Websites for remote & spiritual practitioners
Spirit release, distant healing, remote reiki, mediumship, psychic surgery. Work with no local catchment, sold to people who may be eight time zones away. I have built these sites for ten years, including the Spirit Release Academy and andy-porter.co.uk, and I know what this sector may and may not say online.
Your catchment is the whole world. Most therapist websites are built for a high street.
Templates for therapists assume a treatment room, a town and a diary of local appointments. None of that describes your practice. Someone in Perth or Vancouver finds you at two in the morning their time, reads for four minutes, and decides whether to trust a stranger with something they have probably never told anyone.
So the site has three jobs at once. Explain a modality most visitors have never heard of, without overclaiming. Take a booking and a payment across a time zone and a currency. And stay the right side of rules that are a good deal sharper in this sector than most practitioners realise.
That last one is where I see the most damage. The Fraudulent Mediums Act was repealed in 2008, so “for entertainment purposes only” has not been valid wording for years, and a disclaimer that contradicts the claim above it can now count against you rather than protect you. I build the site around what you actually do, in language that holds up.
Built for a practice with no postcode
Booking across time zones
Clients pick a slot shown in their own local time, and you both get a confirmation in yours. No email chain working out whether seven o’clock is your evening or theirs.
Payment before the session
Card, PayPal, Stripe or bank transfer, taken at the point of booking, in a currency the client actually holds. The major processors do not ban this sector, whatever you may have been told.
A booking form that protects you
Sessions sold at a distance carry a fourteen day cancellation right, and it runs from the booking rather than the appointment. Your form carries the express request wording, so a session you have already delivered cannot be unwound.
Wording that holds up
Every page written around experience, tradition, process and you. That is both the compliant framing and the honest one, and it reads better than the alternative.
Courses, students and recordings
Sell training places, run a private student area, host recordings and worksheets. Built for practitioners who teach as well as treat.
Trust is the whole product
Your training, your registers, your story and your testimonials, laid out so a nervous first time visitor on the other side of the world can decide to book.
From one practitioner to an international academy
Spirit Release Academy
A training academy certifying practitioners internationally, built alongside my father, who co-founded it. The site serves three groups at once without any of them getting lost: people looking for help, practitioners looking for training, and existing students who need their course materials.
- Course sales, certification and student enrolment
- Public find a practitioner directory
- Members’ area and resource library behind a login
Andy Porter
A practitioner working remotely with clients across the world. The interesting part is not the design, it is the plumbing: someone in Sydney and someone in Vancouver each see slots in their own time, and both pay before the session.
- Booking shown in the client’s own time zone
- Payment taken at the point of booking
- Written for a practice with no local catchment
Jonno Webster
Twenty years of reputation split across one to one healing work and professional certification. Two very different audiences on one site, and neither of them confused about where to go.
- Separate routes for clients and for trainees
- Certification and course booking
- Twenty years of work made easy to navigate
Frequency Hypnotherapy
A remote practice delivering every session over Zoom. Everything on the site points at one action: book a call. No address, no map, no opening hours, because none of it is relevant to how the practice actually works.
- One clear action on every page
- Sessions delivered entirely over video
- Built to convert a first time visitor
You send two things. I do everything else.
Most practitioners put this off because they assume it means weeks of homework. It does not. Here is the whole of your part.
What you send me
- Your words. What you offer, who it is for, a bit about you. A rough version is fine. I will tidy it up and keep it inside the rules.
- Your pictures. You, and anything that shows your work. Phone photographs are perfectly good.
That really is the whole list. If writing about yourself makes you wince, tell me about your work on the phone and I will draft it for you to correct.
What I do
- Design and build every page
- Write and structure everything else
- Buy the domain, set up hosting and your business email
- Set up Calendly with time zone detection, connected to your real diary
- Set up payments: card, PayPal, Stripe or BACS
- Complete the search optimisation, page by page
- Set up or tidy your Google Business Profile
- Build and test the mobile layouts on real phones
- Install the SSL certificate, security and daily backups
- Put it live, then stay on the end of the phone
Day one
Days two to three
Days four to six
Day seven
Included: the marketing starter pack
A website is the beginning, not the end. Every package comes with the remote and spiritual practice edition of my marketing guide: twenty four pages on getting found with no local catchment, what you may and may not say, taking payment across borders, and a ninety day plan.
