Free tools
Practical tools for licensed clinicians, free and without an account for most of them. We built a couple ourselves and we index about 140 more from across The Shrink Network, because the useful ones are scattered across sites you would never think to check.
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Under the No Surprises Act an uninsured or self pay patient is generally entitled to a written estimate when they ask for one, or when care is scheduled far enough ahead. Most small practices are working off a template someone found on a forum. This builds a clean printable one in about a minute.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or stored. Tool terms.
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Many associate clinicians need supervised hours, and some nurse practitioners and physician assistants practise under state specific collaboration or supervision requirements. Others just want an experienced mentor. There has never been a decent place to find any of them, so we made one, and it costs nothing on either side.
Search by discipline, state, format, and whether the supervisor is taking anyone new.
With a free listing
Your listing as one clean page you can fax, email, or hand to a colleague, with a QR code for the back of a business card. Clinicians still fax, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.
With a free listing
One tap when you get a cancellation, and your listing surfaces for 48 hours. No auction, no boost to buy. Telling other people when a slot opens is planned rather than built.
Available now, on the network
Thirty printable one pagers you can hand a patient today. Panic attack first aid, the thought record, grounding, sleep, boundaries, medication cheat sheets by condition, and appointment prep. Published free across The Shrink Network and reviewed by a board certified psychiatrist.
Available now, on the network
A CYP450 interaction checker, serotonin syndrome and QT risk checkers, benzodiazepine and chlorpromazine equivalents, a taper planner, an antidepressant switching planner, and clozapine and metabolic monitoring schedules. Thirteen of them, free, nothing stored.
Available now, on the network
A policy builder that drafts eight editable practice policies, plus intake forms, telepsychiatry consent, a mental status exam reference, E/M and coding checklists, HIPAA safeguards, and a checklist for ending care without abandonment.
Coming next
Short guides for the clinician doing the referring. When to send someone to psychiatry and what to try first. How to start an SSRI in primary care. How to taper a benzodiazepine safely. What to tell a patient the first visit will be like.
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Because clinicians post real cash rates here, we can eventually show what a first visit actually costs in a given city and specialty. Nobody publishes that today, and it's the second question every patient has.
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Confirmed, dated availability across the country adds up to something no one else has. Once a year we'll publish it. Average wait by state, share of clinicians taking new patients, median cash rates. Free to read, free to cite.
Some of these would raise engagement. All of them would cost us the thing this site runs on.
The Shrink Network gives each need its own place. HandshakeMD is the clinician layer. If you are after a tool rather than a clinician, the resource index points at all of it.
