Independent but not alone.

Run your own practice. Not the back office.

You set your rates. You choose your students. Arcling handles billing, scheduling, intake, and matching — and sends you families who actually fit how you work.

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Plain numbers, stated once.

You set your own rates — Arcling never sets your price or mandates a package. Here's what comes to you.

80%

Of every fee you charge, paid to you. Arcling's 20% covers billing, scheduling, intake, matching, and support — no subscriptions, no lead fees, no add-ons.

Most agencies take 40–50% and share nothing. Here you keep 80% of what you bill — and then a share of what the whole company earns on top of it. The people doing the counseling should own a piece of the upside they create.

What you stop doing

  • Writing invoices and chasing late payments
  • Playing email tag to book a single session
  • Re-typing intake forms into your own notes
  • Cold outreach to find the next family
  • Explaining your rates and your refund policy
  • Wondering where next fall's students come from

What you get instead

  • Families matched to your goals, working style, and price
  • Billing, scheduling, intake, and client comms handled end to end
  • An AI assistant for session prep and staying organized
  • A published professional standard every counselor here signs
  • Your practice, your name, your students — not an agency's

A network worth being vetted for

We verify credentials before anyone joins, and every counselor works to a published standard aligned with NACAC's Statement of Principles of Good Practice. That's not red tape — it's the reason a family trusts the counselor we match them with. Read the promise we make to families and the full Counselor Guidelines.

James Aylward

James Aylward

James spent years at Teachers Pay Teachers building products that helped independent educators reach the students and communities who needed them most. At Arcling, he brings those same marketplace instincts to a new problem: helping expert independent counselors build sustainable practices — and making sure families can actually find them.

Tell us how you work.

Send us your background, your credentials, and what makes your approach yours. We read every application.

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