Side income for therapists
Side income for therapists, without burning out the caseload that pays your rent.
For LPCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LMHCs, and psychologists carrying the anxious, insomniac, perimenopausal, and recently-bereaved cases that fill your weekly schedule. The clinical-herbalist line your client already wishes you could recommend, with auto-prefixed FTC disclosure that protects your license and traditional-use framing that keeps you inside your scope. 20% commission on first orders, 10% recurring for 12 months, weekly Friday payouts. The therapist side hustle that doesn't require seeing more clients.
The licensure-aware framing this program is built around.
Your license forbids you from prescribing, claiming a cure, or making specific physiological claims about herbal products. The market is full of brands that ignore these constraints in their marketing copy, which means recommending those bottles to a client surfaces real licensure exposure. Most therapists end up avoiding the recommendation entirely, even when they personally use herbal preparations themselves and find them useful.
Gaia's Garden is positioned as a clinical-herbalist DTC brand. The copy uses traditional-use framing throughout, not cure-claims. Every published review carries auto-prefixed FTC affiliate disclosure on every line. The 30-night unconditional refund means your client takes zero financial risk when trying a bottle. Auto-disclosure plus traditional-use framing means this is the cleanest brand to be associated with from a board-complaint perspective.
Most therapist affiliates use the program one of two ways. One: stock a few bottles in the office, recommend them as “something I use personally, take a look if it interests you,” and let the client decide. Two: mention the brand in a Substack or email list with the disclosure prominent, and let clients self-select. Both ways stay within your scope. We never ask you to claim anything specific about a product's effect.
Practice economics
A solo-practice therapist's Year 1.
You see 25-30 weekly clients, ~600 sessions per year. You mention Gaia's Garden in maybe 5% of sessions where a between-sessions support question comes up naturally from the client.
~25 clients order from your code in the year. 12 enroll in S&S. Most therapist affiliates also write a Substack or newsletter for clients/community which surfaces 1-2 mentions per quarter, adding 10-15 additional orders.
First-order: ~40 × $7.20 = $288
Recurring S&S: 15 × 7 mo avg × $3.60 = $378
Founder's Kits (clients in transition): 2 × $119.70 = $239
Year 1: ~$905
Group practices with 5+ clinicians or therapists with 5K+ Substack subscribers typically see 5-10× this.
The partner stack
What you get when you join
- 25% commission on first orders, paid out weeklyOn every $36 essence sale that uses your code, you earn $9.00.25%
- 12% on Subscribe & Save refills for the next 12 monthsRecurring revenue on every reorder, not just the first sale.12%
- 30% on the Founder's Apothecary Kit ($399, 4 spots/month)Higher commission on the high-anchor product. $119.70 per referred kit sale.30%
- Welcome kit on signupA free flower essence + signed copy of Harmony Within, shipped within 48 hoursYour pick of 5 essences. The book is Gaia's 30-script Yoga Nidra collection she developed in private practice. Both yours to keep.
$60FREE - 7-Day Fast StartOne short email per day for your first week, each with a 5-to-20-minute task that gets your code from “sitting in a dashboard” to “earning commission”$197 value
- Creatives Library4 swipe-file emails + 7 social captions + verified-claims reference + brand assets + FTC disclosure templates, all pre-written in Gaia's voice. So you don't have to write from scratch.$197 value
- Practitioner client handoutLetterhead-quality PDF you mail to clients, custom-branded with your name + the matched essence + your code. Auto-generated from your dashboard.$97 value
- 24 archetype-matched LPsDon't send people to a generic homepage. Send them to the LP for their pattern (anxiety-quiz, sleep-quiz, heart-quiz, tension-quiz, etc.). 8 archetypes × 3 entry styles = 24 conversion-optimized pages your code travels through.$97 value
- Live attribution dashboardReal-time stats: per-source breakdown, recurring revenue trajectory from your S&S subscribers, inline monthly contest standings, tier-progress pacing. Built on real attribution, not best-guess analytics.$97 value
- Auto-prefixed FTC disclosureBuilt-in legal protection if you're a licensed practitioner. Every review submitted with your code auto-prefixes the FTC affiliate disclosure required since 2024. The $51,744 / violation rule still bites brands that don't auto-disclose; our system does it for you.$97 value
- Monthly contest$250 + Founder's Kit / $100 + 3 essences / $50 + 1 essence for top 3 producers each monthScales to $500 / $250 / $100 cash once 10+ partners are producing.$400/mo
- Quarterly bonusTop 3 partners get a $250 cash bonus + featured Q&A interview on the blog$750/qtr
- Risk reversalYour code never expires. No clawbacks. Honest reviews always welcome (including critical ones).Included
- Total welcome bonus valueStacked welcome value before you make a single sale (plus the contest pools above, ongoing)$842
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Tell us about your practice
2-minute application. Gaia reads every application personally; you hear back within 5 business days.
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