Psychology Today Therapist Scraper

Finding the right therapist data on Psychology Today means clicking through page after page of directory cards, then opening each profile to read the credentials, insurance, and specialties. Doing that by hand for a whole city is a slog. This scraper does the clicking for you: pick a provider type, name the places you want, and it returns each listing as one tidy row — name, license, location, phone, and a bio excerpt straight from the cards, or the full profile with specialties, insurance, therapy approaches, and schooling when you ask for the deeper pass. Run one location or a stack of them.

What you get

Each provider comes back as one row with a steady shape, so your columns line up when you load the results into a sheet or database. The data falls into a few groups:

• Identity — therapistName, credentialText, licenseAbbr, licenseId, isVerified
• Contact and place — profileLink, photoLink, websiteLink, phoneNumber, officeLocation, postalCode, fullOfficeAddress
• Practice details — specialtyList, concernsTreated, therapyApproaches, insurancePlans, sessionFee, clientGroups, spokenLanguages, meetingFormats, practiceYears, isLgbtqAffirming
• Bio and metadata — bioExcerpt, fullBio, educationList, collectedAt, errorMessage

Card data (quick) mode fills the fields shown on the listing cards. Whole profile (rich) mode opens each profile page and fills the rest.

Quick start

1. Press Try for free and open the input form.
2. Choose a Provider type (Therapists, Psychiatrists, Treatment Centers, or Support Groups).
3. Add one or more Search locations like il/chicago or a whole-state slug like oregon.
4. Pick an Extraction depth — card data for speed, whole profile for the full record.
5. Set a Maximum profiles to return to cap the run, then press Start and export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

Use cases

• Referral networks — build a searchable list of providers by city, specialty, and accepted insurance
• Healthcare market research — measure provider density and coverage gaps across regions
• Insurance and benefits teams — check which carriers a set of providers accepts
• Academic and policy research — study access to care by location, language, or modality
• Directory and lead building — turn a directory search into a structured contact list

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchLocations	array of strings	Yes	Places to search, as state-abbr/city (e.g. il/chicago) or a whole-state slug (e.g. oregon). Each entry is searched in turn.
providerCategory	string	No	Which directory to pull from: Therapists, Psychiatrists, Treatment Centers, or Support Groups. Default Therapists.
extractionDepth	string	No	list reads the listing cards only (fast); full opens each profile for the complete record. Default list.
resultsLimit	integer	No	Total profiles to collect across all locations. Default 25.
minPauseMs	integer	No	Shortest wait, in milliseconds, between requests. Default 1000.
maxPauseMs	integer	No	Longest wait, in milliseconds, between requests; each pause is randomized within the range. Default 2000.
retryWhenBlocked	boolean	No	Retry a request automatically when it is briefly blocked, up to 3 attempts. Default true.

Example input

{
    "providerCategory": "Therapists",
    "searchLocations": ["il/chicago", "wa/seattle", "ma/boston"],
    "extractionDepth": "full",
    "resultsLimit": 25,
    "minPauseMs": 1000,
    "maxPauseMs": 2000,
    "retryWhenBlocked": true
}

Output

Each provider becomes one JSON record. Empty values are dropped so the rows stay compact, and the fields you get depend on the extraction depth you chose.

