Therapy Website Design for Sterling Counseling

Therapy & Executive Coaching for High-Achieving BIPOC Professionals

About the project

Sterling Counseling is the practice of Olivia Sterling, LCSW, a therapist based in New York City who works with high-achieving BIPOC professionals, executives, founders, and public figures. Her practice offers individual therapy, couples counseling, grief and bereavement support, advance care planning, and business and professional development coaching, grounded in trauma-focused CBT, EMDR, and attachment-based work.

Olivia needed a website that could carry both the clinical depth of her work and the cultural context her clients are looking for. Her ideal clients are used to performing at a high level everywhere, and they want a therapist who understands what that visibility costs. The goal was to move the brand from a general private practice feel into a clear, premium niche that felt like a concierge experience from the first scroll.


Project goals

  • Define a sharper niche around high-achieving BIPOC professionals across New York City
  • Create a verbal and visual identity built on clinical rigor and cultural truth-telling
  • Organize the site around her core services: individual therapy, couples counseling, grief and advance care planning, and executive coaching
  • Build specialty pages for racial trauma, imposter syndrome, EMDR, CBT, and anxiety to support local SEO
  • Design an understated, black and white visual experience that reads as premium and calm


The process

We started with the website strategy workbook and brand messaging, where Olivia named the clients she most wants to serve and the realities she wants to speak to openly in therapy. From there, the copywriting strategy gave her a direct, culturally honest, and inclusive voice across every page. We built the site structure around her anchor services and supported it with specialty and New York City location pages, so her website can grow into the searches her ideal clients are already making.

The results

In the first weeks after launch (September 2026)

  • Website is indexed and already appearing in Google searches for 5 keywords
  • First organic clicks from Google within weeks of going live
  • 70 website sessions, 24% of them from organic search
  • SEO foundation in place with specialty and location pages ready to grow

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61 inquiries 27% from Google & AI year 1 of SEO

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37 inquiries 51% from Google & AI year 2 of SEO

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 28 leads in 6 months with a 60+ page custom site re-launch

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Multi state ranking & 100%+ traffic increase after 12 months of SEO

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96 inquiries 35% from Google & AI + 532% traffic increase first 6 months of SEO (Squarespace re-launch)

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