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My name is Linda K. Berkeley. I’m an Anglo-American BABCP-accredited CBT therapist and integrative psychologist. I have extensive experience working with depression, all forms of anxiety, OCD, trauma/complex trauma, substance misuse, trichotillomania and other body-focused repetitive behaviours, trust issues, eating disorders, emotion regulation and personality difficulties, fear, and anything else you may wish to bring to therapy. My personal beliefs can be summed up in the title of a book: “Don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff”.

Specialist Areas

Emotion regulation, complex trauma, and personality difficulties; Substance misuse; trichotillomania and other body-focused repetitive behaviours. When working with substance misuse, I practice harm reduction, though I will metaphorically drive people to AA/NA meetings myself and support them with that approach.

I also offer DBT, CFT, and ACT, in addition to my primary focus of CBT. All of these include mindfulness. I also include, as Beck said, “Whatever works!”

Types of Therapy

I work with adults of any age and young people aged 13 and up for individual, group, family, or couples therapy.Clients

Face to Face Online - Zoom

Availability - Wednesdays - Fridays

Contact Information

Phone - 0148873211 and 07766314435

Email - linda@nightingaletherapy.com

Social - Facebook

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Summer Lull Management

• Question: managing the summer lull when inquiries drop significantly.

• Root cause: schools broken up; families on holiday; predictable annual pattern.

• Key solution: plan 3 months in advance through quarterly planning (template available on navigation page).

• Strategic approach: 3 months before summer, plan marketing stra…

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Monday 27 July

6:00–7:30 pm BST

Live on Zoom, with a 48-hour recording

We’ll cover the five foundations of a safe, sustainable practice:

• Referrals: where clients actually come from

• Professional safety: rebuilding the structures you had around you in employed work

• Data, ICO and GDPR: what needs to be in pl…

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If you complete a Self Assessment tax return and HMRC has asked you to make payments on account, your second payment is due by midnight on 31 July.

And just to clear up a possible point of confusion: Making Tax Digital hasn’t replaced this payment. It changes how some sole traders keep records and report their income, but payments on account are still normally due in January and July.

This is the tax payment that catches people out every year.

January’s bill gets all the attention. It’s the one everyone talks about, the one you brace for after Christmas and the one that is difficult to forget.

The July payment arrives much more quietly.

Below, I’ve set out the five things worth checking now, including what to do if your income has fallen, your savings don’t cover the payment or you’re unsure whether it applies to you.

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When I was starting out in private practice, one of the first things I did was look around at what everyone else was doing. To begin with, it was a useful process. I learned a lot about building a business, showing up online, and marketing my services.

But as time went on, keeping tabs on my competitors became overwhelming. Instead of setting my own goals and making plans, I was fixated on theirs. Rather than helping me forge my own path, studying their business journey was holding me back.

Without realising, I’d fallen into the comparison trap.

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What is the Comparison Trap?

When you’re stuck in the comparison trap, you start looking at what other therapists are doing and use it as evidence that you’re behind, not good enough, too expensive, too cheap, too niche, or not niche enough.

It often sounds like:

💭 There are already loads of therapists in private practice, the market must be saturated.

💭 Everyone else seems more confident than me.

💭 They’re charging less, so maybe I should too.

💭 They’ve got better branding/Instagram/website/copy.

💭 Someone else has already had my idea.

The trouble with the comparison trap is you’re comparing your inside to someone else’s outside. We rarely see the full picture of another person’s journey. The failed launches, the slow months, the self-doubt that sits behind the polished profile.

This isn’t just a problem for therapists in private practice. Humans are wired to evaluate themselves in relation to others, especially when there’s no clear, objective measure of success. And in private practice, there rarely is, so we look sideways.

Where Does All This Comparison Come From?

When you’re starting out, it’s natural to want to understand the landscape. You look at other websites, directory profiles, fees, social media accounts and offers. This isn’t wrong – it’s a vital part of business planning.

The problem begins when you start looking from a place of anxiety rather than strategy.

When you do this, it’s easy to end up inside a small private practice bubble where it feels like ‘everyone’ is a therapist, ‘everyone’ is already fully booked, and ‘everyone’ is doing the thing you wanted to do. In reality, you’re not seeing the full market. You’re focusing on one corner of the internet.

Social media also fuels comparison. Platforms like Instagram are a highlight reel filled with public wins, sellout courses, and glowing testimonials. The struggles stay hidden while follower counts and leaderboards make comparison very visible.

In my experience, imposter syndrome is particularly prevalent in therapists who often undervalue their expertise. The nature of our profession means we’re used to deep self-reflection. Clinically, this is a strength, but it can easily morph into self-criticism in business.

How the Comparison Trap Shows Up in Private Practice

It Impacts Pricing

One of the biggest mistakes therapists make is setting their fee based on what everyone else seems to be charging.

Every business is different. A therapist charging £60 may have low overheads, another income stream, or may simply be undercharging. Someone charging £120 may have specialist training, a strong referral network, or a clear niche.

Using other people’s fees as your main guide is unreliable. Instead, you need to ask yourself what fee makes my practice financially sustainable, ethically manageable, and aligned with the clients I want to work with?

For more advice on pricing, explore the links below:

💷 What Should You Charge for Therapy?

💷 How I Increase My Prices in Private Practice

💷 When Do You Know You’ve Reached Your Limit with the Fees You Charge?

It Creates Self-Doubt

Comparison often makes people second-guess everything – your niche, your copy, your training, your expertise. Instead of building momentum, you keep tweaking, checking, and hesitating.

For example, you come up with an idea for your private practice, but then you look around and see it has already been done ten different ways before.

In these moments, you forget that most ideas aren’t new. The difference will be your way of doing it. Your clinical experience, personality, values, tone, and perspective will make your idea distinct.

Trust me, in a world where AI can produce generic content very quickly, your individuality matters more, not less.

It Disconnects You from Your Values

Spending too much time looking sideways, disconnects you from what you actually want to build. You may start copying offers, fees or marketing styles that don’t fit your values, energy, lifestyle, or ideal clients. Private practice works best when it is intentional, not reactive.

The Difference Between Research and Comparison

Researching your competitors is sensible. It helps you see what others are offering, how they describe their work, what gaps might exist, and how you might position yourself differently.

But the purpose is not to copy or compare yourself into a panic. Look around briefly. Learn what you need to learn. Then put your blinkers on and run your own race.

Paid members can continue reading for the practical part: how to stop competitor research turning into comparison, how to set your fees without copying everyone else, how to use comparison as data rather than self-criticism, and the reflection questions I’d use to bring yourself back to your own values.

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Most therapists were never taught the business side of private practice.

We were taught how to work safely and effectively with clients but not how to find those clients, set a sustainable fee, manage risk independently or understand what HMRC expects from us.

That is why starting private practice can feel exciting and slightly terrifying at the same time.

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Multi-Country SEO Strategy (UK to South Africa)

• Suné is relocating to South Africa; wants to build a UK practice online first, then eventually serve South African clients.

• Challenge: different regulatory environment in South Africa (CBT not a professional designation; the word therapy is legally restricted).

• Current domain: dot com (interna…

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There are already more than 100 people on the waiting list for the next Getting Started in Private Practice course and when enrolment opens, there will be only 30 places in total, including just 8 VIP places for those who would like more personalised coaching alongside the training.

GSIPP is my practical, step-by-step programme for therapists who want to…

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Fancy being an influencer?

Nobody talks about the real numbers.

Not the brands.
Not the bigger accounts.
Not the therapists already quietly doing it.

So most of us assume brand deals are something that happens to other people. Wellness influencers. The ones with the ring lights and the suspiciously photogenic matcha.

Not us.

But I think we need to talk about it properly.

