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Knowledge Base / Clinician Mental Health / August 2026
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Physicians are 82% more likely to burn out.

The comparison between doctors and everyone else is one of the most repeated findings in occupational health, and one of the most casually mangled. There is a real national dataset underneath it, collected on a real instrument, with a real number attached. Knowing exactly what that number is turns out to matter more than the headline does.

THE QUICK TAKEAWAY

Physician burnout is measured rather than estimated. A national survey of 7,643 US physicians conducted between October 2023 and March 2024, published by Shanafelt and colleagues in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2025, found 45.2% reporting at least one symptom of burnout. After adjusting for age, sex, relationship status and hours worked, the study put the odds of burnout in physicians at 1.82 times the odds in other US workers. That odds ratio of 1.82 is the origin of the widely repeated 82% figure. CEREVITY works on what sits underneath the statistic: exhaustion in physicians that rest has stopped resolving.

§01 / 09 / Definition

Where the 82 percent comes from.

The 82 percent figure traces to a single adjusted odds ratio of 1.82, reported by Shanafelt and colleagues in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2025 from a survey of 7,643 physicians scored on the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Odds and likelihood are not interchangeable, which is why the phrasing deserves a closer look than it usually gets.

Almost every claim about doctors and burnout eventually points back to the same place. Since 2011, a research group now spanning the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic, Stanford Medicine and the University of Colorado School of Medicine has run a national survey of US physicians roughly every three years, alongside a probability-based sample of the general US working population, so that the two groups can be compared on the same instrument in the same period. The most recent wave ran from 19 October 2023 to 3 March 2024. It drew 7,643 physician participants, scored burnout using the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and reported that 45.2% of physicians had at least one symptom of burnout. That is down sharply from 62.8% in 2021 and statistically indistinguishable from 43.9% in 2017 and 45.5% in 2011. Then came the comparison. On multivariable analysis of the 2023 participants, adjusting for age, sex, relationship status and hours worked per week, physicians were at increased risk of burnout with an odds ratio of 1.82 and a 95% confidence interval of 1.63 to 2.05. Stanford Medicine's news office translated that finding for a general readership as physicians being 82.3% more likely to be experiencing burnout than US workers in other occupations, and that sentence is where the headline number entered wide circulation.

Six pressures the survey is quietly measuring

01

The documentation load

A 2017 study in the Annals of Family Medicine tracked 142 family physicians through three years of electronic health record event logs, validated against direct time-motion observation. Those physicians spent 355 minutes a day in the record, 269 minutes during clinic hours and 86 minutes after them, inside an 11.4-hour workday. Clerical and administrative tasks accounted for 157 minutes of that, and documentation alone for 84.

02

The inbox that never closes

In the same dataset, inbox management consumed 85 minutes a day. Messages arrive continuously, they carry clinical risk, and the work of answering them sits outside every scheduled slot. Nothing in the design of a clinic day accounts for it, which is why it lands in the evening.

03

Hours that are structurally longer

The national comparison adjusts for hours worked, which means the elevated odds are not simply a restatement of physicians working more. Adjusting for hours is the whole point of the model: it isolates the part of the difference that longer weeks alone do not explain, and a substantial part remains.

04

Responsibility that does not distribute

Decisions in medicine carry consequences that cannot be spread across a committee or deferred to a quarter-end. Sustained accountability of that kind is a recognised driver of chronic work stress, and it is present in a physician's week whether the week went well or badly.

05

Help-seeking routed through paperwork

Licensure applications and hospital credentialing packets have historically asked broad questions about mental health history, and the memory of that shapes behaviour long after the wording changes. The American Medical Association states plainly that no federal regulatory agency requires those questions to be asked, and that both The Joint Commission and the Federation of State Medical Boards strongly discourage them. What your own board and your own credentialing body actually ask, and what you are obliged to disclose to them, is a question for that board and for your own counsel rather than for a clinician.

06

Being the person everyone else calls

A physician occupies the help-giving position in nearly every room they enter. Reversing that position is a genuine psychological task rather than an administrative one, and it accounts for a great deal of the delay between a doctor noticing something and a doctor doing anything about it.

