Quiet week. No new therapist directory to dig into this time.
The one thing worth a mention: most of the top 30 dipped in popularity all at once, while the sites that did show up ranked a little higher on the page. When everything moves the same direction like that, it's usually the search engine reshuffling how it lays out results -- not any single site doing something. Facebook took the biggest hit, continuing a slide that's been going for a few weeks now.
A note on these recent editions: we took a bereavement hiatus from publishing the Therapist Search Report, and we're sorry for the delay. We never stopped collecting the data -- it's gathered automatically every week -- and we've kept sending weekly updates to everyone signed up for a free personal search report. We're catching up now (in June) and back-publishing the editions we skipped, with help from AI on some of them.
Top 30 Websites for Therapists
These domains show up the most when searching for a specific therapist by name.
| Website | Domain Popularity | Search Result Position | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 1 week | 4 week | Average | 1 week | 4 week | |
| linkedin.com |
74.5
|
▼ 1.1 | ▲ 2.9 |
6.8
|
▲ 1.0 | ▲ 2.1 |
| psychologytoday.com |
72.0
|
▼ 0.2 | ▼ 0.2 |
3.0
|
▼ 0.4 | ▼ 0.5 |
| facebook.com |
41.8
|
▼ 7.3 | ▼ 9.4 |
14.2
|
▲ 4.7 | ▲ 3.3 |
| instagram.com |
33.5
|
▼ 4.8 | ▼ 4.1 |
12.3
|
▲ 4.8 | ▲ 4.8 |
| zocdoc.com |
28.1
|
▼ 2.8 | ▼ 3.2 |
5.8
|
▲ 1.0 | ▲ 4.0 |
| headway.co |
19.4
|
▼ 0.3 | ▲ 0.2 |
6.3
|
▲ 1.0 | ▲ 1.5 |
| mapquest.com |
18.5
|
▼ 5.5 | ▼ 8.2 |
13.0
|
▲ 6.9 | ▲ 5.2 |
| healthgrades.com |
16.9
|
▼ 2.9 | ▼ 5.3 |
13.7
|
▲ 5.3 | ▲ 6.1 |
| therapyfinder.com |
16.3
|
0.0 | ▼ 1.3 |
11.4
|
▲ 1.2 | ▲ 2.5 |
| npidb.org |
15.8
|
▼ 2.7 | ▼ 3.2 |
13.5
|
▲ 5.8 | ▲ 5.7 |
| mind-diagnostics.org |
13.8
|
▼ 0.3 | ▼ 0.8 |
3.8
|
▲ 1.9 | ▲ 1.1 |
| sharecare.com |
13.1
|
▼ 1.0 | ▼ 0.9 |
18.1
|
▲ 6.6 | ▲ 1.1 |
| therapyden.com |
12.0
|
▼ 0.7 | ▼ 1.6 |
8.7
|
▲ 2.1 | ▲ 5.3 |
| zoominfo.com |
11.7
|
▲ 1.8 | ▼ 1.3 |
16.2
|
▲ 7.4 | ▲ 4.0 |
| yelp.com |
11.3
|
▼ 3.6 | ▼ 4.2 |
14.6
|
▲ 7.6 | ▲ 6.7 |
| rocketreach.co |
11.1
|
▲ 0.4 | ▼ 2.9 |
14.0
|
▲ 3.5 | ▲ 4.3 |
| npiprofile.com |
10.5
|
▲ 0.3 | ▼ 2.2 |
21.0
|
▲ 11.1 | ▲ 7.3 |
| 7cups.com |
10.3
|
▲ 0.6 | ▼ 0.4 |
9.2
|
▲ 4.2 | ▲ 1.8 |
| youtube.com |
10.2
|
▼ 4.0 | ▼ 5.2 |
17.3
|
▲ 6.6 | ▲ 7.2 |
| therapist.com |
10.1
|
▼ 1.9 | ▼ 1.8 |
9.3
|
▲ 2.7 | ▲ 4.3 |
| growtherapy.com |
9.6
|
▼ 1.4 | ▼ 1.3 |
13.0
|
▲ 7.4 | ▲ 8.4 |
| webmd.com |
8.8
|
▼ 1.2 | ▲ 0.8 |
18.7
|
▲ 5.8 | ▲ 7.0 |
| medicalnewstoday.com |
8.2
|
▼ 0.5 | ▼ 0.7 |
10.9
|
▲ 0.5 | ▲ 0.3 |
| helloalma.com |
8.0
|
0.0 | ▲ 0.2 |
5.4
|
▲ 0.9 | ▲ 0.8 |
| therapysolutionsforkids.com |
7.8
|
▼ 1.2 | ▲ 2.3 |
15.1
|
▲ 7.2 | ▲ 5.4 |
| openpathcollective.org |
7.2
|
▲ 0.2 | ▲ 0.2 |
6.9
|
▼ 0.8 | ▲ 0.3 |
| researchgate.net |
7.2
|
▼ 5.6 | ▼ 5.3 |
26.9
|
▲ 8.2 | ▲ 9.0 |
| healthline.com |
6.5
|
▲ 0.2 | ▼ 0.8 |
9.1
|
▲ 4.5 | ▲ 0.5 |
| psychhub.com |
5.9
|
▼ 1.2 | ▼ 1.2 |
10.3
|
▲ 3.7 | ▲ 4.8 |
| usnews.com |
5.9
|
▼ 2.6 | ▲ 0.2 |
20.5
|
▲ 13.4 | ▲ 16.6 |
LinkedIn is still the most visible site for therapists, and Psychology Today still owns the top of the page when clients search for a therapist. Below them, most of the top domains slipped a bit this week.
