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Special Edition – Website for Counselling Practice

Special-Edition Podcast - Website-for-Counselling-Practice

Special Edition – Website for Counselling Practice

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In this special episode of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, your host Rory Lees-Oakes is speaking with Daragh Mac Loughlin from WebHealer about why your professional online presence, specifically a website for your counselling practice, matters.

The importance of your online presence:

  • Your website is a valuable tool for your business.
  • Recognise that you are a business.
  • A website can help you to maximise your success.
  • It’s important that you’re able to build rapport through your website – it is your 24hr representative.

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What to include on the website for your counselling practice to help build rapport:

  • Include a well taken, well lit, and natural photograph of yourself on your website. People want to see who they would be receiving counselling from.
  • An element of disclosure – by sharing a bit about yourself, you’re allowing the person visiting your website to begin to trust you and feel that connection.
  • List your qualifications and experience – not only will this allow potential clients to see your capabilities, it will allow Google to recognise you as a legitimate suggestion in searches.
  • Include a series of FAQs e.g. how many sessions will there be? How often might they need to meet with you?
  • Add a short summary of what a session might look like – this will be a comfort to someone who has no experience going to therapy.
  • Somewhere on your website you will want a call to action – offer a quick chat/meeting either online or in person. This allows you and the potential client to get to know each other and see if you’re the right fit. This short introduction can help the potential client to build the confidence they need to take that next step with you.

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Getting your counselling website found:

  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) plays a huge role in getting your website at the top of internet searches.
  • Your aim is to match user intent.
  • Give a very clear overview of your capability in your subject matter – this shows Google that you are competent, and worth suggesting to its users.
  • It’s crucial to be trusted, reassuring, and informative.
  • Show your expertise.
  • The website for your counselling practice is you offering your services, answering questions, and establishing your authority in your field.
  • Make your website as useful as possible to potential clients.

By gaining just one client a year through your website – it’s paying for itself!

Counsellor CPD Library

Get on-demand Certified CPD that is implementable in your practice

  • Over 150 hours of on-demand CPD lectures to help you stay current with your CPD ethical requirements
  • Support, and be supported, by thousands of other counsellors as a member of the exclusive online community.
  • Access your learning anytime you want … anywhere you choose … using any device type — desktop or mobile.

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Links and Resources

www.counsellingtutor.com/website

Counselling Skills Academy

Advanced Certificate in Counselling Supervision

Basic Counselling Skills: A Student Guide

Counsellor CPD

Counselling Study Resource

Counselling Theory in Practice: A Student Guide

Counselling Tutor Shop

Facebook group

Website

Online and Telephone Counselling: A Practitioner’s Guide

Online and Telephone Counselling Course

£100 off the WebHealer.net “Do it for me” service

  • WebHealer are the go-to provider of websites for private practitioners in the UK.
  • Established over 20 years, WebHealer offers a non-technical and fully supported service to help therapists grow their private practice.
  • Just one customer from your website each year pays 
for their service.
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