How AI assistants recommend psychologists
Someone who asks an AI assistant for a psychologist gets a short list of practices, and the list can differ from one assistant to the next. Here is what they answered in every city the AIGROW Index asked, and what a practice can work on.
- Cities asked
- 128
- Names in the rankings
- 1,142
- Businesses named per city
- 21
- Names repeated on a rerun
- 46%
- Answers that name the leader
- 36%
The first two rows are counts; the rows under them are medians over the ranked pages. Every question was asked without a location or a chat history.
Asked for a psychologist in 128 cities, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini named about 21 practices per city, and 52% of those names came up only once. Each assistant builds its list from what is published about a practice. What a practice controls is that public record: its services, its psychologists and its listings.
What a customer asked, and who came first
One place of the 127, as an example: New York. Every place was asked the same questions in its own language, and its page in the Index has the full ranking.
- Who is the best psychologist in New York?
- I've been struggling with anxiety and want to start therapy in New York. Which psychologist would you recommend?
- Which psychologist in New York would you recommend for burnout and work stress?
- Which psychologist in New York is good for someone starting therapy for the first time?
- Tribeca Therapynamed in 33% of the answers
- Manhattan Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapynamed in 17% of the answers
- Cognitive Behavioral Consultantsnamed in 17% of the answers
The names that recur
115 different businesses came first across 127 rankings, and 36 names were listed in three places or more. These are the most frequent.
- Unobravo9 places
- Centro Medico Santagostino7 places
- Doctoralia6 places
- Mindler6 places
- Centrum Terapii Dialog5 places
- Praxis für Psychotherapie Dr. med. Dipl.-Psych. M. H.5 places
Counted by spelling: two businesses with the same name in different places count as one.
What an owner can work on
No one can promise a place in an assistant’s answer. What an owner controls is what is published about the business, and these are the parts the questions above point to.
Say what you help with
The questions mention anxiety, burnout and work stress. Say plainly on your site which concerns you see people for, and which you do not, so a reader can tell whether you are the right fit.
Explain the first session
One question came from someone starting therapy for the first time. A page that explains how to book, what a first session involves and what it costs, if you publish your fees, is easier to match to that question.
Your psychologists by name
Profiles of each psychologist, with their qualifications and the languages they work in, kept the same on your site and in professional directories, give an assistant facts it can repeat.
Every ranking for this trade
The AIGROW Index publishes the ranking of each place with every answer, and how it was measured.
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