▶ Research

The statistic underneath this article's title is an odds ratio, and an odds ratio is not a likelihood ratio. Shanafelt and colleagues reported that, after adjustment, the odds of burnout among physicians were 1.82 times the odds among other US workers, with a confidence interval of 1.63 to 2.05. Odds are the ratio of an event happening to it not happening. When an outcome is rare, odds and probability sit close together and the two can be loosely swapped. When an outcome is common, and burnout is common in both groups, they separate substantially, and an odds ratio of 1.82 corresponds to a much smaller difference in the proportion of people affected. So the honest reading is not that 82% more doctors are burning out. The honest reading is that the odds of burnout in physicians are about 82% higher than in a comparable non-physician worker of the same age, sex, relationship status and weekly hours. That finding is robust, it has been replicated across five survey waves since 2011, and it does not need to be inflated to be alarming.1

How to read the physician burnout data honestly

The trend is real and it moves

Physician burnout was 45.5% in 2011, 54.4% in 2014, 43.9% in 2017, 38.2% in 2020, 62.8% in 2021 and 45.2% in 2023. A figure that swings by 25 percentage points inside three years is not measuring a personality trait. It is tracking conditions, which is the strongest available argument against treating burnout as a private failing of the individual doctor.

Adjustment is what makes the comparison worth anything

Any two occupational groups differ in age, sex distribution, partnership status and hours. Comparing raw burnout rates between physicians and everyone else would mostly be comparing those things. The multivariable model exists precisely so that the remaining gap cannot be dismissed as physicians simply working longer, and the fact that a substantial gap survives adjustment is the finding that matters.

High performance is an excellent hiding place

Nothing in a burnout score is visible from outside. Patient reviews stay good, the panel keeps moving, the notes get closed eventually, and the private experience is of being one bad week away from being found out. Physicians whose objective record is excellent are exactly the group in which when accomplishment does not translate into confidence becomes the presenting problem, and the competence itself is what delays the call.

An odds ratio of 1.82 is a real finding about a real profession. It is not a claim that 82 percent more doctors are burning out, and the difference is worth keeping straight.

Who carries this with you

Burnout among physicians is described in the literature as an occupational outcome, which makes it sound contained. In practice the effects distribute outward long before anyone files a survey response, and the people who notice first are rarely the people the research is designed to count.

01

The household

Partners and children receive whatever capacity is left at the end of the documentation. The recognisable pattern is a person who is physically home and cognitively still in the inbox, whose irritability arrives on the doorstep rather than in the clinic, and whose weekends are increasingly spent recovering rather than living. Families frequently register the change a year or more before the physician does.

02

The clinical team

Nurses, residents, medical assistants and colleagues all calibrate to the physician's state. Depleted attendings teach a version of medicine they would not endorse if asked directly, and trainees absorb the model rather than the lecture. The transmission is quiet and it is quick.

03

The patients on the schedule

Depersonalization is one of the two scales the national survey measures, and it describes a growing detachment from the people in front of you. Physicians tend to notice it last, because in a compressed clinic day it initially presents as efficiency. Naming it early is not self-indulgence, and treating it is a straightforwardly clinical act.

§02 / 09 / Telehealth

The conditions the number is measuring.

Physician burnout is a response to working conditions rather than a deficit of resilience, and the World Health Organization classifies burn-out in ICD-11 as an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical condition. The measurable drivers are documentation volume, inbox load, and responsibility that never fully sets down.

A

The record is where the hours go

The Annals of Family Medicine study remains the clearest single account of where a clinic day actually disappears to. Nearly two hours of electronic health record and desk work for every hour of direct patient contact, 86 minutes of it after hours, is not a time-management failure. It is a description of the job as currently configured, and it explains why interventions aimed at the individual physician tend to underperform.

B

Burn-out has an agreed definition

The World Health Organization defines burn-out in the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases as a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed, with three dimensions: energy depletion or exhaustion, increased mental distance from one's job or feelings of negativism or cynicism about it, and reduced professional efficacy. The WHO places it in the chapter on factors influencing health status and states that it is not classified as a medical condition.

C

The response is being organised at national level

The National Academy of Medicine published its National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being in October 2022, setting out seven priority areas that include creating and sustaining positive work environments, supporting mental health and reducing stigma, addressing compliance and regulatory barriers, and engaging technology that supports quality care while minimising administrative burden. Physicians reading that list will recognise their own week in it, which is the point.

§03 / 09 / Mechanism

Burnout, or moral injury.

Moral injury is offered by many physicians as a better name for what they are experiencing than burnout, on the grounds that burnout locates the problem in the worker while moral injury locates it in being prevented from doing right by patients. Both constructs describe something real, and the distinction changes what treatment targets.

