Psych Central is overseen by mental health professionals who create and oversee all the content published on the site.
[12] Consumers are Psych Central's target audience, as the site offers informational articles about mental health, relationships, personality, and helping people better understand themselves.
[9][10][13][14][15] Prior to its sale to Healthline, Psych Central had over 200 blogs[16] that are written by psychologists, psychiatrists and people with lived experience, as well as a mental health news bureau that publishes up to five stories per day.
In 1995, Grohol began a weekly online mental health chat which continued on the Psych Central website.
The researchers found that search engines "regularly returned Web sites that were of good or better quality health information."
Psych Central was cited as one of the top two mental health-focused Web sites returning search results for this analysis.