Because more therapists are starting to build audiences. Some through Instagram. Some through Substack. Some through podcasts, books, workshops, training, blogs or small communities.

And once you have an audience, however small, you may start to attract opportunities.

A therapy platform asks if you’d share a discount code.
A training provider offers you an affiliate link.
A publisher sends you a book.
A notes platform asks if you’ll mention them.
A wellbeing brand wants to “collaborate.”
A company offers you money for a sponsored post.

And suddenly you’re not just a therapist sharing useful things online.

You’re in the world of influence.

That can feel exciting.

It can also feel uncomfortable.

Because this is where it gets complicated for us. Therapists are not beauty influencers. We are regulated professionals. Our audiences may include clients, former clients, vulnerable people, supervisees, students, colleagues and people who deeply trust our judgement.

So when we put our name next to something, that trust is the asset we are spending.

This does not mean therapists should never work with brands. I don’t think that at all.

But I do think we need to understand the opportunity, the ethics, the numbers and the risks before we stumble into them.

Because follower count is not the whole story.

A therapist with 8,000 highly engaged, highly specific followers may be more valuable to the right brand than a generic account with 80,000 passive followers.

And that is the bit many therapists miss, you may be sitting there thinking, my account isn’t big enough yet.

But it might not be that your account is too small.

It might be that it isn’t specific enough yet.

That’s a very different problem. And a much more fixable one.

For paid members, I’m getting into the practical side of brand work for therapists: what brands actually want, what follower numbers can mean, what you might charge, what to say in a pitch, what to disclose, and what to turn down.

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Therapists’ Corner Member Shout-Outs

Members of Therapists Corner are sharing what they’re up to in private practice, their niches, offers and specialist interests. Think of it as a growing, trusted pool of therapists you can follow, get to know, and keep in mind for referrals, specialist supervision or signposting clients on.

Even if you’re not (yet!) a paid member, my hope is that, over time, these shout-outs become a genuinely valuable resource. Look out for the monthly post to add your comments to.

Member Shout-outs

• has joined us as a new member, welcome! Her Substack is About Becoming Women, and she’s also a co-founder of a private practice in London called Talking Women, talkingwomen.co.uk - they specialise in women's mental health.

  Becoming Women

  The "good girl" trap

  My client Zoe, a mum of two girls, had been seeing me for therapy to address her crippling anxiety and her compulsive need to make herself available for others. She was having tremendous difficulty letting go of the fundamental belief that everyone else’s needs were more important than hers. Something as basic as taking…

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  2 months ago · 7 likes · 2 comments · Dr Sarah Emmerson

• We’re also welcoming as a new member. She shared the following: I’m delighted to become a member of Therapists Corner. My website is: anniemacdonaldtherapy.co.uk And I do have some availability at the moment.

• Justyna O’Connell submitted her Member Profile -

• has posted her first Substack post:

I’m running two workshops in July

The first one is - Is Private Practice Right For You?

Thinking about private practice but not sure if it’s actually right for you?

I’m running a small live session on 20th July at 6 pm to help therapists answer that properly — not from panic, comparison, burnout, or “everyone else seems to be doing it” energy.

We’ll use my CLEAR framework:

• Capacity

• Lifestyle

• Earnings

• Autonomy

• Readiness

So you can get a much clearer sense of whether private practice is:

Yes — the right next step

Not yet — but possible with the right foundations

No — or not in the way you imagined

I’m keeping it small on purpose: 25 therapists only.

This is for people who want the live conversation, not another webinar to half-watch while multitasking.

It’s £9.97 for the hour.

Once it’s full, it’s full.

See all the details here

The second is designed to follow on from the first - The Five Things to Understand Before you Take the Leap into Private Practice

27th July 6 pm. Save your place

Most of us were never taught the business side of therapy. So when we start thinking about private practice, it can feel exciting, overwhelming and slightly terrifying all at once. What do you need in place?

• How do you know if it’s financially viable?

• Where do clients actually come from?

• What needs to be sorted ethically, professionally and practically before you begin?