The objection to the word burnout is not semantic fussiness. Burnout, as the World Health Organization defines it, is a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed, and a substantial number of physicians hear in that phrasing an implication that the management was theirs to do. The alternative framing, moral injury, was borrowed from military psychology and applied to clinicians in the late 2010s, and it has since been taken up widely enough that it now appears in mainstream clinical writing about the health workforce. The National Center for PTSD, which is the VA's specialist centre for this material, describes moral injury as what can occur when someone engages in, fails to prevent, or witnesses acts that conflict with their values or beliefs, and describes the result as the lasting psychological, spiritual, behavioural or social impact of those experiences.

Applied to medicine, the examples the National Center for PTSD gives are immediately recognisable: having to make decisions that affect the survival of others or where all options lead to a negative outcome, doing something that goes against your beliefs, failing to do something in line with them, witnessing insufficient resources or safety in patient care, and experiencing betrayal by one's organisation or by trusted others. A physician who discharges someone earlier than clinical judgement would prefer because of bed pressure, or who spends the consultation looking at a screen because the documentation cannot otherwise be finished, is not describing exhaustion. They are describing a repeated conflict between what they believe care should be and what the system permits. Neither term is a diagnosis in the DSM-5-TR, and neither needs to be for the distress to be treatable.

Clinically, the distinction earns its keep because it changes the target. Where the presentation is depletion, the work goes after recovery capacity, sleep, load and the beliefs that keep a physician from setting anything down. Where the presentation is moral injury, reassurance is useless and rest does not touch it, because the injury is to a sense of integrity rather than to an energy reserve. That work involves grief, values, anger that has nowhere legitimate to go, and a careful separation of what a person actually controlled from what they have been holding themselves responsible for. Most physicians who come to CEREVITY arrive carrying some of both, and the assessment establishes the proportions before anything is decided about approach.

► Standard advice vs. CEREVITY's approach

Standard therapy

"Treat a 45% national burnout rate as a personal resilience score"

CEREVITY

"Read it as a measurement of conditions that then requires an individual response"

Standard therapy

"Wait for the schedule to improve before addressing the exhaustion"

CEREVITY

"Treat the exhaustion on the assumption that the schedule stays as it is"

Standard therapy

"Route care through the institution that also credentials and reviews you"

CEREVITY

"Work privately, paid directly, with no reporting line into the employer"

► Standard insurance-based therapy vs. CEREVITY's specialized approach for Physicians and medical professionals
Standard insurance-based therapyCEREVITY's specialized approach
"Treat a 45% national burnout rate as a personal resilience score""Read it as a measurement of conditions that then requires an individual response"
"Wait for the schedule to improve before addressing the exhaustion""Treat the exhaustion on the assumption that the schedule stays as it is"
"Route care through the institution that also credentials and reviews you""Work privately, paid directly, with no reporting line into the employer"

A break from the page

The number describes a system. The exhaustion is yours.

A first contact is confidential and commits you to nothing. CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians working private-pay, with no insurance claim submitted and no diagnosis on a payer record. If the pattern in this article is recognisable, start with a private inquiry.

§04 / 09 / Cases

Common challenges we address.

The attending who is functioning perfectly and feels nothing

The patternClinic runs on time, the notes get closed, the reviews are strong, and somewhere in the last two years the work stopped meaning anything. Patients have become a queue. Colleagues get a version of you that is professional and unreachable. The private assessment is usually that this is simply what a mature career feels like, which is the belief that keeps the pattern in place longest.

What we addressDepersonalization is one of the two scales the national survey measures, and it is the one physicians recognise last. The work begins by separating depletion from low mood, because the two present almost identically in a high-functioning doctor and respond to different things. Where the depletion has become chronic rather than seasonal, the treatment path runs through clinical work on burnout that has stopped responding to time off.

The physician whose baseline is now anticipatory dread

The patternSunday evenings have become unusable. The inbox is checked from bed. A specific clinic, a specific meeting or a specific type of patient produces a physical response before it has even happened, and the response is managed by preparing harder, which works and then requires more preparation next time. Nothing about the performance suggests a problem, which is precisely why nobody asks.

What we addressAnxiety in physicians is frequently tied to consequence rather than to temperament, and treating it as generalised worry misses what is actually driving it. The work targets the anticipatory loop directly and the behaviours that quietly maintain it, which is the territory of treatment for anxiety tied to consequence, not temperament.

§05 / 09 / Methods

Evidence-based treatment approaches.

