<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

  <!-- Main sitemap: all core routes, articles, therapist profiles -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Google News sitemap: editorial articles within 48-hour freshness window -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/sitemap-news.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-09</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Therapist directory — all 50 US state landing pages with hreflang -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/therapist-directory-sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-09</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- i18n sitemap: multilingual alternate URLs -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/sitemap-i18n.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Image sitemap: image metadata for key pages with properly escaped entities -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/sitemap-images.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-09</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Video sitemap: video metadata for rich results with properly escaped entities -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/sitemap-videos.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-09</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Articles sitemap: all individual article pages /articles/:slug -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/sitemap-articles.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-09</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Dutch (NL) sitemap: dedicated sub-sitemap for all /nl/* pages -->
  <!-- Separated from sitemap-i18n.xml to improve Dutch crawl efficiency -->
  <!-- and give Googlebot a focused crawl budget for the NL cluster -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-nl.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

</sitemapindex>
