Beta Feel Validated · 2026
A verified therapist directory

Find a therapist whose specialties, training, and experience are verified.

Feel Validated independently reviews every therapist's training, certifications, and clinical experience — not just their license.

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What a verified profile looks like

Specialties backed by evidence. Experience you can see.

No checkboxes. No self-reporting. Every claim is cross-referenced against certifying bodies, documented training, and clinical experience.

Every therapist also signs a public Practice Pledge — a commitment to sustainable caseload, practicing within training, and session integrity.

Validated Therapist
Experience · Expertise · Integrity
Talia Brennan-Okafor, LCSW

Talia Brennan-Okafor, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
she/her
📍 Berkeley, CA · In-person & Telehealth
● Accepting clients Free consultation $195 / session
✓ License verified · CA BBS · LCSW #82914 · Active Verified by Feel Validated
About
I specialize in helping adults navigate trauma, anxiety, and the aftermath of experiences they haven't fully processed. I'm direct, steady, and occasionally funny.
Verified Areas of Focus
Verified against public database Documentation reviewed by FV Clinical narrative reviewed
Trauma & PTSD ✓ Validated
Core specialty built across community mental health and private practice. Works with complex trauma, PTSD, childhood adversity, and the ways unprocessed experiences show up in the body, relationships, and daily life.
✓ EMDRIA certified — database verified ◉ Somatic Experiencing Level II documented ◎ Clinical approach reviewed ◎ 8+ years clinical focus
Anxiety & Stress ✓ Validated
Experienced across the anxiety spectrum — from generalized anxiety and panic to the high-functioning kind that looks fine from the outside. Integrates somatic approaches with cognitive strategies for clients who need more than talk therapy.
◉ CBT training documented ◎ Sustained engagement reviewed
Verified Training · Practice Pledge · Fees · Clinical Journey
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For Therapists

Built by a clinician, for clinicians.

Everything below is for therapists considering joining Feel Validated. Curious clients, you're welcome to read on — or search for a therapist.

Therapists, read on ↓

Your profile, drafted in 30 seconds.

Not another directory asking you to fill out a dozen narrative boxes. Feel Validated drafts your profile from what you've already put into the world — your practice website, credential pages, published bios.

You've already done the writing. We do the assembly — structured, SEO-optimized, and formatted so both traditional search and AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity can actually recommend you.

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Enter name & email
Jacob Donnelly, LCSW
jacob@example.com
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We find your public work
✓ Practice website
✓ License verification
✓ Credential pages
◎ Assembling draft…
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Review your draft
Jacob Donnelly, LCSW
Berkeley, CA · 15 yrs experience
✓ Substance Use ✓ Anxiety
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The problems Feel Validated solves

The system is broken. We're fixing it.

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Self-Reported Expertise

Watching a YouTube video and completing an EMDRIA certification look exactly the same on other directories. The system incentivizes checking every box — so your real training never shows.

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Corporate Squeeze

Big-box therapy companies — the ones in every podcast ad — are flooding directories and pushing their therapists toward unsustainable caseloads. Independent clinicians who practice thoughtfully get buried, regardless of how good their work is.

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Eroded Trust

Clients can't distinguish genuine expertise from marketing. Fake reviews and inflated credentials have made online directories unreliable across every professional service.

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AI Is Changing Search

ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity are becoming how people find therapists. These tools need structured, evidence-backed data to recommend you — not a wall of checkboxes. Feel Validated builds the kind of profile AI search can actually use.

How it works

Your credentials do the talking

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Tell us about your practice

Share your training, certifications, and clinical experience. You probably already have everything we need in your inbox and downloads folder.

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We verify everything

We cross-reference certifications against issuing bodies, verify licenses with state boards, and review documentation for each claimed specialty.

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Clients find the right fit

Your profile shows verified evidence behind every specialty — so when a client searches "EMDR therapist Berkeley PTSD," they see the proof, not just a checkbox.

A verified therapist directory

You became a therapist to help people, not to become a marketer.

The current system forces great clinicians to spend hours on SEO, profile optimization, social media, and review management — none of which have anything to do with being a good therapist. Feel Validated flips that. Your marketing is your credentials. The more you invest in your craft — training, supervision, continuing education — the stronger your profile becomes.

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Client Care
Your first priority
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Self-Care
Sustainable practice
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Training
Your real marketing
The Feel Validated Practice Pledge

Standards that mean something

Every therapist on Feel Validated agrees to transparent, measurable commitments — so clients know exactly what to expect.

Sustainable Caseload

Commit to a weekly client maximum that supports quality care for every client you see.

Practice Within Your Training

Use approaches you have documented training and experience in for the conditions being treated.

Continuing Education

Complete verified professional development annually, beyond licensing minimums, in your claimed specializations.

Transparent Scope

Only claim expertise in areas with documented training and experience. Refer out when appropriate.

No pay-for-placement. Ever.

Search results are based on verified expertise and fit — not advertising spend. Some directories let companies pay to put their therapists above independent practitioners. We never will.

The Bigger Vision

Starting with therapy. Not stopping there.

We're starting with therapy because that's where the problem is most visible — but the model works anywhere credentials are opaque and people have no way to tell who's truly qualified.

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Therapists

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Healthcare

Next

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Legal

Future

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Financial

Future

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Privacy by design

For therapists: all documents are encrypted and used solely for credential verification. Uploaded documents are reviewed by a peer clinician and processed by AI (Anthropic's Claude) to generate and verify profiles. We never share your information with third parties. We don't collect SSNs, financial data, or client information — just professional credentials. You can request deletion of all your data at any time.

For Clients — Privacy Notice

Feel Validated is a free directory for people looking for a therapist. What we collect: which profiles are viewed, referral source (how you got here), basic analytics like page views, and search engagement data (result scores, which filters fired, zero-result rates). This helps us improve search quality and measure whether the directory is working. What we don't collect: your name, personal health information, the text of your search queries, or any data that identifies you as an individual. We never sell data to anyone. Feel Validated is not a healthcare provider and does not provide clinical recommendations — we help you find therapists whose credentials have been independently reviewed. Questions? jacob@feelvalidated.com