Why we exist
Anxiety is one of the most common experiences on the internet and one of the most badly served by it. Search "anxiety" and you find the same rotation: a Mayo Clinic overview, a Healthline symptom listicle, a Psychology Today therapist directory, and a wall of lightly-disguised affiliate content that routes every visitor to the same online-therapy company regardless of what they actually need.
Anxiety.com started with a simple observation: the largest and most under-served category of mental health content deserves a resource built specifically for it — one that respects readers enough to tell them when they don't need therapy, when they should talk to their primary care doctor before an app, and when the honest answer is "this is worth taking seriously and here's the specific kind of help most likely to work."
What we do
Three things:
- Publish medically-reviewed content about anxiety — symptoms, conditions, treatments, coping strategies — with named authors, named reviewers, and visible review dates.
- Offer a free, clinically-backed assessment — the Anxiety Profile — built on the validated GAD-7 screener plus questions to help match you to the right kind of help.
- Match visitors to online therapy, psychiatric medication providers, and self-help tools that actually fit their specific profile. We currently have no affiliate relationships with these partners — links are direct.
What we're not
- We are not a licensed provider. We do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe.
- We are not a directory of therapists. We refer to services that maintain their own directories.
- We are not owned by, or a subsidiary of, any therapy, medication, or app company we recommend. We are an independent publisher.
- We do not sell your personal information. See our privacy policy for the full picture.
- We are not a crisis service. If you are in crisis, please contact 988 immediately.
How we work
Every clinical page on Anxiety.com is reviewed by our Editorial standards — a psychiatrist (MD), a clinical psychologist (PsyD), and a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). Reviewer credentials, specialties, and independence agreements are public.
Our recommendations are based on fit, not payout. When you complete the Anxiety Profile assessment, the result page returns the partner most likely to work for your specific severity band and modality preference — not the highest-paying partner. The recommendation logic is documented in the editorial policy and visible in the site's client-side code.
We follow the standards described in our editorial policy: named authors, medical review before publication, dated review, corrections when we get things wrong, and sourcing to primary literature (DSM-5-TR, NIMH, APA, peer-reviewed publications).
How we're funded
Anxiety.com currently has no affiliate relationships with the services we link to. Links to therapy, medication, and app providers are direct — we don't earn if you sign up, and there are no tracking parameters on the links.
When we do bring on affiliate partners, we'll operate to a specific standard:
- Publish the actual payout ranges for every partner — not vague "we may earn a commission" language. You should be able to see the incentives directly.
- Keep the recommendation engine independent of payout. The Anxiety Profile assessment routes to partners based on fit for your specific severity band and modality preference — not by which partner pays the most.
What we won't do to grow
Consumer health-content publishers have earned a reputation for optimizing content around whichever partner pays the most, at the expense of the reader. We think that model works in the short term and corrodes trust in the long term. Specifically, we won't:
- Publish "diagnostic quizzes" that produce fake diagnoses to drive urgency toward a paid conversion.
- Use fear-based creative to push clicks (the FTC has settled with several mental-health companies over exactly this).
- Route users to partners based on payout rather than fit.
- Share individual quiz answers with partners or brokers.
- Publish AI-generated clinical content without human authorship and clinical review.
- Take undisclosed sponsorships or ghostwrite content on behalf of partners.
Corrections
Health information changes. If you find something on Anxiety.com that's inaccurate, outdated, or misleading, email editorial@anxiety.com. A clinical reviewer looks at every incoming report within a business week and, when the report is valid, we update the page and publish a correction note.
Editorial team
The editorial team is small and generalist by design — writers with backgrounds in health journalism and product, sourcing carefully to primary clinical literature. Bylines identify the editorial team on every clinical piece. Anxiety.com is headquartered remotely (US-distributed) with an operational entity registered in the United States.
Contact
- General: hello@anxiety.com
- Editorial & corrections: editorial@anxiety.com
- Privacy & data rights: privacy@anxiety.com
- Partnerships: partnerships@anxiety.com
- Press: press@anxiety.com
Anxiety.com is not a substitute for professional care. If you are in crisis, call or text 988. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911.