An EAP alternative the firm pays for, built for the people at the top. No names.
Your firm buys a block of therapy sessions from CEREVITY, a private-pay network of independent licensed clinicians. Partners, principals and senior staff use it privately, each matched to a doctoral-level psychologist. The statement shows sessions used, never who. Nothing to administer.
What this is
A firm-paid block of private therapy. Not an EAP, not a wellness app, not a referral line into the health plan.
In one paragraph. An EAP alternative is a confidential therapy benefit a firm pays for directly, outside its employee assistance program and its health plan. CEREVITY delivers it as a 12-month block of sessions: people are matched to doctoral-level psychologists by secure telehealth nationwide, the firm receives a statement with session counts and no names, and nothing is reported to the partners or to HR.
CEREVITY is a private-pay therapy network of independent licensed clinicians, delivered by secure telehealth across all 50 states. For a firm, the product is a block of sessions it buys for its people, in 50-minute, 90-minute, and 3-hour formats, with each person matched to a doctoral-level psychologist.
No insurance claim is filed, so no claim record exists for the firm, its insurer, or its benefits broker to find. The EAP can stay in place for the wider staff. The block sits beside it, for the people an EAP is not built to reach. The firm pays. It never learns who used the block.
There is nothing for the firm to administer. It tells its people the block exists, and each person contacts CEREVITY directly. Accounting, consulting, advisory and investment firms use the same structure. Law firms have a page of their own: the EAP alternative for law firms.
What an EAP cannot do for the people at the top
Most firms already have an EAP, and most of the people who need help at the top never call it. The program is not badly run. It was built for a different job, and the gap is structural, not clinical.
An EAP is short-term by design
An EAP offers assessment, a capped number of counseling sessions, and a referral onward. In the Business Group on Health's survey of large employers, every employer that answered reported a visit limit. A partner carrying years of strain needs one clinician for as long as the work takes. Our comparison of what an EAP is for and what it is not sets out the difference.
The handoff runs through the health plan
When the EAP visits run out, the usual next step is a referral to a clinician in the health plan network. That means an insurance claim, a diagnosis on file with the insurer, and an explanation of benefits sent to the policyholder. For someone whose standing depends on looking steady, that record is the reason not to start. See therapy with no insurance claim trail.
The firm runs it, and partners chose it
An EAP is chosen by the firm's leadership, administered by its office or HR lead, and reports utilization back to the firm. At a firm of 10 to 200 people, the partner who needs it may have signed the contract. Anything a partner says about their own capacity becomes a business fact, so it goes unsaid. Our note on why executives do not use the EAP covers the pattern.
of eligible employees, on average, used their EAP or its equivalent at least once in a year. Every large employer that answered reported a cap on counseling visits.Business Group on Health, Employee Assistance Programs in 2022: Quick Survey Results
That is what an EAP alternative has to fix: the help exists, but it is capped, it is run by the firm, and its exit runs through the health plan. CEREVITY sits outside all three. The block is pooled, so nobody is cut off at a set number of visits per issue. The only parties involved are the person, the clinician, and a firm that pays for the block and never sees into it.
How it works
Three steps. The firm's part is finished at step one.
The firm picks a block
Three sizes: 20, 40, or 100 sessions for the year, priced per session at CEREVITY's standard rates. A 20-session block fits a firm of 10 to 25 people, 40 fits 25 to 75, 100 fits 75 to 200. The EAP stays as it is for everyone else. Paid once at signup. Unused sessions roll into the renewal.
People come to CEREVITY directly
Each person contacts CEREVITY privately and names the firm. They are matched to a doctoral-level psychologist the same day and book the first session at the first opening on that clinician's calendar. Sessions run 50 minutes, 90 minutes, or 3 hours, so a principal in the middle of a close or a busy season can take one longer session instead of a standing weekly hour. Each person keeps that clinician.
The firm gets a statement
Sessions used against the block, as a count. No names, no dates tied to a person, no clinical content. That is the firm's entire administrative footprint.
What the firm does, start to finish
- Pick a block size from the cost sheet and pay once for the year.
- Leave the EAP in place for the wider staff; nothing about it changes.
- Tell your people the block exists and that they contact CEREVITY directly, naming the firm.
- Receive the statement, and at twelve months renew. Unused sessions roll over.
What it costs
Three block sizes: 20, 40, or 100 sessions a year, priced per session at the standard rate. Pick by how many people the block covers. The one-page cost sheet has the figures.