Top 10 Biggest Shifts in Domain Popularity
These therapist directories and other websites are now appearing more (or less) frequently when people search for specific therapists' names.
Compared to 1 week ago:
| Website | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|
| facebook.com | 41.75 | ▼ 7.33 |
| researchgate.net | 7.25 | ▼ 5.58 |
| mapquest.com | 18.50 | ▼ 5.50 |
| instagram.com | 33.50 | ▼ 4.83 |
| youtube.com | 10.17 | ▼ 4.00 |
| yelp.com | 11.33 | ▼ 3.59 |
| healthgrades.com | 16.92 | ▼ 2.91 |
| zocdoc.com | 28.08 | ▼ 2.75 |
| npidb.org | 15.75 | ▼ 2.67 |
| usnews.com | 5.92 | ▼ 2.58 |
Compared to 4 weeks ago:
| Website | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|
| facebook.com | 41.75 | ▼ 9.42 |
| mapquest.com | 18.50 | ▼ 8.25 |
| healthgrades.com | 16.92 | ▼ 5.33 |
| researchgate.net | 7.25 | ▼ 5.33 |
| youtube.com | 10.17 | ▼ 5.25 |
| yelp.com | 11.33 | ▼ 4.25 |
| instagram.com | 33.50 | ▼ 4.08 |
| npidb.org | 15.75 | ▼ 3.25 |
| zocdoc.com | 28.08 | ▼ 3.17 |
| rocketreach.co | 11.08 | ▼ 2.92 |
No suspicious therapist directory rising from nowhere this week -- every one of the biggest movers is a drop, led by Facebook.
Domain Presence in the Top 10
This is a breakdown of the most common domains found at each search result position. The first 10 positions are the most critical, as they appear on the first page, so this breaks it down for positions 1 through 10.
| Website | Search Result Position | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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#1
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#2
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#3
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#4
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#5
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#6
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#7
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#8
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#9
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#10
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| psychologytoday.com | 42.0% | 20.7% | 6.5% | 4.2% | 5.5% | 4.3% | 5.1% | 6.7% | 5.4% | 6.0% |
| mind-diagnostics.org | 5.4% | 2.9% | 2.0% | 1.8% | 0.7% | 1.3% | 0.5% | 0.8% | 0.5% | 0.4% |
| linkedin.com | 1.5% | 5.1% | 9.7% | 12.4% | 9.9% | 10.4% | 7.1% | 5.2% | 7.3% | 3.4% |
| growtherapy.com | 1.2% | 2.9% | 1.6% | 1.1% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.4% |
| zocdoc.com | 1.0% | 4.7% | 8.4% | 5.4% | 3.9% | 3.7% | 2.9% | 2.1% | 2.0% | 1.6% |
| headway.co | 0.9% | 3.9% | 3.4% | 2.6% | 2.3% | 1.2% | 1.1% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.6% |
| therapyden.com | 0.8% | 1.4% | 1.5% | 2.0% | 0.9% | 1.1% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.5% |
| helloalma.com | 0.6% | 1.3% | 2.3% | 1.9% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| mapquest.com | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 1.5% | 1.2% | 1.5% | 1.7% | 2.0% | 1.6% | 1.7% |
| openpathcollective.org | 0.2% | 1.5% | 2.0% | 1.6% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% |
| facebook.com | 0.1% | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2.4% | 2.9% | 3.3% | 4.4% | 4.4% | 4.5% | 3.3% |
| instagram.com | 0.1% | 0.7% | 1.6% | 3.2% | 4.0% | 3.9% | 3.6% | 2.8% | 3.9% | 2.5% |
| therapyfinder.com | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 1.5% | 1.7% | 2.4% | 1.9% | 0.8% | 1.3% | 1.4% |
| healthgrades.com | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1.2% | 1.5% | 1.9% | 0.6% | 1.7% |
| All Others | 45.9% | 52.1% | 55.5% | 57.3% | 64.7% | 64.0% | 68.3% | 71.2% | 71.3% | 76.3% |
Steady as ever. Psychology Today holds the #1 spot in therapist search results by a wide margin.
That's it for this week -- a quiet one, no big movers to report.
If you'd like to keep an eye on what clients see when they search your name, sign up for your own free personalized search report. It's free, and we'll do the watching for you.
Thanks again for your patience as we catch up on these missed editions.