Treatment for physician burnout is not one method. Five approaches account for most of what CEREVITY clinicians use with doctors: cognitive behavioural therapy, behavioural activation, mindfulness-based programmes, acceptance and commitment therapy applied to moral distress, and interpersonal psychotherapy. Each targets a different part of the presentation.

Modality 01

Cognitive behavioural therapy

The most widely tested talking therapy, structured around the link between thought, feeling and behaviour, usually with tasks between sessions. In physicians it tends to target the standards that have quietly become unmeetable, the appraisal that reads any limit as a failure of commitment, and the catastrophic prediction that attaches itself to a difficult clinic before the clinic has happened.

Modality 02

Behavioural activation

A focused approach that works on what a person does rather than on what they think first, rebuilding contact with activity that produces reward rather than only relief. It suits the physician whose life outside medicine has narrowed to recovery, whose hobbies have quietly lapsed, and for whom insight has stopped translating into any change in the week.

Modality 03

Mindfulness-based programmes

Structured programmes that train sustained, non-reactive attention to present experience, delivered as a curriculum rather than as an instruction to relax. They are among the interventions most frequently studied in clinician populations, and the target is the automatic reactivity that turns a difficult interaction at ten in the morning into a state that is still running at eight in the evening.

Modality 04

Acceptance and commitment therapy for moral distress

A behavioural approach organised around values and committed action, which works on the relationship to painful internal experience rather than on its content. Applied to moral injury in medicine, the aim is not to talk a physician out of an accurate perception that care was compromised. The aim is to make room for that perception without it collapsing either into cynicism or into a private verdict about their own worth.

Modality 05

Interpersonal psychotherapy

A time-limited approach that treats mood symptoms by working on the relational context they sit in: role transitions, disputes and losses. It is often the right fit for the physician whose marriage has thinned, whose professional identity is shifting under them, or who has become isolated inside a team of people they see every day.

§06 / 09 / Investment

Understanding the investment in private-pay care.

Private-pay, nationwide, and outside the employer system

At CEREVITY, our online individual therapy sessions are structured as a direct investment in your mental agility and overall well-being. The investment includes:

  • Licensed mental health professional specializing in confidential care for clinicians
  • Evidence-based, one-on-one approaches proven effective for burnout, exhaustion, and moral distress
  • Flexible online scheduling including evenings and weekends
  • Complete privacy with no insurance involvement or red tape
  • Physicians and medical professionals expertise and understanding
  • Outcome tracking and progress measurement
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The cost of physician burnout going unaddressed

Consider what is at stake when physician burnout goes unaddressed:

What private-pay changes for a physician

Working outside of insurance means no claim is submitted, no diagnostic code sits in a payer's file, and no utilisation reviewer decides whether care should continue. For doctors, that absence is frequently the entire difference between considering therapy and beginning it, because the objection is almost never the fee and almost always the record. Care is delivered by secure telehealth nationwide across all 50 states, which also removes the problem of being seen in a waiting room forty minutes from your own hospital. View our current rates here: cerevity.com/our-pricing-for-therapy/.

Choosing a format that survives a clinic schedule

Most physicians begin with the format most people start with and settle into the 50-minute format, which is enough for steady work on load, sleep, appraisal and recovery. Where the material is heavier, or where a rota makes weekly attendance genuinely unreliable, it is worth understanding what a 3-hour intensive is designed to do before defaulting to a cadence you will end up cancelling. A schedule you can actually keep does more for the outcome than the choice between comparable approaches does.

§07 / 09 / Evidence

What the research shows.

The honest summary of the physician burnout evidence is that it is unusually good by the standards of occupational research, and unusually badly reported. A single research collaboration has surveyed US physicians and a probability-based sample of the general US working population on the same instrument at five points since 2011, which is a longer and cleaner comparison series than almost any other profession has. The 2023 wave, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2025, drew 7,643 physicians against a practising US physician population of 936,074, ran a nonresponder analysis suggesting the participants were representative on burnout and work-life integration, and reported an adjusted odds ratio of 1.82 with a confidence interval of 1.63 to 2.05. Alongside it, physicians were markedly less likely than other US workers to be satisfied with work-life integration, at an odds ratio of 0.59.

► Three figures behind the headline

1.82

adjusted odds ratio for burnout in US physicians against other US workers in 2023, controlling for age, sex, relationship status and hours worked.

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2025

45.2%

of US physicians reported at least one symptom of burnout in 2023, down from 62.8% in 2021.

Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 2025

355

minutes a day family physicians spent in the electronic health record, including 86 minutes after hours.

Annals of Family Medicine, 2017

Two studies with different samples, methods and years. The figures describe the same working environment, not one comparable scale.

What the same evidence does not support is the arithmetic that usually accompanies it. An odds ratio of 1.82 becomes 82% in a headline through a translation step that is only accurate when the outcome being measured is rare, and burnout is not rare in either group. Beyond the comparison itself, the surrounding literature is more mixed than the confident numbers circulating online suggest. Specialty-level burnout rankings come from several different surveys using several different definitions and cannot be lined up against each other. Costed estimates of what burnout does to turnover rest on modelling assumptions that are rarely stated. The findings that hold up well are the ones repeated here: burnout in physicians is common, it moves with conditions rather than with character, it is meaningfully higher than in comparable workers after adjustment, and the record and the inbox account for a documented share of the working day.

§§ / 09 / Recap

Key takeaways.

Five things to remember

  1. The figure is an odds ratio, not a headcount The 82 in the title is 1.82, the adjusted odds ratio for burnout in physicians against other US workers in the 2023 national survey. Odds diverge from plain likelihood when an outcome is common, so the gap in the proportion of people affected is smaller than the headline implies, and still substantial.
  2. Conditions move the number, not character Physician burnout ran from 45.5% in 2011 to 62.8% in 2021 and back to 45.2% in 2023. Nothing about physicians as people changed that fast. Reading the figure as a resilience score gets both the diagnosis and the response wrong.
  3. Moral injury is a distinct target, not a rebrand Where the distress is about being prevented from doing right by patients rather than about depletion, rest does not touch it and the treatment aims elsewhere. Getting the proportions right at assessment is what stops months being spent on the wrong problem.
  4. The record question is the real barrier For most doctors the obstacle to starting is not the fee and not the time. It is what gets written down and where it goes. Private-pay care outside the employing institution answers that directly, which is why it is usually the first thing to establish.
  5. CEREVITY provides this through online individual therapy nationwide, with full privacy through its private-pay concierge network and no insurance involvement.

§08 / 09 / FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Are physicians really 82% more likely to burn out than other workers?

Physicians are at substantially higher risk of burnout than comparable workers, but the 82% phrasing compresses a more specific finding. The 2023 national survey published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2025 reported an adjusted odds ratio of 1.82, with a 95% confidence interval of 1.63 to 2.05, comparing physicians with other US workers of similar age, sex, relationship status and weekly hours. An odds ratio of 1.82 means the odds of burnout are about 82% higher, which is not the same as 82% more people being affected. Because burnout is common in both groups, the difference in the actual proportion affected is smaller than the headline suggests. The direction and the significance of the finding are not in doubt; only the translation into everyday language is loose.

What are the current physician burnout statistics?

Physician burnout in the United States was measured at 45.2% in the 2023 wave of the national survey run by the American Medical Association with Mayo Clinic, Stanford Medicine and the University of Colorado School of Medicine, based on 7,643 respondents scored on the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The comparable figures were 45.5% in 2011, 54.4% in 2014, 43.9% in 2017, 38.2% in 2020 and 62.8% in 2021. Satisfaction with work-life integration stood at 42.2% in 2023. Two things follow from that series. Burnout among physicians has improved substantially since the pandemic peak, and it has returned to roughly where it sat in 2017 rather than to anything that could be called a low level.

What are the main contributors to physician burnout?

Physician burnout is driven mainly by working conditions rather than by individual coping. The best-documented contributor is administrative load: a study in the Annals of Family Medicine found family physicians spending 355 minutes a day in the electronic health record, 86 of them after hours, with 157 minutes going to clerical and administrative tasks and 85 to the inbox. Alongside that sit responsibility that does not distribute across a team, loss of control over the shape of a working day, and repeated situations in which the care a doctor can deliver falls short of the care they believe is right. The National Academy of Medicine's 2022 National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being names work environments, regulatory burden and technology design among its seven priority areas for exactly this reason.

What is moral injury in healthcare?

Moral injury in healthcare describes the lasting psychological, spiritual, behavioural or social impact of engaging in, failing to prevent, or witnessing acts that conflict with a person's own values or beliefs. The National Center for PTSD lists recognisable examples for clinicians: making decisions where every option leads to a bad outcome, acting against your own beliefs or failing to act in line with them, witnessing insufficient resources or safety in patient care, and experiencing betrayal by an organisation or by trusted colleagues. Many physicians prefer the term to burnout because it locates the source in the circumstances rather than in the worker. Both constructs describe something real, and in most people who present for care some of each is present.