This 90-minute session gives you the start of the roadmap

See all the details here

Got Something to Share?

If you want to get involved, you can. Each month, I’ll be doing a feature post that celebrates what you’re doing — whether that’s:
✨ Launching a new website or platform
✨ Opening spaces for therapy or supervision, celebrate being fully booked or a business goal achieved
✨ Running a workshop or course, sharing a new blog post,
✨ Starting a Substack, A general brilliant achievement you want a clap for because you’re worth it
✨ Offering something new in your practice
✨ Or even just wanting to share your Instagram or LinkedIn account so people can follow and support you

Here’s how it will work:

• Pop your link or update in the comments of the shout-out post — tell me what you’re doing and what you’d like to share.

• Each month, I’ll post a reminder thread.

• I’ll then gather everything and create a “What Our Members Are Up To, Shout-Out” post, which will go out to our full email list of almost 4,000 therapists.

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This one’s not on the usual schedule. But with Natalie’s session on today (the recording will be with you Monday if you didn’t make it), anyway, I couldn’t sit on this workbook i’ve been putting together any longer.

Your diary might be full. Clients might be booking in. From where anyone else is standing, private practice looks like it’s working.

So why do you still open your banking app with a small sense of dread?

You’re not imagining it. Making money and understanding money turn out to be two completely different skills, and nobody hands you the second one when you qualify.

Most of us set our fee the same way. Looked at what everyone nearby was charging. Picked a number that felt “reasonable”, quietly hoping it wasn’t cheeky. Got on with it.

Which is a perfectly normal way to land on a fee. It’s just not a plan.

I put together a free workbook to close that gap — How Much Can I Earn in Private Practice? No comparing yourself to the therapist three towns over, no guesswork. Just your numbers.

It starts with the bit that actually matters:

Your fee × your caseload × your working weeks

Ten clients a week at £80, for 46 weeks, creates gross revenue of £36,800 a year. Eighteen clients a week at £100 creates gross revenue of £82,800 — before expenses, tax and any unpaid cancellations. Same profession, wildly different numbers and neither one is “right.” They just depend on the life you’re trying to build around the work.

The workbook walks you backwards from what you actually need, rather than forwards from what you think you’re allowed to charge.

Download the free workbook and work out what your practice could realistically generate — based on your fee, your caseload and your working year.

→ Download the free workbook here

Natalie Scott joined us today to talk about exactly this — the gap between making money and understanding it, and the four numbers she says every practice owner should actually know. Paid members, the recording will be with you on Monday.

If you want my take on where people actually get stuck once they’ve run these numbers for real, that’s below.

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You can sit with a client’s whole inner world for fifty minutes and not break a sweat.

Then someone says “SEO”, and you feel that familiar flicker of I probably should understand this, I don’t, and I’m not sure I want to.

You’re not alone. Honestly, getting found online is one of the questions that comes up in our Q&A almost every week. Some version of how do I actually get people to land on my website?

And here’s the quiet hope most of us are carrying around that the website will just sit there, glowing gently in the background, finding clients while we get on with the actual job.

Wouldn’t that be nice?

I’d love that too. (If you are new to SEO, read this first )

SEO isn’t one-and-done; you can make useful improvements in an afternoon and the timing matters. We’re coming up to summer. Diaries thin out, clients head off on holiday, and you know the small lurch that comes with it, the empty week, the wondering whether it’ll fill back up.

It’s the rare window when you have the headspace to work on the practice instead of in it. So get your website earning its keep now, while you’re off doing something better, and September won’t be a scramble.

I’m putting together a short training on bringing more traffic to your website over the coming month. But you don’t need to wait for it. There’s groundwork worth doing now, and most of it is free.

I asked Sophie from Pocketsite.co.uk what five things therapists could do this week to improve their SEO.

One

Read your meta title like a stranger would.

Your meta title is the title that shows up in Google when someone finds your website.

