Joining the MyTherapist.com Team

MyTherapist.com is not a directory. (No doubt you’ve seen them: 800 different therapists listed, half of whom are no longer in practice, many of whom have never actually done any online therapy, but sometimes with hundreds of ‘independent ratings’ showing top marks for all of them…). Nor is it a group practice.

It is a platform from which a deliberately small number of individual therapists can work, setting their own operating procedures, their own fees, their own terms of service, and their own availability. In other words, we all work completely independently, but we make use of this space as a shared resource, and we consult regularly with one another on practice development.

As an online practitioner myself, I really appreciate the value of having a space to call my own, of not being drowned out by the din of dozens or hundreds of other practitioners crowding into that same space, and of being able to direct the development of my own practice in a way that makes sense to me. I also appreciate that other practitioners are not too far away — in a virtual sense, at least — and I have colleagues with whom to share ideas or exchange feedback.

That’s what we have here, and that’s what we’re committed to building and developing further.

From its founding in 2008 thru 2009, I kept the site closed to new practitioners to provide each of our original members time to settle in and establish their practices. I am now considering opening membership to one or two additional practitioners during 2010. If you are an online therapist, online counselor, or online psychologist, and you would like to work alongside us, please feel free to drop me a note via the Contact page and register your interest.