Case study: Mr Seán Thunder
Seán Thunder grows his private practice with 3,000+ Google search impressions
Psychotherapy | Ireland | Seán Thunder
Seán wanted verified reviews to promote his growing private practice
Sean Thunder is an IACP-accredited psychotherapist with a BA (Hons) in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy. He came to therapy later in life, retraining in 2015 after a career in industrial relations, and now runs a private practice in Dublin offering in-person, online, and phone counselling, alongside work as an in-house Gambling Addiction Therapist at several family resource centres.
Sean takes a person-centred, integrative approach, drawing on CBT, Choice Theory, Psychoanalytic and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to support clients with anxiety, depression, addiction, bereavement, self-esteem, and workplace stress. With specialised training in problem gambling (Level 9, MTU), he’s especially attuned to work-related mental health and addiction, supporting not just individuals but their families too.
“As soon as you open my website, Doctify is right there at the top. I tell every new enquiry the same thing, go and look at the reviews, and they are the first thing people check now.
So having them live on my site, updating with every new review, they do half the work for me before someone even picks up the phone.”
Seán Thunder
Psychotherapist
ROI
150+
Enquires through Doctify
Visibility
550+
Profile views
3,000+
Google Search impressions
Feedback
80+
Verified patient reviews
4.92
Doctify rating
What have been the main benefits of Doctify on Seán's practice?
When Seán went fully self-employed in 2023, he had no track record to lean on. Doctify gave him instant credibility, with verified reviews acting as trust signals from day one. That early bank of feedback has grown alongside his practice, and now lives on his website via the Doctify widgets, giving every visitor genuine, up-to-date social proof before they even make contact. It’s added real professionalism to his practice and taken the pressure off having to sell himself as his reviews do that for him.
What do their patients say about them?
How does Seán Thunder use patient reviews?
Seán asks for reviews four to five weeks after a client finishes working with him, giving them time to reflect, which results in more considered, meaningful feedback.
He also has Doctify widgets live on his website, so his reviews update automatically and stay visible to every new visitor without any extra effort on his part. It means positive feedback is doing the work of building trust with prospective patients before they even make contact.
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