It helps Google understand what your page is about, but it also helps a real person decide whether to click.

You can usually change your meta title and meta description in the SEO settings for each page of your website. Look for something like Page Settings, SEO, Search Engine Listing, or SEO title and description. You’ll usually need to do this page by page, starting with your homepage and main service pages.

A good meta title should quickly answer three questions:

What do you offer?
Who do you help?
Where are you based?

For example:

CBT Therapist in Wilmslow for Anxiety and Burnout

This is much clearer than:

Home | Sarah Rees Therapy

The second one may look tidy, but it doesn’t tell Google — or the person searching — what you actually do.

Your meta description is the short sentence underneath the title in Google. This doesn’t need to be packed full of keywords. It just needs to sound clear, warm and human.

For example:

CBT for adults in Wilmslow struggling with anxiety, burnout and self-criticism. Online and in-person appointments available.

You can use AI to help draft your meta titles and descriptions. Just make sure you edit them so they still sound like you.

Two

Make your headings earn their place.

Your headings are the titles and section titles on each page of your website.

They help your reader understand the page, but they also help Google understand what the page is about.

Your H1 is the main heading on the page. This is usually the big title at the top. Each page should usually have one clear H1.

Your H2s are the smaller section headings underneath. They break the page up and help explain what each section is about.

You can usually change these directly on the page when you edit your website text. Look for the text style options in your website editor, often called Heading 1, H1, Heading 2, or H2. Your homepage, therapy pages, about page and blog posts are all worth checking.

Instead of using a vague heading like:

How I Can Help

You could use something clearer, such as:

CBT Therapy for Anxiety in Wilmslow

Or:

Online EMDR for Trauma

This doesn’t mean every heading has to be full of keywords. Please don’t turn your website into something that sounds robotic.

But where it feels natural, your headings should quietly say what you offer, who you help, and where you work.

Three

Tell people where you are. Genuinely, where you are.

This was Sophie’s big one: make sure your location is actually on your website.

Therapists often write beautifully about their approach, their values and the people they help, then forget to mention they’re based in Leeds, Manchester, Wilmslow or wherever they actually work.

But if someone types “EMDR therapist in Manchester” into Google, your website needs to contain those words somewhere for Google to make the connection.

Your location should show up in a few key places:

Your meta title
A heading, where it fits naturally
The main body of the page
Your footer

This doesn’t mean stuffing your town or city into every other sentence. It just means making it clear where you offer therapy, especially if you see clients in person.

It sounds obvious when you say it out loud, but it’s one of the most common things missing from therapist websites.

That’s three quick changes you can make before your coffee goes cold. The final two are below, plus the one thing I’d put above all five.

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Join us for our new Co-working session. A chance to bring something you’ve been putting off, or something you need accountability for or just something you need to get done. Co-working sessions are a great way to get work done. I find them incredibly productive.

How to join the Co-working sessions:

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88149108915

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I’ve been in private practice for 15 years, and this August I’m taking a proper break for the first time.

Not a few days here and there between clients. Not “I’ll just check emails once a day.” An actual, planned, slower month.

It’s taken more organising than I expected to get here, and I’ll write a separate post soon about exactly how I’ve planned it, what I moved, what I said no to, what I’m leaving in place. But first, I wanted to explain why, and what it means for you this summer.

We tell our clients to rest. Do we show them we do it too?

Most of us came into private practice for a better work-life balance. That was the whole point. And yet it’s so easy to end up building a practice that runs us, rather than one that looks after us the way we look after our clients.

I ask my clients to rest. To set boundaries. To prioritise themselves. And I want them to actually see that from me — not just hear it in session while I look exhausted, because that’s not fair on them, and it’s not fair on me either. I don’t think you want that either.

So this August, I’m trying to live it out rather than just talk about it. A private practice shouldn’t be something we survive. It should be something that sustains us too.

What’s changing on Fridays in August

Normally, Fridays at 12 pm are our Q&A inside Therapist Corner. In August, they’re being replaced with something a little different: a short, focused training series called Enquiry-Ready Summer School.

