by galeWriting for mental health

Content and practice support for mental health professionals

I write the pages that get you seen and do the admin work that fills your evenings.

Registered Psychometrician · Master’s in Psychology · Writing since 2022

You didn’t open a practice to do this part.

The inquiry email has been sitting there for three days. The website still says what you wrote the week you launched. There’s a blog page with one post on it from last year, and a directory profile you’ve stopped checking because it never brings anyone in.

You also have eight clients tomorrow, five reschedule requests since Monday, and a billing conversation you’ve been avoiding because it doesn’t belong in the room.

This is the part of private practice nobody trains you for, and it’s the part that quietly decides how full your calendar is.

Hands typing on a laptop balanced on a blue ottoman A hand setting a blue mug down on a stack of hardback books

Where things usually get stuck

Most practices arrive with one of these. Most end up needing two. You don’t have to know which before you get in touch.

  • Nobody can find me

    Open slots, and a website that isn’t bringing anyone in

    Website copy, service pages, and blog posts written around what your clients actually type at 2 a.m., so the people already looking for your help land on a page that sounds like a person wrote it.

    See the writing work
  • I’m drowning in the admin

    Full enough to be tired, not organized enough to stay that way

    Inquiry email, scheduling, intake paperwork, and the billing conversations you’d rather not have, handled by someone who already knows why they matter clinically.

    See the practice support
  • Honestly, both

    Solo practices that don’t want to hire and manage two people

    One monthly scope covering the writing and the backend, starting from a paid audit so we both know what the practice actually needs before anything is committed.

    Ask about both

Easy to hand over from day one

The reason most therapists don’t hire help isn’t just the money.

  • The worry

    Onboarding someone will cost more hours than it gives back.

    What actually happens

    There’s no six-week training period.

  • The worry

    I’ll end up managing an assistant on top of a caseload.

    What actually happens

    I’ve sat in the clinical chair, so you won’t be writing me instructions on what a no-show policy is for, or why you can’t forward that email.

Gale Alagos

“A strong work ethic, dedicated to work that meets the highest standards of the field.”

Dalia Ahmed, MEd. Couns. Psych, Mind-Easy

Previous work

  • Carepatron
  • Mind-Easy
  • Growth99
  • Abbie Shares
  • Most Invisible

Four years writing for practice management software, wellness apps, medical aesthetics, and private practices.

I know where the line is

Marketing copy for mental health has a boundary that general copywriters can’t see. Promising an outcome. Implying a diagnosis. Using a client story that should never have left the room. I was trained on the other side of that line and I still work there.

More about how I got here

How we get started

Nine of eleven providers in this market ask you to book a call before they’ll tell you anything. You have enough in the calendar.

  1. Tell me what you need.

    Fill in the form. About five minutes. It asks what’s actually wrong, not what your budget is.

  2. You get a written scope.

    What I’ll do, by when, what it costs, and what I don’t control. No unnecessary calls and no retainer before we both know it fits.

  3. We start with one piece of work.

    One page if it’s writing. A paid audit of your processes if it’s practice support. You see how I work before anything else is committed.

Start with the task you’ve been putting off

You don’t need a plan, a budget, or a clear brief. Name the one thing you need and I’ll tell you what we can do about it.

Tell me what you need

Nothing here commits you to anything. If I’m not the right fit I’ll say so, and where I can I’ll point you somewhere better.