Psychotherapy practices · Referral marketing
The psychiatrist refers to a name she trusts, not to a website.
Referral into a psychotherapy practice comes from psychiatrists, physicians, schools, employers and other therapists, and quietly from people you have worked with. Most of it turns on being known for one thing. GullySales builds that network and keeps the fee question with your professional body.
A 90-minute audit call and a written, scored report. Turnaround, reporting and term are agreed in writing after the audit.
What referral marketing means
Referral marketing in a regulated practice is being the one a physician, a colleague or a former patient names, without being paid to, because paying for a referral is restricted in most of these professions. GullySales builds the ask into the moment a patient is satisfied and into the note that goes back to the referring doctor, and it never involves a fee.
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Sales and marketing for psychotherapy practices, the overview.
For psychotherapy practices
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“Most of your referral network is other therapists”
A colleague who is full, or who does not work with children, or who cannot take a case in that language, needs somebody to send that person to. Being known to twenty therapists for one thing you do well brings steadier work than any campaign.
“The psychiatrist needs to know what happened after the referral”
A short note, with the person's consent and no clinical detail, confirming they came in. That is what makes a doctor refer a second time. Silence after the first one is why most of them stop.
“You cannot ask a former client to recommend you, and they often will anyway”
Asking puts somebody in a position they should never be put in, and rules on soliciting may apply. What you can do is be easy to pass on. A name spelled clearly, a number and one page somebody can forward without explaining anything.
What we do
What we deliver for psychotherapy practices.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A map of who could refer, near enough to matter
Psychiatrists, general physicians, paediatricians, schools, other therapists and employers within reach, with who already refers and who has never been approached.
Result: The network stops being three people you trained with.
One page a referrer can keep on a desk
What you work with, who you do not take, your fee position, availability and how somebody reaches you, written for a busy clinician to read in a minute.
Result: A doctor can refer accurately without ringing to check.
A consented acknowledgement back to the referrer
A brief confirmation that the person made contact, sent with their agreement and carrying nothing clinical.
Result: The referrer learns the route worked, and uses it again.
A referral route written for an employer contact
How an HR contact under an assistance arrangement reaches the right therapist, with what they may and may not be told, agreed in advance.
Result: The contract turns into actual sessions rather than a document.
Referral sources counted in aggregate
Which kinds of referrer bring enquiries, reported as totals with no individual client traceable through the figures.
Result: You know where the work comes from without tracking anybody.
How the result is measured
- Referrals received
- Referral conversion rate
- Cost per referred customer
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Who it is for
This is written for these psychotherapy practices.
- Individual counselling and psychotherapy practices
- Couples and family therapy practices
- Child and adolescent therapy specialists
- Addiction counselling centres
- Corporate and workplace counselling providers
- Online and teletherapy practices
- Psychiatric and clinical psychology clinics
- Group therapy and support programme providers
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
01 · First
Free audit call
90 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · After the call
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
04 · After the baseline
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
06 · At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the work runs for psychotherapy practices
- 1
Audit the enquiry journey with care
We check how someone finds the practice for a specific concern today, how the first message is answered, and where privacy could be better protected.
- 2
Build concern-led pages
A page for each concern, such as anxiety or couples counselling, written to be recognised by someone experiencing it, without exaggerated claims.
- 3
Fix the first response
A calm, prompt reply routine for enquiries, trained to acknowledge the message respectfully before any administrative questions.
- 4
Build visibility without compromising privacy
Search and content built around concerns and locality, with no client-identifying material used anywhere.
- 5
Report on enquiries, not people
A report of enquiry volume and response time by concern area, built so no client's identity ever appears in it.
Proof
What happened when owners fixed this.
Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.
Chord Road Hospital
- Situation
- Patients who knew the hospital trusted it. Patients who searched for a department or a treatment in the area did not find it.
- What we did
- Website rebuilt around patient needs
- Search visibility
- Social media on a schedule
- Review management
- Result
- Organic traffic increased 60% within six months
- Online appointment bookings increased 40%
- Social following grew 45%, and engagement on it rose 70%
IVF Solutions
- Situation
- The clinic had next to no presence online. People making one of the most considered decisions of their lives were doing their research somewhere else, and forming a view before the clinic knew they existed.
- What we did
- Social profiles opened
- Educational content on a schedule
- Google Business Profile built out
- A working feedback loop
- Result
- No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
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Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 90-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Can we pay a referral fee to a doctor or a clinic?
How do we introduce ourselves to a psychiatrist we have never met?
How do you handle marketing without using client stories?
Will this involve tracking individual clients?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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Your next practical step
Get a free audit of how you sell, and a scored report of where the work is.
90 minutes. A written, scored report. No invoice and no obligation.