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Our courtesy policy: We
expect therapists who have given an email address in their listings to respond
to any appropriate email inquiry within 2 business days, even if they are not
available. For example, I don't do housecalls that far away, I'm not
taking clients at present, my rates are $--, or I don't anticipate any evening times
opening up for at least a month. We do not have the same expectation about
always returning phone calls, as that is more time-consuming, but we appreciate
the courtesy of therapists who do. We of course don't expect therapists to
continue email correspondence once they have made their unavailability clear.
This is a free directory of private
sector health care resources in Toronto
We do not use the terms "alternative therapies"
or "alternative health care", because
they include a wide variety of practices. We only wish to include therapies that have demonstrated benefits.
This is a genuine free directory, with no
ads or paid listings. We hope that it will be useful to both service providers and potential clients, so that they do not have to rely on
expensive ways of finding each other. (Therapists paying for yellow pages
listings, creating and maintaining their own website with uncertain results,
paying hundreds of dollars a year to be on a commercial website or
for search engine advertising, or gaining access to potential clients by paying
the crippling rents typically charged for managed office space in private
clinics and wellness centres, etc.) We hope you find it helpful.
--Mike and Beth Mares
Mike Mares is an
information technology specialist; Beth Mares is a psychotherapist.
They live and work in Toronto.
We do not aim to give a complete
list of any type of health service provider. We just want to make it easier to find
capable, experienced therapists to help with proactive health management, reducing stress, easing
pain, improving function, or otherwise benefiting physiological, mental or
emotional health.
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For health care
professionals--experienced and less experienced
We want to publish
quality articles to inform the public about the different therapies and related
health topics. For examples, see the excellent articles by Pam Honeyman in
the physiotherapy section.
How to get listed on this site
July, 2010: We are not
currently accepting new listings except from people who send us articles. When
we have some time for some more updating, this will be noted here, but it will
not be before late September, 2010.
Using the models on the page for your type of
health care, write your
listing the way you want it to appear. Email it to
beth.toronto(at)gmail.com retaining the subject line Toronto therapist to ensure
that your email is not mistaken for spam. Please send listings in the body of an
email, not an attachment. Please include your official title
(e.g., RMT) or professional membership (e.g., Ontario
Society of Psychotherapists).
If you are an experienced practitioner, please indicate the amount of your
experience (in a way that is not misleading). If you are not government-licensed, please include a link to your organization's code of ethics
and conditions of membership for us to look at. Include any specialty or special interests you have (e.g.,
arthritis, insomnia). You can be listed on two pages if appropriate, but the
listings should not be identical.
Please say which page or pages you would like to be on. (This page is by
invitation only.) All submissions are
subject to review. We update about once a month, but if you send an article we
will try to fast track it.
Directories are approximately in order or seniority, but
we will up-front people who have sent articles so that the articles
are easy for our visitors to find, and we may put the contributors of what we
consider to be the best articles first. We may also give priority to the more
experienced therapists. Please email us to reconfirm your listing
between 2 and 3 years after the date shown on it, as we may remove it otherwise
to make sure that our visitors are not getting outdated listings. We suggest
that you bookmark this site for that purpose. (You go up to Favorites and click
on "add to favorites".) You may also want to check back
from time to time to see if anything has changed.
Links to websites:
We include links to websites on articles and brochures we publish if the
requested link is to the professional's own website or in some cases his clinic's website,
but not if it is part of a
commercial website/directory. We do not link to professionals' websites
directly from the listings pages.
How to submit a brochure or
article (It's free)
We encourage you to submit original web
pages (articles, brochures or multi-page brochures of up to 5 pages) which will be linked to from your directory listing. Please note that we do not wish to publish
material that states as fact theories that most health scientists would regard
as unfounded or speculative, but it is fine to cite scientific research
if you give proper references or to write about your own observations (e.g. "In my experience,
at the completion of
this treatment muscle spasms have disappeared").
Please do not send copies of material already on the web or material
substantially similar,
unless you have ascertained and can guarantee that it is inaccessible to the search engines at the
other location. (If you are not sure whether the web page you are sending us is
too similar, send us a link to the other page so we can check.) Please email
the page or pages, stating that it is/ they are not found elsewhere on the web and
that if you ever decide to have it/them displayed elsewhere you will give us
at least two weeks notice. (We would need to remove the material from this site for your
protection as well as ours.) When
writing an article, please give the readers the benefit of your own particular
knowledge and experience, not just a rehash of material that can be found on
dozens or even thousands of sites. It's also a great idea to answer questions
that people often ask you and seem to have had difficulty finding the answers to.
We are most interested in articles, but are also publishing brochures for the
benefit of potential clients.
You can send your page(s) in
the body of an email, or as an attachment in Word,
Word Perfect or similar, PDF, or HTML
code. If you are using HTML it is a good idea to insert the metatags you want,
but we reserve the right to modify them. A photograph
or illustration would be welcome. There
is a limit of one graphic (file size limit 50K) per page. If you are offering
a specialized service, or work in a district where
your type of work is not highly competitive, your page will likely be found directly
in a search by potential clients, just as if it was your own website.
Your article will be more
likely to come up in searches if you use a title that is similar to the search
phrase that someone needing this information would be likely to use, and/or if
you can get a link to it from a website with a related theme. It will work
better if it is not from the same website that your article links to. If you
need clarification on linking to your article,
email Beth, beth.toronto(at)gmail.com
We are doing this as a public
service, and there is no charge. We hope that you will benefit from the exposure
in return for sharing your knowledge. Be prepared for an occasional call from a
journalist who is interested in your article and requests an interview. An
interview gives you further exposure, but it is absolutely OK to say no if you
would rather not.
These offers are time limited. In order to
keep the workload manageable we will need to limit new listings when we feel we
have enough.
Tips for writing articles for the
web
Create a short title that will quickly convey what the article is about and
grab the reader's attention. Web surfers have tons of material in front of them,
so they have no time to lose. So get right to the subject. Put yourself in the
reader's shoes. Can you tell that you are getting what you are looking for?
Keep it simple. Know what points you want to make, and make them clearly. Use
language that is easy to understand and conversational rather than academic.
Maintain a clear and organized structure throughout the article, and carefully
proofread and edit your article before submitting it.
Give the reader the benefit of your particular knowledge. Your expertise will
show. And writing will be easier and more enjoyable. Teach something new or at
least teach it in a new way. Don't essentially repeat something that is on
thousands of websites. Your knowledge is unique--share it.
Include a short bio and your contact information.
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Copyright © 2007 Mike Mares, since updated
All rights reserved. The copyright of contributions
belongs to the contributors, and all other material is the property of Mike
Mares.
We promote cognitive therapy and behavioral counselling for depression and anxiety disorders; expressive arts therapy for
freeing the imagination and the emotions; secular therapy for people who do not
want religious therapy; massage therapy and shiatsu for relaxation and stress
management; and physiotherapy and good nutrition for a healthy body.
Nutritionists
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Toronto therapist Audrey Jolly
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therapist Linda Chapman
Child
and teen psychologist