Best Practice: Proven Strategies to Optimise Your Counselling Career for Immediate Success and Ultimate Succession

by Merrilyn K Hughes, Kary Oberbrunner (Foreword by)

Overview

Are you a counsellor looking to succeed? Not sure where to start? What your professional journey will look like? Where it will end?

Do you want to be a respected member of a respected profession?

In her career as a counsellor and supervisor of other counsellors, Merrilyn has left a professional footprint. She built a practice with the goals of sharing her knowledge and experience, and of planning for immediate success and ultimately succession.

In her book, Best Practice, she continues to share her plan for a successful practice with others in the counselling profession. Blending stories of her own experiences, Merrilyn guides you through:

Ø Preparing yourself to be the best you in your practice

Ø Utilising the nine point plan for building a successful business

Ø Running an ethical practice

Ø Avoiding the mistakes she made in her journey

Ø Selling your practice

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781946114297
Publisher:	Merrilyn Hughes
Publication date:	02/15/2017
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

As a successful counsellor, supervisor, author, coach and mentor, Merrilyn aims to give back to the profession that has been her passion for years. Through Best Practice and the associated Best Practice Program, Merrilyn hopes to use the principles of Sharing, Support and Synergy to optimise the careers of other and future counsellors for success and succession.
Merrilyn lives in Perth, Western Australia with her husband. She has four children and two grandchildren. After many years running a successful counselling practice and clinically supervising other counsellors, she is now semi-retired and focused on helping others.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kary Oberbrunner Introduction SECTION 1:My Experience in a Self-Sabotaging Profession
Chapter 1 Beginning
Chapter 2 Practising
Chapter 3 Ending
SECTION 2:Evolving
Chapter 4 Setting up
Chapter 5 The Best You
Chapter 6 The Best Plan-Preliminaries
Chapter 7 The Best Plan-Purpose
Chapter 8 The Best Plan-Products
Chapter 9 The Best Plan-Price
Chapter 10 The Best Plan-Place
Chapter 11 The Best Plan-Promotion
Chapter 12 The Best Plan-People
Chapter 13 The Best Plan-Processes
Section 3:Embracing
Chapter 15 Ethical Practice
Chapter 16 Security
Chapter 18 Adequate Access
Chapter 19 Professional Networking
Section 4:Enduring
Chapter 21 Synergy
Chapter 22 Sharing
Chapter 23 Support
Chapter 24 Succession
My Mistakes
The Best Practice Program
Acknowledgements
Merrilyn's Page