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Your practice is easy to miss.

Most private practices are not short on demand. They are short on a path from "someone needs a therapist" to "that person is on your calendar". The inquiry arrives, then waits on a callback. The insurance question gets handed back to the client. The Psychology Today profile does all the finding, and keeps the relationship. The free scan reads your practice the way a prospective client and an AI assistant both do, then names the four gaps costing you intakes, and what closes each one.

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The scan, for your private practice

Six surfaces, read the way a client reads them

In about four minutes the scan reads six surfaces of your practice: your website and how clearly it names who you actually help, your Google presence, your reviews, the real path from first contact to a booked first session, other practices near you, and whether AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can find and recommend you when someone asks for a therapist in your area. Then it names the four biggest gaps, in intakes and inquiries, never in dollars.

What the free scan finds

Where a private practice loses clients

These are the gaps private practices lose clients to most often. Each one is specific, checkable, and fixable. The scan finds which of them are costing you the most right now.

  • 01

    Psychology Today does the finding, and keeps the relationship

    For most practices the directory profile is the entire acquisition channel, which means the directory owns the client relationship and sets the terms. It also means you are listed beside every other therapist within a ten mile radius, sorted by criteria you do not control. A profile written once at setup and never revisited, with a general specialty list and no specific outcome language, surfaces far fewer fits-the-niche inquiries a month than one written for a named niche. The fix is not leaving the directory. It is making sure the directory is not the only place a client can find you, and that your own site is the thing they land on when they search your name.

  • 02

    A prospective client cannot book without waiting on you

    Someone works up the nerve to reach out, and the next step is a callback. Phone tag, an email thread, a form that promises someone will be in touch. The inquiries that convert are the ones that got an answer fast, and in this field the person reaching out is often contacting three practices the same evening. Practices with self-serve booking or a same-day response convert a noticeably higher share of inquiries than practices where every intake waits on a returned call. The scan checks whether a new client can actually get themselves onto your calendar, and how long the current path takes.

  • 03

    The insurance question gets handed back to the client

    "Do you take my insurance?" is the most common first question a practice gets, and the most common answer is that the client should call their carrier and verify their own benefits. A meaningful share never call back. Practices that verify benefits before the first session convert insurance-curious inquiries at a substantially higher rate than practices that hand the work back. This is not a marketing fix, it is an intake-process fix, and the scan will tell you whether your current path puts that work on the client.

  • 04

    The Google Business Profile is empty or missing

    Most solo practices have a Psychology Today profile and no real Google presence, which means that when someone searches your practice name, or searches for a therapist in your city with no directory in the loop, there is nothing to find. The profile is free, it takes an afternoon, and it is the single most common wholly-unclaimed asset the scan finds in this vertical. Reviews are a genuinely harder problem here than in other fields, for good reasons, and the scan treats them that way rather than telling you to go ask clients for stars.

  • 05

    AI search never names you

    A growing share of "find me a therapist who works with X in Y" now happens inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and those systems answer by naming specific practices. If your site never says plainly who you help, what you treat, where you are licensed, and whether you are taking new clients, you are not a candidate to be named. The scan runs the actual queries a prospective client in your area would ask, shows you what comes back, and tells you whether your practice appears at all.

The fair objections

What private practices say first

Straight answers, including where the honest answer is that you are right and the usual advice does not apply to you.

Marketing a clinical practice feels unethical.

The version of marketing that feels wrong is the version that manufactures urgency or promises outcomes, and you should keep refusing that one. What the scan looks at is different: whether someone who already needs your help can find you, understand who you work with, and get onto your calendar without three phone calls. Making yourself findable and easy to reach is not persuasion. Every gap in the list above is an access problem, not a sales problem, which is also why none of the fixes involve saying anything about clinical outcomes.

I cannot use testimonials. Most advice assumes I can.

Correct, and most generic advice is useless to you for exactly that reason. Your professional obligations and your board rules put client testimonials off the table, and reviews are complicated even when a client offers one unprompted. So the scan does not score you against a review count the way it would score a restaurant, and it will not tell you to solicit client stories. It looks at what you can control: specificity about who you help, a working booking path, an accurate and complete Google profile, and whether AI assistants can find you. Every recommendation it produces for this vertical is one you can act on without touching client confidentiality.

I am close to full. More inquiries is not my problem.

Then you are solving a different problem, and the scan should tell you that rather than sell you a lead-generation fix. A practice near capacity usually loses ground in two places instead: no-shows and late cancellations that leave a dead hour nobody backfills, and an inquiry mix that is not filtered, so you spend intake calls on people who were never a fit for your specialty. Both are visible in the scan. If your real constraint is a waitlist mechanism and clearer niche language rather than volume, that is what it will name.

My clients come from referrals. I do not need any of this.

Referrals are the best channel you have, and nothing here suggests replacing them. The question the scan asks is what happens after the referral. A primary-care physician or a former client sends someone your way, that person searches your name, and lands on whatever is there. If what is there is a thin site with no booking path and an unclaimed Google profile, the referral still has to work to reach you. Referral-led practices usually have the most to gain from the smallest fixes, because the demand is already pointed at them.

Is this going to end in a sales call?

No. The scan is free, it does not require a card or a sign-up, and it ends with the four findings and the plan to fix them, written so you can hand it to whoever does your website and act on it without us. We publish paid tiers, and you are welcome to ignore them. The scan is the demo: if it is not genuinely useful on its own, nothing after it would be worth paying for.

Common questions

About the free scan

What does the scan actually look at for a therapy practice?

Your website and how specifically it names who you help, your Google Business Profile, whatever reviews exist, the real path from first contact to a booked first session, other practices in your area, and whether AI assistants name you when asked for a therapist locally. It reads what is publicly visible, the same things a prospective client would see.

Do I have to give you client information?

No, and you should not. The scan reads public surfaces only: your website, your Google profile, public directory listings. It never asks for client data, practice-management logins, or anything covered by HIPAA, and there is nothing in it that would be appropriate to share.

Does it just tell me to run ads?

Usually not, for this vertical. Most of what it finds in private practice is process and findability: a booking path that does not exist, an insurance step handed to the client, an empty Google profile, a site that never says plainly who you treat. Those get fixed before advertising is even a sensible question, and several of them cost nothing but an afternoon.

How long does it take?

About four minutes. Paste your practice website, answer a few questions about how intakes actually reach you, and it returns four specific findings with the fix for each. Free, no card, no sign-up.

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