Each Friday in August, a 10–15 minute training will land in Therapist Corner, walking through the Enquiry Pathway, the steps someone goes through before they book in with you and where things might be quietly breaking down along the way.

Because often the problem isn’t that you need to rebuild everything. It might be that:

• People are finding you, but not quite understanding what you offer

• They land on your website but don’t take the next step

• They’re interested, but something in the process makes it harder than it needs to be for them to actually enquire

Each week, we’ll look at one part of that pathway, and you’ll get one practical thing to tighten up not a full rebuild, not a big August project. Just one useful fix at a time.

Why now, when enquiries usually go quiet anyway

Enquiries often dip over summer, that’s just the reality, unless you’ve been marketing three months ahead. But quiet weeks don’t have to mean sitting there refreshing your inbox and hoping September sorts itself out.

You can use this slower stretch to make your practice easier to find, easier to understand, and easier for people to take that first step with. Small, steady fixes now mean you go into September strong, rather than starting from scratch.

What stays the same

Wednesdays carry on as normal, there’s still plenty to write about. You’ll still get your usual practical, money-and-business post one week and a caseload-building post the next, exactly as you’re used to.

If you’re already a paid member of Therapist Corner, the Summer School episodes will land in your inbox automatically alongside everything else. If you’ve been sitting quietly in the background, this would be a good moment to upgrade your membership and get the series throughout August.

What I’ll be doing instead

Mostly the garden. Walking the dogs. A proper staycation, and I’m genuinely looking forward to it. I’ll be sharing bits of it over on Notes if you want a glimpse.

There are still a few Q&As left in July, so I’ll see you there before the summer break begins and I’ll be back soon with the full story of how I planned an actual month off after 15 years of not quite managing it.

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This is Part 3 of the series where I’m rebuilding my own caseload in real time.

Part 1 was my caseload going quiet and putting together a plan.

Part 2 was discovering ten enquiries sitting in my spam folder.

So once I knew the contact form actually worked, I had to ask the next question:

If someone reaches my contact page, is it actually helping them enquire?

Mine had the basics.

Fee.
Location.
Availability.
Email address.
Phone number.
A contact form.

So technically, it was fine, but when I looked at it properly, I realised something uncomfortable:

My contact page was doing too much.

It was trying to serve therapy clients and therapists in private practice at the same time and those are not the same visitors.

Someone looking for therapy does not need to be sent towards posts about building a caseload, joining a mailing list, or growing a private practice.

They need to know:

Can you help me?
Where are you?
What does it cost?
What do I write?
What happens after I press send?

That’s it. So I’ve started simplifying the page around one job:

Helping someone enquire about therapy, you can have a look here - Updated Contact Page

Below, I’m sharing what was wrong with the old page, see the images of how dull it was, and I’m going through what I’ve changed and the simple audit for you to work through so you can update your own contact page too. My aim is to turn more visitors into enquiries and to improve the SEO of the page so it’s more visable, I was missing some simple elements, continue reading so you can improve yours today. It will take less than an hour!

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A few weeks ago I wrote about how to respond when a complaint first lands. But since then I’ve been thinking about the next bit the bit therapists often forget until they are already panicking: having an actual complaints procedure in place before you need one. Complaints are one of the parts of private practice that most therapists hope they will never have to deal with.

And yet, if you are in practice for long enough, there is always the possibility that a client, former client, parent, referrer or another professional may raise a concern about the work.

That does not automatically mean you have done something wrong.

It means something has happened that needs to be taken seriously, slowed down, documented and responded to carefully.

As therapists, we meet people at vulnerable, distressed and sometimes highly defended points in their lives. Therapy can bring up disappointment, anger, shame, dependency, misunderstanding and rupture. Sometimes a client has not had the experience they hoped for. Sometimes expectations were unclear. Sometimes endings are painful. Sometimes there has been a genuine mistake or a communication gap. Sometimes the complaint is not straightforward.

