A discreet therapy panel for cosmetic surgery and med spa groups.
For owners of Beverly Hills, Newport, and San Francisco cosmetic practices: a high-touch, concierge-tier clinical panel for your surgeon partners and senior staff, matched clinicians, extended sessions, and total discretion.
via telehealth
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A concierge clinical panel for the partners and senior staff of a cosmetic practice.
This page is for owners and managing partners of cosmetic surgery and med spa groups in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach, and San Francisco who want a discreet, high-touch therapy panel for their surgeon partners and senior staff. If that is you, the rest of this page is the briefing document.
CEREVITY operates as a clinical network with direct relationships between the network, the clinicians, and the contracting practice. There is no third-party broker layer. Surgeons and senior staff are matched, not first-served. Scheduling and intake run through CEREVITY infrastructure with a concierge level of responsiveness. Care is private-pay, out-of-network, and structurally separate from anything the practice administers internally.
Our clinicians are independent California-licensed professionals, and many have worked with surgeons and high-visibility professionals before. They understand the particular pressures of an aesthetics practice: the business is the surgeon, the reputation is the asset, and discretion is non-negotiable. CEREVITY exists because no off-the-shelf benefit matches the discretion and responsiveness this clientele expects in every other part of their professional life.
In an aesthetics practice the surgeon is the brand, which makes discretion the entire point.
The reasons partners and senior staff in a cosmetic practice do not use generic support are not failures of any program. They are inherent to a business where reputation is the asset and where the expectation of discretion runs through everything.
Cosmetic surgeons and senior aesthetic staff present with a recognizable profile: high-functioning anxiety maintained at significant cost, the pressure of running a reputation-driven business in which they personally are the product, perfectionism that serves the work and erodes the person, and the isolation of a small high-stakes team. These are not workforce-wide concerns a generic benefit was built to address.
The discretion bar is exceptionally high here. A practice owner whose entire brand rests on image and confidence will not engage with any channel that carries a risk of exposure, and neither will their senior staff. Anything less than total discretion is, for this clientele, a non-starter. A channel structurally separate from the practice, with concierge-level handling and no practice visibility into care, is the only version that gets used.
What changes when the channel is built around this profile: matched California-licensed clinicians experienced with surgeons and high-visibility professionals, session formats long enough to do real work, concierge-level scheduling and responsiveness, and a confidentiality posture that gives the practice no visibility into who has engaged or with what.
What CEREVITY clinicians actually treat in a cosmetic practice.
The clinical scope is built around the presenting profile of cosmetic surgeons and senior aesthetic staff, not the workforce-wide profile a generic benefit is built for.
The surgeon as the brand
When the practice's success rests on your personal image and reputation, the pressure to always project confidence becomes its own chronic stressor. It rarely has anywhere safe to go.
Perfectionism and aesthetic stakes
Aesthetic outcomes are visible, subjective, and permanent in the patient's eyes. Perfectionism that drives excellent work can quietly erode the person doing it. The line is treatable once it is named.
High-functioning anxiety
Performance maintained at cost. The results are beautiful, the reviews are glowing, and the cost is invisible until it is not. Common across partners and senior staff alike.
Difficult outcomes and revisions
An unhappy patient, a complication, or a revision in an image-driven specialty carries a distinct emotional weight. The aftermath deserves a confidential place to be processed.
Owner-operator pressure
Partners carry the practice's economics, marketing, and reputation on top of clinical work. When that pressure stops being seasonal and becomes constant, it is its own clinical issue.
Litigation and reputation exposure
A claim or a public review dispute in a reputation-driven practice carries stress that runs well beyond the legal question. The clinical toll deserves a confidential channel.
Identity fusion with the practice
When you are the brand, separating self from role becomes its own clinical project, particularly approaching a sale, an expansion, or a step back from operating.
Substance use as a coping pattern
Alcohol and other substances sometimes enter as a way to decompress from the pressure of always being on. CEREVITY treats this as a clinical issue early, and refers to the appropriate monitoring channel where impairment-level concerns arise.
Three session formats, each chosen for the work.
Most benefits offer one session length. CEREVITY offers three, because different kinds of clinical work need different amounts of time. The choice is made between the clinician and the surgeon, not by what a payor will reimburse.
The steady cadence of ongoing therapy. Most clients spend most of their care in this format.
For work that needs more room than a standard hour. Focused work on a specific transition or decision.
For work that needs uninterrupted time to reach resolution within a single session rather than broken across weeks.
