The Chartered Institute of Counseling in Nigeria

The Business of Counseling

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A Practical Training on Building Ethical, Sustainable, and Profitable Counselling Practice

This CPD training explores the professional, ethical, and entrepreneurial foundations required to build and sustain a successful counselling practice in today’s evolving mental health landscape. Participants will gain practical insight into branding, client acquisition, service structuring, pricing, documentation, and ethical business management within counselling and helping professions.

The training equips practitioners with business frameworks, ethical guidelines, marketing strategies, and operational tools necessary to transition from being only a helper to becoming a structured, competent, and financially sustainable counselling professional.

What Will You Learn?

  • By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
  • •Understand counselling as a professional service delivery
  • •Apply ethical principles to business and financial decisions
  • •Structure counselling sessions appropriately
  • •Discuss fees, duration, and boundaries ethically
  • •Use basic documentation to protect clients and practitioners
  • •Build sustainable and ethical counselling practice

Course Content

The Business of Counseling
COURSE OVERVIEW This CPD course examines counselling as both a helping profession and a professional service. It addresses ethical business practices, session structure, fees, documentation, visibility, and sustainability, with attention to Nigerian practice realities. LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this course, participants will be able to: •Understand counselling as a professional service delivery •Apply ethical principles to business and financial decisions •Structure counselling sessions appropriately •Discuss fees, duration, and boundaries ethically •Use basic documentation to protect clients and practitioners •Build sustainable and ethical counselling practice •Get certified in the business of counselling

  • Lecture 1: Introduction: Why Business Matters in Counselling
  • Lecture 2: Counselling as a Professional Service
  • Lecture 3: Ethics, Boundaries, and Professional Identity
  • Lecture 4: Session Structure, Duration, and Scheduling
  • Lecture 5: Ethics, Fees, and Financial Boundaries
  • Lecture 6: Documentation, Intake, and Client Management
  • Lecture 7: Visibility, Growth, and Professional Development

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