Creating your Private Practice
A creative writing programme to help you envision, shape, and develop your private therapy practice
About the programme
Creating Your Private Practice is a structured programme of creative writing exercises designed to help you reflect on and develop your therapeutic practice.
We use writing to help you:
Envision and clarify your goals
Identify your strengths, skills, and areas of interest
Explore blocks, doubts, or uncertainties
Connect reflective insight with practical planning
Move towards a clearer, more sustainable way forward
The emphasis is on insight, clarity, and direction, using creativity as a tool for professional development.
Is this for you?
This programme may be helpful if you are:
Starting out in private practice as a counsellor or psychotherapist
Recently qualified, or soon to qualify
Struggling to attract enough clients or build a sustainable income
Feeling isolated as a sole practitioner
Curious about using creative approaches to explore your practice and direction
If so, this course could be a good fit for you.
Format
The programme runs over six evening sessions.
Duration: 6 x 3-hour group sessions
Group size: 6–15 participants
Format: In-person (locations and dates to be confirmed)
Alongside the structured programme, the group may also offer a valuable sense of peer connection and support that can extend beyond the course itself.
Future dates and locations will be listed here. If you would like to be notified, you are welcome to register your interest by email.
Client Testimonials
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"I appreciated Caroline's energy and enthusiasm which felt natural and congruent. I enjoyed all the experiential exercises and sharing."
Participant, BCPC
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"I enjoyed the variety of the writing exercises, all done with a light and engaging touch but also brought to the surface real exploratory depths of emotion. It was a joy to participate and to reconnect with the part of myself that values and finds expression through writing."
Participant, BCPC
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"I would recommend this to students or graduates as a way to access creativity, whatever their starting point."
Participant, BCPC

