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Ask A Therapist

A supportive community to ask questions and engage in discussion about mental health-related matters with therapists on Reddit. This sub does not replace seeing a therapist and the information provided is for resource and entertainment purposes only.

86k subscribers1,569 posts / mo in Sep 20261,280 authors / mosince 2015

r/askatherapist has 86k members (+33% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,569 posts a month from 1,280 people. Top topics: Client Therapy Issues, Therapist Practice and Imposter Syndrome & Therapy.

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Size and growth

How r/askatherapist has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+33%in 12 months · +5.9% in 3 months · +1.4% in 1 month
Oct 202686k
Growing86k subscribers
Data since Jan 2019Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+13%vs Sep 2025 · +2.8% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.6k
BusierPeaked at 1.7k in Jul 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/askatherapist

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Client Therapy Issues3.0%
  2. Therapist Practice1.6%
  3. Imposter Syndrome & Therapy0.7%
  4. Therapy Navigation0.4%
  5. CPR Responses<0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. American Psychological Association
  2. ScienceDirect
  3. ResearchGate
  4. Doi
  5. Springer

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Everything else about r/askatherapist

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research