For clinical psychologists and counsellors
Cashew works alongside independent practitioners in India: another way for new clients to find you, and a hand with the bookings, reminders and notes that eat into your evenings. We open to clients soon, and we’re getting to know practitioners first.
no interview. just hello.
What Cashew is
People come to Cashew when they’re looking for help. Someone on our team reads what each person has written and introduces them to one practitioner who suits them: the language they think in, what they’re carrying, the hours they can manage. You aren’t one face in a list of four hundred, and you never pay to be seen.
we’re new, so we won’t promise you a number. we will promise every introduction is a careful one.
The bookings, the reschedules, the reminders, the notes, the loose ends at the end of the day. We take care of the parts of private practice nobody trained you for, so your time goes to the room and not the admin around it.
it comes with being part of cashew. no subscription, nothing to buy.
A Tuesday, 9:40 pm
Coco does these now.
Clients book into the hours you’ve opened. Reminders go out on their own, to them and to you. A moved session finds its new time without a dozen messages. Your notes stay in one private place, typed or spoken. And the clients you already see can sit in the same diary.
Nothing new to learn. It works on the phone you already carry, and we set it up with you on a call.
Ask us to show youProfessional autonomy
We would rather earn your trust than tie you in. So the decisions that make a practice yours stay with you, and we work around them.
Your fee.
You decide what a session with you costs. We never discount your time or run a sale on it.
Your hours.
Two evenings a week or five full days. Change them whenever your life does.
Your way of working.
Your approach, your training, your judgement in the room. No scripts, no quotas, no targets.
Your clients.
The people you already see stay yours. Keep them in the same diary if it helps; we never contact them and we don’t take a cut.
Your call.
If someone we introduce isn’t right for you, say so and we’ll find them someone who is. Keep your clinic, your hospital work, anything else you do.
Why a squirrel?
When the bridge to Lanka was being built, the story goes, a small squirrel rolled in the sand and carried what it could down to the water. Everyone else was hauling boulders. Rama noticed anyway, and ran his fingers down its back; the three stripes are where they rested.
Small help counts. That’s the whole idea of Cashew, and Coco is the one who looks after the small things in your week.
(coco, for short. cashew was taken.)
Early, on purpose
We would like the people who shape Cashew to be the people who practise on it. If you arrive before the doors open:
Practitioners who join before we open keep a lower commission on the clients we introduce than those who come later.
Tell us what makes your week harder than it should be. We’re a small team that builds things, and if it’s a chore, we would like to make it go away.
Your profile, your hours and your diary, done with you over one phone call. Nothing for you to install or learn first.
How it goes
Your name, your number, and whether you’re a psychologist or a counsellor. Two minutes, at most.
A conversation, not an interview. How you work, what would help, and anything you want to ask us.
Your profile in your own words, and the hours you’d like to offer. We do the fiddly parts.
Introductions begin when there’s someone who suits you. The help with your week is yours from the start.
Who you’ll be talking to
Cashew is small on purpose. When you say hello, it reaches one of us, not a sales team, and the person who calls you back is the person who will set you up.
Hayash Teenoth
Clinical psychologist · 13 years in practice
A practising clinical psychologist. The practice side of Cashew is shaped around how he works, so if you want to know what a week on it is really like, ask him.
Arnav Aradhya
Builds Cashew
Arnav makes the things that take work off your plate. Tell him what’s fiddly about your week, and it goes on his list.
Something we haven’t answered? Ask it in your hello, or email hello@cashew.care.
No. There’s no joining fee, no subscription and nothing to buy. When we introduce a client and you see them, we take a commission on that session. Those who join early keep a lower one.
We’d rather be straight with you: we haven’t opened yet, so we can’t promise a number and we won’t pretend to. What we can promise is that every introduction is made by a person who has read what the client wrote, and that we’ll only introduce someone we think suits the way you work.
No. You stay independent. Cashew works alongside your practice; it doesn’t employ you or ask for your time beyond the sessions you choose to offer.
Yes. We work with both, and we keep the two distinct. Your profile says exactly what you are and what you trained in, and people are introduced to the kind of practitioner their needs call for.
If you’re a clinical psychologist, yes, and we check every number by hand before anyone sees your profile. You don’t need it to say hello, though. If you’re a counsellor, we’ll talk about your training instead.
Not at all. Most of what we do for you happens without you lifting a finger, and we set the rest up with you over a call. If something feels awkward, tell us. Fixing it is our job, not learning it yours.
Yes. Cashew sits alongside whatever you already do. There’s no exclusivity, and nobody will ask you to move your existing clients anywhere.
Online, by video, through Cashew. You and your client each join from a link at the time of the session; there’s nothing for either of you to install.
One of us calls or WhatsApps you within a few days. If it turns out not to be the right time, that’s completely fine. Tell us, and we won’t chase you.
We’ll take it from there, at your pace.
