We publish articles about a variety of intersections of mental health that contribute positively to living the best life you can imagine.
While many of our articles will provide practical tips that can be applied to everyday life, there are also those articles that are not always “positive” but offer insight and perspective into mental health from our contributors.
As a digital magazine, we have simplified the contribution model, down to three basic contribution types. Please make sure you’ve read these and understand where your contribution fits.
Please note that we only publish original content. We will not republish an article from any other publication, blog, or another website.
Contribution Types
Personal
We’d love to share your story of health & mental health wellness. The lived experience is your story directly or perhaps that of someone or something close to you. It is personal and we thank you so much for taking the time and effort to find us and want to share with our readers. That’s often very helpful for everyone, but we understand how personally difficult it can be and we thank you for your courage to share.
We often receive “personal” accounts of mental health recovery that are simply self-promotion of commercial activity (a book or workshop for example). While we’re happy to consider the personal aspect, if the purpose is actually promotional, then sponsored content is probably for you.
Professional
We greatly value the information and articles provided by mental health, wellness, health, nutrition, and many other professionals. Sometimes it is submitted because you’re passionate about a topic and want more people to know more about it. Please note that this is a consumer magazine and not a professional journal or resource and any professional contribution must be written as such.
Sometimes it is promotional. We’re more than happy to help promote your product or service when the content is informational with reference to your product or service or contact information. An entire “article” about your product or facility or service would be considered promotional and sponsored content is definitely for you.
Sponsored
We are more than happy to help promote a product or service that is relevant or beneficial to our readers. We do think it’s important to make people aware of just what is out there that could help. However, this is promotional with the intent of improving you or your organization – whether a business or not for profit. In this case, we will pass on the editorial and layout costs. Essentially, when there is more potential value to your cause than to our readers as a whole, we will ask you to support that financially as sponsored content.
Links
We’re happy to include backlinks when appropriate. We will review your link to ensure it is consistent with the approach and editorial integrity of the BTT Magazine. For obviously personal blogs, we’re happy to help. For registered commercial organizations (including not-for-profits) or for-profit blogs (any form of advertising), we will charge an administrative or advertising fee.
Content Preparation
We review everything we receive and consider all contributions. If it is suitable and fits with the general helpful, informational, and positive approach of the magazine, we will definitely consider it. We then edit, proofread, edit again, and layout the content in both web and digital magazine formats. We rarely make changes to the content (other than proofreading/editorial) but may request you to update any part that is not consistent with our publication.
What to Provide
In the first instance, you may just want to contact us to ensure what you want to submit is suitable. Or provide submission and we’ll let you know.
For personal based articles, we usually ask for the content, photos (if possible), and a release from anyone in the photos, and usually a short “bio” or “about you” section.
For sponsored content, we will need the material, then contact and product/service information, including images, URLs, and other relevant details.
BEFORE Submitting
Please take a look through our articles and digital magazines to get a good feel for our usual content. Because we are not driven by advertisers or grants, we publish what we feel is valuable to our readers without constraint.
However, we have a high editorial standard and do not publish anything that could be considered negative or sensationalist or a rant. Black Therapy Today is a positive approach to a better quality of life through better mental wellness.
If you’re ready to make contact, please use the contact form.
Thank you.