The Pathway
Setting up your counselling practice? Start here.
The Pathway is a free, plain-English guide to going into private practice in the UK: registration, insurance, money, premises, finding clients and running the day to day. No login, no email wall, no catch.
Seven stages, from certificate to full diary
Qualified, now what. Foundations. Money. Premises. Getting clients. Running the practice. Growing. Every stage explained plainly, with the current costs verified and sourced, and free tools where a calculator beats a paragraph.
Services
We'll teach you free. Or do it for you.
Everything in the guide is doable yourself. But if you'd rather spend the hours with clients, we build counselling websites and handle the setup work, at plain prices with no lock-in.
- A counselling website, yours outrightfrom £500
- Get Found: Google, directories and every listing made consistent£250
- Website + Get Found£650
- One-to-one launch support, three sessions£300
Who this is for
Newly qualified and starting from nothing? The guide and tools are yours, free, and that's not a teaser, it's the whole thing. First clients arriving and no time to build a website? That's the template build. Established practice that's outgrown its site? We do bespoke work too, priced on a conversation.
If you're looking for therapy rather than building a practice, this site isn't for you, but a directory like Counselling Directory will help you find someone good.
Why trust us
Checked against the sources, built to the rules
Built by Therapy Support Ltd, a UK company that works only with counsellors and psychotherapists. Everything we publish is checked against primary sources and dated. Our sites are built to respect the advertising standards your professional body holds you to: no fake reviews, no outcome promises, nothing you'd be uncomfortable putting your name to.
Counsellors advertise in a regulated space, and the rules are stricter than most realise. We build them in from the start, so you're not quietly carrying risk you didn't know about.