Event Details

The Psychologists Protection Society Trust welcomed Nicola Currie as our second speaker in our series of Virtual Seminars to celebrate the Psychologists Protection Society Trusts 50^th Birthday on Saturday 5^th October 2024.

Session Outline

Are you getting ready to set up in private practice? Maybe you are unsure where to start with creating your policies. Don’t worry Nicola Currie can help. She has lots of experience setting up counselling services and supporting counsellors to set up their private practice. She has lots of experience too in helping people get started to create their policies.

Here are some of the policies we will be exploring in this workshop:

•             Cancellation/DNA
•             Lone Working
•             GDPR/Data Protection
•             Clinical Will
•             Confidentiality
•             Safe Guarding
•             Risk Assessment
•             Social Media
•             Complaints
•             Contract

From this webinar hopefully, you will have a good idea of what you would like in your policies for your counselling practice.

Speaker Information

Nicola Currie provides training to support counsellors to set up in Private Practice. 

She has been setting up Counselling Services since 2004 and has set up three in her local community. She has a private practice called ‘Counselling with Nicola’ where she sees clients from her home just outside Edinburgh.

Her private practice is hugely successful and has been running since 2008. She has never paid a penny in marketing and has thrived through two recessions and a pandemic.

She has been supporting her local community to manage their mental health for the last twenty years! 

Nicola delivers training to some of the local universities in her area and has also facilitated workshops/lectures for Online Events and Counselling Tutor.

Her workshop entitled ‘Setting up in Private Practice’ has been approved and recognised as an Online Quality Checked CPD Training by the NCPS. The above workshop about Creating Policies is being assessed for this award too.

She has also delivered online lectures at a Women Who Matter Summit around the topic of ‘What If’ where she explored with women how their ‘What if’ thinking affected their lives. She also delivered an online lecture to the Women Who Matter Business Summit to therapists around the topic of ‘What to do When Something Goes Wrong in Therapy’.

She has had small pieces of writing published in Therapy Today and The First Steps in Counselling Book 5th edition, co-written by Pete Sanders, Paula J Williams and Andy Rogers.

Nicola has since developed an online business to support counsellors to set up in Private Practice. She continues to see clients from home.