Build your profile

Your bio, qualifications, specialties, media and locations — and the lived-experience signals that drive matching.

Your profile is everything a client reads before booking. Edit it under Settings in your workspace.

The parts

Section	What it’s for
Photo	A portrait. Clients scan these first.
Headline	One line under your name in the directory
About	Your bio. Shown at the top of your profile.
Specialties	Focus-area chips
Qualifications	Dated, with the awarding institution
Registration	Body, number and status. Shown as verified once checked.
Locations	Clinics, or a service area for home visits
Media	Portrait, short clips, and a photo gallery

Writing a bio

The bio is where a client decides whether you sound like someone they could talk to. A few things that work:

Say who you're for

“I work mostly with adults in their twenties and thirties” tells a client more than a list of modalities.

Say what a session is like

Directive or exploratory, structured or not, homework or none. People are choosing an hour, not a technique.

Name your limits

Saying what you don’t work with saves everyone a wasted first session.

Write as you speak

The bio and the first ten minutes of a session should sound like the same person.

A bio needs at least 40 characters to save.

Lived experience

This is the part that makes Open Therapy different from a filtered list, and it’s worth spending time on.

For each of the eight themes, you mark specific experiences as one of:

Marking	Meaning
Lived	You have been through this yourself
Worked with	You work with it clinically

Clients weight these differently, so they’re captured separately rather than collapsed into one list of tags. A lived marking is the heaviest single factor in whether you appear in someone’s shortlist — heavier than a clinical specialty match.

Only mark something as lived if it’s true. This is the basis on which a client chooses you, and it is the one claim on your profile that a client is likely to raise in the first session.

You can also write your experience in your own words. That paragraph is optional and appears on your profile.

Media

Short vertical clips

Thirty to sixty seconds of you talking. Profiles with one get roughly twice the enquiries.

Photo gallery

The rooms, the entrance, the waiting area. Useful for anyone anxious about arriving somewhere new.

A clip doesn’t need production. Say who you work with, what a first session looks like, and one thing you’d want a nervous person to know. Good light and clean audio matter more than the camera.

Locations and how you work

How you work	What’s shown
Clinics	Each site with the days you’re standing there
Service area	A city and the suburbs you’ll travel to, drawn as a radius on the map
Online only	Your home city, so location filters still place you

Location matching covers every clinic you work from plus everywhere you’ll travel, not just your first listed address. Adding your second site genuinely widens who finds you.

Session modes are Online, In person and Home visit. Your profile summarises them as “Online + in person” or “Online only”.

Focus areas and specialties

Specialties are chips, and they feed both directory filters and matching.

Be specific rather than exhaustive. A list of thirty makes it harder for the right person to recognise themselves in it, and it doesn’t rank you any higher.

Writing on Open Therapy

Under Writing in your workspace you can publish two kinds of post:

Kind	For
Post	Writing about the work
Practice update	News — a new location, a waitlist opening, a change of hours

Posts appear on your profile with a reading time, in Open Therapy Updates, and at their own address so you can link to them. You can save drafts and schedule.

Next

Services and pricing

Define what you offer and what it costs.

Your booking link

Claim your handle and skip the introduction fee.