Every guide we have written for the profession

SEO Guides for Therapists

Twenty guides on filling a private practice, written for a field where the rules are different. Ordered the way we actually work a therapy account, starting with what your professional code allows.

20 guidesAccreditationOnline TherapyModalitiesIssuesPrivate Clients
20 guides
Everything from £350 a month
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These guides explain how therapy practices get found. If you read one thing, read the complete guide. Then read how SEO works differently for mental health professionals, because almost everything written about local SEO assumes rules your profession does not follow. Once you can see how the work is done, we do it for you.

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The Complete Guide to SEO for Therapists

The whole picture in one place. How Google treats wellbeing content differently, why most therapy websites are invisible, what the work costs, how long it takes, how to calculate the return, how the website should be built, what to write about, FAQs plus how to handle fees and cost transparency. Read this first, then take the guides below.

Read the complete guide
Read these four before anything else

Where To Start

Your profession is the reason generic SEO advice fails here. Search engines apply extra scrutiny to health and wellbeing content, plus your own code restricts things most agencies treat as standard practice.

These four settle all of it: how the field differs, who you are actually competing with, why your credentials are a ranking asset plus what you can and cannot do with client feedback. None is a specialism page. All four change the order everything else gets built in.

Searched by people who already know what they want

The Approaches You Practise

Somebody searching for a named approach has usually been recommended it, sometimes after a wait for public provision. That makes these among the better qualified enquiries a practice receives.

EMDR is the standout at a difficulty of 16, the lowest of any named approach in our data, because far fewer practitioners are trained in it. If you are, that is close to open ground.

What people actually type when they need help

The Issues You Work With

Most people do not search for a modality. They search the thing they are struggling with, which makes these the pages that bring the enquiries.

Trauma is the pick of them at a difficulty of 23 on real volume, making it the most winnable specialism page in the profession. Two of the seven carry weak numbers plus we say so on the cards rather than letting you find out later. All of these are written factually, without clinical claims, with proper support organisations signposted where the subject calls for it.

Won through employers rather than through search

Beyond Individual Clients

Corporate and employee wellbeing work carries almost no search volume, plus that badly understates what it is worth. It is contract work, it renews plus one employer can be steadier than a dozen individual clients.

It is won through HR contacts and employer relationships rather than through a search, so the page exists to convert somebody who has already been given your name.

Everything in these guides, from £350 a month

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Your listing, your accreditation, your approach, your website plus a page for every specialism you work with. Fourteen workstreams on one monthly fee, all handled inside your professional code, with a written update every three weeks.

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Google Maps and directories Quarterly technical audits A page per specialism Accreditation and About pages Online therapy reach Website, social and AI optimisation
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Using these guides

Frequently Asked

How should I use these guides?
Read the complete guide first, then the four at the top of this page, because they settle what your profession allows plus who you are actually competing with. After that the guides run in the order we build them: reach and conversion, then the approaches you practise, then the issues you work with. The guides show you how the work is done. The work itself is what we do for you.
Why are four guides listed before any specialism page?
Because generic SEO advice does not survive contact with your profession. Search engines apply extra scrutiny to health and wellbeing content, your credentials therefore matter more than marketing copy, your professional body restricts what can be done with client feedback plus a large share of the search demand belongs to public provision and national platforms that a private practice cannot outrank. Understanding all four changes which pages are worth building at all.
Which specialism page is the most winnable?
Trauma, at a difficulty of 23 on 6,570 monthly searches, which is the best combination in the cluster. Among the named approaches, EMDR at a difficulty of 16 is lower still, because far fewer practitioners are trained in it. We would only build either if it is genuinely your area of practice, since a page claiming work you are not trained for is a problem rather than an opportunity.
Why do some guides show weak numbers?
Because they are weak, plus we would rather say so than dress them up. Bereavement counselling sits at 630 searches with a difficulty of 55, which is the least favourable combination here because national charities hold that ground. Corporate wellbeing carries 310. Neither is a traffic play. Both are worth having for other reasons, plus the cards say which reasons rather than implying volume that is not there.
I work online. Do the local guides still apply?
Partly, plus something better applies instead. Online and remote therapy terms carry 36,960 monthly searches and are not tied to where you sit, so an online practice competes nationally. That guide is in the Reach and Conversion group and it covers ranking beyond your local area. If you work both ways we build the local visibility plus the online reach side by side.
Which guide should I read first?
The Complete Guide to SEO for Therapists. It covers how Google treats wellbeing content differently, why most therapy websites are invisible, what the work costs, how long it takes, how to calculate the return, how the website should be structured, what to write about, FAQs plus how to handle fees and cost transparency. Everything else builds on it. Worth reading alongside what local SEO costs.