Tools for understanding the profession

shrinkiatry's tools are meant to make the structure of the profession legible: what a practice earns, where the workforce is thin, how programs compare. They're educational. None of them is medical, legal, or financial advice, and none of them replaces a professional who knows your specific situation.

What makes a tool worth building

We build tools that teach, not gimmicks that perform. A good educational tool here does three things: it runs on transparent assumptions you can see and change, it's honest about what it ignores, and it leaves you understanding the system better than a static page could. The revenue estimator, for instance, isn't there to predict your income. It's there to let you feel how the levers, visit volume, pricing, payer mix, and overhead, push against each other.

What's live

The Psychiatry Practice Policy Builder is our first tool built for practitioners rather than readers. Answer a few questions about how your practice runs, and it drafts editable psychiatry practice policies you can hand to patients: refill, cancellation, financial and payment, communication, telehealth, and controlled-medication policies, plus a telehealth informed-consent form and a patient FAQ. It runs entirely in your browser, and every draft is yours to edit, copy, or download. It's an educational template, not legal advice.

The private practice revenue estimator models the gross and net annual revenue of an independent psychiatry practice from a handful of inputs. It runs entirely in your browser, sends nothing anywhere, and shows its math. It's built to pair with the business section, especially how private practices work and cash-pay versus insurance, so the numbers have context.

The psychiatry panel size calculator answers the companion question: how many active patients a clinician can sustainably hold, given hours, visit lengths, and how often established patients are seen. The follow-up interval turns out to be the biggest lever.

What's in development

Several more are planned: a psychiatry workforce map built from HRSA shortage-area data, a residency program explorer, and a compensation explorer by practice type and setting. We'd rather ship these accurate and well-sourced than fast, so they land as the underlying data and design are ready. If there's a tool you'd find useful, tell us through contact.

A word of caution

Every tool here is a model, and a model is a simplification. The outputs are a way to build intuition, not a forecast for any specific person or practice, and they should never stand in for advice from a professional who knows your circumstances. We label that on each tool, and we mean it.