The silver lining of CoVid pandemic was the explosion of telemed for mental health professionals. In Knoxville, most therapists are still primarily using telemed. One patient of mine said she went through 7 local therapists to find her 8th who would see her in her office. Some have given up offices completely. There are national and regional therapists online. BetterHelp.com seems to be one of the better. I thought Talkiatry might be a good idea until I read the reviews of what seemed to be muliple instances of surprise billing. Biggest difficulty is turnover in therapists and psychiatrists. One of my former psych NP's went to work for FastPace Urgent Care with offices in multiple states where they do both psychotropic meds and psychotherapy. Studies show teletherapy is non-inferior to office-based. I still do about 10% of my practice virtually, especially to people in Sevierville and Gatlinburg because they don't want to fight Dollywood and Pigeon Forge traffic AND Knoxville traffic. The other issue is trying to get records from these places is just about impossible. As long as you are licensed in that particular state, it doesn't matter where the mental health professional lives. The NP's I know say it's pretty easy to get licensed in many other states.

Lane Cook
Psychiatrist, Knoxville, TN
"Experience is NOT doing the same thing over and over"