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Mindfulness based therapy: what it does for corporate burnout.
Burnout arrives as a capacity problem and gets treated as a discipline problem. Mindfulness based cognitive therapy is one of the few structured programs in this space with a genuine evidence base behind it, and also one of the most oversold. Here is what it is, what it was built for, and what eight weeks of it actually asks of a corporate professional.
THE QUICK TAKEAWAY
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy is a manualized 8-week group program, not a general wellbeing offer, and its strongest evidence is narrow: preventing relapse in people with recurrent depression, which is the indication NICE guidance on depression in adults covers. For corporate burnout the picture is weaker. Pooled trials report small to moderate effects, low to very low certainty, and wide variation between studies, and the workplace evidence is consistent that individual training cannot repair the conditions that produced the exhaustion. CEREVITY clinicians treat it as one component of burnout care rather than the whole of it.
§01 / 09 / Definition
What mindfulness based cognitive therapy actually is.
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy is a specific, manualized 8-week group program that combines systematic mindfulness training with elements drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy. Corporate professionals usually meet the name attached to a generic wellbeing offer, which is not what it is, and CEREVITY clinicians say so before anyone commits eight weeks to it.
Most people meet mindfulness at work in its thinnest form. A wellbeing week. A guided audio track pushed into a calendar invitation. An app licence renewed every January and opened by a fraction of the people it was bought for. Mindfulness based cognitive therapy is a different object entirely. MBCT is a manualized group program taught over eight weeks, in classes of roughly eight to fifteen people, combining systematic mindfulness training with elements taken from cognitive behavioral therapy. The NHS implementation study of MBCT, published by the NIHR Journals Library in 2017, describes exactly that format and states that group-based MBCT has the strongest evidence base of all treatments designed specifically for people at risk of a further depressive episode. That is a precise claim about a precise population. It is not a claim that mindfulness treats executive burnout, and the distance between those two sentences is where nearly all of the confusion in this field lives.
Five distinctions the mindfulness label hides
MBCT and MBSR are not the same program
Two 8-week programs sit behind almost every corporate wellbeing offer, and they were built for different jobs. The AHRQ comparative effectiveness review describes both as standardized courses of weekly meetings across eight weeks, each with a retreat day in the middle and instructions for daily home practice, and records that MBCT holds the same length but was modified for the particular condition of depression. Same architecture, different target. Nobody selling a licence to your employer is obliged to tell you which one you are getting.
The strongest claim is a narrow one
Relapse prevention in recurrent depression is where the evidence concentrates. NICE guidance on depression in adults, in the recommendations covering relapse prevention, groups mindfulness based cognitive therapy with continued antidepressant medication and group cognitive behavioral therapy as effective options. Burnout is not that indication. A course sold as burnout treatment is borrowing credibility from a different literature, and borrowing it quietly.
It is taught in a group, on a schedule
Classes of eight to fifteen people, meeting weekly for eight weeks, with a longer day of guided attention training partway through. For a corporate professional accustomed to one-to-one care that is a real change of format. The group is part of how the program works rather than a cost-saving measure, and it is also the reason a course cannot flex around a calendar the way individual sessions can.
Home practice is the actual treatment
Classes teach the method; daily home practice is where the change is supposed to happen. The NHS evaluation put it plainly, noting that patients need to invest significant time in MBCT, both to attend the classes and to undertake the mindfulness exercises. Among corporate professionals this is the failure point far more often than skepticism or cost. The eight weeks are not the commitment. The days between them are.
A subscription is not a program
Consumer meditation apps deliver audio on demand. MBCT delivers a manualized curriculum, a trained teacher, a group, a structured inquiry after each exercise, and specific work on recognizing the early signature of a returning episode. Every trial result quoted in this article was produced by the second thing. Nothing in a subscription reproduces it, and no honest reading of the evidence lets an app inherit those results.
