Sarahdrees.co.uk

Sarahdrees.co.uk Psychotherapist, CBT, CFT and EMDR trained, delivers supervision and supports therapists in setting up and building their private practice

Cognitive behavioural therapy is a highly effective style of therapy, which looks at how your thoughts, feelings and behaviours impact each other and maintain patterns which are not helpful and hold you back. Working with a fully accredited CBT therapist to recognise the unhelpful patterns and work towards alternatives ensures progress is made quickly and is sustained. Its been proven time and tim

e again that CBT is effective in helping people overcome a range of difficulties quickly. In only 6 sessions you will notice a difference, be able to see a clear way forward or be near your therapy goals. It’s the treatment of choice for most of the psychological disorders.

June in Therapist Corner. Where you don’t have to go it alone, and private practice gets easier. 👇 💫 DM me TRIAL for 7 d...
04/06/2026

June in Therapist Corner.

Where you don’t have to go it alone, and private practice gets easier. 👇

💫 DM me TRIAL for 7 days of free access.

🔗 Get instant access to everything - workshops, resources, Q&As, and our supportive community of therapists.

If you’ve been thinking about joining, this is your sign. 🙌

04/06/2026

Everyone on here shows you the wins. the £5k months, the client who didn’t even flinch at the price of a therapy session.

and those wins are real, I promise you they are.. but nobody talks about what happens in the middle.

One of my therapists I was coaching came to me doing regular 3k months. She’s now consistently hitting £5k. but in between those two things?

She had what we call the wobble.
she questioned everything, she wondered if it was working, if she was even working in the right industry, she nearly talked herself out of it.

Building a private practice isn’t linear. It goes up and down and up and down. My student didn’t quit… and now she’s hitting £5k months consistently.

If you’re in the wobble right now. that’s not a sign to stop.

That’s a sign to keep going. You got this

Nobody tells you what building a therapy business actually looks like. So here’s the unfiltered version.It’s liking your...
03/06/2026

Nobody tells you what building a therapy business actually looks like. So here’s the unfiltered version.

It’s liking your own posts from every account you own. It’s taking your laptop on holiday “just in case.”

It’s crying when your first client signs up because you genuinely can’t believe you finally did it.

It’s messy and lonely and the best thing I’ve ever built.

If you’re somewhere in the middle of all this, exhausted, a bit obsessed, not sure you’re doing it “right”, that’s exactly who I built Therapists Corner for.

You don’t have to figure it out on your own.

Comment Trial, and I’ll send you the way in. 👇

Nobody tells you what building a therapy business actually looks like. So here’s the unfiltered version.It’s liking your...
03/06/2026

Nobody tells you what building a therapy business actually looks like. So here’s the unfiltered version.

It’s liking your own posts from every account you own. It’s taking your laptop on holiday “just in case.”

It’s crying when your first client signs up because you genuinely can’t believe you finally did it.

It’s messy and lonely and the best thing I’ve ever built.

If you’re somewhere in the middle of all this, exhausted, a bit obsessed, not sure you’re doing it “right”, that’s exactly who I built Therapists Corner for.

You don’t have to figure it out on your own.

Comment Trial, and I’ll send you the way in. 👇

23/05/2026

being good at metaphors is like 75% of my job as a therapist 😂

half my work is essentially:

“your nervous system is basically an overprotective smoke alarm.”

“your thoughts are like spam emails.”

“self-compassion is like learning to speak to yourself the way you would a frightened child.”

“avoidance works a bit like quicksand…”

“anxiety is like a browser with 47 tabs open and music playing somewhere but you can’t find where.”

“depression can feel like trying to drive with the parking brake on.”

“rumination is like picking at a scab and wondering why it won’t heal.”

“boundaries are basically emotional fences with gates — not brick walls.”

“people-pleasing is like handing everyone else the remote control to your nervous system.”

“trauma responses are often old survival software still running long after the danger has passed.”

Honestly, sometimes I think therapy is just finding increasingly creative ways to explain the human experience so people feel less broken by it.

Because when people can finally see what’s happening internally in a way that makes sense to them, shame often starts to loosen.

And that’s where change begins.

