Most clinic room listings are written for hands-on practitioners: table, basin, couch. If your work is conversation, the requirements are different enough that it is worth setting them out before anyone signs anything.
Sound. The first question, and the one people forget to ask. Can a raised voice be heard in the corridor? Can you hear the next room? A client who suspects they can be overheard will not say the thing they came to say.
Seating. Two chairs of equal height at an angle, not a desk with the practitioner behind it. For couples work, three places to sit without anyone being squeezed.
The way out. Can someone leave upset without walking past a full waiting room? It sounds minor until it happens.
The clock. Visible to you, not to them.
Talking work runs on the hour with a gap between, not on a flexible treatment schedule. A room shared with someone whose appointments run over creates a problem that cannot be solved politely. Agree the pattern before you start, not after.
Health Therapies Clinics has rooms at 141 Longueville Road and 2 Austin Street in Lane Cove, available by the day or by regular sessions, with reception and waiting area.
Go and sit in the room at the time of day you would actually be working, and listen. That one visit answers more than any list of inclusions.
One more thing that is specific to this kind of work. In a shared clinic your clients walk through a waiting room used by other practitioners' patients, and some of them will be local. For most people that is fine. For some — a small suburb, a workplace matter, a family everybody knows — it is not, and it is better to raise it at the first appointment than to have them discover it.
Ask whether appointments can be staggered so your arrivals do not overlap with a busy treatment list. It is a reasonable request and the answer tells you how the building is run.
0410 699 065 for room bookings. Say that your work is conversational and which hours you want — the answer about which room suits depends on both.