▶ Research
The clearest boundary in this whole literature is the one nobody markets. NICE guidance on depression in adults places mindfulness based cognitive therapy among the effective options for preventing relapse in people at elevated risk of another depressive episode. That recommendation is about recurrent depression, and it says nothing about occupational burnout. The largest UK trial of MBCT, the PREVENT study published by the NIHR Journals Library in 2015, randomized 424 patients and found no evidence that MBCT with support to taper antidepressants was superior to maintenance antidepressant medication over 24 months of follow-up. Comparable to medication, not miraculous, and tested in a population defined by depressive history rather than by workload. Corporate professionals reading a wellbeing brochure are rarely told either of those things.1
What the numbers actually separate
A measurable effect is not a transformation
Effect sizes in the 0.2 to 0.4 range describe a real shift in a group average. They do not describe an exhausted senior leader becoming unexhausted. Anyone promising the second while citing the first is either not reading the papers or is counting on you not to. For corporate burnout the useful question is what else the eight weeks would have to sit alongside to add up to a recovery.
Heterogeneity means the average hides the range
A 2023 systematic review in Frontiers in Psychiatry pooled 15 randomized trials of mindfulness based training and reported heterogeneity across studies of 39, 55 and 73 percent on the three burnout dimensions. Numbers that high mean the trials were not really measuring the same thing under the same conditions. A pooled average built on that spread is a starting point for research, not a promise to an individual.
Certainty grades are the part that gets dropped
The same 2023 review graded its own evidence as low to very low certainty, and NICE's evidence review for mental wellbeing at work rated most individual-level mindfulness findings low or very low quality on grounds of self-reported outcomes, missing data and randomization problems. Those grades are published alongside the effect sizes. They almost never survive the trip into a corporate wellbeing deck.
The three components an eight-week course actually contains
A program is easier to judge when it is broken into the parts that do the work. MBCT has three, and the reason so many corporate professionals report that mindfulness did nothing for them is almost always that they received the first part alone, stripped of the two that carry the effect.
The weekly class
Eight meetings in a small group, taught to a manual, each introducing a specific attention exercise and then working through what people noticed while doing it. The teaching is not motivational and the group is not a support group. The class is closer to a rehearsal room: a place to try something under supervision and report back honestly on what happened.
The daily home practice
Guided exercises done alone, every day, between classes, recorded and reviewed. This is the component with the highest dropout among senior professionals and the component the trials were actually testing. A course attended faithfully with no practice between sessions is not the intervention that produced the published results, and it should not be expected to produce the published effects.
The relapse signature work
The part that makes MBCT cognitive rather than merely meditative. Participants learn to identify the specific early pattern that precedes a downturn in their own case: the thinking style, the withdrawal, the change in sleep or appetite, the particular argument the mind starts having with itself. Recognizing that pattern earlier is the mechanism the relapse prevention evidence rests on.
§02 / 09 / Telehealth
Where the evidence holds, and where it thins.
Evidence for mindfulness based programs is strongest for preventing depressive relapse and considerably thinner everywhere else. Pooled reviews of meditation programs report small effect sizes on anxiety and depression and no demonstrated advantage over other active treatments, which corporate professionals deserve to hear before committing eight weeks and daily home practice to one.
Relapse prevention is the claim that holds
NICE guidance on depression in adults reached the conclusion that antidepressant medication, group cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness based cognitive therapy were effective for relapse prevention, and recommends them as options for people at elevated risk of a further episode. The NHS implementation study goes further within that population, calling group-based MBCT the strongest evidence base of all treatments designed specifically for people at risk of another depressive episode. Where that history exists, this is a serious and well-supported option.
The pooled effect sizes are small and honestly reported
The AHRQ comparative effectiveness review of meditation programs, published in 2014, found moderate strength of evidence for improvements in anxiety, with an effect size of 0.40 at eight weeks falling to 0.22 at three to six months, and for depression, at 0.32 at eight weeks with a confidence interval that crosses zero, and 0.23 at three to six months. Real, measurable, small. That is a defensible result and a poor advertisement, which is why the advertisements rarely quote it.
No advantage over other active treatments has been shown
The same review states directly that the authors did not find any evidence to suggest that these meditation programs were superior to any specific therapies they were compared with. That is a comparison against exercise, against medication, against other structured psychotherapies. It does not mean the programs do nothing. It means a corporate professional choosing between eight weeks of MBCT and an equivalent course of another evidence-based treatment cannot expect the mindfulness route to be the stronger one on the published record.