One of the easiest ways to build trust online is to help people feel like they know you before they ever contact you.Not...
23/05/2026

One of the easiest ways to build trust online is to help people feel like they know you before they ever contact you.

Not just what you do…
…but who you are.

I created this image in ChatGPT using one of my own photos and a prompt that added the things that genuinely make up my world — therapist, author, supervisor, business coach for therapists, home bird, fur baby mum, growing my own veg, married, Cheshire life, Therapists Corner, EMDR, CBT, CFT.

People don’t connect with perfect brands.
They connect with real people.

This kind of image works beautifully for:
✨ Instagram posts
✨ About pages
✨ Substack headers
✨ LinkedIn
✨ Course sales pages
✨ Speaker bios

Here’s the exact prompt I used so you can create your own version:

Save so you can copy and paste this prompt for your own image

“Keep the original person and photo exactly the same. Do not alter the face, body, expression or pose.
Add playful handwritten doodles and words around the person that reflect their personality, work, interests and identity. Use a warm, stylish Instagram aesthetic with hand-drawn hearts, arrows, icons and pastel doodles. Include professional and personal elements that help build a know-like-trust connection. Make it feel warm, human, creative and authentic — like a visual personal brand board.”

Then add your own words around yourself:
• your niche
• your qualifications
• your values
• your personality
• your hobbies
• your lifestyle
• your audience
• what you’re known for

Honestly, this is one of the nicest ways I’ve seen AI used for therapists, not to make us less human, but more visible as humans.

If you create one, tag me. I’d LOVE to see them.

22/05/2026

and that’s on never giving up❤️‍🩹

21/05/2026

Most therapists were trained to work clinically.
Not commercially.

We learned how to hold risk, support trauma, understand attachment, and navigate complexity.

But nobody taught us:

• how to attract clients
• how to market ourselves
• how to set fees without guilt
• how to create financial stability
• how to avoid burnout in private practice
• or how to build a business that still feels like you

So many therapists end up overwhelmed, underpaid, or trapped between corporate systems and exhaustion.

I wrote The Therapist’s Guide to Private Practice because I wanted therapists to know there’s another way.

A values-based private practice can be ethical and profitable.
Compassionate and sustainable.
Flexible and financially secure.

You do not have to lose yourself to build a successful business.

If you’re building — or rebuilding — your private practice, I hope this book feels like the guide I wish I’d had 🤍

Link in bio 📚

Therapists in private practice often panic when clients ask,“Why is your fee so high?” Not because they’re charging too ...
21/05/2026

Therapists in private practice often panic when clients ask,

“Why is your fee so high?”

Not because they’re charging too much.
But because somewhere along the way, many of us learned to feel uncomfortable about valuing our work.

So instead of answering with confidence, we over-explain.
Discount.
Justify.
Or spiral internally afterwards.

But your fee isn’t just for an hour chatting in a chair.

It reflects your training.
Your experience.
Your emotional labour.
Your supervision, CPD, risk management, admin, insurance, notes, taxes, and the years it took to become the therapist sitting in front of that client.

Clients are allowed to decide whether they can afford therapy or in the UK access NHS services or means tested support

You are allowed to charge appropriately for the work you do.

The reframe?
A fee conversation is not a moral judgement of your worth.
It’s simply a conversation about fit.

Save this for the next time fee guilt creeps in.
And if you want support from other therapists learning to charge with more confidence, DM me the word “TRIAL” to join Therapists Corner.

15/05/2026

Most therapists were trained to work clinically.
Not commercially.

We learned how to hold risk, support trauma, understand attachment, navigate complexity.

But we were not taught:

• how to attract clients
• how to market ourselves
• how to set fees without guilt
• how to create financial stability
• how to avoid burnout in private practice
• or how to build a business that still feels like you

So many therapists end up feeling overwhelmed, underpaid, or trapped between corporate systems and exhaustion.

I wrote The Therapist’s Guide to Private Practice because I wanted therapists to know there’s another way.

A values-based private practice can be ethical and profitable.
Compassionate and sustainable.
Flexible and financially secure.

You do not have to lose yourself to build a successful business.

If you’re building — or rebuilding — your private practice, I hope this book feels like the guide I wish I’d had.

Link in bio 📚

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