Websites for a therapy practice

What a therapy practice website needs

Most practice sites are written to be read once and then left alone. That holds until someone lands on it at nine in the evening, decides they want a first session, and finds a contact form and a phone number. The site has to say plainly who you work with and what a first session is like, then let that person act while they still feel like acting. In practice that is four things:

• a short page about the work, in Dutch and English if your clients read both
• a page about you, with the registrations a client in the Netherlands looks for
• your rates, stated, not "on request"
• a booking step that does not need you to be awake

A blog, a newsletter or a gallery can wait until the practice is full enough to need them. Google, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read the same four things when someone asks them for a therapist nearby, so getting them right serves both readers at once.

Online booking for a private therapy practice

Booking therapy is not booking a table. You want control over which hours are offered, a gap between sessions, and often a free 20-minute intro call before a paid one. A calendar link bolted onto a website gives you the first of those and none of the rest. Posato treats your availability as something you shape:

• working hours per day, and the weeks you block off
• a buffer between sessions so nobody is booked back to back
• session types with their own length and price, a 60-minute session and a 20-minute intro call side by side
• payment at booking through Stripe, or a free slot, or a request you approve first

Clients only see what you have opened. When someone books, it lands in your back office and your schedule fills itself in, and they get a confirmation without you writing one.

Taking payment for therapy sessions, or enquiries only

Some therapists want the session paid before it happens; others want to speak to someone first. Both are set up from the same screen, and the two options below show what each one means for a client.

Take payment: the client pays when they book. The session is paid through Stripe at the moment it is booked, and the slot is held. You see the payment and the booking in one place, and refunds go through the same screen if you need to cancel. The 5% commission comes out of what the client paid.

Enquiry only: the client asks, you decide. No card, no charge. Someone picks a time or sends a message, it lands in your back office as an enquiry, and you confirm or propose something else. Useful for a first intake where you want to hear the person before you commit to a slot, and for practices that invoice separately.

Moving a therapy practice site off Wix, Squarespace or WordPress

You send the address of the site you have now, on Wix, Squarespace, WordPress or anywhere else, and we rebuild it on a private preview link. Your current site stays live until you approve the new one; the three steps and what they cost you in time are on the home page.

What a therapy practice website costs with Posato

While the beta is open there is no subscription and no build fee. When a client pays through your site, we take a 5% commission on that payment, and a quiet month costs nothing. That is how we make money; the rest of the answer is in the questions on the home page.