Is moral injury a diagnosis in the DSM-5-TR?

Moral injury is not a diagnosis in the DSM-5-TR, and neither is burnout. The World Health Organization classifies burn-out in ICD-11 as an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical condition, placing it in the chapter on factors influencing health status and contact with health services. Moral injury is a construct drawn from military psychology and applied to clinicians, and it overlaps with post-traumatic stress without being identical to it. None of that limits what can be treated. Physicians presenting with either pattern are frequently also carrying a depressive or anxiety presentation that is diagnosable, and assessment establishes what is present before any decision about approach is made.

Is online therapy available for physicians?

Online therapy is available to physicians across all 50 states through CEREVITY, delivered by secure telehealth by independent licensed clinicians. For doctors the format solves two problems at once. Sessions fit into a clinic schedule without travel, and there is no waiting room in the same city as the hospital that credentials you. Care is private-pay, so no claim is submitted and no diagnostic code enters a payer record. Sessions are commonly held in the 50-minute format on a weekly or fortnightly cadence, with longer formats available where the material needs more room in a single sitting.

Is physician burnout getting better?

Physician burnout has improved substantially since 2021 and remains elevated. The national survey series recorded 62.8% of physicians with at least one symptom of burnout in 2021, falling to 45.2% in 2023, which is statistically indistinguishable from the 2017 and 2011 readings. The authors describe the current level as similar to 2017 while noting that physicians remain at higher risk than other US workers. The reasonable conclusion is that the acute pandemic shock has receded and the underlying conditions have not changed much. For an individual doctor that distinction matters little, because a national average moving by 17 percentage points does not alter what a specific week feels like.

How does your private-pay pricing structure work?

As a private-pay concierge network, we offer structured investments in your mental health without the restrictions or privacy risks of insurance. You can review our full fee schedule and specific session lengths directly on our website. While this costs more than insurance copays, it provides the flexibility, total privacy, and highly specialized care that standard options cannot offer. View our current rates here.

How do you protect my privacy?

Privacy is foundational to our network. As a private-pay network, your sessions never appear on insurance records or EOBs that could be seen by employers, boards, or family members. We use HIPAA-compliant nationwide telehealth platforms, and you can attend sessions from anywhere with a private internet connection.

§09 / 09 / Begin

Talk to someone who already understands the week.

Exhaustion that no longer lifts on days off is information, not a character verdict. CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians offering private-pay care built for physicians in all 50 states. Call (562) 295-6650 or send a private inquiry.

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§§ / Author

About Benjamin Rosen, PsyD.

Benjamin Rosen, PsyD

Benjamin Rosen, PsyD

Dr. Rosen is a Licensed Psychologist working with high-achieving professionals across executive, entrepreneurial, legal, and medical fields. His work integrates evidence-based cognitive and psychodynamic approaches with a deep understanding of the pressures that come with sustained responsibility. He sees clients via CEREVITY's nationwide telehealth network. View full bio →

CredentialPsyD, Licensed Psychologist
Years in practice10+ years
SpecializationTherapy for high-achieving professionals, anxiety, and depression
ModalitiesCBT, psychodynamic, mindfulness-based
Author licensureLicensed by the California Board of Psychology
Who you would seeA clinician independently licensed in your own state, through CEREVITY's nationwide network across all 50 states

§§ / Sources

References.

  1. Stanford Medicine News Center. Doctor burnout rates: what they mean, reporting the 2023 national physician survey published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2025. med.stanford.edu
  2. The Annals of Family Medicine. Tethered to the EHR: Primary Care Physician Workload Assessment Using EHR Event Log Data and Time-Motion Observations. 2017. annfammed.org
  3. World Health Organization. Burn-out an occupational phenomenon: International Classification of Diseases. 2019. who.int
  4. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD. Moral Injury in Health Care Workers. 2026. ptsd.va.gov
  5. National Academy of Medicine. National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being. 2022. nam.edu
  6. CEREVITY. High-stakes anxiety therapy. cerevity.com/high-stakes-anxiety-therapy
  7. CEREVITY. Imposter syndrome therapy. cerevity.com/imposter-syndrome-therapy
  8. CEREVITY. Individual therapy. cerevity.com/individual-therapy

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