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Open Therapy is a directory and booking platform for verified therapists in Australia. Be seen online, at a clinic, or at home. Five care types can be booked today: Psychology, Counselling, Social Workers, Mental Health Support Workers, and Art & Music Therapy. The other eleven have a page and practitioners behind them, and open one at a time. See Care types.

For clients

Find a therapist, book and pay for sessions, and manage your care.

For therapists

List your practice, take bookings, and get paid.
Open Therapy home page headed Match with a therapist who gets you, with a search field for a concern and a suburb, and five cards labelled Myself, Us two, My teen, My child and Someone I care for.

The home page — search by what you're carrying, or start from who the therapy is for

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What makes this different

Matching asks what you’re carrying — culture, identity, neurodivergence, grief, caring, faith — and which of those a therapist has lived through rather than only worked with. Shared experience is the heaviest factor in your shortlist. See Find a therapist.
No booking fee and no percentage of a one-to-one session. Card processing is added at checkout so the therapist keeps the published fee. Open Therapy charges the therapist a one-off introduction fee on the first match with a new client, out of their payout. See Fees.
Each therapist chooses one of four cancellation policies, shown on their profile, at checkout and in your confirmation email. The terms are copied onto the session when you book, and they’re what you’re charged. Moving a session is free. See Cancellations and refunds.
Australian law prohibits testimonials about regulated health services. Reviews cover booking, admin, premises and manner — not symptoms, treatment or whether therapy helped. Every review is screened, and anything borderline is read by a person. See Reviews.
No subscription. The whole audio library — a new episode every day — is free with an account, along with a private journal, prompts, and messaging with any therapist in the directory. See Library.

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Common questions

How it works

Searching to a first session, end to end.

Care types

The sixteen categories, and what “coming soon” means.

Fees

What clients pay, and what therapists pay.

Safety and privacy

Verification, clinical records, and your data.

Getting help

Support, and Australian crisis lines.
Open Therapy is not an emergency service. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 000. For crisis support, call Lifeline on 13 11 14. More numbers are on Getting help.