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Listing Your Private Practice or Agency on CounselingSeattle.com
NOTICE: March 2008:
CounselingSeattle.com has suspended processing new
applications forms. We expect that applications will be
accepted once again when the automation process is completed and
tested, about April 15th 2008.
When the new automated system
is ready to go, there will be an "counselor / advertiser login
here" link in the top right corner of the home page and revised directions
will appear on this page.
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INSTRUCTIONS
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A. Read a description of a listing (below).
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C. Mail your application form and check.
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The purpose of this page is to provide guidelines for a CounselingSeattle.com
counselor listing. The listing
consists of several parts. Each part is explained below.
Ralph Jones, MA, LMHC, NCC, MAC
(555) 643-7434
1542 S. 45th Street, Auburn, Washington 98077-1103
Location: Brownstone Building at Highland and 45th Street
Niche Specialty: Relationship advice and counseling for men who are
having a problem establishing or maintaining a stable intimate love
relationship.
General Practice Areas: Individual adult men and women only.
I do depression counseling, anxiety counseling, loss and grief
counseling and counseling for personal, career or family problems,
relationship problems, setting healthy boundaries, long-term alcohol
or addiction recovery program issues, codependency recovery, worry,
or anger problems. In my counseling work, I favor Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(CBT),
Transactional Analysis and hypnotherapy techniques. You are
always in control of your counseling experience. We will work
together to establish goals and evaluate your progress.
1. Practitioner name and
professional initials
2. Office telephone number and office address.
3.
Location
4. Niche Specialty©
(an optional listing at additional cost--not included in the basic listing)
5.
General Practice Areas: this is an area to list other client
problems that you frequently work with, counseling techniques most
often used and your client base (who do you work with?--ie: Individual
adults and couples.)
6. Include your email address. (Optional)
7. Include a link from
CounselingSeattle.com to your web page (optional
and recommended) requires a link exchange. See
linking to CounselingSeattle.com from your site,
below.
1.
Name: each counselor must be licensed or registered in the State of Washington.
The therapist provides license or registration number and information is
subject to verification with the Health Department Quality Assurance Division.
Registered Counselors must have a master's degree or
higher to be published on CounselingSeattle.com.
Professional initials are limited to official acronyms and initials representing your degree and registration,
certification or licensing by state government or state or national certifying organizations.
2.
Office telephone number: Your business telephone listing.
What is your office address (complete with ZIP code)?
3.
Location: Is your office in a well-known professional building name, near
a well-known community landmark, or near a major intersection that
would help a potential client to visualize your location? If the
city is Seattle, please indicate the neighborhood the office is
located in--for example: Queen Anne, Ballard, West Seattle, Capitol Hill, etc.
4.
Niche Specialty©: An optional listing--not required. Here we are looking for the one
client problem that you most like to work with or have the most experience or training in dealing with.
[ Read more about the Niche Specialty© ]
5.
General Areas of Practice: When a potential client is searching
for you online, the client's primary concern is "does this counselor work with
people like me and problems like mine?" Your ad content needs to answer
that question.
a.
Tell the client who you work with. Children, adolescents & families?
Adult individuals and couples?
b.
Tell the client what kinds of problems you commonly work with. Help search engines
find your listing by using words that clients are likely to use in their search
for a counselor. Avoid professional terminology when possible.
Generally potential clients search words that focus on the problem
rather than on the proposed outcome or the techniques used to achieve them. The
client who is going through a divorce is a thousand times more likely to use
search phrases such as "counselor divorce" or "divorce counseling" than
"counseling for a happy relationship" or "counselor to make marriage work" or
"Rational Emotive Therapy."
(I often recommend that you read through the intake pages of old client charts and see whether you
have recorded the actual words that your clients have used to describe the
presenting problems that brought them into treatment. Use those phrases
to describe the range of problems with which you commonly work. Avoid psychobabble.)
c.
Try to list no more than your top three treatment modalities. Always use
both the name of the modality and the popular acronym (if applicable). For
example: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
6.
Email: your email address is NOT included in the listing unless you specifically request it.
7.
Link to your website: If you have a website or web page that is not
part of another counselor locator service, CounselingSeattle.com will link to you on a
link exchange basis (see below). You put a link to CounselingSeattle.com in
place on your site and let us know. Then we will link back to you.
Anyone reading your listing on CounselingSeattle.com can click the
link to be directed to your website for more information.
Instructions for Linking to CounselingSeattle.com
from Your Site
Choose one of several CounselingSeattle.com URL pages (below) that can serve
as excellent resources for your website visitors. You should be able to
cut-and-paste any of these links into one of the pages in your
site.
A. Online Directory of Support Groups: A guide to national and
international support groups (most with contacts for local chapters)
providing help and support for a great variety of problems and
conditions.
B. Dictionary of Initials, Acronyms and
Abbreviations Used by Counselors
C. Consumer Questions about Mental Health and Addiction Counseling
D. Health, Mental Health & Chemical
Dependency Links
or
E. Affiliated with
CounselingSeattle.com
When you have put the link in place from your website to
CounselingSeattle.com, please let me know. Then I will link back
to your website.
If you have questions or need help with building a link on your site, including the HTML code to use, please
let me know.
8.
Rates / Cost: Private Practice Advertisement
Floyd Else,
Webmaster