§03 / 09 / Mechanism
Why burnout is the harder case.
Burnout research on mindfulness based interventions is genuine but modest. Meta-analyses report improvements in exhaustion at low to very low certainty, with wide variation between trials, and the workplace evidence reviews consistently conclude that individual training cannot fix the organizational conditions driving corporate burnout.
Start with what burnout is, because the definition does most of the work here. The World Health Organization classifies burn-out in ICD-11 as an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical condition, describing it as a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed, with three dimensions: exhaustion, increased mental distance or cynicism toward the job, and reduced professional efficacy. Read that definition slowly and notice what it locates the cause in. Not a deficit of resilience. Not a failure of attention. Chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. An intervention aimed entirely at the individual is, by that definition, working on one side of a two-sided problem. It may work well on that side. It cannot reach the other one, and a program that quietly implies otherwise is doing something worse than being ineffective: it is relocating responsibility onto the person with the least power to change the conditions.
The burnout-specific evidence is real and it is smaller than the sales material suggests. A 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis in Frontiers in Psychiatry pooled 15 randomized studies covering 1,165 randomized participants and found improvements in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment, alongside a moderate reduction in stress. The authors then graded that finding as very low certainty evidence and reported heterogeneity of up to 73 percent between studies. A 2026 meta-analysis in Medicina examining individual-focused interventions for physician burnout pooled six studies covering 585 physicians and found lower emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scores, while noting that the evidence was limited by few trials, frequent high or unclear risk of bias, and variable intervention formats, and that loss to follow-up made statements about durability difficult. Both reviews point the same way. Something is happening. The size of it is uncertain, the trials are not measuring the same thing, and the effect at twelve months is largely unknown.
Then there is the finding that matters most and gets quoted least. NICE's evidence review on universal individual-level approaches, produced for its guideline on mental wellbeing at work, concluded that organisational-level approaches are important for preventing poor mental wellbeing, as well as promoting and improving mental wellbeing in the workplace, and positioned individual-level interventions as an addition to that rather than a replacement for it. In plain terms: teaching a corporate professional to notice their breath is a reasonable adjunct to fixing an eighty-hour week, and a poor substitute for it. That has a direct clinical consequence. Where burnout is being sustained by a role, a manager, an unresolvable resourcing gap or a household running on the same fumes, treatment has to include decisions about those, which is often why work that includes the people you come home to ends up in the plan alongside individual sessions.
► Standard advice vs. CEREVITY's approach
Standard therapy
"Treat any 8-week mindfulness course as interchangeable"
CEREVITY
"Ask whether it is MBCT, MBSR, or an app with a curriculum attached"
Standard therapy
"Read the relapse prevention evidence as burnout evidence"
CEREVITY
"Ask what population the trial recruited and what it measured"
Standard therapy
"Enrol in eight weeks and hope daily practice fits itself in"
CEREVITY
"Decide where daily home practice goes before week one, or choose differently"
| Standard insurance-based therapy | CEREVITY's specialized approach |
|---|---|
| "Treat any 8-week mindfulness course as interchangeable" | "Ask whether it is MBCT, MBSR, or an app with a curriculum attached" |
| "Read the relapse prevention evidence as burnout evidence" | "Ask what population the trial recruited and what it measured" |
| "Enrol in eight weeks and hope daily practice fits itself in" | "Decide where daily home practice goes before week one, or choose differently" |
A break from the page
The right question is what this sits alongside.
A first conversation is confidential and commits you to nothing. CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians working private-pay across all 50 states, with no insurance claim submitted and no diagnosis on a payer record. If burnout has stopped responding to time off, start with a private inquiry.
§04 / 09 / Cases
Common challenges we address.
The executive who has already tried the app
The patternSomeone who bought the subscription, held a streak for eleven days, concluded that mindfulness does not work for them, and now discounts the whole category. The conclusion is reasonable given the input. The input was audio content, not a manualized program with a teacher, a group and structured inquiry, and it was never going to reproduce trial conditions.
What we addressWork starts by naming what was actually tried, then testing whether a structured course is even the right next step. For many corporate professionals it is not, because the exhaustion has already progressed past what attention training reaches, and the presentation belongs with structured treatment for executive burnout instead.
