03/12/2026
Over the past several years, Big Box Therapy companies have taken their investors money to utilize on exorbitant ad spend. Sites like Psychology Today are so overrun with Big Boxes profiles, that finding a therapist who actually works locally is becoming harder and harder.
If you already had strong SEO when this started happening, you’ve likely done ok, however, newer practices are especially struggling and the practices that have been open longer will also soon start to be kicked out of the top placement in local searches.
This prevents people from finding local therapists who are part of individual or group practices and, in order for practices to compete, they need to increase ad spend (all during a time where things are getting more and more expensive each week).
My friends (and amazing business women) Amanda E. White, LPC, LMHC (Therapy for Women Center), Emmalee Bierly LMFT, Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT (The Therapy Group) and I have decided to fight back by crowdsourcing funds to take out major ads that are competitive with Big Box Therapy.
We will be creating a website that highlights ONLY local therapy practices that we vet and from there will take out ads not only on Google but also where people see them - billboards, buses, etc.
We don’t need investors. We just need each other.
If you’d like to be a part of fighting back and reducing your ad spend through crowd sourcing, please fill out the form below and we will be in touch as we build this out.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0oXpa1jTLay0uIsEmZnKEnmo2dfe0qcMJeyJNqxBxKgM5Yw/viewform?usp=header
📸 Image just for inspo and not a real billboard :)