Squarespace alternative for therapists, Therapy.page vs Squarespace, free website builder for counsellors UK

Squarespace for therapists: is it the right choice?

Squarespace is a genuinely good website builder. If you want a beautiful, highly customisable site and you enjoy the design process, it's a fair option. But it was built for everyone — photographers, restaurants, online shops — not specifically for therapists. That's the difference this page is about.

Therapy.page is a free website builder made only for UK therapists, psychologists and counsellors. Below is an honest look at where each one fits, including the times Squarespace is the better pick.

The short version

If you want a polished therapy website live this afternoon, at no cost, with the things therapists actually need built in — Therapy.page is the simpler choice.

If you want full creative control, plan to sell courses or products, or want a substantial blog, Squarespace gives you more room to build, for a monthly fee.

Most therapists don't need a blank canvas. They need a calm, professional page that helps the right clients get in touch. That's what Therapy.page is for.

At a glance

Squarespace pricing shown is for annual billing; monthly billing costs roughly 30% more. Prices correct as of 2026 and may change.

What Squarespace really costs a therapist

Squarespace's headline price looks small, but it's worth adding up the real annual cost before you commit.

The cheapest plan is around £12 a month — but only if you pay for a full year up front, so it's about £144 in one go. Choose monthly billing and you'll pay roughly a third more. After the 14-day trial ends, you can't keep your site live without a paid plan.

Then there are the extras most therapists don't see coming: your free domain renews at full price after the first year, and a professional email address (you@yourpractice.co.uk) is an added cost once the first year is up.

None of this makes Squarespace bad value — it's a capable platform. It's simply not free, and the costs are easy to underestimate when you're just starting out.

Therapy.page is free to build and free to keep live. There's no paid tier to upgrade to in order to unlock the basics. (More on why it's free further down — it's a fair question.)

Built for therapists vs built for everyone

This is the real distinction, and it matters more than price.

Squarespace gives you a blank canvas and a toolbox. That's powerful if you want it — but it means you're the one deciding how a therapy website should be structured, what an enquiry form should ask, how to present your fees, and how clients should reach you. Every one of those is a small decision, and there are a lot of them.

Therapy.page makes those decisions with you. The things therapists need are already there:

• A client enquiry form that lands neatly in one inbox, so first contact isn't lost in your email.
• A client portal link in your navigation by default, ready to point at your booking or notes system.
• A waitlist option for when you're not currently accepting clients — so a full caseload doesn't mean turning people away cold.
• Four themes designed for this work: Warm, Calm, Modern and Classic. Each one is calm, credible and easy to read, with none of the clutter that makes a practice look busier than it is.

You're not building a therapy website from a general-purpose kit. You're filling in one that already understands the job.

Speed and simplicity

Most therapists building their first website aren't short on care — they're short on time, and a little wary of the whole thing. A general builder, for all its flexibility, can quietly become a project: choosing a template, learning the editor, deciding on a structure, second-guessing it.

Therapy.page is designed so you can go from nothing to a live, professional page in under 30 minutes. It's guided on purpose. Fewer choices, better defaults, no blank screen staring back at you.

Squarespace will reward you if you enjoy that design time and want to shape every detail. If you'd rather have a good site done and get back to your clients, the focused route wins.

When Squarespace is the better choice

A comparison only helps if it's honest, so here's where Squarespace genuinely comes out ahead:

• You want full creative control. If a distinctive, highly bespoke design matters to you, Squarespace's customisation goes much further.
• You plan to sell. Courses, digital downloads, group programmes, paid resources — Squarespace's commerce tools are mature and well-suited to this.
• You want a serious blog. If content marketing is part of your plan, Squarespace's blogging is more capable.
• You're building something beyond a practice site. A wider business, multiple offerings, a shop — that's squarely Squarespace territory.

If any of those describe you, Squarespace is a sound investment and worth its fee.

If, like most therapists, you mainly want a calm, trustworthy page that helps the right clients find and contact you — you don't need all that, and you shouldn't have to pay for it.

"Free" — what's the catch?

It's right to ask. Free usually means ads, a watermark, a locked feature you'll eventually have to pay to remove, or your data being the real product. Therapy.page is none of those.

It's free because it's made by Konfidens, a practice management platform for therapists. Therapy.page is how Konfidens introduces itself to the profession: build a great free website, and some of those therapists will later choose Konfidens for booking, notes and client management.

That's the whole arrangement. Your website is genuinely free and yours. There's no obligation to use Konfidens, no upsell wall around the basics, and no ads on your site. If Konfidens turns out to be useful to you one day, good — but your free website doesn't depend on it.

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