We use advanced natural language processing and semantic search to match you with the perfect therapist—no keyword hunting required
Navigating through countless platforms to find the right therapist
Struggling to describe personal issues in professional terminology
Platforms rely on keywords instead of understanding your story
First Aid Therapy uses Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing to understand your needs—not just match keywords
No need for clinical terminology. Just describe what you're going through naturally.
Example: "I've been feeling really anxious about work lately and it's affecting my sleep. I'd like someone who understands career stress."
Our Natural Language Processing system extracts key concerns and emotions from your text, identifying underlying needs.
Instead of keyword matching, we embed your needs and therapist profiles into a vector space—capturing meaning, not just words.
Results are ranked by how closely each therapist matches your concerns—with additional filters for your preferences.
Your interactions—clicks, saves, ratings—help our system learn and improve recommendations over time.
NLP interprets your narrative into needs
Vector similarity captures meaning
Best matches to your concerns
Learns from your preferences
Our system is built on thousands of therapist profiles and real user queries
Structured Data:
Specialization, location, availability, languages, ratings, cost
Unstructured Data:
Bios, therapeutic approaches, keywords, client reviews
2,000-5,000
New York therapist records
Natural language queries describing therapy needs and preferences
"An online therapist specializing in childhood trauma and anxiety"
Hundreds
Collected from surveys & testing
Increased accuracy and relevance in therapist matching
More streamlined and easier to use than traditional platforms
Decreased search time means therapy can start earlier
No need to learn professional terminology—just be yourself