Workshops4all

......bringing learning to life.

BRINGING PRIVATE PRACTICE TO LIFE

Are you considering private work?

Find out how to:

• Start up a new business; 
  
• Understand accounts, tax, VAT and fees;  
• Appreciate the challenges and rewards;
• Work with individuals, Employee Assistance Schemes, insurers and solicitors;
• Avoid the pitfalls;
  
• Get the right advice.

Richard Marshall and Graham Dyson are both former tutors on Doctoral Training Courses and are experienced clinicians who now work in the private sector and are also directors of Workshops4all Ltd. These popular workshops are designed to be stimulating, informative and interactive. Numbers at each workshop are limited to ensure that everyone receives a personalised service that is tailored to their needs. Richard and Graham also provide support, advice, supervision and mentoring for individuals who have started to work independently.

Cost: £135.00

Dates and Venues:

20 November 2009 - See Programme below

Venue: Croft House, (Click for website with directions) or click here for a map

Places are still available on this workshop.

Download a Booking Form here

All future events will be advertised on this website and in Clinical Psychology Forum

To receive further information or to be placed on our mailing list:

Telephone: 07711 425023

Email: Richard@psychology4all.co.uk

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"Bringing Private Practice to Life"

Workshop Programme  Newcastle 20th November 2009

Workshop Facilitators: Richard Marshall and Graham Dyson

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9.00 Registration and Coffee

9.30 Introductions 

9.45 Hopes and Aims for the Day

10.30 Understanding the Market

Richard Marshall - Professional Issues, Codes of Conduct, Working with individuals, EAP’s, Insurers and Solicitors the Courts. Promotional material, Networking, directories, registers, internet. 

12.00 Managing your Private Practice- I

Graham Dyson - Start up Checklist, Types of business, Accommodation.  Estimating costs, setting your fees. Terms and Conditions, Managing accounts, book keeping, tax, VAT. 

1.00 Lunch 

2.00  Managing your Private Practice- II

2.30 Small Group Work (inc. tea and cakes)

3.30 Putting Ideas into Practice

Delegates business plans are evaluated

4.00 Question Time

What next?  Support, Supervision, CPD, Collaboration. 

4.30 Finish

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Workshops and Conferences

Specialist Training packages are available for mental health professionals, therapists and counsellors. These workshops develop participants' skills and knowledge in the application of psychological principles to the work that they do. Specific areas addressed include "Formulation and Interventions", Recent advances in Clinical Psychology" and "Working with Trauma".  Training and staff development, including team building, advances in mental health and clinical supervision. An assessment of the specific needs of your organisation will determine the level and nature of training opportunities that will be of optimum benefit to your organisation.

Workshops for the general public include  "Coping with Trauma", "Stress Management", and "Living with Chronic Pain".

The following workshops and training opportunities have been provided in the past:

2000 - 2006 "Intervention and Formulation Workshop". A workshop package personally developed, designed and delivered to Psychology and Mental Health services in Gateshead, Durham, Darlington, Spennymoor, Newcastle Northumberland. and Newcastle University.

2003 "Managing Chronic Pain" Hartlepool MIND.

2002 "Managing Anxiety and Panic Attacks", Hartlepool MIND.

2002 "The Psychology of Innovation and Change". Presentations in Newcastle and Birmingham to local authority and business executives as part of a promotional tour for an international computer software company.

1998 Organiser and facilitator of Supervision Workshop for General Practitioners.

1990 - 1997 Co-organiser and group facilitator of annual 3 day residential Supervisors Workshops.

1996 Speaker at Joint Clinical Conference, "Trauma and Dissociation".

1994 Organiser and leader of a 1 day workshop on "Personal Issues in Supervision" for Supervisors in Northern Ireland at Queens University Belfast.

1992 Co-organiser of "Joint Clinical Conference". A joint venture between Yorkshire and Northern Region Continuing Professional Development Committees.

1991 Facilitator and speaker at 3 day residential conference on "Multidisciplinary Teamwork".

1990 Co-organiser and facilitator of "Innovation and Change", extended post qualification workshop.

Teaching and Supervision

1988 - Present     Clinical Supervision of Clinical Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, Art Therapists, Nurse Therapists and Nursing Staff.

1988 - 1999     Contributions to Clinical Psychology Doctoral Course, Newcastle University. Including teaching and examining. Direct supervision of 23 regional trainees from the Newcastle Doctoral Course. Field supervisor for Teesside University Top-up Doctorate.