For mental health & psychiatry practices

Stop paying for traffic that doesn't book patients.

NewPatientIQ is the complete search-to-booking system built for psychiatry and mental health practices. Most patients don't take a single path to you: they search on Google, ask ChatGPT, check your Google Business Profile, and click through to your website before they decide whether to book. We optimize every step of that path for one thing: turning searches into booked patients, not vanity traffic.

Built by a successful mental health practice Covers Google, AI search, Maps & your site No agency contract required
The problem

Your marketing is measured on traffic, not booked patients.

Whether it's your Google Ads dashboard or an agency's monthly report, you're shown clicks, impressions, and "average position." None of it tells you whether a single new patient actually booked.

1

Do you know your cost per booked patient?

You watch your cost per click, but the real cost is what you pay for each patient who actually books, and it's usually far higher. Your ads stop the moment you stop paying; the searches you win organically keep booking patients long after.

2

You're ranking for the wrong searches.

"What is depression" drives 10× the traffic of "psychiatrist accepting new patients", and zero of the bookings. Most reports treat both keywords as wins.

3

"Improve your content" isn't a plan.

Vague advice never gets done. We show you the exact change to make, on a specific page: the headline Google shows, the answer Google or ChatGPT can quote, the FAQ that earns the click. Specific enough to hand to your web person today.

How it works

We optimize every step from search to booked patient.

Patients find you through Google search, AI assistants, your local presence (your Google Business Profile and directories like Psychology Today), and your own website. We work all four layers as one system and hand your team specific changes to make each week.

01

Traditional SEO

We sort your Google and Bing search data by who's ready to book versus who's just researching. Then we fix the behind-the-scenes details that help search engines understand and trust a medical practice, so you rank for the searches that actually book patients, not the ones just browsing.

02

AI search visibility

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google's AI Overviews for a psychiatrist, are you mentioned? We track your AI citations and restructure your content so the assistants recommend you.

03

Google Business Profile

The local map results are where many nearby patients decide who to call. We audit your profile, reviews, categories, posts, and whether your name, address, and phone match across Healthgrades, Psychology Today, Zocdoc, and more, so you win the local map.

04

Website conversion

Traffic only matters if it books. We find where visitors drop off, intake forms, mobile booking, missing trust signals, unclear insurance, and tell you exactly what to change to turn more visitors into appointments.

What working together looks like

A weekly rhythm, not a once-a-year report.

After your scorecard, here's what each week looks like.

A prioritized action plan

Refreshed weekly and focused on the two changes that matter most right now, not a 40-item backlog you'll never finish.

Implementation-ready instructions

The exact changes to make, written so you can hand them straight to your web person. Usually under an hour of work.

A weekly status report

What shipped, what moved, and what's next, so you always know where things stand.

A live progress dashboard

Your rankings, AI visibility, and new-patient bookings, tracked against where you started.

We read the data and call the shots; your team ships the changes. That's what keeps it fast, and keeps you in control.

What's different

Outcome-focused SEO, not vanity-metric SEO.

Most SEO tools were built for ecommerce or content sites, where any traffic is good traffic. Mental health practices don't work that way, and neither do we.

Capability
Typical SEO Agency
NewPatientIQ
Sorting searches by who's ready to book
Treats every search the same
Every search sorted by whether it's a patient ready to book, someone researching, or someone looking for you by name
AI search visibility
Doesn't track it at all
We track and improve your citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini & AI Overviews
Reporting cadence
Monthly or quarterly PDF
Weekly intent-segmented report
Deliverable
"Improve your content"
The exact page titles, answer content, and FAQ copy to change, page by page
Specialty context
Same playbook for every industry
Built for psychiatry and mental health intake patterns
Where you're listed online
"Build more backlinks"
We pinpoint where your practice is missing or listed wrong around the web, you decide what to fix

We don't sell backlinks. We don't lock you into a year-long contract. We don't bill you for vague "SEO work" you can never see. What we do is map the entire path from search to booked patient (Google, AI search, your Business Profile, and your website) and hand your team specific, prioritized changes to ship. The strategic work most agencies charge for and never actually deliver.

Why I built this

We caught rogue code on our own site that an agency missed for seven weeks.

I run a psychiatry practice. Last year, unauthorized SEO code was injected onto our site, and our agency's standard reporting didn't catch it. Our rankings collapsed for the keywords that actually mattered (new patient searches) while traffic from informational queries kept the dashboards looking green.

I rebuilt our reporting from scratch, connected it directly to Google Search Console, and added a way to sort searches by booking intent, so the report would scream when our new-patient rankings dropped, even if total traffic looked fine. The recovery worked. NewPatientIQ is the productized version of that system, built for other practices.

Michael Epstein, Founder of NewPatientIQ
Michael Epstein
Founder, NewPatientIQ
Free practice scorecard

See where your practice wins patients, and where it leaks them.

Submit your site below and within 48 hours you'll get a free scorecard across Google, AI search, your Business Profile, and your website, plus a snapshot of who Google and ChatGPT recommend in your area instead of you. Yours to keep, no obligation.

We never share your email or site data. You can opt out of follow-ups at any time.

Common questions

What practices ask first.

Do I need to give you admin access to my website?

No, never. The free scorecard needs no access at all, we build it from your practice's public online presence. If you later move to an ongoing plan, all we ever need is read-only connections to the accounts your plan covers. We never get admin access to your site, and we never touch your patient systems or EHR. Recommendations are delivered as a document that you (or your web person) implement.

Is any patient data involved?

None. The search and listing data we analyze is anonymous, it's what people type into Google and AI assistants, never who they are. There's no patient identity, no PHI, and no connection to your EHR or scheduling system.

I already work with an SEO agency. Does this replace them?

It can, though many practices start by running us alongside their current agency, as an independent read on whether the work is actually booking patients. If the data shows your agency is winning the wrong searches, or missing AI search entirely, that's a conversation worth having.

Do you optimize for ChatGPT and AI search?

Yes, it's a core layer of what we do. More and more patients ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google's AI Overviews for a psychiatrist before they ever click a link. We track whether you're being cited in those answers and restructure your content so the assistants recommend you. Most agencies don't touch this yet.

Do you implement the changes for me?

No, and that's deliberate. Each week we hand you a prioritized action plan and the exact changes to make; your web person ships them (usually under an hour a week). For off-site items like incorrect or missing listings around the web, we pinpoint exactly what's wrong, but the fixes are made by your team or a referral partner we can point you to. Staying out of the implementation ourselves is what keeps us fast and keeps you in control.

How long until I see results?

The free report arrives within 48 hours. Most on-page changes (page headlines, search-result descriptions, and the behind-the-scenes details search engines read) start moving rankings within 2–4 weeks. Off-page fixes you implement (directory listings and where you're mentioned around the web) typically take 6–12 weeks to register.

Will this work for a solo practice?

Yes, most of our early focus is on practices with 1–10 providers. Smaller practices typically get the largest relative lift because there's usually low-hanging fruit a generalist agency hasn't touched.

What happens after the free report?

If it's useful, we'll offer an ongoing plan that covers the full path (search, AI visibility, your Business Profile, and website conversion) with a fresh prioritized action list on a regular cadence. If you'd rather take the free scorecard and run with it yourself, that's fine too.

What does the ongoing service cost?

Pricing scales with the size of your practice and the number of service lines you want covered. Given that a single new patient is typically worth well over $1,000 in lifetime value, the service pays for itself on the first additional booking. We'll walk through the right tier for your practice after you've seen your free report, no pressure, no contract required.