Which platforms let me prescribe medication?

Talkiatry is built around prescribers and also employs therapists on the same integrated team. Included Health has a confirmed psychiatrist rate of $206 per visit hour, and several employer platforms Spring Health, Lyra Health, Modern Health separately recruit psychiatrists and NPs for medication management alongside their therapist and coach networks.

Best Mental Health Platforms for Providers

Not every mental health provider is a therapist.

Psychiatrists need somewhere to prescribe. Coaches need somewhere that isn't gatekept by a clinical license. LCSWs, PMHNPs, PAs every one of them gets treated differently by the platforms in this space, and most guides don't bother separating them out.

This one does.

The best mental health platform for a provider depends almost entirely on what kind of provider you are a licensed therapist, a psychiatrist, a coach, or a nurse practitioner all get routed to completely different platforms, with completely different pay models.

This guide covers the ones built for that wider group: employer and B2B mental health benefit platforms, psychiatry-specific networks, and multi-disciplinary telehealth companies.

At a Glance: All Digital Mental Health Platforms

Platform	Category	Published Pay / Comp
Spring Health	Employer / B2B	W2 ~$76K–$82K/yr + benefits; 1099 unpublished
Modern Health	Employer / B2B	Competitive, unpublished
Unmind	Employer / B2B	~€100/session (Luxembourg example)
ifeel	Employer / B2B	Competitive, unpublished
Lyra Health	Employer / B2B	Competitive, unpublished
Tava Health	Employer / B2B	Not published
Headspace for Organizations	Employer / B2B	$60–$90/session
Talkiatry	Psychiatry-specific	Psychiatrists $300K–$350K+; PMHNPs $180K–$215K+; therapists $70K–$90K
SonderMind	Multi-disciplinary	$80–$111/hour
Included Health	Multi-disciplinary	Psychiatrist $206/visit hour; therapist rate varies by state
MDLive	Multi-disciplinary	Not published

11 Mental Health Platforms

This category runs on a fundamentally different economics than direct-to-consumer platforms. An employer is footing the bill, which usually means steadier client volume but also means pay rates rarely get published, since they're negotiated as part of a corporate contract.

Spring Health

Positioning: A large-scale employer benefit platform offering both flexible contract work and full-time employed roles for licensed clinicians.

Quick-look: 1099 contract or full-time W2 · W2 total comp ~$76,000–$82,000/year plus a benefits package valued at $30,000–$40,000 · apply via providers.springhealth.com.

Requirements: An unrestricted license to practice psychotherapy in at least one state (multiple preferred), 3+ years post-graduate experience with at least 1 year post-licensure, and training in an evidence-based modality (CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT, or CPT).
Pay: Contractors are paid based on experience, specialty, and location, with performance incentives. Full-time W2 clinicians earn ~$76,000–$82,000/year total comp, plus a benefits package valued at $30,000–$40,000, including medical/dental/vision from day one and a 401(k) match.
Pros: Full schedule flexibility on the contract side, or real employee benefits on the W2 side. Client matching handled for you either way, with zero marketing required.
Cons: Contract pay isn't published anywhere you'll be negotiating somewhat blind compared to a platform with a transparent rate card.

Modern Health

Positioning: The broadest professional net in this entire category therapists and ICF-certified coaches recruited side by side, plus psychiatrists and NPs in the US.

Quick-look: Join via joinmodernhealth.com/providers · competitive, unpublished per-session rates · global reach across 60+ countries.

Requirements: Licensed therapists (LMFT, LCSW, LPC) or ICF-certified coaches. Psychiatrists and NPs are separately recruited in the US.
Pay: Competitive per-session rates not publicly disclosed.
Pros: Genuinely global 60+ countries, 80+ languages and one of the only platforms here that treats coaching as equally central to its model as clinical therapy.
Cons: That same global scale means real competition for coaching slots specifically.

Unmind

Positioning: A UK-founded platform built on fast, fee-free sign-up and weekly automatic pay.

