Honest comparison
TherapySites is a long-running template service for mental health professionals: pick a design, fill in your content, pay monthly. It's fast and familiar — and your site will look and read like hundreds of others.
Ground8 takes the opposite approach for a similar kind of therapist: instead of fitting your practice into a template, we build the site from your briefing answers so it sounds like you. Here's how the two compare.
TherapySites gets you online fast inside their templates. Ground8 gets you a site that sounds like you — built from your words, human-reviewed, and yours to keep.
| Criterion | TherapySites | Ground8 |
|---|---|---|
| Design originality | Shared templates across thousands of therapy sites — visitors have seen the layout before. | Built from your briefing: your structure, your emphasis, your voice. No template fingerprints. |
| Copy | You write it (or leave placeholder-ish text). Most therapists dread this part — rightly. | We turn your briefing answers into warm, non-clinical copy, then a human refines every line. |
| Effort | DIY inside a template: evenings learning the editor, writing pages, fixing mobile quirks. | 15 minutes answering questions in your own words. We handle design, copy, testing, and launch. |
| Ownership | Subscription platform: stop paying, lose the site. Content portability varies. | $57/mo all-inclusive, no setup, files downloadable anytime, cancel anytime. |
| SEO and ethics | Built-in basics; the wording and compliance work is yours. | Human QA checks every site for local SEO and professional ethics codes before launch. |
Template platforms suit therapists who enjoy DIY and already know what to write. Ground8 suits therapists who want the writing and building handled — and a site no one will mistake for a template.
Often, yes — therapy templates share layouts, stock photos, and phrasing ('a safe, non-judgmental space...'). In a field where trust is the product, sounding like everyone else costs inquiries.
Yes — tell us what to keep in the briefing (your copy, your photos, what works) and we'll build you a site that sounds like you instead of the template, with your files downloadable going forward.
Ground8 is $57/mo all-inclusive, with copy, QA, launch, hosting, and support included. Compare against the template subscription plus the value of your own evenings spent building.
Yes — custom domains transfer. We handle the practical side so your existing links and directory profiles keep working.
Answer a 15-minute briefing in your own words. Our AI drafts your site, a human QA expert refines every line for warmth and ethics compliance, and you approve before launch. $57/mo all-inclusive, no setup — your files downloadable anytime.