by galeWriting for mental health

You’re the one with the practice. I’m the one with the plan.

Take the admin and writing work off your plate so you can focus on what matters most.

Most of this page is about you

You trained for years to do one thing well. Nobody mentioned that you’d also be running a marketing department, a front desk and a billing office, in the evenings, alone.

So one of two things is true right now.

Either your calendar has gaps you can’t explain and a website that hasn’t changed since launch.

Or your calendar is full, your inbox has forty-one unread messages, and you’re starting to wonder how long you can keep this up.

Both of those are admin problems wearing a marketing costume. And both of them are fixable by someone who isn’t you.

Gale Alagos

I’ve sat in that chair

I’m a Registered Psychometrician with a Master’s in Psychology, and I see clients for wellness check-ins through an HMO partnership most weekday evenings.

I also write, and I’ve done it for four years. SEO articles for a practice management platform used by therapists and allied health practitioners. Before all of that, I did operations and executive support for a web design agency.

Those aren’t career shifts to me. The reason I can write a service page that doesn’t overpromise is the same reason I can answer an intake email without you checking every single one of them.

Three steps, and you’re only responsible for the first

  1. Tell me what’s breaking.

    The form takes about five minutes. It asks what isn’t working for you.

  2. I send back a written scope.

    What I’ll do, by when, what it costs, and what I don’t control. No call unless you want one.

  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.

What happens if you keep doing this yourself

Probably nothing dramatic. That’s the problem.

The website stays a year out of date, the blog keeps its one post, the inquiry emails get answered on Sunday nights, and the practice stays about as full as it is now.

The version where this goes well isn’t dramatic either. You stop being the reason people can’t find you, the money conversations leave the therapy room, and your evenings stop belonging to your inbox.

It’s a practice that runs without costing you your purpose and the drive to keep going.

Questions I often get

Will this become one more thing to manage?

Practice support starts with a paid audit of your processes, so nothing changes hands until you’ve seen how I work. No six-week training period. After the first two months it runs month to month, and either of us can stop at the end of any month.

Are you a licensed therapist?

No. I’m a Registered Psychometrician, which in the Philippines covers psychological assessment and testing. I’m not a licensed counselor in the United States and I don’t present myself as one. What the training gives me is the boundary: I know where a claim crosses into advice, and where a story should never have left the room.

Can you actually do both things?

The writing is public and you can read it. The operations work isn’t, because it was internal. Ask me on the form and I’ll describe it in detail.

Your turn

Tell me the task you’ve been putting off. I’ll tell you what we can do about it, and whether I’m the right person for it.

Tell me what you need