The professional whose burnout has become depression
The patternExhaustion that started as a workload problem and has quietly acquired a different character: early waking, flattened interest in things that used to matter, a self-assessment that has turned punitive and stays punitive on weekends and holidays. The person still describes it as burnout, because that word is permitted at work and the other one is not.
What we addressThis is the boundary that changes the treatment plan. Where a depressive episode is present, or where two or more have happened before, the evidence for mindfulness based cognitive therapy becomes genuinely strong and its role changes from stress management to relapse prevention. Assessment establishes which situation is on the table before a program is chosen, and where the household has absorbed years of it, family systems work for high-pressure households often runs in parallel.
§05 / 09 / Methods
Evidence-based treatment approaches.
Five approaches account for most of what corporate professionals encounter once burnout is named: mindfulness based cognitive therapy, mindfulness based stress reduction, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and app-delivered meditation. Each targets something different, and only two of them are manualized group programs with published trial evidence behind the format.
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
A manualized 8-week group program combining systematic mindfulness training with cognitive behavioral elements, built to teach people with a history of depression the skills to stay well. Weekly classes of roughly eight to fifteen people, a longer day of guided training partway through, and daily home practice throughout. NICE guidance on depression in adults includes it among the effective options for relapse prevention, which is the indication where its evidence is strongest by a wide margin.
Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR)
The older and broader program from which MBCT borrowed its architecture. The AHRQ review describes the same 8-week structure, the same retreat day, the same daily home practice, without the cognitive behavioral components that MBCT adds for depression specifically. MBSR is the version most often licensed into corporate wellbeing programs. It is a reasonable stress program. It is not the program the depression relapse evidence was built on, and the two names are routinely used as if they were.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Individual, structured, protocol-driven work on the link between thought, behavior and mood, with tasks between sessions. Group cognitive behavioral therapy also appears in the NICE relapse prevention recommendations alongside MBCT. For burnout presentations tangled up with perfectionism, catastrophic forecasting or an inability to stop working, this is frequently the more direct instrument, and it does not require an eight-week cohort to be available.
Acceptance and commitment therapy
A behavioral approach that works on the relationship to difficult internal experience rather than on its content, organized around values and committed action. It shares mindfulness components with MBCT and applies them to a different question: not how to prevent a depressive relapse, but how to act on what matters while the discomfort is still present. Useful where the burnout has become entangled with a decision the person has been avoiding for a year.
App-delivered meditation
Guided audio on demand, sometimes structured into courses, delivered without a teacher, a group or an inquiry process. Widely deployed and easily measured for engagement rather than for outcome. Nothing here is worthless, and nothing here is MBCT. Where an employer has funded an app and called it burnout support, the accurate description is that a wellbeing benefit was purchased, not that a treatment was provided.
§06 / 09 / Investment
Understanding the investment in private-pay care.
Private-pay, nationwide, and matched to the presentation
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 evidence-matched burnout treatment for senior professionals
- Evidence-based, one-on-one approaches proven effective for burnout, exhaustion, and chronic work stress
- Flexible online scheduling including evenings and weekends
- Complete privacy with no insurance involvement or red tape
- Corporate professionals expertise and understanding
- Outcome tracking and progress measurement
The cost of mindfulness based cognitive therapy going unaddressed
Consider what is at stake when mindfulness based cognitive therapy goes unaddressed:
What private-pay changes about this decision
Working outside of insurance means no diagnosis on a claim record, no payer reviewing whether care should continue, and no benefit design quietly narrowing which approaches are available. For a senior corporate professional whose employer also funds the wellbeing program, it means something more specific: the clinical work is separate from the organization that is part of the problem, and nothing said in a session is routed anywhere near it. View our current rates here: cerevity.com/our-pricing-for-therapy/.
Session formats that fit the work and the calendar
Care is delivered by secure telehealth nationwide across all 50 states. Skills-based work of the kind MBCT teaches usually sits comfortably in the standard session length, while burnout that has years of history underneath it often needs the extended format to get anywhere in one sitting. Where a weekly slot is unrealistic against a travel schedule, what happens in three hours that cannot happen in fifty minutes is worth reading before defaulting to weekly, and for leaders who need continuous access rather than appointments, who this model tends to suit and who it does not sets out the trade.
