For therapists and counsellors in UK private practice

A website your practice is recognised by.

A website that sounds like you, and tells people what they need to know. You name the design you keep returning to. I work out what your practice needs to say, then build the finished website around it.

£995 including the first year of Website Care.

£500 to begin. £495 when you approve the finished website, before it goes live.

The short version

You are good at your work. You should not have to be good at websites as well.

You bring the practice — who you work with, what you offer, how you would like it to feel. I bring the structure, the design and the build. There is no stage where you have to become a marketer.

The job is accuracy rather than persuasion. Someone should be able to tell from your website whether you are the right therapist for them — and if the answer is no, that is a good outcome too. It saves you both a first conversation that was never going to work.

How it works

The one you choose is where it starts. It is not what you get.

The collection removes the blank page. It does not remove the work of understanding your practice and deciding what it should say — which is most of what you are paying for.

  1. Your decision

    Name the one you keep returning to

    The design that already looks closest to the practice you want people to recognise.

  2. You

    Tell me about the practice

    A written form, about an hour. Who you work with, what you offer, your words.

  3. Your decision

    Approve how it is being tailored

    A short written note first: the palette, the structure and the decisions I have made for your practice. Nothing is built until you agree with it, and after that the design decisions are mine to make.

  4. Your decision

    Approve the finished website

    After two rounds of changes. Then it is launched, handed over, and looked after for the first year.

Why six, and not one house style

Two of the six, side by side.

Daniel Mercer and Stillpoint are both one counsellor, working with adults, at a similar fee, in the same year. Nothing on the two pages agrees about anything — because the practices behind them do not, and the design is downstream of that.

Case 03Daniel Mercer

The Daniel Mercer homepage: a very large black grotesque headline on an off-white page reading You don't have to be good at talking to start therapy, a short introduction and one blue button beneath it, and a row giving the fee, location, hours and first step.

Case 06Stillpoint

The Stillpoint homepage: a pale grey-green page, the large serif headline Somewhere to stop for a while, a two-sentence lede, two short paragraphs saying that most people here are not in crisis, and a single underlined action reading Arrange a first conversation.
  1. PaletteDaniel is black on off-white with one electric blue that appears only on things you can press. Stillpoint is stone, fog and paper with a single rust accent reserved for links. Both use colour as instruction rather than mood, and arrive at opposite places.
  2. TypographyDaniel sets a very large grotesque headline that behaves like a statement in a room. Stillpoint runs one serif at one weight and lets scale alone carry emphasis, because its practitioner refuses to stage his own authority.
  3. StructureDaniel answers a fear with a fact in every section and puts the first step within reach of each. Stillpoint gives whole bands to a single sentence, and keeps the four practical facts in the footer of every page instead.
  4. WordsDaniel removes an entry requirement: you do not have to be good at talking. Stillpoint removes a different one: you do not have to become a person with a diagnosis and a vocabulary. Neither promises an outcome.

Both are fictional practices designed and built by Alexander Watson Studio as portfolio work. Neither is a commissioned client project, and no counselling service is offered by either.

What it costs

One price, published, and the whole scope with it.

Therapist Website£995

£500 to begin. £495 when you approve the finished website, before it goes live.

  • A design from the collection, tailored to your practice
  • A written intake, then the design decisions are mine
  • Two consolidated revision rounds, launch and handover
  • The first year of Website Care included

You do not have to make web-design decisions. That is my job.

The intake is part of the price, and reading it properly is part of the work. If you already know who you work with, what you offer and roughly what you want to say, that is enough for me to build from.

If those decisions are not settled yet — who it is for, what you are offering, what needs saying — Practice Clarity settles them first. An optional +£500 alongside the website, and most of the time it is not needed. If your intake shows it is, I will say so before anything starts rather than building on top of it.

Something outside this — a larger organisation, unusual functionality, a great deal of content? Tell me what you are trying to build and I will scope and quote it separately.

Alexander Watson, seated in a consulting room

Who makes it

I design websites, and I am training as a counsellor.

One person, not an agency. The training is not a design credential — it is why I question generic therapeutic language, notice what a page asks of somebody before they are ready, and treat an enquiry form as a real moment rather than a step in a process.

Prices
Published in full, before you speak to me.
Process
Written first. Calls only where they genuinely help.
Scope
Agreed in writing. If something falls outside it, I say so before doing it.

More about the studio

When you are ready

Start with the one that feels closest.

You do not need a brief, a moodboard or a finished plan. Tell me which of the six you keep returning to and what is already written.