Description
Book SynopsisCreating a comfortable consulting room, grappling with the thorny question of money, finding clients, paperwork, legal issues, boundaries and confidentiality â 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
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Susie Orbach
Preface
Introduction
The consulting room
The clients
Money matters
Paperwork
Boundaries
Support systems
Maintaining your practice
Endings
