When developing a working therapeutic alliance, one of trust and understanding, do you agree that often it’s the little things that go a long way toward establishing a relationship with your patients.

Offering patients the chance to receive an outstanding customer experience, consisting of everything from the 1st phone call right to the last session.

When we adopt this kind of attitude then we are providing much more than customer service.

This to me is what I prefer to call a personable service, a service that is continued up until the last session. Some even go as far as to arrange a review session at some point in the future, giving the patient some after care facilities.

Crucial to any therapy business is to establish good relationships with their patients thus becoming an ongoing resource and reference for them,their families and their friends.

Gaining a “word of mouth” respect, regard and obviously some significant business.

So let me ask you; “What does your practice mean to your patients and your referral sources?”

Let us know if this was useful?

Dawn Pugh Therapy expert.

So how do you counselors/ psychologists etc… keep abreast and up to date with the current ethical and political thinking when faced with a client who is in some way ‘different’. Keeping our awareness of references to race, culture or disability within our society that seeks to embrace diversity and afford equality for all.

I would be interested in any response…

Diversity and Conflict

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It also explores specific workplace issues including organizational culture; the role of counselling at work; and interventions. Taking into account the diversity of work experiences and different types of counselling training, …

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Handbook of psychotherapy and religious diversity. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Richards, P. S., & Bergin, A. E. (2005). A spiritual strategy for counseling and psychotherapy (2nd ed.). …

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Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Sue, D. W., Bucceri, J. M., Lin, A. I., Nadal, K. L., & Torino, G. C. (2007). Racial microaggressions and the Asian American experience. Cultural Diversity …

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The Dennis H. May Conference on Diversity Issues and the Role of Counseling Centers is now accepting registrations. Click here for the registration form and conference details. …

Let me know how this information affected you.

Successful people have successful businesses which can evolve into successful companies. Any successful private practice is rather like having a successful marriage. Rapidly becoming a very fashionable accessory is to have your very own ‘Coach’….

Successful people acquire their very own life coaches and life training to help them improve. Successful businesses take advantage of coaches in life to improve their private practices.

Where can I find this success, I hear you ask?

Gary Gray can help you to find success… Check these videos out…

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Apparently ‘Aquatic therapy’ has poor showing on Wikipedia… So how do we make it better?

I will help to improve and heighten people’s awareness of this brilliant and effective therapy.
“Aquatic Therapists” use the water and specifically designed activities to enhance, restore, and maintain a person’s functional abilities.  Conditions can be acute, transient, or chronic.
Benefits for “Aquatic therapy” include: Following an illness, injury, or surgery, a patient’s sensitivity to pain may be increased or the ability to bear weight on the injured area limited.  In water, the pull of gravity on the body is not as strong as on land, therefore motion and functional activity are more comfortable and achievable

Aquatic Therapy

Aquatic therapy involves performing exercises in the water.

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By using a carefully planned aquatic program, children with sensory processing issues and autism also benefit greatly from this type of therapy. Summer’s here. Get to know the basics of aquatic therapy, when to use it, how to go about …

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The resort’s 11000- square-foot Aquatic Center features three Watsu pools, a cross-training pool with conditioning equipment, two aquatic therapy pools and a whirlpool. There is also a complete Water Workout Station and it is making a …

Massage Using Aquatic Therapy

This is where massage using aquatic therapy comes in. Massage therapists have been using the rejuvenating effects of water on the body, thus using water itself to do creative wonders on the body’s pain. Aquatic therapy is done when the …

Aqua Therapy – A Powerful Tool For Fast Patient Recovery

A common misconception is that aquatic therapy is only for people who are already injured. This is not necessarily the case. In reality, it can be used to prevent , and injuries. This is a common procedure in sports players. …

A big reason why people refrain from exercise is the pain that they feel on consecutive days, well with exercise in water, no pain or at least very little is felt, this is down to the resistance that water creates.

Makes perfect sense.

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Is Therapy a Luxury?

Is Therapy immune to the recession?

Apparently numerous New York therapists are losing patients who can’t afford to access therapy /psychotherapy or counseling anymore. Allegedly New Yorkers need help to cope with depression and anxiety more than ever before during this recession.

President of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis – Sherman Phieffer says that at this time of a recession there seems to be greater need, and fewer resources exist.
Although there have been a few exceptions. Some psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers have actually reported an increase in patients.

Robin Kerner, Ph.D. A Clinical Psychologist states; “I surprisingly got a number of new referrals earlier in the year; almost all of my patients have firsthand connection to the economic fallout. However, many longer-term patients are starting to cut back.”

