Start with how you’ve been
The hero is a sentence the visitor completes. Their choice filters therapists, topics and fees.
Lately I’ve been anxious ▾
Psychologist · Therapist · Counseling WordPress theme
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Mendwell is a WordPress theme for psychologists, therapists and counselling practices. It starts from how people feel, not from credentials, and it says plainly who each therapist is not the right fit for.
The idea
Three things no other therapy theme does.
Most therapy themes open with a stock photo and a list of credentials. Mendwell opens with the visitor’s own sentence.
Say who it’s not for
Every therapist, treatment and home carries a ‘not the right fit if’ line. Fewer first sessions that go nowhere.
Good fit for
Panic, health anxietyNot the right fit if
You want open-ended talkA crisis line on every page
A strip above every header, a crisis column in every footer, and signposts for when therapy isn’t the first step.
If you are in danger right now, call 112. Crisis lines →
Nine homes
Nine kinds of practice, nine different first screens.
Not one layout in nine colours: each home is built for how that practice actually works.
Lately
01The sentence hero and honest matching.
Solo practice
02One therapist, with referrals for who they can’t help.
Couples
03‘You never listen.’ ‘You never let me finish.’
Child & family
04For parents, with what stays private for teenagers.
Online only
05A live board of the next free times.
Group clinic
06Waiting times, published team by team.
Psychiatry
07Psychiatrist or psychologist, explained plainly.
Trauma centre
08A grounding pause built into the page.
For employers
09What the employer sees, and never sees.
Every page a practice needs
From the first worry to the second session.
Therapist search and profiles, topic pages, booking in three steps, a client account, a journal, fees, and the pages nobody remembers until a reviewer asks.
Find a therapist
The sentence becomes the search; filters with counts.
Therapist profile
Fit block, this week’s slots, registration you can check.
Topic page
‘Does this sound like you?’ — not a test, a way in.
Booking, three steps
Time, details, confirmed — with what happens next.
Client account
Next session, move or cancel, a quiet check-in.
Journal
Practical pieces with a ‘try this tonight’ box.
Colours
One switch, four colour themes.
Colours are variables with four modes. Every text and ground pair passes WCAG AA in all four — checked, not eyeballed.
Violet
Coral
Forest
Cobalt
Built for trust
A therapy site has more to get right.
Reviewers and clients notice the details that keep people safe.
01
No photos of people in distress
Therapists appear as themselves; articles use rooms, light and landscape.
02
Fees in the open
Standard and lower fees per therapist, and how the lower fee works.
03
Registration you can check
Every profile links to the public register, with the date it was last checked.
04
No reviews of therapists
Many professional codes discourage testimonials; fit and registration replace them.
05
Signposts, not just sign-ups
Crisis, GP and youth services, for when therapy isn’t the first step.
06
Contrast checked
Every text on every screen measured against its real background.
Roadmap
From Figma to WordPress.
The design is done. The WordPress version follows the same file, page by page.
Done
Figma design
9 homes, 28 screens, 33 components, 4 colour modes.
Now
WordPress theme
Elementor widgets for the sentence hero, therapist cards and fit blocks.
Next
Booking
Slots, details and confirmation, working with popular booking plugins.
Then
Demo import
Every home in one click, with placeholder images.