Counselling: Start Your Own Counselling Business
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Overview
Have you always wanted to open your own counselling or psychotherapy practice? Take this comprehensive course and learn step-by-step everything that you need to know in order to create your own counselling business
Certificates
Certificate of completion
Digital certificate - Included
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Description
Course Highlights
- 21 Video lectures guiding you through the preliminary stages of setting up your own business
- Get to grips with the legalities for establishing your counselling business
- Learn how to market your business and techniques for finding and maintaining clients
- Balance your new business and personal life
- Create a website and upload quality content onto it
- Learn how to teach various counselling workshops
Course Overview
This course will offer advice on the fundamental aspects of your counselling business, such as legalities and how much to charge your clients. You will have an understanding of how to market your business and how to find and maintain clients through various teaching workshops. Take this course and learn everything necessary to open a successful private counseling or psychotherapy practice.
Instructor Bio
Ira Israel is a LMFT & LPCC, and will call upon all of his skills to share with you the step-by-step checklist required to establish your very own counselling business. Ira covers everything from the preliminary stages, like how to set up your office and contact information to ideas about how best to find and maintain clients through effective marketing of your business.
Course Curriculum
Introduction & Preliminary Stages
- Setting Your Fee
- Setting Your Fee Notes
- Your Contact Information
- Your Office
Legal Considerations
- Handout - Legal Considerations
- Legal Considerations
- Handout - Necessary Documents
- Necessary Documents
- Sample Informed Consent Form
- Note-keeping
- Bookkeeping
Marketing & Networking
- Marketing Part 1
- Marketing Part 2
- Handout - Marketing
- Referrals from doctors, psychiatrists, pediatricians
Personal Life
- Relationships, law, ethics
- Enhancing Professional Life
- Your Personal Life
Creating Content for Your Website
- Writing articles, blogging, publishing, self-publishing books
- Making Videos for your Website
- Handout - Making Videos
- Participating in podcasts or hosting your own
Teaching Workshops
- Continuing Education Credits
- Teaching Public Workshops
- Teaching CEU Workshops
- Facilitating Therapy Groups
Being an Independent Contractor
- Independent Contractor
Summary
- Your To-do List
Quiz
- Part 1 - Preliminary Stages
- Part 2 - Legal Considerations
- Part 3 - Marketing & Networking
- Part 4 - Personal Life
- Part 5 - Website Building
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Who is this course for?
- Psychiatrists who want to open their own private practice
- MFTs,
- LCSWs,
- LPCs,
- PsyDs,
Requirements
There are no prerequisites for this course
Career path
Create your own Counselling business
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