Client workOngoing

Adding a Children & Teens service to a live psychiatry practice site

Ania-Ra Psychiatry was expanding its care to children and adolescents. The site needed to welcome a new kind of visitor, a parent looking for care for their child, without disrupting a site patients were already using every day.

Client
Ania-Ra Psychiatry (California)
Type
New service page and navigation update on an existing WordPress site
Delivered
Children & Teens page, family booking paths, navigation across desktop and mobile, SEO review
Live
aniarapsychiatry.com
The Children & Teens page on desktop: the Ania-Ra header with Children & Teens in the menu, the page title over a photo of a sunlit room, and an intro line naming children 6+, adolescents 13–17 and telehealth across California.
The same page on a phone: the Ania-Ra header, the Children & Teens title card over the room photo, and the intro with the ages served and telehealth coverage.

The problem

A new service means a new reader.

Ania-Ra's site was written for adults looking for care for themselves, and the navigation was sized for exactly those pages. The new service changes who's reading. The reader of a children and teens page is usually a parent, often arriving after a hard conversation with a school, a pediatrician, or their own child. They're not browsing. They want to know three things: does this practice treat what my child is going through, what will the process actually be like, and how do I start.

The page had to answer those questions in the practice's existing voice and visual identity, so it felt like a natural part of the site rather than a bolted-on addition. And because patients book through the site daily, the work couldn't put the live site at risk.

The top of the page: the Children & Teens title card, a short welcome, and a line reading Children 6+, Adolescents 13–17, Telehealth across California.
The "How can we support your child?" section: six cards for Anxiety & Panic, ADHD & Focus, Mood & Depression, Trauma & Big Feelings, Adjustment & Transitions, and School & Social Stress, each with a short description.
The "What families can expect" section: four numbered steps, The first visit, A shared plan, Ongoing partnership, and Trust & privacy.
The closing band, "Take the first step for your child," offering same-week virtual appointments with two buttons, Private Pay and Insurance Based.
  1. Is this the right place?

    Ages served and telehealth coverage stated plainly up front, before anything else asks for attention.

  2. Do they treat what my child is going through?

    Every condition card leads with a plain description, and some names use the words families use, like "Trauma & Big Feelings" and "School & Social Stress," so a parent can recognize their child without knowing the clinical term.

  3. What will it actually be like?

    Four plain steps, ending with Trust & privacy: age-appropriate confidentiality for teens, balanced with the involvement families need.

  4. How do I start?

    Only now does the page ask for the booking, split by private pay and insurance so no family has to work out which applies after they've clicked.

What I did

Designed for the parent, built to stand on its own.

I started with the reader, and ordered the page around a parent's questions in the order they tend to arrive, as the walkthrough above shows.

For the visual design, I worked from the site's own system rather than inventing a new one: the same typefaces, palette, photography treatment and button styles, pulled directly from the existing theme. Consistency here isn't just aesthetics. For a healthcare practice, a page that looks different from the rest of the site reads as less trustworthy.

The build was deliberately contained. The page carries its own styling, so its design stays on the page. It can be edited in the normal WordPress editor, and revised or removed on its own. For a small practice, that means no dependence on a developer for everyday text changes.

The navigation needed room for a fifth link.

The old header was built around four links. On wide screens it split them around a centered logo; at medium widths the links dropped below the logo and Book Now was no longer in view. There was no room for Children & Teens, so I reworked the header to hold five links and Book Now on one line, with room to grow as the site does.

Before, wide screens
The old header on a wide screen: About, Our Approach, Services and News on the left, the Ania-Ra logo in the center, and a Book Now button on the right.
Before, medium screens
The old header on a medium screen: the Ania-Ra logo on the left, with About, Our Approach, Services and News sitting on a lower line at the right, and no Book Now button in view.
After
The new header: the Ania-Ra logo on the left, then About, Our Approach, Services, Children & Teens and News on one line, and Book Now at the right.

New

Booking is now in the mobile menu.

The old mobile menu listed the four pages and nothing else. For a practice, booking is the action that matters most, so Book Now is in the menu too, one tap away on any phone.

Before, mobile menu
The old mobile menu, open: About, Our Approach, Services and News on a dark background, with no way to book.
After, now with Book Now
The new mobile menu, open: About, Our Approach, Services, Children & Teens and News, followed by a Book Now button.

What was delivered

  • A complete Children & Teens page: hero, conditions treated, what families can expect, the practice's approach, and a closing call to action
  • Separate booking paths for private-pay and insurance-based visits
  • The new service in the header, footer and mobile menu, so it's reachable from every page and device
  • Book Now added to the mobile menu, so booking is one tap away on any phone
  • A layout adjusted for phones
  • An SEO review with recommended page descriptions, so the new service shows up clearly in search results and link previews

Outcome

A new service, live and reachable.

The page launched on September 24, 2026. It uses the site's own typefaces, palette and buttons, sits in the navigation across the header, footer and mobile menu, answers a parent's main questions on the page itself, and routes them to the right booking option.

Its sections are built from core WordPress blocks, so the same layouts can be reused on other pages of the site.

Technology and approach

  • WordPress (Full Site Editing)
  • Customized Retrospect block theme
  • Core blocks with scoped, self-contained styles
  • Jetpack for search and social metadata

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