A psychiatry practice ranking above the directories in search results

Outrank The Directory You Pay For.

SEO for psychiatry practices that are paying Psychology Today to appear above their own name. We build the medical authority Google looks for on health pages, so your practice ranks on its own.

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Be The Result, Not The Listing.

β€’ Built to the standard Google applies to health pages, not to blog posts
β€’ Work directly with Loren β€” 10+ years, never a junior associate
β€’ No contracts β€” month-to-month, because results should keep you here

A Couple Of Founders We’ve Helped

Dr. Sharon Dickerson
Founder β€” Denver Holistic Dentistry
Mark Sawicki
Founder β€” Sawicki Law & Bye Lemon
Isaac Archuleta
Founder β€” iAmClinic & iAmCouncil
Lance Wood
Founder β€” Military Trial Defenders
Michelle Novello
Founder β€” Ink B Gone & Age B Gone
Kate Harline
Founder β€” Therapy Collective
Oliver Glozik
Founder β€” Harmonica Ayahuasca Retreat
Dr. Alexandria Kurtz
Founder β€” Meah Modern Psychiatry
Maira Holzmann
Founder β€” Somatic Therapy Partners
Nathaniel Gilbert
Founder β€” Law Offices Of Nathaniel Gilbert
Dr. Sharon Dickerson
Founder β€” Denver Holistic Dentistry
Mark Sawicki
Founder β€” Sawicki Law & Bye Lemon
Isaac Archuleta
Founder β€” iAmClinic & iAmCouncil
Lance Wood
Founder β€” Military Trial Defenders
Michelle Novello
Founder β€” Ink B Gone & Age B Gone
Kate Harline
Founder β€” Therapy Collective
Oliver Glozik
Founder β€” Harmonica Ayahuasca Retreat
Dr. Alexandria Kurtz
Founder β€” Meah Modern Psychiatry
Maira Holzmann
Founder β€” Somatic Therapy Partners
Nathaniel Gilbert
Founder β€” Law Offices Of Nathaniel Gilbert

You Rank Below A Directory That Lists Your Competitors.

Someone searches for a psychiatrist in your city. The first results are directories β€” the same ones you pay a monthly fee to appear in, alongside every other practice in the county. Your own site is somewhere below them.

Psychiatry SEO rarely fails on keywords. It fails because Google holds health pages to its strictest standard, and a site with no named clinician, no credentials and no clinical depth never clears it.

That’s where we come in.

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Organic search bringing new patients to a psychiatry practice

How It Works β€” The Method

Attract β†’ Convert β†’ Systemize

The same three-part path from owner-dependent to owner-optional, applied to a category where Google checks who wrote the page before it ranks it.

1. Attract

Earn the authority Google checks for

Named clinicians, credentials, licences and clinical depth on the pages that matter. This is what Your Money or Your Life pages are measured on, and it is the part most agencies skip.

2. Convert

Be found for the condition, not the job title

Pages for what people actually search β€” medication management, ADHD assessment, perinatal, adolescent, TMS β€” instead of one page saying psychiatry that competes with every directory listing.

3. Systemize

Visibility you keep

Documented processes, a dashboard you can read in five minutes, and a content routine your team can run. Rankings that do not stop the month you stop paying.

What’s Included

  • E-E-A-T & Medical Authority β€” Named clinicians, credentials, licensure, reviewed-by lines and clinical sourcing. The signals Google uses to decide whether a health page deserves to rank at all.
  • Condition & Treatment Pages β€” One page per condition and treatment you actually offer, written for the person searching it at eleven at night rather than for a referring physician.
  • Local Search & Directory Strategy β€” Google Business Profile, reviews and citations, plus how to use Psychology Today and the insurance directories as a feeder rather than as a competitor.
  • Tracking You Can Trust β€” Verified end to end, so you know which searches produced patients and which only produced traffic. No guessing at what is working.
  • Monthly Strategy Calls With Loren β€” Never a junior associate. We review what is ranking, decide which condition page to build next, and agree on what to stop chasing.

A Couple Of Certifications

Google Analytics Advanced UserAdvanced tools to drive sales
CXL Digital Psychology & Behavioral DesignConsumer psychology program
CXL Applied NeuromarketingApplied consumer neuroscience
Google Ads Certified5 areas of Google advertising
Semrush Agency PartnerCurrent certified agency partner
Semrush Certified6+ areas of search marketing
Meta / Facebook Ads CertifiedCertified digital marketing associate
HubSpot Inbound MarketingInbound marketing certified
our analytics work CRM CertifiedCRM & automation certified
our analytics work University CertifiedGo High Level University
Google Analytics Advanced UserAdvanced tools to drive sales
CXL Digital Psychology & Behavioral DesignConsumer psychology program
CXL Applied NeuromarketingApplied consumer neuroscience
Google Ads Certified5 areas of Google advertising
Semrush Agency PartnerCurrent certified agency partner
Semrush Certified6+ areas of search marketing
Meta / Facebook Ads CertifiedCertified digital marketing associate
HubSpot Inbound MarketingInbound marketing certified
our analytics work CRM CertifiedCRM & automation certified
our analytics work University CertifiedGo High Level University

Transformation: Before β†’ After

Before β€” owner-dependent
After β€” owner-optional
Directories rank above your own practice.
Your site is the result patients click first.
Pages have no named clinician or credentials.
Every page shows who wrote it and why it stands.
One page tries to rank for all of psychiatry.
Each condition you treat has a page of its own.
Visibility stops when the listing fee stops.
The rankings stay whether you pay a directory or not.

LRMC vs. A Traditional Agency

LRMCWHAT YOU GET
A traditional agency
LRMC
WORK 1:1 WITH AN EXPERTYes β€” always Loren
A TRADITIONAL AGENCY
WORK 1:1 WITH AN EXPERTUsually a junior associate
LRMC
HEALTHCARE SEO EXPERIENCEPsychiatry, TMS, therapy and multi-clinician practices
A TRADITIONAL AGENCY
HEALTHCARE SEO EXPERIENCEThe same checklist used on any industry
LRMC
HOW PAGES ARE WRITTENTo the standard Google applies to health content
A TRADITIONAL AGENCY
HOW PAGES ARE WRITTENTo a keyword density target
LRMC
WHAT WE COUNTNew patients from search
A TRADITIONAL AGENCY
WHAT WE COUNTKeyword positions
LRMC
MONTHLY STRATEGY CALLSIncluded
A TRADITIONAL AGENCY
MONTHLY STRATEGY CALLSUsually lacks insight
LRMC
CONTRACTNo long-term contract
A TRADITIONAL AGENCY
CONTRACTLocked in 6–12 months

Stop Guessing. Start Growing.

  • We Write To The Standard Google Applies To Health β€” Psychiatry, TMS, psychotherapy and multi-clinician practices. One psychotherapy practice grew organic traffic 209% year over year, with 153% more new patients behind it. Not a keyword checklist run on a medical site.
  • We Report On Patientsβ€”Not Positions β€” New patients traced back to the search that produced them. You will know what we are doing, when, and exactly whyβ€”no black boxes.
  • No Contracts. Period. β€” We don’t lock you in because we don’t need to. Results keep our clients aroundβ€”not fine print. If we’re not delivering, you can walk away anytime.

Your Search Visibility Roadmap

  • 1. Discovery & Strategy Call β€” What you treat, who you see, the plans you take, and what one new patient is actually worth across their course of care.
  • 2. Authority & Search Audit β€” What your site currently proves about your clinicians, what you rank for today, which directories are outranking you, and which searches carry real intent.
  • 3. Content Blueprint β€” The condition and treatment pages worth building, in the order worth building them, plus the credentials and sourcing each one needs β€” with the copy written for you.
  • 4. Build, Launch & Verify β€” Pages published, clinician profiles and credentials in place, local listings corrected, and tracking configured and tested before anyone reports a number.
  • 5. Optimize & Grow β€” Monthly calls with Loren where we read the numbers together and decide which condition to build for next.

Who We Can Help

Our SEO for psychiatrists is built for practices that are:

  • Ranking below the directories they already pay for
  • Invisible for the conditions they actually specialise in
  • Running a site with no named clinician or credentials
  • Relying on listing fees for every new patient
  • Ready to hand the growth engine to their team instead of running it personally

If you want patients who found you rather than a directory, we’re here to help.

What It’s Like To Work With Loren

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The LRoss Marketing team has been huge in helping us drive consistent leads from our website. Through best practices, consumer insights & continuous testing we’ve been able to turn the site into a lead-generating machine!
Isaac ArchuletaWriter, Speaker & Founder of iAmClinic LGBTQIA+ Therapy

FAQs: SEO For Psychiatrists

For your own name and your specific specialties, yes β€” and that is where the patients you want are searching. For a broad term like psychiatrist near me a directory often holds the top slot, which is why we build pages for the conditions and treatments underneath it, where a real practice beats a listing.

Your Money or Your Life is Google’s name for pages that could affect someone’s health, finances or safety. Psychiatry sits squarely in it, so Google checks who wrote the page, what their credentials are and whether the claims hold up. A site with unattributed content will not rank no matter how well it is keyworded.

Yes, and it is the single highest-return change on most psychiatry sites. Named clinicians with licences, training and a photo are what separates a practice from a directory listing in Google’s eyes, and in a patient’s. We also verify the tracking end to end, so you can see which pages brought patients rather than just visits.

It is if it is built that way. We do not use patient testimonials or anything identifying, and we configure analytics so protected information never reaches a third-party tool. For the tracking side of that, see our analytics work, and if you want coverage while the pages mature, that is what Google Ads.

First movement usually shows around three to four months, and meaningful volume between six and twelve. Health pages take longer than most categories because authority has to be established before rankings follow. That is also what makes them hard for a competitor to take back. Where speed matters, digital marketing for psychiatrists covers the wider mix, including paid.

Yes. A psychotherapy practice grew 209% more organic traffic year over year, and a therapy practice reached the top three Google results in one month.

Disclaimer: We are marketers, not clinicians. We avoid patient testimonials and outcome claims and keep protected information out of analytics, but we recommend confirming that your site’s language, clinician profiles and data handling meet your state medical board’s rules and HIPAA.

Rank On Your Own Name, Not A Listing.

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Loren Ross, founder of LRoss Marketing Consulting