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HCPC on the site

How to display HCPC registration on a website

The Health and Care Professions Council lists which practitioner titles are protected in the UK. This guide follows HCPC’s published list, then explains how a practice site can show your registration in text, link the public register, and mark the same facts in structured data.

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Example bespoke sites

Linden Walk is a designed example in Edinburgh. It is not an HCPC register entry or a screenshot from a real registrant.

lindenwalk.exampleDesigned example
Linden WalkWrite
A sunlit path through woodland

Edinburgh · online across the UK

Counselling and psychotherapy, named apart.

Choose the work that fits. Each has its own page, its own fee, and the same short way to write.

A counsellor and a client talking in chairs by a window

Counselling

A weekly place to start

£70

50 minutes · Edinburgh room or online

A weekly session for something you want to work on now. For adults, in Edinburgh or online.

Psychotherapy

Longer work, with its own page

£85

50 minutes · the pattern underneath

For a pattern that keeps returning, when a single conversation is not enough. Its own page, and its own fee.

Two women in conversation during a psychotherapy session

Which are you asking about?

The form asks for counselling or psychotherapy, so the reply matches the work. It does not ask you to explain a history.

Name, email, which route, and Edinburgh or online.

Write

Linden Walk

Edinburgh · Counselling and psychotherapy as separate pages

Open this concept

Designed example

SEO, AI AEO and language models

Protected title stays literal.

Generic psychologist wording loses the HCPC title in AI summaries. We publish the registered phrase and register link so Google, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity quote what check the register shows.

  • Google

    Search · AI Overviews · Gemini

    Google fetches the protected title as text, not only a badge image.

    • Googlebot
    • Google-Extended

  • OpenAI

    ChatGPT

    ChatGPT search can open the HCPC sameAs link from the about line.

    • OAI-SearchBot
    • GPTBot
    • ChatGPT-User

  • Anthropic

    Claude

    Claude keeps art therapist and dramatherapist on separate sentences when both apply.

    • Claude-SearchBot
    • ClaudeBot
    • Claude-User

  • Perplexity

    Perplexity

    Perplexity can cite service fees away from the credential block.

    • PerplexityBot
    • Perplexity-User

Under the surface

Register URL in structured data.

This block is on the page because HCPC titles are easy to soften. The sample Person entity matches the check-the-register line on screen.

JSON-LD · schema.orgWhat the crawler is given
{
  "@type": "Person",
  "jobTitle": "Counselling psychologist",
  "sameAs": "https://www.hcpc-uk.org/check-the-register/"
}

The website we deliver

Protected titles HCPC regulates

HCPC publishes the professions and protected titles it regulates. Practitioner psychologist titles, art therapist, dramatherapist and others each have their own entry. The sentence on your site should use the title your registration record shows, not a friendlier nearby phrase.

Counselling psychologist is one protected title when that is what you hold. Art therapist and dramatherapist stay separate lines when both apply. Everyday phrases such as child therapist or play therapist are not themselves HCPC protected titles; the site uses the registered title HCPC gives you.

Register link beside the title

Visitors can verify registration through check the register. We place the protected title in a short about sentence, then link that line to your HCPC entry. A badge without words leaves screen readers and answer engines with nothing precise to quote.

HCPC’s standards of conduct, performance and ethics set expectations for how registrants communicate in public. Pair that with presenting credentials clearly for BACP and UKCP lines on the same site when those memberships also apply.

HCPC facts on the page, and in structured data.
What we put on the pageWhat we put in the data
Protected title exactly as HCPC lists ithasCredential or jobTitle aligned with that sentence
Link to your HCPC register entrysameAs URL that opens check the register
Separate URLs for therapy, assessment or reports when each is realService entities per offer
Fees written in text on each service pageOffer with price and description

Art, drama and psychology sites

Art therapist and dramatherapist each have dedicated studio offers on art therapist websites and dramatherapist websites because the protected titles differ. Counselling and other psychologist routes sit on psychologist website design.

When you hold more than one HCPC registration, each title appears in the wording you approve. The site can link each title to the matching register entry.

What we build for HCPC registrants

We compose bespoke pages with fees in HTML and structured data beside the HCPC line. Answer engines soften protected titles when pages use generic psychologist language; the visible sentence is the one we repeat in JSON-LD for Google, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.

Therapy Search UK is a separate free directory. Your site, directory profiles and register entry should use the same title and link.

Published prices for the practice website

Standard Managed is £149 setup and £49 a month for 12 months, then Website Care at £39. Growth Managed is £249 and £69 a month, then £49, when each real service needs its own page. Prices include VAT. Outright is £650 or £995. The domain stays in your name. The monthly fee on Managed is management, not paying the site off. Figures are on the pricing page only.

For BACP or UKCP lines on the same practice, see BACP membership on a website and UKCP registration on a website.

A free website review, or a free consultation

A free website review if you already have a public site, or a free 20-minute consultation if you do not.

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HCPC lines inside the build.

HCPC credential copy is part of the published website: Standard Managed £149 setup and £49 a month for 12 months, then £39; Growth Managed £249 and £69, then £49; or outright £650 / £995. Prices include VAT. The domain stays in your name.

Growth Managed

£249

setup

+ £69/month

Then Growth Website Care at £49/month after 12 months.

Choose Growth

Or buy outright

£650

or £995

Pay in full, or across 3 payments. Those payments are not the managed plan.

See outright prices

Prices include VAT. Your domain stays in your name. The monthly fee is management, and the site is not paid off when the fee drops.

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Questions

Is child therapist a protected HCPC title?
HCPC’s professions list is the reference. We use the protected title on your registration record, not an everyday phrase HCPC does not list.
Can art therapist and dramatherapist share one title line?
Each protected title gets its own accurate sentence when you hold both registrations.
Who confirms my HCPC registration?
The public register is the check. The site states the title you approve and links the entry a visitor can open.

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Sources

Checked 4 October 2026. These pages explain the public rules. They are not a ranking promise.