Running your practice · Psycounts Team
Practice admin isn't only financial. Counsellors and psychotherapists also carry a professional record-keeping load — CPD hours for your membership body, session logs, supervision. It's usually scattered: a certificates folder, a Word log, a diary you'd have to cross-reference. Psycounts keeps the professional record next to the practice that generates it.
Attend the workshop, log it that day — activity, hours, notes — and your running CPD total builds through the membership year. When renewal comes round, the evidence is a list you already made, not an archaeology project through old emails and certificates.
Because appointments are confirmed and completed in Psycounts, your session history builds itself: who you saw, when, and the session logs that go with it. It's the professional backbone of the same records that drive your invoicing — one version of the truth, not a diary and a spreadsheet that almost agree.
Supervision, insurance, memberships, training — the costs of practising well are also tax-deductible expenses. Logged once in Psycounts, they serve both masters: evidence of professional practice, and deductions that reduce your tax bill. The professional record and the financial record stop being separate jobs.
Audits, accreditation renewals and tax returns all ask the same underlying question: can you account for your practice? When the answer lives in one system that's been quietly recording all year, the question takes an afternoon to answer instead of a fortnight — and none of it depends on your memory.
Psycounts is the all-in-one admin platform for counsellors and psychotherapists — appointments, invoicing, expenses, CPD and MTD in one subscription, on the web and on your iPhone. Create a Psycounts account or download the app from the App Store.