> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.opentherapy.app/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Care types
> The fourteen care categories, and which two you can book today.
Open Therapy sorts practitioners into **fourteen care types**, each a family of professions rather than a single job title — Psychology holds both psychologists and clinical psychologists, Disability support holds three roles.
**Two are open for bookings: Psychology and Counselling.** The other twelve have a page and practitioners behind them, but can't be booked yet.
Care types open one at a time, and each one opens for everybody at once. Until yours opens it wears a
**Coming soon** pill wherever it's listed, and its own page offers an email field where the booking
calendar would be. Leave your address and you'll hear on the day it opens.
## Open now
Medicare rebates on a mental health care plan.
**Practitioners** — registered psychologists, clinical psychologists.
**Commonly searched** — anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, burnout, OCD.
For grief, relationships, separation and life transitions. No referral needed, and many are
available the same week.
**Practitioners** — counsellors and psychotherapists.
**Commonly searched** — grief, relationships, separation, stress, identity.
Each of the two has its own page, where you can search within it.
## Coming soon
Diagnosis, medication review and complex presentations, including autism assessment. GP referral
required for a Medicare rebate.
**Practitioners** — consultant psychiatrists.
**Commonly searched** — ADHD assessment, medication review, bipolar, second opinion.
Children and adults, including voice and swallowing, in clinic, at home or online.
**Practitioners** — speech pathologists.
**Commonly searched** — language delay, stuttering, articulation, voice, AAC.
Sensory regulation, motor skills, daily living and NDIS goals, including home and school visits.
**Practitioners** — occupational therapists.
**Commonly searched** — sensory, motor skills, NDIS, school readiness.
Help getting a workable NDIS plan, the skills to use it, and day-to-day support at home.
**Practitioners** — developmental educators, support coordinators, disability support workers.
**Commonly searched** — NDIS plans, daily living skills, personal care, at-home support.
Assessing, writing and implementing the plan, at home and at school.
**Practitioners** — NDIS behaviour support practitioners.
**Commonly searched** — positive behaviour support, autism, school support, NDIS.
For people who get little out of talking — young children, autistic clients and older adults
living with dementia. No artistic or musical ability needed.
**Practitioners** — registered art therapists, registered music therapists.
**Commonly searched** — autism, dementia, children, non-verbal communication.
Eating disorder and non-diet expertise, working alongside your psychologist and GP.
**Practitioners** — dietitians.
**Commonly searched** — eating disorders, body image, nutrition.
Movement prescribed as treatment for persistent pain, long-term conditions and low mood. Funded
through NDIS or a GP chronic disease plan.
**Practitioners** — accredited exercise physiologists.
**Commonly searched** — chronic pain, mental health, injury recovery, fatigue.
Hands-on treatment paired with a program. Claimable on the spot with most extras cover.
**Practitioners** — physiotherapists.
**Commonly searched** — persistent pain, back and neck, post-surgical rehab, sports injury.
Hands-on treatment for the aches that come with pregnancy or long hours at a desk.
**Practitioners** — registered osteopaths.
**Commonly searched** — headaches, jaw pain, pregnancy-related pain, desk posture.
Worked to a defined end point, not an open-ended course of adjustments. Early morning sessions
widely available.
**Practitioners** — chiropractors.
**Commonly searched** — low back pain, neck pain, posture, sciatica.
In clinic or at home for people who cannot travel easily.
**Practitioners** — podiatrists.
**Commonly searched** — diabetes foot care, heel pain, orthotics, children's gait.
## What "coming soon" means for you
| | |
| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| The care type's page | Still there, and still reads in full |
| Booking | Not available. The calendar is replaced by a **Launching soon** card and an email field |
| The therapist directory | Practitioners in an unopened care type aren't returned in results or by name search |
| Directory filters | Only the open care types appear as a **Care type** filter |
| Matching | Your shortlist only ever proposes someone you can actually book |
| A practitioner's own profile | Still reads in full if you have their link. The booking panel carries the waitlist instead |
Practitioners in an unopened care type rejoin the directory on the day their care type opens.
## Joining a waitlist
Give an address and nothing else, used once to tell you the day that care type opens.
You can join more than one. It doesn't create an account, hold a place in a queue or commit you to anything.
## If you're a therapist in one of these
You can apply, complete onboarding and be verified before your care type opens. The application asks for your care type first, and picking an unopened one tells you so on the spot.
Your profile goes into the directory the day the category opens. See [Join Open Therapy](/therapists/join) and [Verification](/therapists/verification).
## Where to go next
The path from searching to a first session, from both sides.
Matching, the shortlist, and searching the directory yourself.
Open Therapy is a directory and booking platform, not a crisis 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](/getting-help#crisis-support).