About
About Gototherapy UK: the therapist directory a person has checked.
Gototherapy UK is a UK directory of therapists, supervisors, coaches and trainers. It exists because most directories let anyone list, and most people cannot tell a register entry from a certificate. Here, a person checks each member's registration, insurance and supervision, rechecks them every year, and prints what was checked on the profile. There are no reviews or ratings.
- What it is
- A directory. Not a clinic, not a regulator, not a matching service that decides for you.
- Who checks
- A person, against the register itself, before anyone is listed and every year after.
- What it costs you
- Nothing. Professionals pay a membership after they are accepted, and nothing per session.
- What it will not do
- Rank anyone, carry reviews, take a message about your mental health, or promise an outcome.
Why are the checks printed on every profile?
Because “trusted” is a claim and “checked on this date against this register” is a fact you can look at.
Looking for a therapist is hard enough without having to work out whether the person you are reading about is who they say they are. A counsellor is checked against a register that can strike them off. A coach, in the UK, has no register at all. A single “verified” badge across both would lend the credibility of the regulated professions to the unregulated ones, so Gototherapy UK does not use one. The badge says which checks were done for that role, and where there is no register, the profile says so.
Why are there no reviews?
Reviews of therapy are not like reviews of a restaurant. They reward the therapist who was pleasant over the one who was useful, and they cannot be verified without breaching confidentiality.
They also push people to write about their own mental health in a public place. Gototherapy UK has no review or rating fields anywhere, by design, and no AggregateRating in its data.
Why is there no enquiry form?
A message about somebody's mental health sitting in a directory's database is special category data that did not need to exist.
You contact therapists directly, and what you say to them stays between you. The six questions that help you find a fit run in your own browser and never reach us.
Who is behind Gototherapy UK?
I am Anh Doan, a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor working in English and Vietnamese. I founded Talking Counselling in 2011 after noticing the same thing over and over: the people who most needed help were the least likely to get it.
Too expensive, too long a wait, or a system that asked them to explain themselves in a language they were still learning. Gototherapy UK comes from the other side of that problem. When somebody finally decides to look for a therapist, most directories let anyone list, and a certificate on a profile looks much like a register entry to a person who has never had to tell them apart.
So here a person checks each member's registration, insurance and supervision before they are listed, rechecks them every year, and prints what was checked. There are no reviews and no ratings, nobody can pay to be placed higher, and nothing about you is stored here. You read the profile, and you write to the therapist yourself.
In plain terms
What does Gototherapy UK do, and not do?
Does
Check each member's register entry, insurance certificate, supervision arrangement and identity, per role, and repeat the checks annually.
Does
Print what was checked, when, and what the badge for that role means.
Does
Compute fee ranges and availability from live member data rather than typing numbers that go stale.
Does not
Provide therapy, recommend individual therapists, or rank anyone by popularity or payment.
Does not
Carry reviews, ratings, testimonials or enquiry forms.
Does not
Act as an emergency service. If you need help now, see urgent support.
Plain answers
Questions people ask about Gototherapy UK
Is Gototherapy UK free to use?
Yes, for anyone looking for a therapist. Searching, the six questions and every profile are free, and there is no account to create. Professionals pay a membership once their checks are complete and they have been accepted, and nothing per enquiry or per session.
How is Gototherapy UK funded?
By membership from the professionals listed, paid after acceptance, monthly or yearly. There is no commission on sessions, nothing per referral, and no plan buys a higher place in search or changes the checks. Membership and pricing.
Is Gototherapy UK a regulator?
No. The registers belong to the professional bodies, and it is their entries Gototherapy UK checks. It confirms that a person is on the register they claim, insured, supervised and who they say they are. It does not register anybody and cannot strike anybody off. How we verify.
How do I raise a concern or make a complaint?
The complaints page says how, and what happens next. A concern about a register entry, insurance or supervision is checked against the source and the profile is hidden while it is. A concern about the therapy itself belongs with the professional body, which has a process of its own.
What if I need help right now?
Gototherapy UK is a directory, not an emergency service. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 999. For other urgent support, the urgent support page lists where to turn.