Private Clinical Care for Cleared Professionals
A security clearance psychologist who understands what you are weighing
You are not asking whether therapy would help. You are asking what it costs you at the next reinvestigation, and whether the person across the screen has ever thought about that question before. Licensed clinicians, private video sessions, nothing billed to insurance. 100% virtual. Private-pay. Nationwide.
The short answer
A security clearance psychologist is a licensed clinician who treats cleared professionals and understands the disclosure environment they work in, without needing the content of their work. CEREVITY provides this nationwide by secure video on a 100% private-pay basis, so no insurance claim and no diagnosis code are created.
The calculation nobody outside this world understands
What actually gets created if I start?
We are not going to tell you what your own paperwork requires of you, because that answer belongs to your security officer and, where it matters, your counsel. What we can do is be precise about what exists on our side, and hand you the government's own published language rather than a rumor from the break room.
No claim, no code, no carrier record
Because you pay privately, nothing is submitted to an insurer. No diagnosis code is generated, no claim is filed, and no carrier file is created. There is no third-party billing record produced by starting care with us, because there is no third party.
The record has one holder
The clinical record lives with your licensed clinician under HIPAA and privilege, released only with your written authorization apart from the narrow exceptions your clinician reviews with you at intake. What you must report and when is a question for your security officer or your attorney, and we will say so rather than guess.
The government's own position, quoted
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency states in its published fact sheet on mental health and security clearances that "seeking mental health services does not affect one's ability to gain or hold clearance eligibility" and that "there are no automatically disqualifying conditions or treatments." Read it yourself at the DCSA fact sheet and take your specifics to your security officer.
What cleared professionals bring to a first session
Six things our clinicians hear from people who cannot describe most of their working life to anyone.
A job you cannot decompress about
The ordinary release valve, telling your spouse what happened today, is closed by law. The pressure is real, the outlet is not, and the mismatch compounds over a career.
Vigilance that no longer switches off
The scanning that makes you good at the work follows you into a grocery store and a family dinner. What was a professional skill has quietly become a nervous system setting.
Deployments, rotations, and the re-entry
The hard part is often not the tour, it is the ordinary Tuesday afterward, where nothing is urgent and nothing feels real, and everyone expects you to be relieved.
Sleep that broke and stayed broken
Shift patterns, time zones, and a mind that will not stand down. The sleep problem is usually the first thing to move in treatment and the last thing people mention.
A marriage carrying an information asymmetry
Your partner knows the shape of your week and nothing inside it. Over years, that gap gets read as distance, and neither of you can litigate it with facts.
The drink that became structural
It started as decompression and became the mechanism. This is precisely the territory where waiting is worse than acting, and you already know it.
How a security clearance psychologist actually works with you
Standard evidence-based treatment, delivered by people who do not need the environment explained to them and do not ask you to describe your work.
Nobody asks what you do
The clinical work does not require the content of your job. It requires the shape of it: the hours, the vigilance, the isolation, the re-entries, the things you carry and cannot set down. Our clinicians are used to working at that level of abstraction.
If you volunteer something, they will handle it professionally. If you never do, the treatment is not weakened, because what is being treated is your sleep, your mood, your reactivity, and your relationships, none of which require classified detail to address.
Treatment, then the operating pattern
The first phase targets the presenting problem with established approaches: cognitive behavioral work for anxiety and insomnia, trauma-focused treatment where it applies, and honest attention to alcohol when it belongs in the conversation.
The later phase is about sustainability. Not leaving the work, unless you want to, but understanding the cost structure of it and deciding deliberately what you are willing to keep paying.
What cleared clients report changing
Early on, most describe relief at simply saying true things in a room where the security question has already been answered honestly and set aside.
Later, the practical layer: sleep first, then reactivity at home, then the sense that the job is something you do rather than the only thing you are.
A security clearance psychologist or an agency program: the difference matters
Peer support is valuable and it is not treatment. Know which one you are getting.
| CEREVITY, Licensed Therapy | Employer or Agency Programs | |
|---|---|---|
| Training and oversight | Doctoral and master's level clinicians, licensed and accountable to state boards | Varies widely; peer volunteers and chaplains are common and are not clinicians |
| Who holds the engagement | You, individually; your employer is not the client and receives nothing | The agency or contractor, which may have reporting expectations built in |
| Scope of the work | Evidence-based treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, insomnia and substance use | Support, referral and short-term problem solving |
| Insurance footprint | None here; private-pay creates no claim and no diagnosis code | Often billed through the plan, which creates a record |
| Right for | You want actual treatment and you want it outside every internal system | You want a first conversation and a referral |
Concierge by design: you never browse a directory
One conversation about what you need. One deliberate match.
Where we practice: nationwide. Coverage is nationwide: our psychologists carry PsyPact authority across the participating states, individually licensed clinicians cover the rest, and matching follows wherever you are physically located during session. If you move on assignment, tell us and we plan for it rather than promise the impossible.
Get MatchedThe cleared population is large, and the fear is larger than the record
individuals were eligible to hold a security clearance as of October 1, 2017, the figure reported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Source: ODNI, Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Report on Security Clearance Determinationsof the denial or revocation cases described in the DCSA fact sheet were based solely on an individual seeking mental health care.
Source: Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, Mental Health and Security Clearances fact sheetindividuals had eligibility denied or revoked in cases where psychological conditions appeared alongside other concerns, per the same fact sheet.
Source: Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, Mental Health and Security Clearances fact sheetChoose your depth
Three session lengths. Shift work and rotations often make the longer formats more practical than a weekly hour that keeps getting missed.
Treated by clinicians, reviewed by clinicians
Every CEREVITY clinician is independently licensed and works with cleared professionals as core caseload, not a curiosity. This page is clinically reviewed by Benjamin Rosen, PsyD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist.
- PhD & PsyD psychologists with PsyPact mobility authority
- LCSW / LMFT / LPCC clinicians, multi-state licensed
- Evidence-based care: CBT, ACT, psychodynamic & somatic approaches
- HIPAA-secure telehealth; records stay between you and your clinician
One client, in their own words
“I spent four years telling myself I would deal with it after the next reinvestigation, and then the next one. What finally moved me was reading the government's own language and realizing the thing I was protecting my clearance from was the exact thing that would have looked worse if I kept ignoring it. The first session, nobody asked me what I did. That was the whole unlock. I slept properly for the first time in two years about six weeks in.
Systems engineer, cleared defense contractor, 10 months with CEREVITY
Shared with permission by a former client; identifying details altered to protect confidentiality. Individual experiences vary.
You cannot talk about most of your week. This hour is not most of your week.
Get Matched NowWhat cleared professionals ask before starting
Do I have to report this?
Will my clinician need to know what I actually do?
How is this different from the program my agency already offers?
I move on assignment and sometimes overseas. Does this follow me?
What does this cost?
Why does private-pay matter so much in my situation?
Adjacent care for regulated careers
Cleared work is one of several careers where disclosure changes the calculation. These are the neighboring pages our clinicians are asked about most.
The question was never whether it would help.
One conversation starts the match, usually the same day, and the first session takes the first opening on your clinician's calendar. Nothing is billed to anyone.
Seven days a week, early morning to late evening · Current session and support hours are on the contact page, shown in your time zone