How We Create Content with Links to Products and Services

Finding health and wellness information is easy — it’s everywhere. But finding trustworthy, relevant, usable information can be hard and even overwhelming.

Psych Central is changing all that.

We’re making high-quality, evidenced-based health information understandable and accessible, so you can make the best decisions for yourself and the people you love. We’re also committed to creating experiences that help you on your journey to self-discovery and whole-body health because we believe maintaining a healthy mind and body is key to your overall well-being.

As part of this mission and article creation process, our health and wellness editors occasionally include links to relevant products they feel are useful to our readers.

How we select products

Our editorial team spends hours analyzing data and combing through reader feedback to understand what our readers are looking for — whether that’s a good online therapy service, the best apps for meditation, or book recommendations for kids with anxiety.

Then, we dive into researching and vetting products and brands against our own criteria for quality, cost, company practices, customer reviews, and firsthand experience to bring you recommendations for what we think offer good value for your money.

And it doesn’t stop there. Our Medical Affairs team also evaluates each product, service, and brand’s medical credibility and business standards to ensure the products are safe, effective, and meet our quality standards.

As part of this process, here are some key factors we analyze:

• the product composition
• the potential for these products and services to cause harm
• the company’s integrity

We aim to create balanced and objective content, clearly pointing out the pros and cons of the products and brands we include and always keeping our readers’ needs at the forefront of everything we do. 

We regularly reevaluate all brands that partner with Psych Central to ensure they continue to meet our standards. If a product or brand is reevaluated and no longer meets our standards, we’ll remove it from our site.

And if we share something that hasn’t passed our vetting process, we’ll be transparent about why, so you can make an informed decision.

We lead with integrity

We enforce a robust advertising policy that ensures sponsors and business partners never influence our content. We are committed to providing unbiased and trustworthy information to our readers. 

To achieve this, we implement and follow a rigorous vetting process, ensuring that we only link to products, services, and tools that we feel provide value to our readers and meet our standards. 

If you make a purchase after clicking one of our links, Psych Central may receive a small share of the revenue from that purchase. That revenue supports our independent editorial process and helps us deliver on our mission to provide reliable and evidence-based information to help you navigate your journey toward self-discovery and whole-body health. No editorial staff nor contributors from our Medical Network receive a commission from those purchases. 

In instances where we develop a direct business partnership with a brand, service, or retailer, our Medical Affairs team validates those partners to ensure that Psych Central works only with organizations that perform due diligence and are transparent with their customers regarding objective measures of product safety, quality, and efficacy.

Put simply, we do the homework— backed by a team of experts — so you don’t have to. We want you to feel confident in the choices you make for your health and well-being.