The collective

A directory that only lists you when it's true.

You know why clients stop trusting directories: stale listings, pay-to-rank, lead-gen middlemen. This one is owned by the people listed in it.

The deal, in full: $50 a month. That is the whole price list — no annual plan, no tiers, no per-county pricing, and no founding rate that expires into something worse. Month to month means you can leave the month you stop finding it useful, which is the only version of this that keeps us honest. It buys a listing with your real fee, your license number, and your availability, confirmed by you monthly in about 30 seconds. It does not buy placement, and nothing on this site is sponsored. Miss two monthly confirmations and your listing hides automatically until you're back — that rule is why inclusion here means something.

What you get beyond the listing: clients arrive pre-educated by the same guides you wish existed — they know what an associate is, what a superbill does, and that contacting several therapists is normal. Contact goes directly to you; we log that contact happened, never its content.

Need help with the practice side instead? Therapist Support offers free California-specific calculators and guides for practice finances, licensure, getting paid, and associate work. It is our separate therapist-facing resource; TherapyCalifornia remains the consumer directory and public guide.

You cannot join yet. There is no public application and no founding cohort. Leave an email below and you will get one message when the protected application opens, with the whole agreement in front of you before you decide anything. Nothing is charged to anyone until a profile is published.

Preview · nothing here is live

This is the listing you would have

This is a drawing of a page that does not exist yet. No therapist has joined, so there is nothing to search — but the shape of a listing is already decided, and it is worth being able to see it. Every field below is a promise about what we will and will not show.

SpecimenNot a real listing · no therapist shown is a real person

Results, ordered by nothing anyone paid for

Your name here, LMFT

Oakland · Telehealth statewide

Confirmed 2 days ago

$150

per 50-minute session

Sliding scale to $90

Insurance: Aetna · Blue Shield · Out-of-network superbill
Works with: Anxiety · Grief · Perinatal
Reply time: Usually replies in 1 business day

Your message goes to the therapist, not to us.

Your name here, AMFT

Fresno · In person and video

Confirmed 6 days ago

$90

per 50-minute session

Sliding scale to $60

Insurance: Medi-Cal (CalViva) · Self-pay
Works with: Depression · Family conflict · Spanish
Reply time: Usually replies same day

Your message goes to the therapist, not to us.

Your name here, LCSW

San Diego · Telehealth only

Confirmed 11 days ago

$175

per 50-minute session

Two reduced-fee places open

Insurance: Out-of-network superbill
Works with: Trauma · Veterans · EMDR
Reply time: Usually replies in 2 business days

Your message goes to the therapist, not to us.

The fee is on the card, not behind an email. A listing without a published price does not go live.
"Confirmed" is a date, not a decoration. It is the day the therapist last said they had room. When it goes stale, the listing drops out of the availability filter on its own.
Order is computed. Nobody buys position, a badge, or a boost — members pay one flat fee and that is the whole commercial relationship.
No reviews of therapists. Not now, not later. Structured facts about the system, never a star rating on a clinician.

Tell me when the collective opens

One email, when there is something real to read: the membership terms, what the monthly confirmation actually asks, and how ranking is computed. No newsletter, no drip sequence, no call.

EmailCalifornia credential (optional)Primary county (optional)

We store your email address and, if you give them, a licence type and county. Nothing else. You get one email when the collective opens, with the terms in full before you decide anything.