What are the essential skills needed to set up and run a successful coaching practice?

Coaching is the new growth industry in the UK and coaching as a profession is increasingly becoming an attractive option for motivated professionals.

Achieving Excellence in Your Coaching Practice provides a practical and accessible guide to the business skills needed to succeed as a self-employed coach. It focuses on every aspect of setting up and developing a professional and successful coaching practice, including discussion of how to market your business, manage your resources, assess risk, and promote a professional image.

Assuming no prior knowledge or experience of running a business, this book provides an invaluable guide to the major financial, legal and practical issues involved in setting up a coaching practice. It will be welcomed by all coaches, whatever their level of experience.

Many practitioners consider setting up in private practice at some point in their career, whether full-time or alongside other employment. "The Essential Skills for Setting Up a Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice" provides comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the major skills needed to succeed. Based on the authors' extensive experience, this book provides a valuable insight into how to minimize the risks associated with working privately, offering practical advice on how to keep a balance between self-development, personal health and meeting the needs of clients, whilst maintaining high standards and making a reasonable living. Acknowledging the fact that being a good therapist may not, in itself, be sufficient to be successful in self-employment, the authors discuss the need for sound business skills, professional development, self-knowledge and motivation. Divided into three sections, the book covers all the essential business, professional and personal skills and includes discussionof subjects such as insurance, finance, legal issues, marketing, stress management, security and retirement planning.
The focus on skills and how to acquire and develop them makes this book an invaluable reference for all mental health professionals who are considering setting up their own private practice. This book will prove to be an invaluable reference for all mental health professionals who are considering setting up their own private practice.

THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO CHANGING YOUR LIFE WITH CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a self-help technique that has worked for millions and can work for you! It is regularly prescribed as a treatment for illnesses like depression, and recommended by healthcare professionals in dealing with issues from anxiety and eating disorders to stress and anger management. This bestselling, practical primer shows you how you can apply CBT techniques in your life and focus on using altered patterns of thinking to achieve goals and overcome problems. It explains what CBT is, how you can use it, and provides detailed examples that show you how to be more assertive, raise your self-esteem, and transform your mentality - becoming happier and more positive in the process. Now fully updated to cover the growth of third-wave approaches to behavioural therapy, including mindfulness, the new edition of this classic book will help you turn your life around. ABOUT THE SERIES People have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practical how-to guides covering language learning, lifestyle, hobbies, business, psychology, and self-help, there's a Teach Yourself book for everything you want to do. Join more than 60 million people who have reached their goals with Teach Yourself, and never stop learning.

Everyone can identify with feelings of uncertainty. To worry about our status in the world and to fear that we are not living up to our potential is a common and understandable concern. But when our self-esteem becomes low our our estimation of ourselves becomes over-critical, it is all too common to let negative feelings become a burden. If this sound familiar to you, this book will provide you with practical help to deal with and overcome the problem. By picking this book up you've taken the first stride. Now, using the STEP system - a structured, CBT-based approach that delivers both support and proven techniques for defeating low self-esteem - you can begin to transform your daily life. Written by an expert author with many years of clinical experience, this book will help you get a better understanding of your sense of self, tackle negative thoughts and behaviour, and progress to a healthier, happier outlook - without fear of setbacks or relapse. ABOUT THE SERIES Everyone feels overwhelmed sometimes. When that happens, you need clarity of thought and practical advice to progress beyond the problem. The How To Deal With series provides structured, CBT-based solutions from health professionals and top experts to help you deal with issues thoroughly, once and for all. Short, easy to read, and very reassuring, these books are your first step on a pathway to a happier future. They are perfect for self-directed use and are designed so that medical professionals can prescribe them to patients.

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Boost Your Self-Esteem is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning the basic principles of being more happy with yourself in a few short steps. Whether you want to be less depressed, or just feel more confident, in just 96 pages you will discover how to master the essential strategies for gaining confidence and feeling happier with yourself in every situation. - Gain confidence - Feel great - Be assertive - Feel positive - Love yourself

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Many practitioners consider setting up in private practice at some point in their career, whether full-time or alongside other employment. "The Essential Skills for Setting Up a Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice" provides comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the major skills needed to succeed. Based on the authors' extensive experience, this book provides a valuable insight into how to minimize the risks associated with working privately, offering practical advice on how to keep a balance between self-development, personal health and meeting the needs of clients, whilst maintaining high standards and making a reasonable living. Acknowledging the fact that being a good therapist may not, in itself, be sufficient to be successful in self-employment, the authors discuss the need for sound business skills, professional development, self-knowledge and motivation. Divided into three sections, the book covers all the essential business, professional and personal skills and includes discussionof subjects such as insurance, finance, legal issues, marketing, stress management, security and retirement planning.
The focus on skills and how to acquire and develop them makes this book an invaluable reference for all mental health professionals who are considering setting up their own private practice. This book will prove to be an invaluable reference for all mental health professionals who are considering setting up their own private practice.

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Is your stress threatening to take over your life? Beat Stress with CBT is a clear, hands-on, practical guide to dealing with stress in every situation. It uses an effective, drug-free approach - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - that will give you lasting support and solutions to your stress. Using CBT, you can identify your reaction to stressful situations, and pick out the aspects of your life or personality which feel uncontrollable. This book will give you a straightforward method of measuring and reducing your stress levels, and help you to tackle the related problems such as poor sleep, anxiety, depression or disordered eating or drinking. Using a mixture of immediate solutions and long-term strategies, CBT will help you rework your mindset and find a healthier, less stressful way of life.

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What are the essential skills needed to set up and run a successful coaching practice?

Coaching is the new growth industry in the UK and coaching as a profession is increasingly becoming an attractive option for motivated professionals.

Achieving Excellence in Your Coaching Practice provides a practical and accessible guide to the business skills needed to succeed as a self-employed coach. It focuses on every aspect of setting up and developing a professional and successful coaching practice, including discussion of how to market your business, manage your resources, assess risk, and promote a professional image.

Assuming no prior knowledge or experience of running a business, this book provides an invaluable guide to the major financial, legal and practical issues involved in setting up a coaching practice. It will be welcomed by all coaches, whatever their level of experience.