Your booking link

Claim your opentherapy.link handle, use it to bring your own clients, and skip the introduction fee.

Every therapist gets a personal address at opentherapy.link/your-name. It opens your profile, exactly as it appears in the directory.

Why it matters commercially

A client who arrives through your own link carries no introduction fee. We didn’t make that introduction, so we don’t charge for it.

That makes the link worth putting on your card, in your email signature, on your own website, and anywhere else you’d normally send someone. You get the booking, the payments and the workspace, and pay only the 2.5% platform fee and card processing.

Attribution is first-touch and is recorded when the client signs in, or at the latest when they check out. Once a client is attributed to your link, that pairing stands.

Claiming your handle

Set it in Settings, in the handle panel. Availability is checked as you type.

Rules:

• Between 3 and 30 characters
• Lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens
• Must start and end with a letter or number
• No double hyphens

If your handle isn’t available

Message	What it means
”Use 3 to 30 letters, numbers and single hyphens.”	The format is wrong
”That one is reserved. Try adding your discipline or suburb.”	It clashes with a page on the site — like about, blog or browse
”Someone already has that one.”	Another therapist claimed it
”That one belonged to another therapist. Pick a different name.”	It was previously used and has been retired

If your name is taken, add your discipline or your suburb — sarah-chen-psychology or sarah-chen-newtown. Both read well on a card and are easier to say over the phone than a number.

Changing it later

You can change your handle once every 30 days. Choose deliberately — a handle on a printed card is hard to take back.

Your old handle keeps working. It redirects to your current one, so a card printed last year still gets someone to the right place.

What clients see

The same profile as the directory version, minus the breadcrumb and the “similar therapists” rail. Nothing about it says “this person paid less for you” — it’s your profile, at your address.

Using it well

Email signature

One line under your name. The most reliable place, because it goes out on everything.

Referral letters

A GP forwarding a referral can send the client straight to your booking page.

Business cards

Reads as a URL without the scheme: opentherapy.link/sarah-chen.

Your own website

Use it as your book-now button rather than building a booking flow.