In the new financial climate, more and more counsellors and psychotherapists are now working from home or their own offices. If you're a private practitioner you'll need your own web presence to:

• attract new clients
• raise your local profile
• show to interested enquirers
• tell the world about your special interests or skills
• indicate your own updated training or other CPD
• become known to other professionals who might refer to you
• publicise related work such as training, group work, or supervision
• highlight your publications, books or other products
• and make it easy for clients and referrers to find you.

Creating a website for 'people-people'

Here at Irwell Design we're very familiar with the counselling and psychotherapy world, and used to working with people whose interest and expertise is really in people, not in marketing or the technicalities of web design. We welcome questions, large or small; we're happy to explain anything you don't quite understand. So we work with you, step by step, making it very easy to develop a site which says what you want it to say — a site which attracts new clients and new work every day. We're interested in listening to you and helping you to express what you have to offer.

We help you to structure the site so that the search engines will be more likely to produce it when people in your locality are searching for a counselling or psychotherapy service like yours. And when the site is completed and up on the Internet doing its work, we'll go on supporting you and the site when you need changes or advice.

Website packages

Have a look at our website packages page. This gives clear information about exactly what you get for our prices. (And before you choose a website designer, read our information on the same page about the two main business models designers use, so that you don't get caught out and end up paying a lot more than you need to.) For as little as £250 you could have a 'small but perfectly formed' website which will gain valuable publicity and clients.

Visit our examples page to see sites we've designed for other counsellors and psychotherapists — and read their testimonials about how the experience was for them. For instance, Stephanie told us: "For some time, I had contemplated a web page but entering into such an unfamiliar world filled me with dread. However, I am delighted to say that Irwell Design's responsive approach made the whole process easy."

Our aim is to produce a unique, well-designed website which really will work for you, at a transparent, reasonable price. The way we do this is by staying in close touch, being reliable, understanding what you need and working with you to produce a website that will underpin and publicise your work.

Interested? Contact us for a friendly discussion — no hard sell, we promise! — and a free quotation.