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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENEW YORK, September 30, 2026 — Mental Wealth Solutions today announced Couch Commons (couchcommons.com), a therapist directory built by a therapist to give local, independent clinicians a fair shot at being found, whether someone searches Google or asks an AI assistant how to find a therapist near them.
"Local therapists are getting squeezed out of our own market," said Matthew Sexton, LCSW, founder of Couch Commons. "This is our chance to get squeezed up. I've already built everything the site needs to do what it's supposed to do. What it needs now is local therapists, so that when someone in your neighborhood asks ChatGPT how to find a therapist, the answer points to you."
Built for AI search, not just Google
More people now ask AI tools where to find care. Couch Commons is built so those tools can read it clearly:
- Every therapist profile carries structured data that search engines and AI assistants can read.
- The site publishes an llms.txt file, a plain-language guide written for AI tools.
- AI crawlers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google are explicitly welcome.
What makes Couch Commons different
- Licenses checked with the state. Each profile shows its license check status: checked with the state register (and when), or pending while the check runs. Licenses are re-checked while a profile is live.
- Nobody pays to be first. Search results rotate fairly every day. There is no paid placement, no ranking for sale, and no referral fees.
- Therapists speak for themselves. Each clinician writes their own profile and gets a named writing byline with links back to their practice.
- Clients go straight to the therapist. Messages go directly to the practice, and Couch Commons never sees them.
Couch Commons is open to licensed clinical social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists and psychologists in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Colorado, California and Texas, and to licensed clinical social workers in Illinois. Membership is $19.99 a month or $179.91 a year, and the first 100 therapists get their first year free on the monthly plan.
People looking for a therapist can search at couchcommons.com/find. Therapists can join at couchcommons.com/join.
Couch Commons is a directory, not a healthcare provider or crisis service. Anyone in crisis in the United States can call or text 988.
About Couch Commons
Couch Commons is a therapist directory where each profile shows its license check status (checked with the state register and dated, or pending), results rotate fairly, and clients contact therapists directly. It is built to be found by search engines and AI assistants. Learn more at couchcommons.com.
About Mental Wealth Solutions
Mental Wealth Solutions is the company behind Couch Commons.
Media contact
Matthew Sexton, LCSW
info@couchcommons.com
couchcommons.com
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