Running a Successful Private Counselling Practice 2025

Running up your own counselling practice is exciting, liberating, thrilling .... but needs planning. This workshop will help you get it right. This workshop will help you identify and manage the risks, identify the free services that you can use and get the basics right. Whether you are thinking about adding private work alongside your main employment or volunteering, or are already up and running this workshop is for you.

This workshop is facilitated by a qualified therapist who set up their own private practice in 2016 and which is now thriving.

We have a unique 10-point plan for your private practice. We provide some of the basic pro formas and resources you need ...

1. The absolute basics that you have to get right under the law
2. A simple, no frills counselling practice business plan (we will give you an online template)
3. Getting your website right (We will tell you which providers we believe are best)
4. Getting your social media right (Twitter? Facebook? Linkedin? TikTok? We have tips)
5. Getting your online advertising right (We will review differences between Google ads and Facebook ads. We will look at other alternatives )
6. Getting your counselling contract right (keep it simple, get it online)
7. Getting GDPR and DBS right (get it right first time - protect privacy, protect yourself)
8. Getting insurance right (we will tell you what the options are and how to keep your costs down. We will highlight companies that specialise in counselling insurance, to help you make your choice)
9. Protecting yourself in private practice (Working from home? Scams? Clinical Wills? We will look at the key issues)
10. Supporting clients beyond therapy in the longer term (Follow up. Check up. Catch up. Wind up).

• Additionally, every delegate will get a free e-copy of the The Ultimate CBT Year Planner 2025
• The workshop runs from 10am to 4pm with morning, lunch and afternoon breaks.
• Three months follow up support and guidance for all delegates as requested.

Our orientation is: get the basics right to keep you safe (personally and professionally) and then you can be much more confident about innovation and expansion.

Please note - we do not and can not give financial advice. You must take appropriate independent financial advice and review risks comprehensively prior to any decision. Our templates and spreadsheets are for information and illustrative purposes only.