Quick-look: Free, fast sign-up via Unmind Connect · weekly automatic payments, no invoicing · example rate around €100/session in the Luxembourg market.

Requirements: Licensed therapists and coaches.
Pay: Weekly automatic deposits no invoicing required. A reported rate around €100/session in Luxembourg gives some sense of scale, though rates vary by market.
Pros: No minimum caseload, no platform fees taken, and you can even run your own private clients through the platform at your own rates.
Cons: Smaller brand recognition in the US compared to Spring Health or Lyra worth factoring in if referral volume matters more to you than flexibility.

ifeel

Positioning: A remote-first platform built around flexible scheduling and unlimited client messaging.

Quick-look: Join via ifeel's therapist community portal · competitive session rates · unlimited messaging included.

Requirements: Not extensively published beyond a licensed therapist credential.
Pay: Competitive session rates, with unlimited client messaging bundled in rather than billed separately.
Pros: Full control over your own schedule, fully remote, and built-in professional support tools like assessments and workflow management.
Cons: Public detail on credentialing timelines is thin expect to learn the real process once you're mid-application.

Lyra Health

Positioning: One of the largest US employer mental health platforms, with a strong emphasis on speed of billing and crisis backup.

Quick-look: 1099 contractor via lyrahealth.com/apply-now · competitive, unpublished compensation · US residency required.

Requirements: Independent licensure (LCSW, LMFT, LPC, PsyD, PhD) with a clean disciplinary record. NPs and PAs are also recruited for medication management roles.
Pay: Competitive compensation the exact rate isn't published.
Pros: No minimum hours requirement, fast paperless billing turnaround, a 24/7 crisis support team backing your caseload, and access to continuing education courses.
Cons: Full-time US residency is required. International providers aren't eligible, full stop.

Tava Health

Positioning: An employer-partnered platform (Tava Care for Employers) that hands you a full practice management stack for free.

Quick-look: Free access to Tava's "Symphony" EMR and practice management platform · roughly 5,000 providers in-network.

Requirements: A minimum work-experience threshold applies, though the exact number of years isn't publicly listed.
Pay: Not published in detail inquire directly during the application process.
Pros: Marketing, scheduling, and billing are entirely handled for you, on top of free EMR access most competitors would charge for separately.
Cons: That unpublished experience requirement means you won't know if you qualify until you're already partway through applying.

Headspace for Organizations

Positioning: One of the more transparently paid platforms in this section and one of the few offering real employee-style benefits to 1099 contractors.

Quick-look: 1099 contractor via organizations.headspace.com/providers · $60–$90 per session (varies by state) · minimum 5 sessions/week required, US-based only (currently excluding CA and WA).

Requirements: Independent licensure (LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LPC, PhD, PsyD), and a minimum commitment of 5 sessions per week, with flexibility to add more. Currently not accepting contractor applications from California or Washington.
Pay: $60–$90 per session, varying by state, licensure, and experience some state postings run as specific as $72–$77. Note-taking time is built into the session rate, not billed separately.
Pros: Malpractice insurance included and a free 12-month Headspace subscription, plus a collaborative care team of health coaches, other therapists, and psychiatrists to lean on.
Cons: The 5-session weekly minimum is a real commitment, not a soft suggestion and two major states (CA, WA) aren't currently accepting new contractor applicants at all.

Psychiatry-Specific Platforms

Talkiatry

Positioning: Built around psychiatrists first, but genuinely multi-disciplinary therapists work alongside psychiatrists and NPs in the same integrated practice.

Quick-look: W2 employment, not 1099 · psychiatrists ~$300K–$350K+ total comp, PMHNPs ~$180K–$215K+, therapists ~$70K–$90K · up to 100% of healthcare premiums covered.