Let us know what your economic effects are having on your practice …we are all interested.

Is Your Therapy Practice website / blog providing you with new visitors that become clients?

I’ll hazard a guess here and say the answer is probably no.

The two primary reasons why you don’t get visitors to your website / blog are very simple.

1. You or your webmaster did not do the necessary research to establish who your target audience are and what keywords they are using to find the services that you have on offer.

2. You or your webmaster did not take these keywords and weave them into your web pages to create pages that are optimized for those keywords.

If you are interested in finding out how you can rectify this problem, and get your website / blog ranking in Google, Yahoo and MSN to create a stream of visitors to Your therapy Practice then go to the link below and take our quick 1 minute confidential survey about Your Therapy Practice.

 
Your Therapy Practice Survey

Your Therapy Practice Survey

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Today’s video is all about our new Social Networking For Therapists web site thats FREE for therapists to join.

Our programming team are just putting the finishing touches to our new site that provides social networking for therapists.

Our service (which is free) is all about building an online community of therapists who share interests and activities, and also exploring the interests and activities of other therapists.

You will be able to upload all kinds of media including pictures and videos.

Each member will have their own your own page, and you can even have your own blog right inside the site.

There will be blog posts, discussions, events and much more. 

You will also be able to create separate groups, so that if you wanted to start a group with therapists around ADHD or EFT or anything else, then you could do so. 

You’ve even got email and instant messaging right inside the Social Networking for Therapists web site. 

All memberships to our Social Networking For Therapists website, are FREE.  So if you would like to become a member then just leave a comment below with your email address and I will notify you in the next few days so that you can create your account.  

Dont be shy, and please leave your comments, all for now.

Enjoy

Gary

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According to Wikipedia ….

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or email, or through applications such as TwitterMobile, Tweetie, Twinkle, TwitterFox, Twitterrific, Feedalizr, and Facebook.

Four gateway numbers are currently available for SMS: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, and a United Kingdom-based number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.

Twitter had by one measure over 3 million accounts^[1] and, by another, well over 5 million visitors in September 2008, a fivefold increase in a month.^[2]

 Twitter for Therapists

I have been using Twitter for some time but it is only recently that I understood it’s value. I really does enable you to connect with your friends, business colleagues and potential clients quickly and easily.

You can even Tweet (posting a message) and receive messages from many mobile devices including cell phones and laptops.

I’ve created a video called Creating a Twitter Account that shows you how to do just that.

Don’t forget to follow me at www.twitter.com/garygraye

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Using the right keywords and phrases for your web / blog pages is vital if you want to get the right targeted visitors to your web site.

Use the wrong keyword phrases, and you won’t get the type of person you want to attract coming to your site.

One tool that I have found really useful is the Free Keyword Tool from Google Adwords.

To watch the video showing you how to use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, please click on the link below. 
Video Showing Google Adwords Keyword Tool
 

To actualy use this tool and enter your own search terms then please click on the following link:-

Google Adwords Keyword Tool

In the box in the middle of the screen, type in your search term. Lets say you thought that the search term New York Therapy was a good search term.  Just type in the search box “New York Therapy” (without the quotation marks) and the search terms relating to that search will be displayed.

The columns that are displayed are :-

1. Keywords ( keywords or phrases related to terms entered )

2. Advertiser Competition ( the volume of advertisers using adwords to attract to their sites using this term )

3. Approx Avg Search Volume ( the average number of searches for that term per month )

4. Search Volume Trends ( graphical representation of searches over the past year )

5 Highest Volume Occurred In ( the month the highest number of searches was recorded )

Now if you want the phrases that are searched for more than others, then just click on the heading of the column that says “Approx Avg Search Volume”.

A group of keywords that might reflect your business if you practiced therapy in New York might be:-

New York Therapist

New York Psychologist

New York Therapy

New York Counselor

NY Therapy
 

Using these keywords, you could then create a new page on your website / blog for each of them.

The page title would reflect each of the search terms, and the text on the page would describe what it is that you do, how this will help your potential clients and then what you would like them to do next.

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Jing allows you to:-

1. Record video of onscreen action.

2. Snap a Picture of Your Screen.

3. Share Videos and Images Over The Web, Email and Internet Messenger. 

The program is FREE and has 2 versions; Mac OS and Windows.

Installation is really easy and should take just a few minutes. The video help is really simple and informative.

The Jing Software is FREE. However, if you want to have the adverts and the Jing logos removed then you might want to get the paid version which at the time of writing is $14.95.

Take a look at the video below and see Jing it in action.  

all for now, see you next time

Gary

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