Video Tips for Counsellor Directories: Stand Out and Connect
In today's online world, creating a video for your counsellor directory profile is an excellent way to stand out and build a connection with potential clients. While the idea of being on camera may feel daunting, embracing video can help you establish trust and...
Counsellor Profile Photo Tips: Make a Lasting First Impression
Did you know it takes just one-tenth of a second for someone to form an opinion about another person based on their appearance? For counsellors, this split-second judgement can play a critical role in whether a potential client decides to click on your profile or move...
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome to Write Your Therapist Directory Profile
Have you ever sat staring at a blank computer screen, struggling to write your therapist directory profile? Maybe you feel stuck, unsure of what to say about your private practice. Perhaps you’ve convinced yourself that you’re not a good writer, or worse, that you...
Niching for Counsellors: Why It’s the Key to Attracting Your Ideal Clients
In the world of counselling, one question seems to come up repeatedly: “What’s the best directory to use?” While directories are a useful tool for attracting clients, the real question is, how do you make yourself stand out? The answer lies in niching for...
Optimising Your Therapy Directory Profile – Search Behaviours That Can Help You Get Found
Creating an effective directory profile is crucial for therapists who want to attract clients online. In today's blog, we examine how people search for therapists and what this behaviour means for your profile. Understanding these search behaviours can significantly...
Therapy Directory Profile Tips: Create an Irresistible Profile to Boost Your Practice
Starting a private practice as a counsellor is an exciting journey, but one of the initial challenges many face is writing a compelling therapy directory profile. This task can feel daunting, especially when you're trying to stand out among thousands of other...
10 Solutions for Loneliness in Private Practice Counselling
Many counsellors and therapists report feeling lonely in their private practice. It’s important to develop resilience so that they can sustain their private practice career and this blog looks at solutions to loneliness.
Setting Fee Boundaries in Private Practice Counselling
Setting fee boundaries in private practice is a tricky business. Even though counsellors may have contracted for fees in advance or in the event of late cancellations, they can have real reservations about pursuing payments.
Top Tips for Growing Your Private Practice
Private Practice: Feeling Overwhelmed? When you’re starting or growing your private practice, there are so many things to consider. Your mind can be whirling with things like writing websites, counselling profiles, contracts and privacy policies - to say nothing of...
Marketing Support for Therapists: Therapy Growth Group
Therapy can be a lonely business and trying to get clients is challenging. The Therapy Growth Group provides supports to counsellors to help them with their marketing and mindset.
Self Disclosure and Marketing for Therapists
People like to connect with people – and this is true in marketing. How can counsellors build the “know, like and trust” factor with their potential clients when they’re worried about self-disclosure?
How to Stop Anxiety about Private Practice Progress
Ever feel like you’re not doing enough and you’re not going to get any clients? It feels like there’s always too much to do and not enough time? It’s possible to stop feeling so anxious and relax into your private practice development.
Zoom Fatigue in Counsellors: Here’s Why
Zoom fatigue in counsellors is real. There are reasons why video conferencing is more tiring than face to face work. This blog describes why and ways to improve the experience for both counsellors and clients.
Avoiding Counsellor Burnout Post Pandemic
Even though the Covid-19 pandemic is considered "over", counsellors may still be experiencing burnout as a result. Whether you’re super busy because you’re overwhelmed with the number of clients coming forward for help post-pandemic, or bored because your case numbers...
Self Care for Counsellors during the Pandemic
The pandemic has presented counsellors with unique challenges, not least navigating the same problems as their clients. But at a time when self-care is required more than ever, it is even more difficult to make it happen.
Doing Something Wrong: Dealing with the Fear
Doing something wrong is one of the biggest fears counsellors face when they’re looking to help clients, set up in business or do something new. Here are five ways to take action despite the fear.
The Best Way to Achieve Private Practice Goals
Having set your private practice goals, how can you make sure you achieve them? The key is not to overwhelm yourself.
Setting Goals for Private Practice Success
Setting goals for your private practice will help you to build and grow a successful counselling and therapy business
Setting Up a Successful Private Practice
Would you like to set up a successful private practice? Have you considered what factors will make it successful?
Getting Started in Private Practice
There’s lot of advice on how to get started in private practice. But what if you’re stuck? What if you’ve been sitting on the idea for weeks and months but just not got going?
The Best Way to Keep Counselling Notes for GDPR
What is the best way for counsellors to keep notes and meet GDPR and ethics? Should notes and records be stored electronically? What are the security implications?
Should Counsellors Register with the ICO?
Should counsellors register with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO)? This article discusses whether counsellors and therapists should pay the data protection fee and whether or not they are exempt.
GDPR for Counsellors in Private Practice
Five steps to help counsellors in private practice create their GDPR policy and privacy statements
Ten Questions for Choosing a Counselling Niche
Questions to help you decide on your counselling niche, even if you don’t want one.
Face to Face Counselling During Covid
As England commences a national lockdown in November, is it possible to continue counselling face to face? The UK is now experiencing a second wave with warnings it may be more deadly than the first wave in March. The following factors may help you decide whether...
Ticking All the Counselling Profile Boxes
Because you don’t want to miss out on clients you may decide to tick most of the boxes for issues in your counselling profile. Will this help or hinder people finding you?
Headshot Photos for Counsellors and Therapists
What are the reasons for ensuring you have a professional looking photo for your counselling profile, and how do you get a good headshot? What is considered a good headshot photo for counsellors?
The Biggest Mistake in Writing a Counselling Profile
It’s hard to know what to say in a counselling profile. Read more about avoiding the biggest mistake in directory writing.
How to Overcome Fear of Social Media
Concerns for therapists around marketing on social media is about making mistakes in public, feeling like they’re an imposter, and that what they’ve got to say is irrelevant and not worth noticing. This blog addresses those fears.
Twenty Social Media Content Ideas for Therapists
Help for therapists so that they feel confident to post on social media and can generate content ideas.