Because CEREVITY operates outside the insurance reimbursement model, session length is set by the clinical work, not by what a payor will reimburse. That is the structural reason all three formats, the 50-minute, the 90-minute, and the 3-hour, can exist on the same network.
Ready to scope a private practice briefing?
Briefings are scoped to your practice and handled discreetly. We respond personally within 48 business hours with proposed times, the concierge-tier structure, and any prepared materials relevant to the panel you are evaluating.
Request a private briefingHow a surgeon gets matched, in five steps.
Matched, not first-served. Here is the process that produces the match for a surgeon or senior staff member.
The eligible individual submits a confidential intake form covering presenting issues, modality preference, professional context, and scheduling parameters. The form is operated by CEREVITY, not by a broker.
Intake is reviewed by CEREVITY's clinical leadership against the network's active capacity, current licensure footprint, and modality availability. This is the step that does not exist in an EAP.
A specific clinician in the network is matched to the surgeon based on the review. The surgeon receives the match with the clinician's profile, modality, and credentials, plus a direct online scheduling link.
The surgeon schedules directly through CEREVITY infrastructure. No phone handoff. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of the match.
Care continues with the matched clinician on the cadence the clinical work requires, in 50-minute, 90-minute, or 3-hour sessions, without an employer-imposed cap.
Capability comparison for Cosmetic Surgery Practices.
A vendor evaluation framework on the dimensions that matter when scoping a leadership-tier offering for surgeons. Both models have a place. They are designed for different populations.
| Dimension | Typical EAP | Executive-tier point solution | CEREVITY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Network model | Broker layer between practice and roster of contractors; scales well to workforce-wide coverage | Single-vendor platform with W-2 or contracted clinician pool | Independent clinical network with direct relationships, no broker layer |
| Clinician assignment | First contractor to reply with availability; optimized for speed-to-first-session | Algorithmic matching on intake-form inputs | Clinical review of intake by network leadership against active capacity |
| Intake and scheduling | Phone handoff to clinician's line; verbal scheduling on callback | App-based intake; in-app scheduling | Network-operated intake; direct online scheduling, no phone handoff |
| Session formats | Standard 50-minute; capped session counts per issue | Standard 45 to 50-minute sessions | 50-minute, 90-minute, and 3-hour formats; no employer-imposed cap |
| Clinical scope | Acute, broadly applicable workforce concerns; intentionally generalist | Workforce-wide therapy and coaching, with executive tier branded on top | Built around presenting issues specific to Cosmetic Surgery Practices |
| Modality fit | Generalist talk therapy; modality-agnostic roster | Generalist therapy; some specialty referral | CBT, DBT, and psychodynamic clinicians, matched to presenting issue and modality preference at intake |
| Reach | National via roster density; varies by region | National via telehealth, with roster density variation | Nationwide via telehealth across all 50 states |
| Payment model | Practice-sponsored; covered through benefits plan | Per-employee-per-month seat pricing | Private-pay; out-of-network; structured through partnership agreement |
| Practice visibility | Aggregate utilization reporting; broker-mediated | Vendor dashboards with engagement and utilization metrics | Administrative reporting only; no clinical content visible |
| Where each model fits | Workforce-wide acute support | Mid-tier ongoing care with executive add-on | Cosmetic Surgery Practices, end-to-end |
What the practice sees, and what the practice does not.
For a surgeon-tier-tier mental health channel to function, the participating surgeon has to trust that engaging with it does not create practice visibility into their care. CEREVITY is designed around that requirement.
- Confirmation that contracted services were provided to eligible individuals.
- Aggregate utilization at the partnership level, where contractually appropriate.
- Invoicing and eligibility reconciliation.
- Nothing tied to a specific named surgeon's clinical content.
- Whether a specific named surgeon has scheduled, attended, or engaged with care.
- What clinical issues are being addressed, or which clinician is assigned.
- Session notes, treatment plans, diagnostic information, or progress data.
- Any attendance detail at the individual level.
Clinicians in the network are independent licensed professionals operating under their own licensure and the confidentiality and privacy obligations that attach to it. Protected health information is held within the clinical infrastructure and is not transmitted to the partner organization, and the agreements governing it are defined in writing before the partnership goes live.
Clinical records, session content, and individual engagement data sit inside the clinical platform and are not shared with the partner organization. The administrative layer is structurally separate from the clinical layer.
Eligibility lists are maintained on the partner side and confirmed against the network side at the point of intake. Administering eligibility does not require the partner to receive clinical information back.