What’s in it
- Getting found when you have no local catchment
- Registers and marketplaces that work remotely
- What you may and may not say, in plain English
- Taking payment across borders
- A ninety day plan you can actually follow
Three packages. Pick the one that fits.
Starter
- Up to 3 pages
- Designed for phones first
- Enquiry form straight to your inbox
- Domain, UK hosting and business email
- Google Business Profile set up
- Search optimisation completed for you
- I write the words for you
- Live within a week
- Marketing starter pack included
- Text and picture changes, back within two working days
Practice
- Everything in Starter
- Up to 8 pages
- Calendly booking, synced to the calendar you already use
- Deposits or full payment taken at booking
- Card, PayPal, Stripe and BACS
- Automatic confirmations and reminders
- A page for each service or modality you offer
- Testimonials, gallery and credentials
- Full search optimisation, completed for you
- Live within a week
- Marketing starter pack included
- An hour of changes a month, usually the same day
Academy
- Everything in Practice
- Unlimited pages
- Course sales and student enrolment
- Members-only area with resources
- Shop, basket and checkout
- Practitioner or assessor directory
- Place limits and waiting lists
- Priority support: three hours of changes a month, same-day answer
- Marketing starter pack included
What the monthly covers
- Domain name renewal
- Fast UK hosting
- Business email
- SSL certificate
- Daily backups
- Security updates
- Uptime monitoring
- Changes when you need them, in every package
Not sure which one?
What practitioners ask me
Yes, and more than most practitioners think. The framing that works is experience, tradition, process and you: what happens in a session, what people come to you for, how you trained, what clients have said. What causes trouble is claiming an outcome, particularly a medical one. I write it the compliant way as a matter of course, because it also happens to read better.
No. That wording came from the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951, which was repealed in 2008. What replaced it carries no equivalent exemption, and a disclaimer that contradicts the claim above it can now count against you rather than protect you. If it is on your current site, it should come off.
This is the one place I will tell you to take proper advice rather than take my word for it. Section 4 of the Cancer Act 1939 is still in force, it applies to anything said or transmitted rather than only to paid adverts, and it carries criminal penalties. Your site will be written so it does not go anywhere near it, and the marketing pack sets out the ground in detail, but a solicitor is the right person to check your specific wording.
Far less likely than the received wisdom suggests. Stripe names psychic services only in a few country specific lists, and PayPal has no relevant clause. What actually closes accounts is claim language, chargebacks and being miscoded as high risk. A good many practitioners are paying high risk rates they may not need.
The booking page reads the visitor’s time zone and shows your available slots in their local time. You carry on working in yours. Both of you get a confirmation and a reminder with the correct time on it, and nobody has to do the arithmetic.
Because a remote session is sold at a distance, the client has fourteen days to cancel, and that clock starts at booking rather than at the appointment. Without the right wording on your form, a client could in principle ask for a full refund after a session has already been delivered. Your booking form carries the express request and acknowledgement wording that closes that gap.
It changes the payment side more than the site. What you may claim varies by country, so the site is written to a standard that travels well. The marketing pack covers practising outside the UK in more detail, and if you work heavily into one particular country it is worth a conversation before we start.
That is common, and it is not a problem. Testimonials are held to the same evidence standard as your own copy, so a glowing one making a health claim is a liability rather than an asset. There is plenty else that builds trust: how you trained, what a session is actually like, who your work is not for, and how you handle someone who is not right for it.
Yes. There is no minimum term on the monthly, and the site is yours. Stop whenever you like and take it with you. I would rather you stayed because it is working than because you are stuck.
Let’s get your practice found, wherever your clients are
Tell me about your work and I’ll tell you honestly what would make the biggest difference. No obligation, and no jargon.