<?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 — updated 2026-04-15 (full hreflang audit complete across all NL sitemaps) -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- EN sitemap: all English pages with hreflang — updated 2026-04-15 -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-en.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- NL v2 sitemap: secondary Dutch pages sitemap — updated 2026-04-15 -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-nl-v2.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Google News sitemap: genuine editorial articles only — stale/evergreen entries removed 2026-04-15 -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-news.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Therapist directory — all 50 US state landing pages with hreflang -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/therapist-directory-sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-14</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- i18n sitemap: multilingual alternate URLs — full audit confirmed clean 2026-04-15 -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-i18n.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Image sitemap: image metadata for key pages with properly escaped entities -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-images.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-14</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Video sitemap: video metadata for rich results with properly escaped entities -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-videos.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-14</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Articles sitemap: all individual article pages /articles/:slug — 13 x 2026 editorial articles added 2026-04-15 -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-articles.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Dutch (NL) sitemap: all /nl/* pages in one focused batch for Google NL crawl -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-nl.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <!-- Dutch priority cluster: top 40 highest-value NL anxiety/panic/stress pages
       Dedicated sub-sitemap to signal crawl priority to Google NL.
       Pages here are also listed in sitemap-nl.xml — this file accelerates indexation. -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://emorapath.com/sitemap-nl-priority.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-04-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

</sitemapindex>