Example output

{
    "therapistName": "Dana Whitfield, LCSW",
    "profileLink": "https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/dana-whitfield-chicago-il/987654",
    "photoLink": "https://cdn.psychologytoday.com/assets/therapy-directory/profiles/987654.jpg",
    "credentialText": "Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW",
    "licenseAbbr": "LCSW",
    "licenseId": "149.012345",
    "officeLocation": "Chicago, IL",
    "postalCode": "60607",
    "phoneNumber": "(312) 555-0142",
    "websiteLink": "https://www.danawhitfield-therapy.com",
    "isVerified": true,
    "practiceYears": 11,
    "specialtyList": ["Anxiety", "Depression", "Trauma and PTSD"],
    "concernsTreated": ["Grief", "Life Transitions", "Self Esteem"],
    "therapyApproaches": ["Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)", "EMDR", "Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)"],
    "insurancePlans": ["Aetna", "Blue Cross Blue Shield", "Cigna"],
    "sessionFee": "$150-$190",
    "clientGroups": ["Adults", "Couples"],
    "spokenLanguages": ["English", "Spanish"],
    "meetingFormats": ["In-person", "Online"],
    "isLgbtqAffirming": true,
    "bioExcerpt": "I help adults work through anxiety, grief, and major life changes using practical, evidence-based methods...",
    "fullBio": "I help adults work through anxiety, grief, and major life changes using practical, evidence-based methods. My approach is collaborative and paced to what you need...",
    "educationList": ["MSW, University of Chicago", "BA, DePaul University"],
    "fullOfficeAddress": "210 West Washington Street, Chicago, IL, 60607",
    "collectedAt": "2026-06-29T12:00:00+00:00",
    "errorMessage": null
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
therapistName	string	Full name plus any credential suffix
profileLink	string	Direct URL to the Psychology Today profile
photoLink	string	URL of the provider's profile photo
credentialText	string	The whole credential line from the card, e.g. 'Psychologist, PhD'
licenseAbbr	string	License code parsed from the credentials, e.g. LCSW, PsyD, MD
licenseId	string	Professional license number (whole-profile mode only)
officeLocation	string	City and state of the main office
postalCode	string	ZIP or postal code of the office
phoneNumber	string	Contact phone number
websiteLink	string	Personal or practice website (whole-profile mode only)
isVerified	boolean	True when the provider has a verified badge
practiceYears	integer	Years in practice (whole-profile mode only)
specialtyList	array	Listed areas of focus (whole-profile mode only)
concernsTreated	array	Mental health concerns handled (whole-profile mode only)
therapyApproaches	array	Treatment methods such as CBT, DBT, EMDR (whole-profile mode only)
insurancePlans	array	Accepted insurance carriers (whole-profile mode only)
sessionFee	string	Session cost or range (whole-profile mode only)
clientGroups	array	Adults, Teens, Couples, Families (whole-profile mode only)
spokenLanguages	array	Languages sessions can run in (whole-profile mode only)
meetingFormats	array	In-person, Online, or both (whole-profile mode only)
isLgbtqAffirming	boolean	True when the practice is described as LGBTQ+ affirming (whole-profile mode only)
bioExcerpt	string	Short clip of the personal statement, up to 300 characters
fullBio	string	Complete statement, up to 3000 characters (whole-profile mode only)
educationList	array	Degrees, training, and certifications (whole-profile mode only)
fullOfficeAddress	string	Complete street address (whole-profile mode only)
collectedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was captured
errorMessage	string	Reason a profile failed; null on success

Tips for best results

• Start with a small run. Set resultsLimit to 10–20 while you confirm the locations and fields match your pipeline, then raise it for the full pull.
• Use card data mode for speed. When you only need names, locations, and phone numbers, list mode skips the per-profile requests and finishes much faster.
• Switch to whole profile for the rich fields. Specialties, insurance, therapy approaches, schooling, and fees only come from the profile pages, so set extractionDepth to full for those.
• Leave the auto-retry on. retryWhenBlocked clears the occasional temporary block on its own.
• Widen the pause range if blocks pile up. Raising minPauseMs and maxPauseMs spaces out requests and keeps you comfortably under rate limits.

How can I use Psychology Today therapist data?

How can I use the Psychology Today Therapist Scraper to build a referral list? Choose a provider type, list the cities you cover with searchLocations, and run whole-profile mode. Each provider comes back with name, credentials, accepted insurance, specialties, and contact details — a ready-made, filterable referral list you can sort by location or modality.

How can I collect therapist contact details across several cities at once? Add every location to searchLocations in one run and the scraper works through them in order, collecting therapistName, phoneNumber, officeLocation, and profileLink for each. Card data mode keeps it quick when contact details are all you need.

How can I research mental health care access by insurance or language? Run whole-profile mode and read the insurancePlans and spokenLanguages fields alongside officeLocation. Grouping the rows by carrier or language shows where coverage is strong and where gaps sit — useful for benefits teams and access-to-care studies.

How can I export Psychology Today provider data to a spreadsheet? After a run finishes, export the dataset as CSV or Excel straight from Apify. Every record shares the same field names, so it drops cleanly into a spreadsheet or database with no reshaping.

Is it legal to scrape data?

Our actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses or private contact information. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe.

However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

You can also read Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping.

Support

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