Editorial Policy
Mental health information affects real decisions, so the rules for what gets published here are strict. This page sets out how content is written, checked and corrected.
What this site publishes
General, educational explanations of therapy and counseling: how sessions work, what different licenses mean, what people commonly bring to therapy, how fees and insurance generally operate, and how to make a first contact. The aim is to help someone decide what to do next.
What this site will not publish
Some things are simply not written here, whatever their effect on search visibility.
- Invented providers, credentials, licenses or specialties
- Reviews, ratings or testimonials that were not genuinely given
- Addresses, phone numbers or hours that have not been confirmed by the practice
- Claims that a specific treatment will produce a specific outcome
- Diagnostic statements about a reader
- Statistics or local resources that have not been verified at the source
Placeholders instead of guesses
Where a practice detail has not been confirmed, the page says that it will be published once confirmed. This is deliberate. An honest gap is more useful, and more trustworthy, than a plausible invention.
Clinical review
Author and reviewer names, credentials and review dates appear on an article only when a named professional has actually written or reviewed it. Articles without those fields have not been clinically reviewed, and no reviewer is implied.
Language and framing
Content is written in plain language, hedged where the evidence is mixed, and free of pressure tactics. Questions are answered directly before elaboration, so a reader gets the useful part first.
Corrections
If something here is inaccurate or out of date, report it through the contact page. Substantive corrections are made to the page itself rather than noted elsewhere, and the practice details are re-checked whenever they change.