Experienced Healthcare Business Consultant for Therapy Practices & Clinics
Are you a therapist, psychology clinic owner or new start-up seeking hands on, strategic and operational guidance to establish or grow your clinic? Perhaps you are a healthcare organisation in need of support with business strategy?
Navigating both clinical practice and business strategy is challenging. There are multiple competing systems at play, from marketing, branding, financial strategy, growth plans and data management. At Unlock Psychology Ltd, we offer healthcare consultant services to provide hands-on, practical business strategy support for start-up and established therapy and psychology practices. Whether you are a new clinic, branching out into private practice for the first time alone, or seeking support for growth plans, reach out to today to discuss how we can help.
Healthcare Consultant Services We Offer
We can support with all aspects of business strategy development, whether you need to develop an entire strategy and business plan, or want to hone in on specific issues. We use established business development and strategy frameworks and an evidence-based approach, alongside consultancy and coaching models. Areas we can support with include:
Business strategy for therapists, clinics and healthcare organisations
Business planning
Financial strategy and pricing
Marketing strategy
Setting realistic and stretch business goals
Identifying your niches
Managing patient flow
Growth planning
Diversification
Owner dynamics
Risk management
Operational planning and management
Who Our Healthcare Consultant Services Are For
We provide individual and team-based consultancy for healthcare providers, with specific expertise in therapy, counselling and psychology practices. This is suitable for new and established clinics, including those branching out into private practice for the first time or those wanting to grow and expand their clinic.
Practitioner psychologists (e.g. clinical, counselling, health)
Counsellors and psychotherapists
Therapists
Coaches
Healthcare clinic owners
Individuals looking to setup or expand private practice
Business owners looking to expand or diversify their healthcare clinic
Our healthcare business consultant services are ideal for:
What Our Healthcare Business Consultancy Services Include
We take a flexible, person-centred approach to our healthcare consultant services. We will first discuss your needs, context and hopes, generally within a free 20-minute consultation call. From there, we will collaboratively agree a proposal of what we will discuss and support with. We will bring in relevant healthcare consultant frameworks, conduct a literature review if relevant, and learn more about your clinical setting. We will then meet to work through the agreed aspects of strategy development.
Whether you require one-off healthcare consultancy for a specific issue, or would like full start-to-end business strategy development and implementation, our services can be tailored to you. Our consultancy services include:
Setting healthcare consultancy goals and contract
Background literature and framework research
Establishing healthcare business vision, direction and mission
Setting healthcare business goals
Establishing evidence-based strategies across key domains (finance, marketing, operations, growth)
Establishing outcome measurement and data management
Setting business direction and strategy
Diversification strategies
Managing and streamlining operations, including use of tech and software to save time
Building a values-aligned practice that suits you, your hopes and goals
Format and costs
Our healthcare consultancy services are available online across the UK, or in-person in Warwickshire desired. We charge £150 per hour. You will be given a full proposal quote with the agreed tasks outlined, such as any meetings and research.
Process for Healthcare Consultant Services
Following an initial discussion, we will provide a clear quote for the time required to support, which will include any meetings, research time and preparation. This will always be based upon your needs and what you would like from us. We can amend this at any time should further needs, or less needs than expected, arise.
FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions
Dr. Alastair Pipkin
Lead Clinical Psychologist
DClinPsy, HCPC Registered, AFHEA, Dip. Strategic Management and Leadersip
Dr. Pipkin is a registered clinical psychologist, fully accredited cognitive behavioural therapist with the BABCP, an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a registered specialist in the field of gender dysphoria with the UK Equalities Office.
He is an experienced diagnostic assessor of autism, ADHD, gender dysphoria and the range of mental health difficulties. He is also an experienced academic, published researcher and experienced consultant and supervisor for students up to doctorate level.
He leads Unlock Psychology Ltd, overseeing the clinical, academic and research services provided. Dr. Pipkin provides diagnostic assessments, academic and research services.
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"I went to Dr. Pipkin for a gender dysphoria diagnosis and was definitely a bit worried beforehand but he was always respectful, and I felt that he understood what I wanted and why. I never felt like he was trying to push me towards or away from a particular answer to any question and I never felt uncomfortable about the questions he asked."
"I really enjoyed today, Alastair is a great lecturer who kept me awake and engaged all day! The regular breaks are extremely helpful in maintaining engagement and motivation. There is a good balance of talking and activities and i feel the information provided was extremely clear and structured well."
"I recently had my gender dysphoria assessment with Alastair at Unlock Psychology. The whole process was straightforward, surprisingly fast, completely transparent, and entirely free of the gatekeeping you usually find in transgender healthcare. Alastair is a true professional who treats you with respect, making the environment feel genuinely safe and validating. Instead of making me jump through unnecessary hoops, the evaluation itself was grounded entirely in clear facts and objective reality. If you need a reliable clinical psychologist for gender identity services, I definitely recommend him."
"My existing NHS autism assessment was incomplete due to various factors. It was of great personal importance to me to have this updated and correctly recorded, by a qualified professional. I was pleased to find Unlock Psychology Ltd, who not only have their standards and full assessments recognised by the NHS, but were also willing to work with me to evidence and provide the sections that were previously absent or lacking.
Fair pricing.
Good communication before, during, and after interview, including checking for intention, being clear on needed information, and precision of wording on report.
Positive experience that fulfilled expected purpose."
What Our Clients Say
OVERVIEW
What is a Healthcare Consultant?
A healthcare consultant is an experienced manager and leader in the healthcare field who is able to advise on aspects of healthcare business development, such as strategy, growth, operations and finance. They support other healthcare clinic owners to establish, grow and sustain thriving practices by applying business strategy theory, research and healthcare management experience to their practice.
Business strategy is crucial for healthcare organisations, both public and private, in light of growing commercialization, use of tech and shifts in both user and provider dynamics. Healthcare providers traverse complex business strategy development, the need for ethical and transparent marketing, and continued shifts in the use of tech and AI: knowledgeable healthcare consultancy helps to navigate all of these competing demands.
Unlock Psychology Ltd offers healthcare consultant services for therapists, counsellors, coaches and psychologists. Having established a successful clinic, education and research service himself after setting up and managing teams in the NHS and large academic programmes in universities, Dr Alastair Pipkin provides supportive, hands-on consultancy to help others. He has a Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership alongside doctoral training in clinical psychology, which means he can offer healthcare providers both on-the-ground clinic management insights combined with business theory and research.
Ready to enlist your healthcare consultant?
Enquire today for an initial free consultation to discuss your consultancy and business development needs. We will be in touch within 48 hours to discuss.