PPractice Growth Co
Mental Health & Therapy Marketing

Therapy practice marketing that helps the right clients find the right fit.

Practice Growth Co helps therapists and mental health groups attract clients who understand their approach and services. We connect clinician positioning, local and telehealth visibility, advertising, and intake around the practice you want to build. For new practices, established teams, and practices adding providers, services, or locations.

Therapy trust signals

What the right patient evaluates before they reach out

Fit-led

Specialty alignment

Modality, focus, and patient population clearly described, so the right person feels recognized.

Reviews

Recent, specific reviews that help a quietly researching patient feel confident reaching out.

Therapist fit

Voice, training, photography, and bio that signal who you actually are as a clinician, not generic copy.

Consultation confidence

Intake, scheduling, and first message that feel calm, respectful, and easy to take.

The right patient self-selects when fit is clear

The work in practice

See the work and results behind our approach.

Explore the engagements below to see what changed, what was measured, and how the work supported the practice's goals.

Behavioral Health · Toronto

Toronto, Canada

A cash-pay behavioral health practice cut CPL from $150 to $35 in 30 days.

Cost Per Lead
$35
Leads / Week
20–30
Lower CPL
77%

Google Ads and new landing pages for a Toronto cash-pay practice on the same ad budget, compared with a $150 cost per lead and 5 to 10 leads a week before; results came within 30 days and count leads, not booked clients.

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Ketamine + Mental Health · Oregon

Oregon

From compliance gap to second location for a ketamine + mental health clinic in Oregon.

Ketamine Rankings
Page 1
Locations
2
Channels Live
3

Oregon mental health, psychiatry, and ketamine clinic: LegitScript certification first, then a website and city-level SEO rebuild, then Google and Meta Ads; the second location is under renovation, and appointment volume is clinic-reported because booking runs on a separate domain.

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The Specialty

Help someone recognize the clinician they could feel comfortable contacting.

A prospective client is often looking for more than an available appointment. They want to understand the therapist's approach, relevant experience, and whether the relationship could feel right. A clear bio, useful service page, and respectful invitation can make that first step less uncertain.

For a group, the same work needs to help people find the right clinician within the practice. We connect that fit with availability and the practical details of starting care.

Therapy Discovery

How a therapy-seeker actually finds you.

Quiet research. Trust evaluation. Careful first step. Marketing intercepts each stage of a slow, considered patient journey.

Therapy discovery journey

Quiet research · trust evaluation · careful first step

Patient-led

  • 01

    Awareness

    Patient quietly considers therapy, often after months of internal weighing.

  • 02

    Research

    Searches by specialty, modality, or experience, Psychology Today, Google, social.

  • 03

    Trust validation

    Reviews, photos, bios, and tone, patient checks if this person feels safe.

  • 04

    Consultation

    Reaches out for a first message or intake, the most vulnerable step.

  • 05

    Booking

    Confirms the first session, confidence is finally high enough to commit.

Trust earned quietly · before the first message

Where We Focus

A plan around the opportunities that matter to your practice.

Specialty and approach

Describe the modalities, areas of focus, and patient populations each clinician actually serves. Most therapy searches are local and specific, so SEO and Google Ads copy lead with that specialty fit, not generic "we can help" language.

Clinician visibility

Build useful provider pages and connect them with local search, directories, and the practice's overall position. Psychology Today, Google Business Profile reviews, and website credibility build the confidence a prospective client needs to make first contact.

Cash-pay and insurance clarity

Explain fees, payment arrangements, and coverage information supplied by the practice before intake becomes a surprise. Insurance-panel therapists compete on access, specialty, and fit within a covered network; cash-pay therapists need positioning, credibility content, and reviews that justify the out-of-pocket cost.

Group and telehealth growth

Align demand with clinicians taking clients and the areas the practice can serve in person or remotely. Telehealth expands reach from a local radius to an entire state, which changes targeting, competition, and the reassurance clients need about the experience.

Across every channel, targeting stays privacy-aware: contextual signals and life-stage targeting, never condition-based.

Our priority: clients starting care with an appropriate clinician. Intermediate measures explain the path; they do not replace the business outcome.

One strategy for your practice. Room to do the work.

We work month to month on a flat retainer, with one strategy built around your practice. When a campaign needs a new message, a landing page needs another test, or the offer needs to change, that is part of improving the work, not another hourly invoice.

Your advertising accounts stay in your name. Your proposal explains the agency retainer and advertising spend separately, along with the priorities we are taking responsibility for.

FAQs

Questions about Mental Health & Therapy Marketing.

Yes. A solo practice needs a clear personal position and appropriate demand. A group also needs a way to explain clinician differences and route inquiries toward availability and fit.

