What is Psych2Go?

Psych2Go started as a tumblr blog in 2015 to share concise psychology facts. In just over a year they gained over 500,000 followers. As Psych2Go grew people wanted more indepth information about psychology, and so their website was born to provide this (Psych2Go.net). Now, we have a good network of varying platforms, including YouTube and our own website. Overall, Psych2Go has 3 main aims :-

Improve and save lives by building a community around mental health & psychology topics
Make hard topics relatable & understandable
Decrease the stigma around mental health

We hope in the future to become the number one source for psychological information that is easy to understand for everyone.

What is the Psych2Go Magazine?

When discussing how to grow Psych2Go a number ideas were discussed. One that really excited us was put forward by our now Editor-in-Chief, Teresa. This was the idea of a magazine. We decided to have set areas of psychology (and related topics) we covered each issue, to make sure there is something for everyone. These areas are Career Tips, Creative Writing, Cross-Cultural psych, Exploring Mental Health, Forensic psych, Issue Topic, LGBT Psych, Media Review, Music Psych, Neurodiversity, Personality Psych, PSYCH in the News, Psych Myths, and Social Psych. Each issue would also have an awareness topic, as raising awareness to different psychological issues is very important to us. Articles are sourced and referenced, to ensure each one gives the best up to date information to our readers. As well as top quality articles, we have high quality artwork made for each article – to ensure the magazine is both informative and visually appealing. We didn't just want our staff to be creating the magazine, and so we decided to have plenty of opportunities for community submissions as well. We take submissions in terms of writing, photography, and art pieces. We also include an advice column in each issue. Currently previous issues are sold through our store psych2go.shop

We have three main aims for the magazine:-

to provide accessible psychological knowledge. Often academic articles on psychology aren't easy to read, and so we want to present good research in a simple way.
to raise awareness for important topics. Often, certain issues around psychology that are important don't receive the attention they deserve. This is a very important part of our mission to us.
to give people work experience. In today's world work experience in your given field is more important than ever. This can be a challenge for many as competition in psychology is so high. We want to offer such like opportunities for work experience, as staff or as community submissions.

Whats in it for you?

There are many different tiers of rewards for pledgers - for all budgets - which you can check out on this page. But what else will you get by pledging?

Firstly, you'll be helping out a small, growing business. At the heart of our company is being accessible and so you know you're supporting an inclusive company, who want to reach many people and offer different people opportunities, and you will be directly funding this.
You'll also be supporting a unique magazine, which isn't just aimed at academics, and is actually aimed at anyone with an interest in psychology. A magazine which will teach you about psychology from a unique, international perspective. A lot of the writers only write for our magazine, and you wont find the articles anywhere else.
Furthermore as already said we are committed to raising awareness, and so your support will help us amplify that awareness to more people. So your pledge will be going towards supporting really important issues and causes. We will bring knowledge and information to a wide audience about these topics, and you can feel pride knowing you've helped us be able to do that.
Psych2Go is an amazing community of people, who love discussion and helping each other. You can expand your knowledge, gain helpful insights, and connect with people all over the world in this group. Finally, you will have the eternal gratitude of our entire team!

What are our goals?

Through the funds raised via the Patreon, we will firstly pay our staff – it is important to us that our hardworking teams be compensated for the work they do put in, as well as gaining vital experience. We also want to fund as many physical copies of the magazine as we can – to make the magazine accessible not just to those who like digital copies – but also those who like physical copies. Finally, we’d use the funds to finance ways to get the word out about the magazine – making sure we can reach as many people as possible. Your support will mean the world <3