§07 / 09 / Evidence
What the research shows.
The honest summary is that mindfulness based cognitive therapy has one strong indication and a great deal of enthusiastic extrapolation around it. NICE guidance on depression in adults concluded that antidepressant medication, group cognitive behavioral therapy and MBCT were effective for relapse prevention and recommends them for people at elevated risk of a further episode. The NHS implementation study describes MBCT as an 8-week group program with the strongest evidence base of all treatments designed specifically for that group, and is equally clear that it asks patients to invest significant time in both the classes and the exercises between them. Beyond that indication the picture softens quickly. The AHRQ comparative effectiveness review of meditation programs found moderate strength of evidence for small improvements in anxiety and depression, low strength of evidence for improvement in stress and mental health related quality of life, and no evidence that these programs were superior to any specific therapies they were compared with.
► What the pooled reviews actually report
effect size for meditation programs on anxiety at eight weeks, graded moderate strength of evidence, falling to 0.22 at three to six months.
AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Review 124, 2014
effect size for depressive symptoms at eight weeks, with a confidence interval that crosses zero.
AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Review 124, 2014
randomized studies of mindfulness based training pooled for burnout outcomes, with the certainty of evidence graded very low.
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
For burnout specifically the evidence is thinner still, and the reviews say so themselves. A 2023 meta-analysis in Frontiers in Psychiatry pooled 15 randomized studies of mindfulness based training with 1,165 randomized participants, found improvements across the three burnout dimensions and a moderate reduction in stress, and graded the certainty of that evidence as very low with heterogeneity reaching 73 percent. A 2026 meta-analysis in Medicina of individual-focused interventions for physician burnout pooled six studies with 585 participants, reported reductions in emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and concluded that such programs may be useful adjuncts to organizational approaches to burnout rather than replacements for them. NICE's own evidence review for mental wellbeing at work reached the same structural conclusion from the other direction, rating most individual-level mindfulness findings low or very low quality and stating that organisational-level approaches are important for preventing poor mental wellbeing as well as promoting and improving it. Anyone selling an 8-week course as a solution to corporate burnout is not reading these reviews, or is reading them and choosing which sentences to quote.
§§ / 09 / Recap
Key takeaways.
Five things to remember
- MBCT is one specific program, not a category Eight weeks, a manual, a trained teacher, a group of roughly eight to fifteen, a longer day of guided training partway through, and daily home practice. Anything missing those components is something else wearing the same name.
- Its strongest evidence is for depressive relapse NICE guidance on depression in adults includes MBCT among the effective relapse prevention options for people at elevated risk of a further episode. That is a real, narrow, well-supported claim, and it is not a claim about burnout.
- The burnout evidence is modest and uncertain Pooled trials report improvements in exhaustion at low to very low certainty, with heterogeneity high enough that the average conceals the range and durability at follow-up largely unmeasured.
- Individual training cannot fix organizational drivers The WHO definition locates burnout in unmanaged chronic workplace stress, and the workplace evidence reviews place organisational change ahead of individual programs. Treatment that ignores the conditions is treating half the problem.
- 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.
What is mindfulness based cognitive therapy?
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy, usually shortened to MBCT, is a manualized 8-week group program that combines systematic mindfulness training with elements taken from cognitive behavioral therapy. Classes of roughly eight to fifteen people meet weekly, with a longer day of guided attention training partway through and daily home practice in between. MBCT was developed for a specific job: teaching people with a history of depression the skills to stay well. NICE guidance on depression in adults includes it among the effective options for preventing relapse in people at elevated risk of a further episode. Corporate professionals most often meet the name attached to general stress reduction, which is a different and much less well evidenced use of the same eight weeks.
What is the difference between MBSR and MBCT?
