Disclosures

Trust depends on knowing who benefits. Here are the relevant interests, disclosed plainly, because a site that covers the business of psychiatry has no business hiding its own.

Why disclosure matters here

shrinkiatry writes about practice models, cash-pay psychiatry, and clinical care, and the editor has a financial stake in a telepsychiatry practice. That's a real potential conflict, and the right response isn't to pretend it away but to state it clearly so you can weigh what you read with full information. Disclosure doesn't remove an interest; it just makes it visible, which is the honest minimum.

The editor's interests

shrinkiatry is written or reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, FAPA, who has financial interests in several things this site may mention:

• shrinkMD, an independent multistate telepsychiatry practice he founded. When shrinkiatry refers to shrinkMD as the network's clinical practice, understand that the editor has a financial interest in it.
• Books published by shrinkMD Publishing, LLC, the imprint behind this site.
• The Unstuck app and the shrinQ program, wellness tools he created.

How we keep coverage honest despite the interest

The safeguards are concrete. shrinkiatry runs no advertising, sells nothing on the site, and takes no affiliate or referral commissions from anything it links to. Claims are tied to primary sources rather than to whatever would help the business. References to shrinkMD are made because it's the network's clinical practice and the natural place to route someone who needs care, not as paid placement, and we point readers to non-network resources where those are the better fit. Where a financial interest is relevant on a page, we note it.

What we don't take

No ad networks, no sponsored posts, no affiliate links, no pay-for-placement. If that ever changes, this page changes first, and any paid relationship would be labeled on the pages it touches.

The network

shrinkiatry is part of The Shrink Network, a group of independent properties created or reviewed by Dr. Refai. The network links its sites to one another openly. You can read the network's own disclosures as well.