Being a therapist can often be an isolated working role, and if you are a one-man band of a business, then you may well be doing a huge amount more than just having hypnotherapy sessions with your clients each day.
I remember the first day of being a self-employed hypnotherapist, skipping along the street so happy, thinking “yes, I did it, I am living the dream!” It was awesome, though also a tad naive.
I also remember walking along the same pathway perhaps a year later as a busy hypnotherapist dreading working with a particular client of mine and thinking “I don’t want to work with that smoker guy, he’s not responding well and I feel drained.”
I flagged down a cab and headed for Real Street, and have since then looked at the best ways to enhance my day-to-day enjoyment of being a hypnotherapist, and feeling like the dream and the autonomy were worthwhile and put a smile back on my face.
I share some of the stuff here in this video, enjoy!
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Hi Adam,
Yes, it is important not to isolate ourselves and to take pleasure in life and our interests away from our work. I am in the fortunate position of working in a clinic where I rent a lovely room which is mine to use and where other therapists work, however, they are not hypnotherapists. There are five of us working in the clinic and we have an occasional visiting therapist. We are all girls together and we have such a wonderful time chatting away about all sorts of things that are not work related. We have a good giggle and do not have back to back clients, giving ourselves time to relax in between our clients. We are very happy, go out and get lunch, talk to others in the small town we work in and more and more people are getting to know us. It is wonderful. Yes, we also take holidays or even have days off so we are fresh when we work, engaging with and enjoying being with our clients.
I can honestly say that we are very happy and we look forward to seeing each other and to working with our clients who are lovely. It is not a place where we have any back biting, competition or anything like that. believe that we are very fortunate.
I could not work in a miserable place. It’s just not me. I did work from home for a few years and that was much more isolating. Now, I have my work space and my home space which I much prefer. Quality of life is so important and I guess we may see fewer clients overall but we like it that way and are happy with our earnings.
Really enjoyed reading that reply, thanks Snezzy, best wishes to you, Adam.