About me
Why a website builder cares about counselling
The short version: I’m an engineer who went looking for answers in my twenties and found them somewhere I didn’t expect. This is the longer one.
I’m an engineer by trade. For most of my working life I was interested in things — how they’re made, how they fail, and how to make them work better.
That changed when I was 27.
I went through a long stretch of health anxiety. It was the first thing I’d hit that I couldn’t engineer my way out of, and it sent me looking for answers in places I’d previously had no time for. Meditation. Counselling. The uncomfortable work of looking at what I actually believed, and why.
Not all of what I found there survived scrutiny. But a good deal of it did — and the beliefs I’d been carrying around since my early twenties didn’t. I came out of it a different person, and considerably more interested in people than in things.
What I did about it
I didn’t want to only read about it, so I trained. I’ve completed my Level 2 and Level 3 in counselling, and I’m finishing my Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma now. Level 4 is next.
That matters for a practical reason. When we talk about your practice, I’m not translating. I know what a placement is. I know what supervision costs you, in money and in time. I know why you can’t put client testimonials on your website — and I know that most web designers will suggest it anyway.
Why I build websites instead of practising
Because I can help more people this way than I could in a chair.
Most counsellors I speak to are stuck in a similar place. The training was about the work. Nobody taught them how to be found. So they pay for a directory listing, sit alongside forty other profiles, and hope. The diary is full one month and frightening the next.
A website doesn’t fix all of that. But there are four things it does reliably.
It gives you time back
Enquiries arrive with the information you need, instead of as phone tag with someone you never reach.
It makes you credible
Someone who finds you on a directory will search your name before they call. What they find next decides whether they call.
It steadies the diary
A steady trickle of enquiries beats a feast and a famine — and it's the difference between choosing your clients and taking whoever comes.
It fills the diary
Which is the point. A counsellor with a full diary is a counsellor helping people.
That’s the work I want to do. Build the thing that lets you get on with yours.
Shall we have a chat?
Give me a ring. No charge, no pitch — if a website isn't the right thing for you right now, I'll tell you.