Marketing for therapists, in plain language.
Marketing a therapy practice comes down to being findable and credible where clients actually look: Google, Maps, and now AI tools like ChatGPT. These guides cover the whole territory honestly: the strategy, the platforms, what it costs, and how long it takes, with no hype and no jargon.
Start with how growth actually works.
SEO for therapists who want clients, not clicks.
SEO for therapists, done honestly: a foundation project on your website and Google presence, then steady monthly work. No backlink schemes, no content mill, and monthly proof it is working.
Therapist website design that gets found and booked.
Custom-coded therapy practice websites designed to be found and booked: fast, secure, structured for search and AI, and owned outright. No templates, no subscriptions.
Local SEO for therapists: own your corner of the map.
Local SEO for therapy practices: a dialed-in Google Business Profile, listings that agree with each other, and service pages tied to the place you practice. Reviews stay yours, always.
When someone asks AI for a therapist, be the answer.
AI SEO for therapists is the work of getting your practice recommended when someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI for a therapist. How the engines pick, and how we prove it monthly.
Marketing for group practices with calendars to fill.
Marketing for group therapy practices with clinicians to fill: bio pages that rank, specialty and location pages, and reporting that shows which marketing fills whose calendar.
Private practice marketing that compounds.
Marketing for private practice therapists that compounds: one owned foundation, your website and Google presence, then steady monthly work. No ads treadmill, no social grind, no content mill.
On a builder? Here is the honest read.
Squarespace SEO for therapists: the honest version.
The honest version of Squarespace SEO for therapy practices: what Squarespace does well, where its ceiling is for search and AI visibility, and the two ways we help, optimize in place or move to code.
Wix SEO for therapists: what it can and cannot do.
Wix SEO for therapy practices, honestly assessed: what Wix has genuinely improved, where it still limits search and AI visibility, and how we work with practices on it.
WordPress SEO for therapists: capable, and heavy.
WordPress SEO for therapy practices: WordPress can do almost everything, and that is exactly its problem. Plugin bloat, maintenance burden, and speed, and how we fix or replace it.
Looking past Brighter Vision? Here is the honest difference.
Considering a Brighter Vision alternative? A fair comparison: what the subscription template model does well, what it trades away, and what a custom-coded, owned website changes.
Outgrowing TherapySites? Here is what changes.
Weighing a TherapySites alternative? What the therapist template subscription model provides, where it limits growth, and what an owned, custom-coded practice site changes.
Keep SimplePractice. Get a real website.
SimplePractice is excellent practice management, and its included website is a profile page, not a marketing site. Keep SimplePractice for what it is great at; pair it with a site built to be found.
The questions practices weigh before choosing.
What therapist marketing costs, with real numbers.
What therapist marketing actually costs: the market's pricing shapes, the questions to ask any provider, and Moonraker's flat rates, $2,000, $5,000, or $10,000 for a defined 90-day scope.
SEO vs Google Ads: rented vs owned.
SEO vs Google Ads for a therapy practice: rented attention versus an owned asset, when ads genuinely make sense, and why the foundation has to come first either way.
Psychology Today filled your caseload once. Then it slowed.
Psychology Today filled caseloads once, and for many practices it has slowed. The real alternative is not another directory: it is your own site ranking for the searches clients actually make.
How long does SEO take? Here is the honest timeline.
The honest SEO timeline for therapy practices: first movement in two to three months, compounding across a year, and the difference between what speeds it up and what fakes it.
Marketing an online practice: no pin, no problem.
An online therapy practice cannot lean on a map pin, and should not try. Growth runs through search and AI visibility across your licensed states, measured on the surfaces that matter.
Marketing an EMDR practice: own the questions.
EMDR clients search by modality: what EMDR is, whether it works, who offers it nearby, and increasingly they ask AI. Marketing an EMDR practice means owning those questions honestly.
Run your own numbers first.
What's a new client worth?
Three sliders, honest arithmetic: what a year of steady new clients is worth to your practice, against the cost of getting found.
Can AI read your website?
Paste your website. Forty seconds later you know what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google can read about you, and the first three things to fix. No email needed.
How we do Answer Engine Optimization
The layer every Moonraker site ships as standard, so AI engines can read, verify, and recommend your practice.
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A free strategy call shows you how your practice looks on Google, Maps, and AI search today, and which of these actually applies to you.