Brand & Website Design for a Mental Health Education Collective

Austin In Connection

Austin In Connection (AINC) is a nonprofit professional learning community in Austin, Texas, for therapists, educators, students, and allies, offering workshops, trainings, and events in Interpersonal Neurobiology and Attachment Science, in person and online.

Austin In Connection came to DesignGood as a community of clinicians who wanted a brand and website as warm and curious as the gatherings themselves. We built their brand language and positioning, visual identity, copywriting, website, and social media branding around the idea of a favorite professor, smart, witty, and comforting, with practical insights a clinician can use the same week.

It is brand and website design for therapist education and membership communities, with a clear home for events, trainings, and a practitioner directory, and a welcome that reaches clinicians of every identity.

Our Contributions

Brand Language & Positioning, Visual Identity, Copywriting, Website Design & Development, and Social Media Branding

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Who This Brand Was Built For

We build brands for therapists, trainers, and professional communities whose value is the people they bring together. Austin In Connection's brand had to speak to mental health clinicians, educators, and allies looking for learning and belonging, and to a membership that includes BIPOC and LGBTQIA voices and wants every member to feel included, so that each visitor could see where they fit and what to join.

What Changed for Austin In Connection

Austin In Connection began as a gathering of Austin-area clinicians and has grown into a professional learning community for therapists, educators, students, and allies. Its workshops, trainings, book clubs, and meetups all center on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Attachment Science, and its members come for the learning and stay for the connection.

A community like this has a lot to hold in one website. It has events to promote, trainings and memberships to explain, a practitioner directory, and members of many backgrounds who each need to feel the space was built with them in mind. The earlier presence did not yet carry the warmth of the gatherings.

We built the brand language from how the community describes itself, an Interpersonal Neurobiology and Attachment Science Collective whose sessions feel like after-hours with a professor, and whose voice is smart, relatable, and conversational. The visual identity was shaped with the board, from the coral, moss, and navy palette to a typeface chosen so that no member felt left out. Copywriting, the website, and social media branding followed from that same voice.

Today Austin In Connection has a home online that reads the way the community feels, with learning, events, membership, and the practitioner directory each easy to find and a welcome that is clear to every kind of clinician.

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