A Business Associate Agreement is executed where the partnership structure requires it. The partnership agreement defines the administrative reporting scope explicitly, in writing, before the partnership goes live.
What the first 30 days look like.
The hardest part of a surgeon-tier-tier partnership is not the contract. It is the period between signature and the first surgeon in care. Here is how CEREVITY runs that period.
A 60-minute kickoff with your team and CEREVITY's partnership lead. We confirm the partnership shape, the eligibility model, the administrative reporting scope, and the internal owner on your side. The Business Associate Agreement, where applicable, is executed in this window.
Your team provides the eligible-individual list in the format your administrative systems support. CEREVITY confirms it against the network side and establishes the verification path that runs at the point of intake. No clinical data flows backward; only eligibility confirmation flows forward.
CEREVITY provides a confidential, surgeon-tier-appropriate internal comms template explaining the benefit, the privacy posture, and how to access intake. Your team adapts it to your voice. The communication is designed to be received without stigma.
Eligible individuals begin intake on their own cadence. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of each intake. By day 30, the partnership is operational and your internal owner has a quarterly review cadence with the CEREVITY partnership lead.
The business case for the practice owner.
Three axes an owner can weigh in deciding to stand up a panel. The numbers will vary; the structural argument does not.
The practice is the people, and losing one is a structural shock.
In a small high-end practice, a partner or key senior staff member leaving is not a percentage of headcount. It is a hit to capacity, continuity, and the reputation that drives the book. A discreet clinical panel that keeps your people well pays for itself across a single prevented departure or crisis.
Partner capacity is the practice's entire product.
A reputation-driven practice has no bench and no anonymity. A partner running below capacity is felt immediately in outcomes, in service, and in the experience clients pay a premium for. Recovery of capacity flows straight into the product.
Retention and the discretion signal.
Senior aesthetic talent is mobile and courted. Offering a discreet, concierge-tier mental health panel signals that the practice takes care of its people at the level they expect, which is itself a retention and recruiting advantage in a tight high-end market.
Questions surgeons and their teams ask first.
The panel is offered at a concierge tier, with pricing set to the size of the partner and senior-staff group, the level of responsiveness you want, and which session formats are available. Because it is built for a small, high-touch group rather than a large workforce, pricing is scoped individually. The briefing call is where we identify the right structure, and the price falls out of that, not the other way around.
Discretion is the design principle, not an add-on. Intake and scheduling run through CEREVITY infrastructure, not through the practice, so engaging with care does not route through anyone the surgeon or staff member works alongside. The practice receives no information about who has engaged. For this clientele the discretion bar is the product, and it is treated that way.
Yes. The panel can be scoped to include surgeon partners and senior staff such as practice leadership, lead injectors, and key clinical or operational team members. Eligibility is defined with you at the briefing and can be structured to fit how your practice is organized.
No. Administrative reporting only. The practice receives confirmation that contracted services were provided to eligible individuals and aggregate utilization where contractually appropriate. The practice does not see whether a specific named person has scheduled, attended, or engaged, what clinical issues are being addressed, or which clinician is assigned. This is contractually scoped before the partnership goes live.
Clinicians in the CEREVITY network operate under their own licensure and the confidentiality and privacy obligations that attach to it. The handling of any protected health information, and the specific agreements that govern it including any Business Associate Agreement, are defined in writing in the partnership agreement before the partnership goes live, scoped to your practice's structure. Whether a given agreement applies is a legal determination made with your counsel.
No. CEREVITY is private-pay and out-of-network by design. For a concierge-tier panel this is the point: it is the only way to deliver the discretion, responsiveness, and session formats this clientele expects.
First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of intake, depending on modality requirements and scheduling parameters. Concierge-tier handling is built to make this fast and frictionless.
Through a private briefing call. Use the form below or email [email protected] directly. Briefings are scoped to your practice and handled discreetly; we respond personally within 48 business hours.
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Briefings are scoped to your practice and handled discreetly. Share a few details below, including roughly how many partners and senior staff you would want covered, and we will respond personally with proposed times and the concierge-tier structure relevant to the panel you are evaluating.
The structural argument on this page is based on the firsthand experience of CEREVITY clinicians who have served on EAP panels, combined with widely-published industry estimates of EAP utilization and Cosmetic Surgery Practices-specific data where cited. Specific contractual scopes, including the administrative reporting boundary and the BAA structure, are confirmed in writing in the partnership agreement before any partnership goes live.
