Thanks for your interest in contributing to NRMFT! We’re teaming up with therapists to build out our blog to better educate our readers and people interested in therapy. By partnering together, we want to showcase your thought leadership while promoting your brand as a trusted resource.
With that in mind, here are some guidelines and recommendations for each piece of content that you submit.
Currently we are only accepting guest posts from members of the NRMFT registry. Not a member? Learn more here
In general, posts we accept for guest content fall under the following themes:
While brainstorming what to write about, ask yourself these questions:
When in doubt, get in touch with us at frances@marriagefriendlytherapists.com.
Note: We want content from people with hands-on experience in therapy. If you’re a freelance writer trying to get experience, please contact us separately.
The guiding light behind our blog is to share content that’s educational, engaging, and entertaining … not product-focused or promotional.
We’ve built a high level of trust with our readers because they know we will never push something on them that we don’t 110% believe is in their best interests, even when that means telling them not to use our services. Being overly self-promotional destroys that trust, even if your advice is good.
Instead, use our blog to showcase your expertise with potential new clients. If people find your content valuable, they’ll research you all on their own. Likewise, our team will happily use your content to make warm introductions to you when appropriate.
Posts should be 1,000 – 1,500+ words in length. We find this is a sweet spot with our readership, and you’ll fit in with the rest of our blog this way. Longer is good, too.
Break up your content, so it’s easy to read. This means including headings, subheadings, bullets, and any other visual elements to increase the readability of your piece.
Write in a natural, conversational tone. We want to share content that is authoritative, but not robotic. We’re producing blog content — not Wikipedia pages, so don’t shy away from showing off your sense of humor. That said, if your guest post was a movie, the highest rating we’d want to see on it is PG-13.
All content MUST BE ORIGINAL. We do not accept duplicate or syndicated content as guest posts. If your post has appeared anywhere else on the web, we can’t publish it on our blog. If you quote other content, link to it.
Always name your sources. We understand that you’re an expert, but our audience might not be so sure. If you’re going to drop some stats, link back to the original source.
Talk about your real-world experience. Talk about mistakes you’ve made, plans you’ve built, and strategies you and your clients have used. Draw on your own personal experience to speak authoritatively about what you know.
Take a position. If you disagree with common wisdom on a topic, talk about why the mainstream point of view is wrong or misleading. Back up your perspective with facts. Include interesting data. Support your arguments with external references.
NOTE: NRMFT reserves full editorial control and may edit or tweak submissions as we see fit. These tweaks include anything from removing too much self-promotion to optimizing for SEO, edits both small and large, and more. If we make any edits, we will contact you to get approval before publishing the blog post on our website.
Please feel free to promote your post through your social media, newsletter, or link to it from your blog.
You can even include a snippet of the post on your blog, with a link back to the original content on our site (this is important so that we both avoid duplicate content penalties).
Guest posting is an important part of any serious blog strategy. It benefits your site by giving you more quality content to boost your content strategy. It benefits guest posters by getting their name in front of a new audience.
As you go out and find possible people to collaborate with, always make sure to work with trustworthy experts in your space. Your content needs to fit into a much larger overall marketing strategy and you want to find people who support that strategy.
And if you think you’d make an interesting, valuable contribution to the NRMFT blog, reach out! We’re always on the lookout for people to collaborate with!
If you are interested in writing a guest blog for us, you can send an email to frances@marriagefriendlytherapists.com with the information listed below. For the subject line of the email, please used "Interested in NRMFT Guest Blog Post" so we don't miss your email.
In the body of your email, please include: