Websites · Occupational Therapy
Websites foroccupational therapists
Websites for occupational therapists, with a page for each group you serve. NDIS ready, plain language, and a booking path that works for a parent and a coordinator alike.
OT websites are some of the hardest to get right in healthcare. The profession is so broad that a generic OT website tries to be everything to everyone, and ends up speaking to no one. The parent looking for paediatric autism support sees the same homepage as the support coordinator looking for adult NDIS therapy and the workplace HR manager looking for ergonomic assessments. None of them feels like the site is for them. The fix is segmentation. Build the site around the niches you serve, in the language each buyer uses.
yourotclinic.com.au
Paediatric. Adult. NDIS.
OT that meets
your family
where you are.
NDIS-ready, plain English, paediatric and adult specialty support.
Built to convert.
What OT clients need on your website
OT clients aren't all the same. Your website shouldn't pretend they are.
An OT visitor could be a parent, a support coordinator, a carer, an NDIS participant, or an adult with their own self funded plan. They each search differently, decide differently, and book differently. The website has to recognise them when they arrive and route them to a page that makes sense for who they are.
Each of these answers a question the OT visitor is asking. Is this clinic for someone like me. Will you accept my funding. Do you do what I need. Who would I see. How do I take the next step. The websites that answer those questions without making the visitor work for it are the ones that book the patients other clinics lose.
Where agencies go wrong
Most OT websites try to be everything. Patients leave because they don't see themselves.
Years of auditing websites belonging to occupational therapists across the community produce the same root cause almost every time.
The site is built as a single experience for every visitor. The homepage talks about 'occupational therapy services' generically. The services page lists thirty things the clinic theoretically does. The parent looking for paediatric autism support has to scroll through workplace assessments and adult ergonomics to find what they need. Most don't. They leave.
The second mistake is unclear NDIS information. Some clinics are NDIS registered. Some accept plan managed only. Some take self managed clients. Some don't deal with NDIS at all. The visitor needs to know in five seconds whether they're in the right place. Most OT websites bury this information or skip it altogether.
The third mistake is jargon heavy copy. 'Sensory processing differences', 'executive function support', 'modified activity participation'. These terms are accurate. They're also unreadable for an exhausted parent at 11pm. The websites that convert use plain English, with the clinical terms available for those who want them, not as the front line language.
OT is too broad. Your website needs to be narrow. Build for the niches you serve, in the language those clients use.
How we build it
How we build websites for OT clinics.
Same four part build every clinic gets, sharpened for occupational therapy.
Segment the site by who you serve.
We build dedicated landing experiences for each main niche your clinic works in. Paediatric services for parents. Adult NDIS for participants and support coordinators. Workplace assessments for HR managers. Each segment gets its own homepage equivalent, its own service pages, and its own enquiry flow. The visitor lands in the right place and immediately feels seen.
Make NDIS information unmissable and specific.
We build a clear NDIS section that lists your registration status, the plans you accept (NDIA managed, plan managed, self managed), the goals and supports you typically work with, and the price guide you charge against. Support coordinators screen for this information in seconds. If it's there and clear, you make the shortlist. If it's not, you don't.
Write in plain English. Keep clinical terms available.
We use the words your clients use. 'Help with managing big feelings'. 'Support to learn everyday tasks'. 'Services for kids who find school hard'. The clinical terms (sensory regulation, ADL, executive function) are still there for clinicians and support coordinators who search for them. But they're not the front line copy that scares off the exhausted parent.
Build practitioner profiles around clinical specialties.
Each OT gets a profile page that names their clinical specialties in real terms. Not 'paediatric occupational therapy' but 'works with primary school age kids on handwriting, motor skills, and sensory regulation'. The clearer the specialty, the more confident the buyer is in choosing the right clinician for their family.
Field notes
What we see on OT websites
An OT website converts 2 to 4 percent of new visitors into an enquiry, and the rate matters less than who is enquiring. A single page listing everything the clinic does sends the clinic the wrong enquiries: a parent asking about a driving assessment, a support coordinator asking about paediatric feeding. A page per segment, written in the words that segment uses, sends enquiries that have already sorted themselves.
NDIS families need the plan type, the pricing arrangement and the waitlist stated plainly on the page, not in a PDF. The clinics that do that spend less time triaging and more time delivering.
Routed by buyer, not by service
OT websites don't work as one experience. They work as four.
The breadth that makes OT hard to advertise also makes it hard to design a website for. Each visitor has a completely different need on landing. The site that converts recognises who arrived and routes them to a page built for them, with copy in their language, and an enquiry form that asks the right questions.
Paediatric private and NDIS
Route 01- Who lands here
- Parent of a young child with sensory, autism, or developmental concerns
- What the page needs
- Plain English service descriptions, paediatric clinician profiles, age banded support
- Enquiry form qualifies on
- Child's age, presenting concern, NDIS or private
Adult NDIS
Route 02- Who lands here
- Support coordinator or NDIS participant
- What the page needs
- Registration status, accepted plan types, goals and supports, capacity
- Enquiry form qualifies on
- Plan type, goals, urgency, geographic catchment
Workplace and ergonomic
Route 03- Who lands here
- HR manager or return to work coordinator
- What the page needs
- Industry experience, assessment process, reporting examples, turnaround times
- Enquiry form qualifies on
- Industry, role count, assessment type, urgency
Adult private and DVA
Route 04- Who lands here
- Self funded adult, carer for an older parent, or DVA eligible client
- What the page needs
- Standard fees, DVA coverage details, home assessment options
- Enquiry form qualifies on
- Relationship to client, person's age, DVA eligibility
Same clinic. Four landing experiences. Four lead form configurations. Each segment self selects on the homepage and lands somewhere built for them. The visitor feels seen. Your team gets prequalified enquiries instead of generic 'contact us' submissions.
What good looks like
What a healthy OT website looks like.
A well built OT website should convert at least 2 to 4 percent of new visitors into a service specific enquiry. The conversion rate varies by segment. Paediatric enquiries are usually higher than adult NDIS, which are usually higher than workplace assessments. The metric that matters more is the quality of the enquiry. A segmented website sends already filtered enquiries to your team: the parent has already self selected as paediatric, the support coordinator has already named the participant's plan type. Your team spends less time triaging and more time delivering services. That's the real return.
Pricing
Pricing is on the websites page, and the site is yours: domain, files and tracking in your name. See website pricing.
Written by Pete Flynn, physiotherapist. One of the owners of Clinic Mastery and Physio Fit Adelaide.
About PeteThe numbers nobody publishes
What a new patient enquiry costs an occupational therapy clinic.
We do not publish tracked figures for occupational therapy clinics yet, so this is the band we hold those accounts to. It is a standard we set, and every row on the benchmarks page names which of the two it is.
That is what it costs to get someone to your site. What happens next is the website's job, and it is the cheapest part of the whole number to fix.
$100
middle of the band we hold those accounts to
$80 to $120
bottom to top of the band
$1,552
what one new patient is typically worth, at $194 across 8 visits
See where occupational therapy sits against every other discipline
Common questions
The questions clinic owners ask us.
What should an occupational therapist's website have on it?
Why do OT websites get the wrong enquiries?
Should I list every service my OT clinic technically offers?
How do I make sure NDIS clients can find what they need on my website?
How long does a website rebuild take?
Will I own the website when it's done?
Ready when you are
Find out which OT segments your website turns away.
Send us your URL. We'll send back a 15 minute Loom walking through the page by page issues we'd fix to convert more of the right enquiries into bookings. No pitch deck. No one hour discovery calls that add no value whatsoever.
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