$60-$160/hr clinical psychology and therapy work, on your schedule
Review AI-generated therapeutic responses, risk assessments, and clinical reasoning the way you'd supervise a trainee. Flag the missed suicidality cue, the response that ruptures rapport, the boundary that should never be crossed. The clinical judgment that keeps people safe is exactly what AI labs need - and what they cannot get wrong.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a therapist's eye on a missed risk cue spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Mental Health questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Sub-specialty depth is exactly what makes your contribution valuable. AI models trained on generalist clinical text often fail precisely in areas like ARFID differential diagnosis, trauma-informed CBT adaptations, or the intersection of OCD and body dysmorphia - and your field-specific reasoning is what corrects that. You will likely see tasks concentrated in your documented area of expertise rather than spread across all of mental health.
Your role is evaluative and instructional, not therapeutic. You will review and critique AI-generated clinical content - for example, assessing whether a model's case conceptualization aligns with DSM-5-TR criteria or whether a suggested intervention is contraindicated for a given presentation - rather than providing direct care to any real individual. Tasks are designed so that your work falls within the professional consultation and expert review activities recognized by the APA Ethics Code, not within the practice of psychotherapy.
Licensed master's-level clinicians including LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCs, and LMHCs qualify for most tasks, particularly those involving psychotherapy technique review, case formulation, and diagnostic reasoning within your scope of practice. Doctoral-level psychologists with a PhD, PsyD, or EdD are additionally eligible for tasks that require psychological testing expertise, such as evaluating AI-generated WAIS-IV or MMPI-3 interpretation narratives. Your current active licensure in any U.S. state is what matters for verification.
Tasks commonly include reviewing AI-generated clinical case conceptualizations, evaluating model-written psychoeducation materials against evidence-based frameworks like CBT, DBT, or ACT, and annotating whether an AI's suggested treatment plan is consistent with current APA or SAMHSA practice guidelines. You may also write worked examples showing expert diagnostic reasoning - for instance, walking through how you would differentiate bipolar II disorder from borderline personality disorder using DSM-5-TR specifiers - so the model can learn from your clinical thought process.
ABPP board certification in clinical neuropsychology is a recognized credential that qualifies you, and assessment-focused practitioners are particularly needed for tasks involving psychological testing content. Relevant work includes evaluating whether an AI's interpretation of a neuropsychological battery is accurate, reviewing model-generated explanations of executive function deficits for technical fidelity, and annotating errors in AI-produced psychoeducation about conditions like TBI, dementia, or ADHD. You do not need a psychotherapy background to contribute meaningfully.
Why your expertise matters
Mental health AI systems are increasingly deployed in screening tools, therapy-support chatbots, and crisis triage platforms where a misread presentation can cause genuine harm. Psychologists and therapists carry clinical judgment that no dataset alone can encode: the ability to recognize when a client's minimizing language masks acute risk, when a diagnostic label is being applied too loosely, or when a well-intentioned intervention response escalates instead of de-escalates. Training frontier models to reason safely across DSM-5-TR presentations, evidence-based protocols, and duty-to-warn obligations requires reviewers who have actually worked those decisions under real clinical supervision.
How pay works
Tasks requiring licensure-level judgment, such as evaluating crisis risk formulations against SLAP or Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale criteria or auditing AI-generated treatment plans for APA ethics compliance, pull toward the top of the $60-$160/hr range. Specializations in forensic psychology, neuropsychological assessment, DBT or EMDR credentialing, and child and adolescent clinical work also command higher rates because fewer qualified reviewers exist in those niches. All work is fully remote, paid by the verified-completion hour, with no retainer or minimum commitment required.
What the work looks like
A sample of the clinical psychology and therapy work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review an AI-generated safety plan for a patient presenting with passive suicidal ideation and flag any steps that conflict with Zero Suicide Framework guidelines.
- Score a set of model-produced clinical case conceptualizations on diagnostic accuracy against DSM-5-TR criteria, noting where the AI conflates adjustment disorder with major depressive disorder.
- Write a worked example showing how you would structure a motivational interviewing session for a client with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and PTSD, annotated to teach a model the clinical reasoning behind each reflective statement.
- Evaluate AI-drafted psychoeducation materials for a DBT skills group and identify language that could feel invalidating to clients in the emotion-dysregulation population.
- Audit a batch of AI therapy-session summaries for HIPAA-compliant phrasing and flag any sections that inadvertently include re-identifiable detail.
- Compare two model-generated intake assessments for a child presenting with school refusal and rank which more appropriately differentiates separation anxiety disorder from a developing mood disorder.
Specialties we match
Mental Health projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- CBT / DBT / ACT protocol expertise
- Crisis risk assessment (Columbia, SAD PERSONS)
- DSM-5-TR differential diagnosis
- Trauma-informed care (EMDR, CPT)
- Motivational interviewing
- Psychopharmacology awareness
- Neuropsychological assessment
- Child and adolescent psychotherapy
- APA ethics code
- HIPAA and mandated-reporter law
- Forensic psychological evaluation
- Integrated behavioral health