Requirements: For psychiatrists board eligibility or certification, plus an active and unrestricted medical license. Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners are also recruited. For therapists an active license as an LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LPC, LCPC, or LPCC.
Pay: Psychiatrists earn a base salary plus productivity incentive totaling roughly $300,000–$350,000+ annually. PMHNPs land around $180,000–$215,000+. Therapists earn a $70,000 base plus a monthly productivity incentive, totaling roughly $70,000–$90,000 real published figures, not vague ranges. Healthcare premiums are covered up to 100%, even for large families.
Pros: Scheduling and billing are fully handled, and single-specialty scale means higher reimbursement rates than a generalist telehealth platform typically achieves. A rare case of a platform publishing real compensation numbers across every role.
Cons: This is real employment, not flexible contract work. Therapists here do get to work inside an integrated team with in-house psychiatrists, which is unusual, but if you wanted the schedule freedom most platforms on this list offer, Talkiatry isn't built for that.

Also Read: Top Therapy Practice Management Software →

3 Types of Mental Health Platforms You Can Join

Before the individual platforms, here's the map. Nearly everything in this space falls into one of three buckets.

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Direct-to-Consumer Platforms

Talkspace, BetterHelp, Grow Therapy, and similar clients find you through the platform's own marketing. Already covered in full in our therapist-platforms guide, so we won't repeat that ground here.

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Employer & B2B Benefit Platforms

Spring Health, Modern Health, Lyra Health, and others in this section. An employer pays for the platform, and employees get free or subsidized sessions with you. Different funding model, different pay structure entirely.

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Psychiatry & Multi-Disciplinary Networks

Talkiatry, SonderMind, Included Health, MDLive. Built around prescribers as much as or more than therapists some exclude non-prescribing allied providers outright.

Know which bucket fits your license, and half the decision is already made.

Multi-Disciplinary Telehealth Platforms

SonderMind

Positioning: A fee-free network with genuinely strong, transparent per-hour pay for therapists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurse practitioners alike.

Quick-look: No fees or membership charges · $80–$111 per hour · master's-level licensure required · live in all 50 states.

Requirements: A master's degree or higher in counseling, psychology, or social work, with a fully independent state license (LPC, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LCPC, or LP). Psychiatrists and PMHNPs are recruited separately.
Pay: $80–$111 per hour a real, specific, published range rather than a vague "competitive rate" line, confirmed directly across current job postings.
Pros: Thoughtful client matching, dedicated coach support, real professional development resources, and bi-weekly pay with an option for same-day payment.

Doctor on Demand / Included Health

Positioning: A merged telehealth giant (formerly Doctor on Demand plus Grand Rounds Health, now branded Included Health) with enormous built-in reach through employer and health-plan partnerships.

Quick-look: 1099 contractor · psychiatrist rate confirmed at $206/visit hour · therapist rates exist as published 1099 postings but vary by state and weren't consistently visible.

Requirements: Not extensively published for therapist and psychologist roles specifically.
Pay: Psychiatrist pay is confirmed at $206 per visit hour. Therapist and psychologist roles are also hired as 1099 contractors, but a consistent published rate wasn't confirmable across postings.
Pros: Reach is hard to overstate 98 million Americans are covered through Included Health's employer and health-plan partnerships.
Cons: Recruitment appears less self-serve than most competitors expect a more direct application or outreach process. Also has less provider-facing public information than nearly any other platform here, making it harder to evaluate before you've already applied.

MDLive

Positioning: A large, accredited network but one with real, explicit eligibility restrictions that some providers will run straight into.

Quick-look: Direct recruitment only, no self-serve application · 2,000+ providers, 62M members · 4+ years post-residency/licensure required.

Requirements: Physicians board-certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Dermatology, or Psychiatry with 4+ years post-residency. Behavioral health psychologists and therapists need 4+ years of independent licensure.
Important restriction: MDLive explicitly does not onboard nurse practitioners, physician assistants, occupational/physical/speech therapists, behavioral analysts, or dietitians. If you're in any of those categories, this platform isn't an option not a maybe, an outright no.
Pros: A large, NCQA/URAC-accredited network with real scale 2,000+ providers serving 62 million members.
Cons: No transparent pay information published anywhere, a higher experience bar (4+ years) than most competitors on this list, and that narrower professional eligibility that rules out several provider types entirely.

