Reserved Capacity, Billed Monthly
Concierge therapy membership: a standing place in your clinician's week
A membership is a retainer, not a package. You are not buying sessions at a discount; you are paying for time that is held out of the schedule and offered to no one else, so the work continues through the months your calendar does not cooperate. Three tiers, billed monthly, private-pay throughout.
The short answer
A concierge therapy membership buys a standing weekly hour held with one clinician, rather than competing for whatever slot is open. CEREVITY runs it nationwide on a 100% private-pay basis with licensed clinicians, so the arrangement creates no insurance claim, no diagnosis code and no carrier record.
The question every member asks first
Why would I pay more than the per-session rate?
You would, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. A membership costs roughly eleven percent above list at the Standard and Signature tiers. Here is exactly what that premium buys, what it does not, and when booking one session at a time is the better arrangement.
You are buying capacity, not units
The premium reserves an hour in your clinician's week and closes it to everyone else. Every retainer you have ever paid works this way: the value sits in the availability, not in the count. If lowest cost per session is the goal, book individually.
Unused time expires, and we tell you so
Sessions do not roll into the next cycle; each month stands alone. Because that is a real cost to you, your coordinator reviews utilization mid-cycle and gets in touch if slots are going unused, either to book them or to move you down a tier.
A monthly charge, and nothing else
Weekly work billed through insurance would generate a claim and a diagnosis code every week, accumulating for as long as the work continues. A private-pay membership produces a monthly charge to a card and no third-party record at all, however long you stay.
When a membership is the right instrument
Six situations where a held slot solves something that booking one at a time does not.
The calendar keeps winning
You mean to go weekly. Then a board meeting moves, then a trip lands, and six weeks have passed. The slot only survives if something is holding it open on your behalf.
Restarting costs you a session
Long gaps mean the first twenty minutes go to catching up rather than working. Continuity is not sentimental; it is the difference between a session that moves and a session that briefs.
Booking is its own friction
Requesting a time, waiting on availability, and negotiating around a full week is a small task you keep not doing. A recurring slot removes the decision entirely.
The work has more than one thread
Some seasons need two hours a week rather than one, not because things are worse but because there is genuinely more to work. A tier can hold that without renegotiating every month.
Depth needs a longer container
Trauma processing, an unwinding marriage, a decision that will not resolve in fifty minutes: work like that wants three-hour blocks placed around your month, not squeezed into a standard hour.
You want one clinician, not a rotation
The same person throughout, holding the thread between sessions and between blocks. No reassignment, no restating your history to someone new because the roster changed.
What a concierge therapy membership actually holds
Three tiers, one structure: reserved time with a named clinician, billed monthly, with the terms in writing before anything is charged.
Standard: one hour, every week, held
A standing 50-minute slot on the same day and time each week, with the same clinician throughout. One monthly charge to a card on file rather than a per-session invoice, and the full membership terms in writing before the first payment.
Any covered session can be extended when a week calls for it: 90 minutes for an additional 150 dollars, or a three-hour block for an additional 450. The slot stays yours whether or not you extend it.
Signature: twice a week, spaced on purpose
Two standing 50-minute slots each week, usually spread across the week rather than stacked back to back, so there is room between them for something to settle. The same clinician for both, so neither session restarts the context.
Signature adds a scheduled review of whether the cadence is still right. Two sessions a week is the correct answer for a season, not forever, and the review exists so nobody drifts into paying for a rhythm the work has outgrown.
Intensive: eighteen clinical hours a month
Six standing three-hour blocks, placed around the shape of your month rather than pinned to a fixed weekday. The same clinician throughout, holding the thread between blocks so each one opens where the last closed.
This is the deepest arrangement offered here. Standard 50-minute sessions taken outside the membership are billed separately at the usual rate, so the blocks stay the structure and anything extra is genuinely extra.
Membership or session by session: buy the right one
Most clients should book one session at a time. A membership earns its premium in one specific case: when a schedule keeps eating the appointment and the work keeps restarting because of it.
| Concierge Membership | Session by Session | |
|---|---|---|
| What you are buying | Reserved capacity in a clinician's week, held in advance | Individual appointments, subject to what is open |
| What it costs | About eleven percent above list at Standard and Signature | List rate, and nothing more |
| Getting on the calendar | Already there; the slot recurs without being requested | Requested each time, against whatever remains open |
| Unused time | Does not roll over; each cycle stands alone | You pay only for what you book |
| Right for | Continuous work on a calendar that keeps winning | Episodic needs, or a schedule you can actually predict |
Concierge by design: you never browse a directory
You describe the cadence the work needs. We hold the time before anything is charged.
Where we practice: nationwide. Coverage is nationwide: our psychologists hold PsyPact authority across the participating states and individually licensed clinicians cover the rest, matched to where you are physically located during each session. Tell your coordinator about extended travel in advance and we will confirm what is possible before you go.
Get MatchedWhy a held slot is worth holding
was the weighted dropout rate across 669 studies representing 83,834 psychotherapy clients, as reported in a meta-analysis of premature discontinuation.
Source: Swift & Greenberg, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychologycounseling clients were studied in a naturalistic setting; researchers report that those seen weekly improved more quickly than those seen every other week.
Source: Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, on Erekson, Lambert & Eggettrandomised trials comparing psychotherapy delivered by telehealth with the same therapy face to face found no significant differences after treatment or at follow-up.
Source: JMIR Mental Health, systematic review and meta-analysisChoose your depth
A membership is built out of the same three session lengths sold individually. Standard and Signature hold the 50-minute hour and let you extend it; Intensive is built from three-hour blocks.
Treated by clinicians, reviewed by clinicians
Every CEREVITY clinician is independently licensed and works with members as core caseload, not a curiosity. This page is clinically reviewed by Martha Fernandez, LCSW, 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 standing hour, one story
“I had done therapy twice before and quit both times, and neither time was because it stopped helping. It was because a quarter got busy and rebooking became one more thing on a list. What changed with the membership was that the hour stopped being a decision. It was simply Tuesday. Fourteen months later I have missed four of them, and I know that number because someone actually keeps track.
Managing partner, professional services, 14 months with CEREVITY
Shared with permission by a former client; identifying details altered to protect confidentiality. Individual experiences vary.
The work does not fail because the hour stops helping. It fails because the hour stops happening.
Get Matched NowQuestions clients ask before enrolling in a therapy membership
Is a membership cheaper than paying per session?
What happens to sessions I do not use?
What if I travel, or a month gets away from me entirely?
How do I change tiers or end a membership?
What does a membership cost?
Why does private-pay matter more on a membership than on a one-off session?
What sits around a concierge membership
A held hour is the container, not the clinical plan. These are the pages members read alongside this one.
The hour only exists if something holds it.
One conversation sets the tier and the clinician, and the terms are in writing before anything is charged. Most members are in their first standing session the same day.
Seven days a week, early morning to late evening · Current session and support hours are on the contact page, shown in your time zone