Whatever the situation, the way you respond matters.

A complaint can feel threatening, especially when you are working alone in private practice without an NHS service, agency, referral company or manager sitting around you.

• There is no MDT to talk it through with.

• No complaints department.

• No service lead to hold the process.

• No one automatically stepping in to help you write the response.

That is why private practitioners need a clear complaints procedure before they need it.

Not because you should expect complaints every week, but because when one lands, your nervous system may not be at its most measured, organised or proportionate.

A good complaints process protects the client, protects you, and protects the integrity of the work.

The first thing to remember

Do not respond in panic.

When a complaint comes in, it can trigger a huge threat response. You might feel defensive, ashamed, angry, frightened, exposed, or desperate to explain yourself.

That is human.

But your first response needs to be calm, brief and boundaried.

• You do not need to answer every point immediately.

• You do not need to defend your whole practice in the first email.

• You do not need to offer a long explanation before you have reviewed your notes, spoken to your supervisor, checked your complaints procedure, and considered whether you need to contact your insurer.

This is the point where some therapists accidentally make things harder for themselves.

Because it’s scary!!!

They over-explain.
They apologise too quickly.
They argue the details.
They send a long emotional reply.
They try to resolve everything in one email.
They forget to document what they have done.

And once something is in writing, it is in writing.

This is where a clear process matters

If you are in private practice, you need to know:

• What to say when a complaint first lands

• What not to say too early

• What to document

• When to take it to supervision

• When to contact your professional indemnity insurer

• How to review your notes

• How to respond without becoming defensive

• How to signpost to your professional body

• How to learn from it without collapsing into shame

This is not just admin.

It is part of practising safely.

And it is one of those areas where therapists often only realise there is a gap when something stressful happens.

For paid subscribers, I have created a practical complaints toolkit you can adapt for your own private practice.

Continue reading and download the practical complaints toolkit, including:

• What to do when a complaint first comes in

• An initial acknowledgement email template

• a private practice complaints procedure template

• What to document

• When to contact your insurer

• How to use supervision

• What to include in your complaints policy

• How to signpost to BABCP or another professional body

• Reflective questions to help you learn from the experience without spiralling into shame

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Here are your Therapists’ Corner dates for June 👇

Here’s what’s coming up inside Therapists’ Corner this month.

Live Sessions: All sessions are at 12 pm UK time

📆 Wednesday 8th July, 12 pm
Co-working Session
A calm, focused space to get something done, whether that’s admin, content, planning, or a task you’ve been putting off.

💻 Friday 10th July, 12 pm
Guest Expert Q&A Workshop with Natalie form Bothy & Bloom: Your business is making money... so why does it still feel stressful

🤖 Friday 17th July, 12 pm
Q&A with Sarah & Sophie
Open questions and support around private practice, visibility, marketing, confidence, systems, or anything else you’re working through.

💻 Friday 24th July, 12 pm
Q&A with Sarah & Sophie
Bring your questions, dilemmas, ideas, or anything you’d like support with in private practice.

🙋 Friday 31st July, 12 pm
End-of-Month Q&A with Sarah & Sophie
A chance to reflect, ask questions, and gather some momentum before heading into July.

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How to use the live sessions

You’re very welcome to come along, whether you have a specific question or just want to listen in. You might bring:

✨ a private practice dilemma
✨ a question about marketing, visibility, fees or boundaries
✨ something you’re stuck on in your business
✨ a page, offer, post or idea you’d like feedback on
✨ a task you want to finally get done in co-working

These sessions are here to give you support, structure and a bit of momentum, so you don’t have to work everything out on your own.

Can’t make it live?

No problem, replays will be added afterwards so you can catch up in your own time. You’re also welcome to send questions in advance if there’s something you’d like us to cover.

📌 A quick note:
The Zoom link is updated each month. You’ll find the correct link in your reminder emails and at the bottom of the calendar page.

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