How to Create a Thriving Private Practice
Some therapists are able to build sustainable practices in just a month or two. In this article, I explore what enables this type of success.
Burnout as a social and political question
We live in interesting times. The covid-19 pandemic, increasing social and economical inequalities, ecological and social crisis. As a psychotherapist in central London, I have been dealing with these topics in the consulting room and it seems that existential questions linked to the socio-political atmosphere are more present than ever.
Benefits of having an Employee Assistance Programm (EAP)
People still work too much and experience high levels of stress. However, a positive growing trend is that companies are starting to care about the mental health of their employees.
You want to get more therapy clients. But how?
A practical guide on how to grow your practice from a counsellor who recently started his work as a private practicing counsellor
The Worrying Effects of Worry
A number of years ago, I attended a family gathering in which I ended up having a discussion with a mother about worry. She asked me how she could stop being a “Worrier”, and we discussed in detail all of her worries and the impact it was having on her.
Thoughts on Nature and Self-Compassion
In a recent conversation with a colleague where we were talking about trust, forgiveness and other things therapists like to talk about, out of my mouth came a sentence that went something like: “Cultivating awe and respect for nature – and then coming to understand that I was part of the same nature which I so love – has allowed me to finally feel at home in my life”.
Life’s complicated, video calling shouldn’t be
In the early days of Corona we strung together a short guide on doing online therapy, for both…
How to use the It’s Complicated booking widget
Booking widgets are pieces of code that you can embed in social media posts or on your private webpage, so that clients can easily contact you and book a time.
Things My Polyamorous Therapist Friends Say
For the sixth episode of the It’s Complicated podcast,
Reece Cox ventures into the realm of multilove. The episode is captivating and only left me curious for more brain pickings, so I wrote not just one of the interviewed psychotherapist, Mathias Funke, but also two other counsellors specialised in polyamory, Rosanna Wendel and Phil Sheldon. This is what came out of my probing.
Lacanian psychoanalysis: Closer to your own idea of good
What is your idea of Good? Where do you find “Good”? And is this, in fact, the only question that psychoanalysis is allowed to ask?
