Psychology Today lists far more therapists and charges $29.95/month. Couch Commons charges $19.99/month, prints the issuing register and the check date, and does not sell rank. Couch Commons is smaller, and a check is not a guarantee of outcomes, disciplinary history, availability, or fit. Psychology Today's price is from its membership page, read .
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Psychology Today offers far more directory reach today. Couch Commons currently has 13 published members, so it is not the right choice if your only priority is the largest existing audience.
Couch Commons costs $19.99 per month or $179.91 per year, charged at checkout. Annual billing is 12 months for the price of 9: 3 months free, every year you renew. Membership includes a dated record of the license check, an equal turn among matching therapists with no paid placement, direct links to clinician-controlled destinations, and writing that can keep the search credit on the clinician’s chosen site. This page compares rules and features that can be checked. It cannot predict referrals, clients, search ranking, or revenue for any practice.
Couch Commons is smaller and cheaper, shows each profile's license check status, prints a dated receipt once a check completes, and sells no placement. Psychology Today has far more reach and bundles more contact tools. Which fits depends on whether reach or a dated receipt and equal turns matter more to you.
Psychology Today gives you a much larger directory to search. Couch Commons gives you a smaller set of profiles with a dated record of the license check and a direct path to the clinician. A license check confirms a credential at a point in time. It does not tell you whether a therapist is a good fit, has space, takes your insurance, or can meet your needs.
Search Couch CommonsPsychology Today currently offers greater reach and more bundled contact tools. Couch Commons costs less and gives every matching member the same chance to appear, with no paid placement. Your profile can send visitors to the website, booking page, email address, or phone number you choose.
Start membershipPsychology Today identifies the state license behind its “Verified” label. Other services describe different eligibility or review processes. Those policies are not interchangeable, which is why the table below links to each service’s own wording.
Here, verification is a receipt, not a badge. Every profile shows its license check status and date (checked or pending); a checked one prints the state registry we checked against and what it said — read a live one. Checks run periodically: a pass re-dates the receipt, and if a re-check stops matching, the profile comes down while we sort it out. We never publish a negative about a clinician.
Not on Couch Commons. Every matching therapist gets an equal turn. The order changes daily through a published fair-rotation rule you can inspect. There are no ads, sponsored slots, or featured tiers, so no member can pay to sit above another. Whether another directory sells placement is a question worth asking it directly.
Couch Commons does not ask a visitor to send an enquiry through the directory. A clinician's page links to their own website, booking page, email, or phone, and the visitor goes there directly. Couch Commons keeps a daily count of how often each destination link was used. It does not keep the visitor's name or message, and the count does not identify a person.
Articles you publish here can keep the search credit on your own site by pointing the canonical link there. Writing that lives on your site gets linked, never reprinted — and a nightly monitor catches your new posts so they can appear here with your approval, linking readers back to you.
Every competitor figure below carries the date we read its source. Prices and policies can change after that date; follow the linked first-party source before purchasing. Couch Commons' own rows link to our method pages, which are not third-party lookups and carry no accessed-date.
Couch Commons costs $19.99 a month or $179.91 a year. The annual option is 12 months for the price of 9: 3 months free, every year you renew. The paid monthly price remains below the current monthly prices shown for the five paid memberships in this table; Open Path charges participating therapists nothing and serves a different reduced-fee mission.
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| Psychology Today | $29.95/month; no contract | Public profiles identify the state license used for the site's “Verified” label. | Profiles may link to the clinician's website; membership also includes tracked calls and emails, telehealth, and a protected phone number. |
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| GoodTherapy | $30.95–$49.95/month, depending on plan | Directory applicants must meet its credential rules and pass a peer-reviewed application; its rules can include licensed, supervised prelicensed, and some legally practising unlicensed professionals. | All directory plans include a public profile and referrals; membership also offers publication opportunities. |
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| TherapyDen | Free profile; premium is $30/month or $330/year | TherapyDen asks for license information; premium members receive faster license verification. | Its terms say free profiles can carry a direct link, while premium membership makes the profile visible in search results and adds features. |
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| Zencare | From $59/month ($69 in NY and CA) plus an $80 setup fee | Zencare says every listed provider is vetted; its public page does not expose a dated verification receipt like Couch Commons. | The paid listing includes a profile, referrals, SEO, content collaboration, professional media, and zip-code coverage; optional practice tools cost extra. |
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| Mental Health Match | $39/month or $375/year after its trial | Mental Health Match says it verifies each therapist's active state license before approving a profile. | Its matching flow screens, matches, and supports the seeker through starting therapy; it says payment does not determine display order or contact volume. |
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| Open Path Collective | No fee for participating therapists; eligible clients pay Open Path a one-time $65 fee | Open Path accepts licensed or provisionally licensed clinicians with qualifying graduate education and says staff verify license and credentials. | It asks clinicians not to place direct scheduling or practice links on public profiles; contact information is provided after a client selects a therapist. |
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| Couch Commons | $19.99/month or $179.91/year, charged at checkout. Annual billing is 12 months for the price of 9: 3 months free, every year you renew. No contract or setup fee. First 100 therapists: your first year is free on the monthly plan. It's applied at checkout; no code needed. Then $19.99 a month unless you cancel. Charges are final. | Dated state-registry record printed on the profile and rechecked periodically. | Direct clinician-selected website, booking, email, or phone destinations. Couch Commons stores aggregate daily link totals, not seeker messages. |
Scale, for one. Psychology Today is far larger, and its membership page reported 971,000 average weekly US-directory users when we read it on . It also bundles intro videos, telehealth, tracked calls and emails, and a protected phone number. We are new and small, and /stats shows exactly how small rather than rounding up. If those trade-offs matter more to you than verification receipts and fair ordering, it may be the better fit, and this page would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. Read Psychology Today’s current membership page.
It takes a few minutes at /join: add a card, pay for the plan you choose (first 100 therapists: your first year is free on the monthly plan, applied at checkout with no code needed), and set up your profile. Starting membership starts onboarding; publication waits until you approve the profile, and every profile shows its license check status and date (checked or pending).