MBSR and MBCT share an architecture and differ in purpose. The AHRQ comparative effectiveness review describes both as standardized programs of weekly meetings across eight weeks, each with a retreat day in the middle and instructions for daily home practice, and records that MBCT holds the same 8-week length but was modified for the particular condition of depression. MBSR is the older, broader stress program. MBCT adds the cognitive behavioral components that target the thinking patterns preceding a depressive episode, and it is MBCT, not MBSR, that carries the relapse prevention evidence. For corporate burnout neither program has evidence approaching that strength, and the two names should never be treated as interchangeable.
How long is MBCT?
Eight weeks is the standard length of a full MBCT course, taught as weekly group classes with a longer day of guided training partway through. That figure understates the commitment considerably. The NHS implementation study of MBCT notes that patients need to invest significant time both to attend the classes and to undertake the mindfulness exercises, and the daily exercises between classes are where the published effects were actually generated. Corporate professionals who plan for the eight classes and not for the days between them tend to complete the course and not the program, which is a meaningfully different thing to have done.
Does mindfulness help with burnout?
Mindfulness based interventions do show measurable effects on burnout symptoms, and those effects are more modest than the marketing suggests. A 2023 systematic review in Frontiers in Psychiatry pooled 15 randomized studies covering 1,165 participants and found improvements in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment, while grading the certainty of the evidence as low to very low and reporting heterogeneity between studies reaching 73 percent. NICE's evidence review for mental wellbeing at work rated most individual-level mindfulness findings low or very low quality. For corporate burnout the honest summary is that something happens, the size of it is uncertain, and no amount of it substitutes for changing the conditions that produced the exhaustion.
Is mindfulness based cognitive therapy used for anxiety?
MBCT is used for anxiety, and the evidence for that use is weaker than the evidence for relapse prevention. The AHRQ comparative effectiveness review of meditation programs found moderate strength of evidence for a small improvement in anxiety, with an effect size of 0.40 at eight weeks falling to 0.22 at three to six months, and found no evidence that these programs outperformed the specific therapies they were compared against. Corporate professionals presenting with anxiety rather than exhaustion are often better served by an approach with a larger trial base for that target, and a CEREVITY assessment settles which applies before a course of anything is chosen.
Is a meditation app the same as MBCT?
Meditation apps are not MBCT, and the difference is not pedantic. MBCT is a manualized curriculum delivered by a trained teacher to a group, with a structured inquiry after each exercise and dedicated work on recognizing the early signature of a returning depressive episode. An app delivers guided audio. Every trial result quoted in favor of mindfulness based cognitive therapy was produced by the full program, so an app cannot inherit those findings by association. For a corporate professional an app may still be a reasonable thing to use. It should simply not be described, by an employer or by anyone else, as treatment for burnout.
What happens if I cannot keep up the daily home practice?
Home practice is where corporate professionals most often lose an 8-week course, and it is better to plan for that honestly than to enrol and quietly stop in week three. Where a daily commitment is genuinely unrealistic against the current schedule, that is clinical information rather than a character verdict, and it usually points toward individual work that can flex around a calendar instead of a fixed cohort. CEREVITY clinicians would rather match the format to the life you actually have than watch a well-evidenced program fail for reasons that had nothing to do with the evidence.
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
Start with the assessment, not the program.
If burnout has stopped responding to time away, the useful first step is finding out what it has become. CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians providing confidential, private-pay care across all 50 states. Call (562) 295-6650 or send a private inquiry.
Available by appointment 7 days a week, 8 AM to 8 PM (PST)§§ / Author
About Martha Fernandez, LCSW.
Martha Fernandez, LCSW
Martha Fernandez, LCSW is Co-Founder of CEREVITY and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker licensed in California, seeing clients by telehealth nationwide through CEREVITY's network of independent licensed clinicians. USC-trained and bilingual in English and Spanish, she works with founders, executives, attorneys and pilots on burnout, anxiety and depression in high performers, on trauma, grief and high-stakes transitions, and on couples and relationship strain under pressure. Her clinical work draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, behavioral activation, and narrative and solution-focused approaches. She is the author of Wired to Burn. View full bio →
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- CEREVITY. Concierge therapy membership. cerevity.com/concierge-therapy-membership
- CEREVITY. Family therapy. cerevity.com/family-therapy
- CEREVITY. Frequently asked questions. cerevity.com/faq
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