gold clock -- A quiet affair.

Abstract:

Pauline Hodson analyses both the psychological and practical issues which need to be addressed when setting up a private practice.The Business of Therapy gives both detailed anecdotes and a jargon free overview of the theory and practice of the work of therapists.

Subject Term:

Counseling -- Practice.

Psychotherapy -- Practice.

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Summary

Creating a comfortable consulting room, grappling with the thorny question of money, finding clients, paperwork, legal issues, boundaries and confidentiality - Pauline Hodson analyses both the psychological and practical issues which need to be addressed when setting up a private practice.

Once your practice is established it is important to be able to anticipate and think about situations that impinge on the therapy: illness, holidays, neighbours, pets and children, which if not paid attention to, can destroy the safe environment necessary for effective and sensitive work to take place.

The Business of Therapy gives both detailed anecdotes and a jargon free overview of the theory and practice of the work of therapists. It is a much needed handbook for all those who work with clients in the privacy of a consulting room - and for all those who are curious about what therapy actually involves.

This book is a valuable resource for psychotherapists and counsellors, for graduates setting up in private practice, for established practitioners and for those planning retirement.

With a foreword by Susie Orbach.

"Counsellors from a psychodynamic and psychoanalytical background will feel very at home with the contents. I found it a thoroughly enjoyable read; it actually made me laugh out loud on a couple of occasions."

Therapy Today review, February 2013

"This book is a marvel! This book gives an engaging and practical insight into what is usually the very private world of private practice."

Susanna Abse, CEO, The Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, London, UK

"The book takes seriously the needs of therapists throughout their professional life - the need for developing support systems and care of the therapist's well being, looking after their bodies as well as minds ... In the Foreword Susie Orbach describes the book as a gift to the profession and I agree."

Oxford Psychotherapy Bulletin

"Although addressed primarily to psychotherapists and counsellors, practically every page of this book applies equally to the practice of complementary medicine - acupuncture, osteopathy and so on - and it is essential reading for these practitioners."

John Hamwee, Acupuncturist and author of Energy Medicine and Acupuncture for New Practitioners

"This book gives me an intriguing, bird's eye view from inside the room of how and why the process works."

Lisa Jayne Bloomer, Lisa Jayne Art Studio, UK

"Written with admirable concision and with the page-turning delights of a fine novel, this book will be a joy for seasoned colleagues, and a life-saver for students and for those newly qualified. The Business of Therapy: How to Succeed in Private Practice leaves all other contenders in the dust!"

Professor Brett Kahr, Centre for Child Mental Health in London and Roehampton University, UK

"I wish this marvellous book had come my way earlier. It's an essential read for any therapeutic practitioner, but particularly for those in their first years in the profession or who are still in training. It's a pleasure to recommend it."

Carol Leader, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist (BPC and UKCP)