Thursday, February 23, 2012

A practice-building seminar for psychologists

Patrick Lumbroso from PsychNiche is offering a 2-day intensive on marketing and practice development in Melbourne on 24th and 25h of March. For details go to the APS website:
http://www.psychology.org.au/Events/EventView.aspx?EventID=9054

I personally strongly recommend Patrick and his approach. I had individual mentoring sessions with him last year and they were a fantastic help in developing my practice. Consider going, and decide soon, as the early bird registration is much cheaper.

cheers,
Izabela

Protect your home address

Those of us that see clients for medico-legal reasons need to be fairly careful about their privacy. In particular, having a home address accessible through Yellow Pages or the internet is not a good idea.

Making your home phone number private costs $6 a month. Not much, but it adds up over a year. Transferring the phone onto your partner's name, or your maiden name for women is a cost-free option.

Don't forget your business name. If you have registered your business name, you had to provide your residential address, and that address is accessible by the public. You can sent a letter detailing the reasons why this is not a good idea. I have done so and the access to my address is restricted to a certain extent - I believe that to access it a person has to file a formal request, and that I will be informed if the access is granted.

Is anyone aware of any other ways in which a psychologists home address can be easily found?

Izabela

BAS reminder

Just a reminder - BAS is due on the 28th of February.
cheers,
Izabela

Attempts to get my life back - Part 1

As reported previously, my practice ate my life, and I decided to do something about.
This is a report of phase one of the project.

I have reclaimed my life!
Great.
I spent several weekends with my family - camping, having fun, going away.
I was around in the evening and improved The Kid's piano practice no end.


Pity about the practice...

While I am not overdue on any reports yet (this may change if I don't write two today), the pile has grown and started to topple.
The comming weekend has officially been assigned to report writing, and the next week looks like a desk-bound nightmare.

OK, the balancing act is not quite figured out.
Will report on Phase 2

Izabela