 In plenty of situations, therapists chose to work in diverse challenging work settings. However, at times it happens that they chose to work in independent practice. Independent practice in many ways is very important to do by the psychotherapist. In many ways, individuals and small group independent practice has become even more common than the work of the mental health professionals at larger agencies, clinics or hospitals. We see that it's very important that a person can have one-to-one interaction with the client without having any other liability being the part of any other profession. For instance, they cannot be having a role of only a school psychologist, probably they are not only engaged in military psychology or not the part of any specific community engagement work. There are many situations where one-to-one individual psychotherapy is very important. For that, people make their own set-ups in clinics, work as an independent practice within the hospital's private practice, or they make their own set-up with an agency and do their independent practice there. The independent practitioners in his or her own boss, but they must have to keep the balance with many of the things. For example, they come the overhead cost, which is very important to be curtailed. Then the employee's relationship, for example, they may be the certain people involved who are helping them out, like the receptionist, probably the one who is attending the phone calls, who is taking receipt of all the bills and things like that. So you have to deal with all those employees who are the part of that clinic, hospital or the agency to keep the balance between your work and your relationship and as well as with the client. Then backup coverage is very much important in independent practice. One has to see the billing, one has to see the advertisement that how it is going on and they should take care of all the ethical matters which are the part of that advertising campaign and then many other chores. So when you are doing independent practice, then the responsibility comes on a psychotherapist to take care of all the logistics related to management. When you are practicing a group therapy, i.e. you are sitting on a clinic with multiple people and a hospital organization or setup is managing it, then the billing, the receptionist, the phone call, the backup coverage, to take care of these things, the psychotherapist has to make no effort. Little has been written on the ethical problems faced by the independent practitioner. With the passage of time, this concept of independent practice is becoming very popular. But honestly, the ethical issues or constraints that are attached to independent practice are being talked about very little. There has been number of problems that could hinder the efficacy of practitioner, performance of a practice. Because when we talk about individual practice, many such issues can be attached to it that due to its unavailability, the practice of therapy gets disturbed and many ethical dilemmas can be created. The greatest problem and ethical issue is probably related to the fact that the independent practitioner must be both professional and an entrepreneur to survive roles that are not always congruent. For instance, if you have involved in independent practice because you want to earn money and right away you are introducing many other new avenues in your psychotherapy and yet you are alone doing these things. So sometimes because of the time constraints, because of the role constraints, it is not possible for one single person to work in all kinds of domains simultaneously. It is possible that you are trying to launch something new like you are trying to practice a laughter therapy and along with that, you are also trying to see the serious nature of independent clients. So at the time, taking this challenging role, introducing a new therapeutic technique for instance, a lot of new practices are being done here. So the therapy of Surah Rahman is being tested with CBT which results are very fruitful. Similarly, some people use techniques of laughter therapy. They try to use humor as scoping in their therapy. So for these kind of challenging experiments, when you are working as an independent practitioner, it becomes even more challenging. Because all the clients of the routine, you are giving them a routine treatment. Along with that, you have to try this on the baseline as well as new things. So there, sometimes a individual who is doing a single practice becomes very challenging for him. Also as a solar practitioner, one is basically in charge of many things like planning and successfully managing the practice because it is not an easy thing. You have to manage this by looking into all the logistics. The wait time of the client should not be more than that. There should not be a clash of appointments. On a particular day, one has to be present. You cannot miss the time given to the client because of any of your other personal commitments. Then documentation and record keeping should be very pertinent. And then dealing with the third party, protecting in which we say that some cases come in which we have to deal with the law. You have to provide a document to the court. Things like that. And then above all is confidentiality. Managing practice finances. Because it is very important to see the cost benefit. You are investing so much on a clinic setup. You can only charge a reasonable amount from a therapy. And how much you are charging. How many clients you can see in a day. So basically your skill should not be compromised because of all these financial matters. Then staff training. If you have any kind of staff and you are also mentoring them and you are giving them training, you engage them as an intern. So giving them proper time is also an ethical issue. Then office employment policies. If you are the part of any hospital, any agency or any other setup, then you have to see their policies as well. Like if they are following any specific times. For instance, they are 24 seven on and for instance, they always give a break on one particular day. So you have to follow these things as well. Then advertising and marketing is also solely one person's responsibility when we talk about that the one person is doing an independent practice. So by looking at that, we have to keep in mind that there could be certain ethical issues involved when one person is doing an independent practice and it is very much responsibility of that mental health professional to look up to all those challenges which is being faced just because having a person who is doing his independent work.