Setting up a Successful Private Therapy Practice

Gareth Sammer, the founder, lead therapist and practice manager at West London Counselling and Psychotherapy Services started running his own private practice over 12 years ago and went full time with it in 2015. Since then he has managed to maintain a consistently full practice of an average of 20 clients a week over the last 9 years with hundreds of client enquiries per year. Since 2018 he has been running courses on setting up successful private practices. He has helped many therapists kick start their careers and now he wants to help you too! Simply click the button below to sign up to this online course to work through at your own pace.


Advanced Skills in Growing your Private Practice

Coming November 2024

Are you a therapist already in private practice? Are you struggling to attract new clients and not sure of the best, most cost effective ways of gaining more clients? Are you unsure what’s holding you back from growing your practice to the next level? Are you feeling stuck and not sure who to move forward in private practice? Then join our “Advanced Skills in Growing your Private Practice” course where we will explore the following areas.

  • Where are you, where do you want to be and what’s really holding you back?

  • Exploring the different ways of growing your practice

  • Websites - Common mistakes and techniques to increase your SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Score.

  • Social Media - Which ones, What do you do and How do you do it

  • Therapy Listing Directories - Avoiding the common mistakes and improving your online presence.

  • Google Business pages - Talking you through setting it up

  • Other websites to advertise and list on

  • Other ways of generating clients

  • Monitoring the impact of your marketing strategies


TA101 - An Introduction to Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy

Coming December 2024 - Contact Gareth to Ask for more Information Here