Already covered direct-to-consumer teletherapy platforms. If you're a licensed therapist specifically weighing direct-to-consumer options Talkspace, Grow Therapy, BetterHelp, Alma, Rula, Thriveworks, Amwell, Teladoc Health, Headway, and Open Path Collective we've already broken every one of those down individually, including exact pay figures and credentialing timelines, in our full therapist-platforms guide. No need to repeat that ground here.

How to Choose the Right Platform for Your Profession

Your license type does most of the filtering for you before you even look at pay rates.

Psychiatrist

Talkiatry (for the highest published psychiatrist salary on this list, ~$300K–$350K+) or Included Health (for the $206/visit-hour rate) are your strongest fits.

Coach, Not Clinically Licensed

Modern Health explicitly recruits ICF-certified coaches on equal footing with therapists. Most of this list won't take you at all verify directly with any platform claiming to accept coaches, since exact eligibility criteria shift.

Licensed Therapist (LCSW, LMFT, LPC)

You've got the most options of anyone in this guide Talkiatry (as a W2 employee working alongside psychiatrists), insurance-first platforms from our sister piece, plus nearly every employer platform in this section.

Nurse Practitioner or PA

Check MDLive off your list immediately it excludes you outright. Lyra Health and Modern Health both actively recruit NPs for medication management, which makes them your realistic starting points instead.

Platform vs. Your Own Practice Website

Same trade-off as the therapist-platform guide, just with higher stakes given how many of these platforms don't publish their pay rates at all.

❌ The Risk of Relying on a Platform Alone

A corporate contract decides your visibility. Join an employer benefit platform, and your rate and volume are set by that contract not you.
The pipeline can disappear overnight. That's fine when volume is steady. It's a problem the day that employer contract ends and your client pipeline from that platform disappears with it.

✅ Why Your Own Website Removes That Risk

Every client is yours, permanently regardless of what any platform decides next quarter.
Built around the same fundamentals. Building that presence properly starts with web design for therapists if you're clinically licensed, or web design for counsellors if that's your specific credential.

Running multiple platforms at once, which most providers in this space eventually do? The scheduling and notes chaos gets real fast without dedicated therapy practice management software that isn't tied to any single platform's own system.

Frequently Asked Questions

"Therapy platform" usually means direct-to-consumer services like BetterHelp or Talkspace, built around individual client-pays-directly relationships. "Mental health platform" is the broader category it includes those, plus employer-funded benefit platforms and psychiatry-specific networks that operate on entirely different funding models.

Some, yes Lyra Health and Modern Health both actively recruit NPs for medication management. MDLive explicitly excludes NPs, so that one's off the table regardless of your experience or credentials.

Generally, yes, and the pay is far less likely to be published. Direct-to-consumer platforms like BetterHelp or SonderMind tend to advertise a specific rate or range. Most employer/B2B platforms Spring Health, Modern Health, Lyra describe pay as "competitive" without a public number, since it's negotiated individually.

Yes, and it's common. Nothing stops a licensed therapist from taking direct-to-consumer clients while also being in-network through an employer benefit program like Lyra Health. Just track your total caseload carefully across systems that don't talk to each other.

None of the platforms detailed in this guide publish explicit Medicaid acceptance policies. If Medicaid billing is central to your practice, that's a direct question to raise before applying anywhere on this list, since it varies by platform and by state.

Talkiatry is built around prescribers and also employs therapists on the same integrated team. Included Health has a confirmed psychiatrist rate ($206/visit hour), and several employer platforms Spring Health, Lyra Health, Modern Health separately recruit psychiatrists and NPs for medication management alongside their therapist and coach networks.

Eleven more platforms, three more categories, and the right fit still comes down to your license and what you're optimizing for.

If you'd rather talk through which combination makes sense for your specific credentials and caseload goals, get in touch with our team → we help providers build the practice underneath all of this, not just point them at another platform.