We make the therapist's approach, experience, and care relationship understandable, alongside the actual fee and appointment process. The value needs to be clear before someone decides whether to invest. For a Toronto cash-pay private practice, rebuilding Google Ads and landing pages around the clients the practice wanted cut cost per lead from $150 to $35 on the same budget within 30 days (leads, not booked clients).

Yes. We can align the website and existing directory information so people encounter a consistent explanation of the clinician, services, and next step.

We examine inquiry fit, first-session attendance, clients starting care, and clinician availability. Feedback from the practice helps distinguish useful demand from inquiries it cannot appropriately serve. Our 2026 benchmark report treats mental health and psychiatry as a lifetime-value model and reports a derived cost per new client of about $113 to $500 (Google cost per lead of $45 to $200, with 40% or more of leads booking), rather than a return on the first appointment.

Yes. We can start with positioning and launch priorities or improve an existing program around new services, providers, or locations. An established advertising account or years of data are not prerequisites for the conversation. An Oregon ketamine and mental health clinic started with compliance and a website and city-level SEO rebuild before paid ads; it now ranks on page one for ketamine treatment searches in multiple Oregon cities and has a second location under renovation.

Yes, with appropriate strategy. Google Ads targeting therapy-related searches works well because people searching for therapists are self-initiating and motivated. Meta Ads require more careful approach. We don't build campaigns that target users based on mental health diagnoses, but demographic and interest-based audiences can still reach the right population without the intrusive quality of condition-based targeting.

We treat it as a design constraint that produces better creative, not as a limitation. Campaigns that speak to the experience patients are having ("stuck despite trying everything," "ready to stop white-knuckling through it") without labeling them perform better with mental health populations and avoid the trust-destroying effect of ads that feel like surveillance. We don't use health condition targeting on any platform.

With well-built Google Ads targeting local therapy searches, a solo therapist can see meaningful inquiry volume within 2 to 4 weeks. SEO takes longer but builds a sustainable organic referral channel. For group practices filling multiple therapist schedules simultaneously, we build phased acquisition programs, prioritizing whichever therapists have the most immediate capacity.

Your next stage of growth

Help more of the right clients find your practice.

Tell us what you want to grow, what is already in place, and where you need help. We'll discuss the priorities and whether Practice Growth Co is the right team for the work.

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Case Studies

Outcomes from similar engagements

A cash-pay behavioral health practice cut CPL from $150 to $35 in 30 days.

A cash-pay behavioral health provider in Toronto offered autism assessments, couples therapy, and individual therapy at premium rates. The Google Ads account had been running on broad match for months with no negative-keyword structure, sending traffic from people who would never pay her rates to a landing page that described services without speaking to anyone in particular. We rebuilt the campaigns around a high-income-professional ICP, separated her three services into distinct campaigns, and launched fast, purpose-built landing pages on Cloudflare (outside her bloated existing site) that positioned the practice for the patient she actually wanted. Same budget, 77% lower CPL, 3–6× the qualified lead volume, in 30 days.

From compliance gap to second location for a ketamine + mental health clinic in Oregon.

A mental health, psychiatry, and ketamine clinic in Oregon came in with three compounding problems: no LegitScript certification (so ketamine ads couldn't run compliantly on Google or Meta), no local-SEO architecture (service pages named "Ketamine," not "Ketamine Treatment [City], Oregon"), and a Google Ads account stuck on a thin brand campaign and a wasteful broad match campaign. We fixed it in sequence: compliance first, website + SEO second, paid ads third. The clinic now ranks on page one for ketamine treatment searches across multiple Oregon cities, has a second location under renovation, and is running provider-hiring Meta campaigns to staff the expansion.

How an ABA therapy clinic replaced referral dependency with a system that produced 120+ leads in 90 days.

The clinic had a strong word-of-mouth reputation but no marketing infrastructure and no visibility into where families were coming from. We implemented Google Ads, Meta Ads, CRM follow-up workflows, and HIPAA-conscious conversion tracking. Within 90 days, the practice had predictable monthly family intake and clear visibility into which channels were producing patients.

How a national GLP-1 telehealth practice generated 200+ new patients at $22 CPL in 60 days.

The practice wanted to compete in the GLP-1 weight-loss space, but Google's pharmaceutical advertising restrictions block most healthcare providers from running compliant campaigns at all. We secured LegitScript certification, built intent-tiered Google Ads, a trust-optimized landing page, and ad copy written within Google's pharmaceutical guidelines. The practice became one of the few telehealth providers running compliant, profitable GLP-1 patient acquisition at scale.