What is free
Reading our guides, taking any of our tests and seeing your score, using our tools and worksheets, searching the therapist directory, and using the free matching tool cost nothing and need no account. We do not run banner ads, and we do not sell personal information. The site is funded by the five sources below.
Where our revenue comes from
- Paid test reports. After a test, we offer an optional personalized report for $17. Your score and its explanation are free; the report goes deeper into your answers and what to do with them. Buying it changes nothing about the test or the score you already saw.
- Test-specific kits. Report buyers on some tests are offered a practical kit for that topic, for example an ADHD task setup kit, at $147 one time, with a 30-day refund window. The offer appears once, after the report, and is never shown on crisis-related tests.
- Therapist memberships. Therapists pay $49 a month or $490 a year to publish a profile in our directory, after a 30-day free trial. There are no per-lead fees and no cut of a client's fee. Members are listed first in directory browsing, above older unclaimed listings, and are marked with a Featured badge so you can tell the difference. Payment does not change match results and does not change how a profile is verified: license and registry checks are shown badge by badge on each profile, and some listed profiles carry a registry match only. How we verify therapists explains each badge.
- Continuing education courses. Licensed clinicians can buy self-paced CE courses from us, priced from $19 to $149 per course. One introductory ethics hour is free.
- Affiliate commissions. Some links to products we cover, mostly online therapy platforms and mental health apps, earn us a commission if you click through and sign up or buy. Your price is the same either way; the company pays the commission.
Who owns the site
Psychology.com is owned and run by Seph Fontane Pennock, who acquired the site in June 2026. He previously built and sold PositivePsychology.com and co-founded Quenza, a coaching software product he still holds a stake in. Quenza is mentioned in some of our articles about digital mental health tools; this page is the standing disclosure of that connection, and we do not review or rank Quenza.
How affiliate links work here
An affiliate link is a normal link with a tracking parameter. If you use it and then pay for the product, the vendor pays us a percentage. The rules:
- Affiliate status is not an input to a review. Our verdicts and rankings are editorial judgments, made before we look at whether a company has an affiliate program. Our review methodology explains the method.
- Coverage follows reader questions. Whether a company pays commissions has no bearing on whether it gets reviewed, recommended or criticized.
- Criticism stays in. If a product with an affiliate program handles crisis situations badly or plays games with pricing, the review says so.
What is never for sale
- Editorial placement. No company can pay to appear in an article, a review ranking or a best-of list. The only paid placement on the site is the labeled Featured position in the therapist directory.
- Match results. The matching tool ranks therapists on fit with what you tell it; membership status is not part of the score.
- Your personal information. What you read, search or type here is not sold to anyone. Our privacy policy spells this out.
- Editorial control. No affiliate partner, member or portfolio company sees content before it publishes or edits it after. Our editorial policy covers independence.
Why we publish this
Mental health content sits where vulnerable moments meet commercial interests. The only durable answer we know is daylight: publish the business model, label paid placement where it happens, and let you judge the work with full information. If you find a page where the money and the message seem tangled, tell us at hello@psychology.com and we will look at it.