Welcome to the Counselling Buddy blog, where we’ll share insights, tips, and updates designed specifically for private practice therapists and mental health professionals in the UK. To get started, we have written this introductory post, introducing ourselves and what we set out to achieve with the blog.
Why We Built Counselling Buddy
Counselling Buddy started as a simple conversation between two therapists, back in 2021. The conversation was simple: a lot of Private Practice admin is tedious, repetitive, and time-consuming. Chasing payments is awkward and feels unprofessional and, even with a payment-policy requiring payment in advance, happens all too often.
You then have the struggle of juggling multiple systems, spreadsheets, calendars, and diaries to keep track of your clients, sessions, notes, payments, etc. It’s easy to lose as many as 10 hours per week to admin doing it manually, time that could be spent on more important things.
That’s where Counselling Buddy was born, with a simple goal, to free private practice therapists from strenuous admin; allowing you to Stop Juggling Spreadsheets, and Start Running Your Practice Properly.
Most importantly, something we feel isn’t recognised often enough: “Because it’s not only your clients’ mental-health that matters.” The hours you free up by automating or eliminating your manual repetitive tasks can be used to do whatever it is that you like to do to unwind, and de-stress (away from your practice).
Stop Juggling Spreadsheets, Start Running Your Practice Properly.
Why The Blog?
We wanted to create a space where we can share insights, tips and tricks, and updates to those within the fields of Private Practice therapy and Mental Health within the UK. We believe that one of the most important things we can do is share knowledge, and learn from not only our own lived-experience, but that of others too.
Longer term, we hope to invite guest posts from others within the industry, giving them a platform to share insights and things that they have learned along the way during their time in private-practice.
Getting Involved
Are you a Private Practice Therapist looking for ways to give back to those just starting out, or simply looking for a platform to share your insights? Please feel free to get in touch with us, we are always open to new ideas and guest blog posts. Whether you want to write a blog post, and have it published on our blog, or just want to share topic suggestions/requests, we’d love to hear from you.
If you’re interested, please take a look at out Contact Us Page. We would be happy to discuss via email, or to arrange a call to discuss further.
Ready to reclaim your time? Sign Up Today or Take a look at our feature overview to see how Counselling Buddy can help you focus on what you do best: helping clients.
Have questions, suggestions, or topics you’d like us to cover in future blog posts? We’d love to hear from you at hello@counsellingbuddy.com.
Welcome to Counselling Buddy. Welcome to a better way of managing your practice.
- The Counselling Buddy Team
