Links
Directory websites
One of the UK’s largest therapy directories and our sister website.
Lifecoach Directory
Lifecoach Directory provides a huge support network of life coaches, allowing visitors to find a life coach in their area and appropriate for their needs. To ensure the professionalism of their website, all listed coaches have provided them with qualifications and insurance cover or proof of membership with a professional body.
If you are a Nutrition Professional or use Nutrition as one of your core competencies – join The Nutrition Network – networking, education and business know-how.
HealthyPages allows you to search for local businesses and services related to complementary health and natural therapies from across the UK. There are helpful therapy guides, various forums for discussions with other therapists, events and a directory where you can add your listing for a fee.
Advice and coaching for practitioners
Emma Rhodes & The University of York
Emily Rhodes, Media Consultant/Strategist in collaboration with HigherEd Partners UK and the University of York, share an in-depth guide they created about creating a career development plan. The guide is called ‘Guide to Writing a Career Development Plan’ and offers plenty of valuable information for anyone looking to launch or refresh their business or career.
Celia Champion and James Butler from Painless Practice help a number of complementary therapists including osteopaths, physiotherapists and chiropractors, to be as successful as possible in their private health practices. They aim to make the “entire journey as painless as possible” by providing support, systems and training.
Marketing For Practices are dedicated to the growth of Private Practices & Clinics in the UK, and achieve this through their ‘all-inclusive’ patient generation package. Founded by the Award Winning Entrepreneur Dominic Jones, and headed up by savvy Marketing Services Manager Pete Conway – the team have a combined 25+ years’ experience in marketing and business growth, and are on hand to take your business to the next level.
Their vision is simple. They believe that ‘getting stuff done’ is the key driver to pushing your business forward, and that this can be achieved through the productive use of direct-response marketing. From web design to copywriting, and bespoke remarketing to evergreen email sequences, their ‘all-inclusive’ marketing package is just the ticket for Private Practice Owners looking to push on this year. Visit Marketing for Practices to find out more.
The team of licensed psychologists behind PsychologyHelp.com are focusing their efforts on helping patients online after having helped patients face to face for years in Denmark. It’s not only a good option for online therapy, but also someone to contact if you are considering to start taking patients online as a therapist.
Life Coach Hub: A Great Resource for New and Experienced Coaches
Life Coach Hub offers a complete coaching management system to run your business online, from anywhere.
- Get off to a flying start with ready-to-use coaching forms, plans, contracts and other valuable resources.
- Take the stress out of keeping track of coaching plans and notes by automating it.
- Keep clients engaged and happy so they stay clients for longer with easy to use interactive tools that help measure progress.
- Create and assign multiple forms and assessments.
- Re-use everything with your clients and course members, and keep it all in one location that you can access from any device.
- Run your own courses to generate an easy, passive income and make the most out of your time.
- Get client leads delivered to your inbox.
- Be seen by potential clients with a free directory listing.
Life Coach Hub lets you save time, lots of it. By automating key aspects of your business admin, you can save time and money. You’ll also increase your client lifecycle while delivering great results to stop the endless struggle for new clients.
Life Coach Hub is offering Private Practice Hub members an exclusive 50% lifetime discount on all their coaching software and marketing services. Simply enter the coupon code LCH-PPSWAB when registering!
- Coaching Tools: https://www.lifecoachhub.com/coaching-business/coaching-tools
- Coaching Software Features: https://www.lifecoachhub.com/coaching-business/coaching-software
- Resources for Coaches: https://www.lifecoachhub.com/coaching-business/coaching-resources
- The Beginner’s Guide to Life Coaching: https://www.lifecoachhub.com/beginners-guide-to-life-coaching
- Register for a Free Directory Listing: https://www.lifecoachhub.com/register-coaches
Useful websites
Online Learning with FutureLearn – Business & Management Courses
FutureLearn offer online business and management courses to provide learners with programs and degrees from top universities and business schools.
Support Your Mental Health in Lockdown
Feeling anxious in lockdown or know someone who is? Coronavirus is taking a toll on both our physical and mental wellbeing. These courses by FutureLearn will help you manage your own mental health and support others who are struggling.
Dr. James Hawkins provides an incredible amount of information on his website covering CBT related research. He has created a ’Good knowledge’ database holding the details of latest research articles and studies, and sends out a regular newsletter highlighting those he feels will be useful for health and wellbeing professionals.
The Journal of the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths – Homeopathy in Practice – read the journals here.
SportsInjuryFix.com is a rapidly growing free website that allows users to find the best treatment for their sports injury from thousands of listings compiled from a combination of open source and sign ups which is searchable by location, sports and injury specialism. It also explains the different options available and means people can find the best treatment provider for their injury. Businesses can sign up for free publicity and referrals at www.sportsinjuryfix.com/business/join
Zen Bites is a free monthly audio podcast series featuring Mindfulness-based psychotherapist Jamie Shavdia and Zen Buddhist teacher Martin Goodson, with discussion focusing on Zen, Buddhism and Mindfulness, to more generalised themes of Psychology and Spirituality. The podcasts are available on the website www.jamieshavdia.co.uk/podcasts-zen-bites, The Zen Gateway (www.thezengateway.com) and on Apple’s iTunes (under Podcasts).
Small business reviews done differently. Digital.com publishes genuine reviews powered by real people to help you find the best tools for your small business website, including web hosting, website builders and ecommerce platforms. They then publish a library of content to help small business owners make the most of the Internet.
Guide to coping with Death & Grief
A useful guide about the bereavement process produced by Ellen Wise in collaboration with Churchill.
Free & Paid Stock Photos
If you’re creating a website, brochure or leaflet, you’re probably looking for good free stock photos. We know from experience that they can be hard to find. Here’s a list of stock photo websites. This is great resource as they’ve scored each site for its usability and summarised each site so it should help you make an informed choice. Also there is this great article “46 Best Stock Photography Websites (Free & Paid)” from Chasing Heartbeats Photography.
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