Now accepting early clinician partners

Expertise should be proven, not promised.

Feel Validated is a verified clinician directory where your credentials speak for themselves. Spend less time marketing and more time on what makes you a great therapist — client care, self-care, and staying current with your training. On Feel Validated, the better you are at your craft, the better your profile looks. No SEO. No gaming algorithms. Just proof.

The Problem

Anyone can check a box. Nobody checks if it's true.

Self-Reported Expertise

On existing directories, therapists select specializations from a checklist with zero verification. A weekend workshop and a decade of supervised practice look identical.

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Pay-for-Placement

Psychology Today now accepts payment from VC-backed therapy companies to rank their therapists above independent practitioners. You're paying $30/month to be outranked by corporate competitors.

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Eroded Trust

Clients can't distinguish genuine expertise from marketing. Fake reviews and inflated credentials have made online directories unreliable across every professional service.

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Race to the Bottom

Platforms incentivize volume over quality. When therapists are pushed to see 35–40 clients per week, both clinician wellbeing and client outcomes suffer.

How Feel Validated Works

AI-powered verification meets human expertise to create profiles clients can actually trust.

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Submit Your Credentials

Upload training certificates, supervised hours logs, continuing education records, and other documentation for each claimed specialization.

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AI Verifies & Scores

Our system cross-references documentation, validates credentials against issuing bodies, and calculates an expertise depth score for each specialization.

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Commit to Standards

Sign the Feel Validated Practice Pledge — a transparent commitment to caseload limits, practicing within your training, and ongoing professional development.

A different kind of directory

You became a therapist to help people, not to become a marketer.

The current system forces great clinicians to spend hours on SEO, profile optimization, social media, and review management — none of which have anything to do with being a good therapist. Feel Validated flips that. Your marketing is your credentials. The more you invest in your craft — training, supervision, continuing education — the stronger your profile becomes. Focus on client care, self-care, and staying current. We'll handle the rest.

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Client Care
Your first priority
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Self-Care
Sustainable practice
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Training
Your real marketing
The Feel Validated Practice Pledge

Standards that mean something

Every clinician on Feel Validated agrees to transparent, measurable commitments that protect both their practice and their clients.

Sustainable Caseload

Commit to a weekly client maximum that supports quality care (research-informed range, publicly displayed on profile).

Practice Within Your Training

Use approaches you have documented training and experience in for the conditions being treated.

Continuing Education

Complete verified professional development annually, beyond licensing minimums, in your claimed specializations.

Transparent Scope

Only claim expertise in areas with documented training and experience. Refer out when appropriate.

Our commitment to you: No pay-for-placement. Ever.

Your ranking on Feel Validated is determined by your verified credentials — not by who has the deepest pockets. Unlike other directories, we will never accept payment to boost one therapist above another.

What Clients See

A profile that proves it

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Dr. Sarah Reeves, PsyD
Verified
Licensed Clinical Psychologist · PSY 31284 · California
San Francisco, CA · In-person & Telehealth
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Trust Score

Verified Expertise

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Advanced · 12 yrs
Beck Institute certified 2,400+ client hours Published researcher
EMDR Proficient · 6 yrs
EMDRIA certified 800+ client hours
Trauma-Focused CBT Proficient · 8 yrs
TF-CBT Web trained 1,100+ client hours
12 documents verified by AI and cross-referenced
Last verified 14 days ago · Re-verification annual
License status active — checked via CA BBS

Practice Commitments

Weekly caseload: 24 clients max
Within research-supported range for quality care
Evidence-based only
Uses peer-reviewed approaches for all presenting concerns
Continuing education: 48 hrs/year
3× the California licensing minimum
Scope transparency
Refers out for conditions outside verified expertise areas
Regular consultation
Participates in peer consultation or supervision monthly
The Bigger Vision

Starting with therapy. Not stopping there.

Fake reviews and unverified credentials plague every professional service. Feel Validated is building the trust infrastructure the internet never had — starting where it matters most.

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Therapists

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Healthcare

Next

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Legal

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Financial

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