A fictional network for real providers

Your next clients want to know who they're getting.

Have something real to say about being human right now?

Zimbug TV is a fictional television network with one real purpose: letting people see who you actually are before they reach out. Instead of the usual therapy-speak, each episode turns a genre — a newscast, an appraisal show, a weather report — into a creative expression of your approach, your worldview, your personality. Episodes air on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, where your future clients already scroll, and every one links straight back to your website.

NOW PLAYING · EP 001

ON AIR
Breaking Mental Health News

"Local Therapist Refuses to Pretend Everything Is Fine"

BREAKING NEWS

Programming for people done pretending.

THE NETWORK'S ON-AIR STANCE

  • No gaslighting — the network never treats what people are experiencing as imaginary.
  • No toxic positivity dressed up as truth.
  • No reducing every response to a difficult world to a personal defect.
  • No despair as an aesthetic, either.
  • Every episode gets honest, finds its footing, and asks what becomes possible from here.

Tonight's Lineup

CH 01

Breaking Mental Health News

Serious chyrons. Absurd tickers. A field interview with a provider who won't pretend.

PILOT
CH 02

The Emotional Antiques Roadshow

A provider appraises your Hypervigilance, circa 1998. Still functional. Heavily used.

PILOT
CH 03

The Inner Weather Channel

Today's forecast, mapped gently. The tender, cinematic side of the network.

PILOT
CH 04

The Case for Being Alive

An ongoing argument, presented with evidence.

COMING SOON
CH 05

Late Night With the Inner Critic

He's exhausting. We gave him a desk anyway.

COMING SOON
CH 00

Channel 0: The Space Between Stories

Experimental broadcasts for when the old story ends and the new one hasn't started.

COMING SOON

Featured Providers

FOUNDING SEASON
SIGNAL INCOMING

Founding Provider 01

A real therapist, psychiatrist, PMHNP, or practice with an actual point of view — revealed through their episode, linked directly to their website.

SIGNAL INCOMING

Founding Provider 02

Licensed states listed plainly. No rankings, no reviews, no matching algorithm. Just recognition.

SIGNAL INCOMING

Founding Provider 03

The right viewers recognize themselves in your worldview and reach out. The rest keep scrolling. Both outcomes are correct.

The founding season features a small, invited group of providers with genuinely distinctive perspectives. The network is selective on purpose.

What Every Viewer Is Told

OUTSIDE THE FICTION

The story stays in character; the facts stay visible. Every feature states, outside the fiction, that a video is not a clinical match, a diagnosis, or advice — it's a first impression.

Viewers are pointed to your website and told to ask you directly about fit, availability, cost, and licensure. Your licensed states appear on every feature, with a note to confirm current availability and telehealth eligibility with you. Paid participation is always disclosed.

Episodes that touch heavy ground carry crisis information: in the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), or call 911 in an emergency. Zimbug TV is entertainment, not emergency care.

Join the founding season.

A limited number of features, invitation-only, in different genres. You approve the facts; the story does the rest.

END CARDEvery episode ends with the real stuff: your name, role, licensed states, and a direct link to your website. The story stays in character. The facts don't hide.
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