strategy & build for

Alex Pennington

a Cape Town counsellor whose practice sits closer to ethics and art than to a clinical model.

Context

Alex's natural register is dense and philosophical — beautiful, but a prospective client in distress needs to feel understood and to find reaching out easy. The site had to carry his voice without losing the visitor, and make an unconventional practice read as trustworthy rather than vague.


Approach

I reframed the whole site around Alex's one accessible idea — "practising courage together" — giving a sprawling philosophy a single door to walk through. The key structural move was reorganising his thinking as a Q&A built around the questions a prospective client would actually ask, so depth became navigable rather than intimidating, and the copy was deliberately pulled less academic and more practical.


Outcome

The site is live, giving a re-establishing practice a credible public home — and an early word-of-mouth response from the people Alex first sent it to.


Desktop homepage (screen recording):


mobile homepage (screen recording):


Explore the practice's online home at alexpennington.co.za.

Note: Websites are living projects! The live versions of these sites might not accurately reflect the original work, as clients may have made updates since completion.