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In a previous post, I introduced some data I scraped from Psychology Today's Find A Therapist directory. The data (and code) can be found in my github repository.

The first thing I'd like to do with this data is learn a bit more about the providers of therapy in private practice today. Who are they? How were they trained? What degrees do they hold? What issues do they treat? And what methods do they use?

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In this inagural blog post, I want to introduce the motivation and data for a data science project I've been working on.

For the last 6 years, I have been working on a PhD in Harvard's Clinical Science program (part of the Psychology department). As part of my training, I have become familiar with the research base (or lack thereof) for various psychological therapies, as well as with the more general nuances and particulars in the field of mental health treatment.

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