Setting Up and Maintaining an Effective Private Practice: A Practical Workbook for Mental Health Practitioners - Softcover

Weitz, Philippa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855754258 ISBN 13: 9781855754256

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

Counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are proud to belong to the helping professions. Those working within these professions see themselves as caring people trying to help others to understand themselves better, to feel better about themselves, and to help them get over various traumas and difficulties that they have experienced either within their lives or personalities. Talking about money and thinking of their clients, and the units of therapy time, as items of income can be uncomfortable. Many counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists may not easily view their private practice as a business. But that is what it is and the primary role of any business is to be profitable. In this volume, the author guides us through practicalities of setting up and maintaining a private practice, and addresses the tensions and problems faced by the practitioner trying to both provide care and run an effective business. The author provides clear models and examples that practitioners will be able to adapt to their own circumstances, for example showing them how to set up accounts.

About this title

About the Author:

Philippa Weitz

Review:

"This book is essential reading for every therapeutic practitioner setting up in private practice. It provides practical and sensible advice clearly presented. No self-employed therapist should be without it." (Joan Foster, Chair)

"Counsellors and psychotherapists thinking about working privately or providing services independently to the NHS will be greatly helped by this short book. It deals with both the professional practice and the business issues clearly and simply, and will enable people to start up their practice with a new confidence." (Professor Douglas Hooper, Chair of the Counselling and Psychotherapy Forum for Primary Care)

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1855754258
• ISBN 13: 9781855754256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154