Pooled across the firm, in any format, drawn as people use them.
Pooled across the firm, in any format, drawn as people use them.
Pooled across every office, in any format, drawn as people use them.
Counted in 50-minute sessions; a 90-minute or 3-hour session draws more of the block, and the cost sheet shows the rate for each length. Paid once at signup for the year. Unused sessions roll into the next block at renewal.
Get the one-page cost sheetOne page. That is the whole evaluation.
The cost sheet is a single page: three block sizes, what is included, and how renewal works. Request it and read it in two minutes.
Get the one-page cost sheetWhat the firm sees, and what it does not
For a firm-paid benefit to get used at the top, a partner has to believe that using it creates no visibility at the firm and no record in the health plan.
What the firm sees
- Sessions drawn against the block, as a number.
- The statement and the renewal terms.
- Nothing tied to a named person.
What the firm does not see
- Whether a specific person has contacted CEREVITY, been matched, or attended.
- What is being addressed, or which clinician is assigned.
- Session notes, treatment plans, or diagnostic information.
- Any attendance detail at the individual level.
Nothing reported to the partners or HR
CEREVITY clinicians follow HIPAA privacy practices and are bound by their own licensure and confidentiality obligations. CEREVITY has no reporting line to the firm's partners, its HR lead, its EAP vendor, or any licensing board. Our privacy policy is published in full.
The statement is the only thing that flows back
The firm receives a session count. There is no eligibility file to maintain and no data feed between the firm and the clinical side. The terms are on the cost sheet and in our terms of service.
The question senior people ask before anything else is whether therapy shows up on a background check. It is answered directly, alongside our page on therapy with no records your employer sees.
Questions firms ask about an EAP alternative
What is an EAP alternative, and does the firm have to drop its EAP?
An EAP alternative is a separate benefit for the care an EAP is not designed to give: an ongoing relationship with one clinician, outside the health plan. The firm does not have to drop its EAP. It can keep it for the wider staff and add a CEREVITY block beside it, which partners and senior people use privately.
Does CEREVITY report anything to the partners, HR or a licensing board?
No. CEREVITY has no reporting line to the firm's partners, its HR lead, or any licensing board, and nothing about a person's use of the block is reported to any of them. The firm receives a session count, never a name.
Does using CEREVITY show up in the health plan or with the EAP vendor?
Care is private pay with no insurance claim, so there is no claim record for the firm, its insurer, or its benefits broker to find. CEREVITY has no connection to the firm's EAP vendor and sends it nothing, so the EAP's utilization reports are untouched by anyone using the block.
How quickly is someone matched?
People are matched to a doctoral-level psychologist the same day they reach CEREVITY, and the first session is booked at the first opening on that clinician's calendar. Someone who wants more time in one sitting can book a 90-minute session or a 3-hour session instead of a standard hour.
We have offices in several states. Does one block cover all of them?
Yes. Care is delivered by secure telehealth nationwide, so a single block covers people in every office, regardless of where each one is licensed. Matching accounts for each person's state, and nobody needs to be near an office.
What does an EAP alternative cost the firm?
Three block sizes: 20, 40, or 100 sessions for the year, priced per session at CEREVITY's standard rates. Pick the block by how many people it covers; a 20-session block fits a firm of 10 to 25 people, 40 fits 25 to 75, 100 fits 75 to 200. Paid once at signup for twelve months, and unused sessions roll into the renewal. The one-page cost sheet has the figures; request it below and it comes to your work email.
Does the firm have to set anything up?
No. There is no eligibility list, no vendor portal, and no launch. The firm buys the block and tells its people it exists. Each person contacts CEREVITY directly and names the firm, and the firm's only touchpoint afterward is the statement.
How do we begin?
Request the cost sheet with the form below, or call (562) 295-6650. Firms that want to talk it through first can use the contact page. To refer a single person rather than set up a block, use the refer-a-patient form linked below.
Get the one-page cost sheet
Three block sizes, what is included, how renewal works. One page, sent to your work email.
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Research and related pages
Research on senior people and the help they skip
For firm leaders and HR
Clinical writing for professionals
The EAP use and visit-limit findings are drawn from the Business Group on Health's Employee Assistance Programs in 2022: Quick Survey Results, published in March 2022 from a survey of large employers. Its use figure is an average across the employers that reported one, and it does not break out use among partners or senior staff. The figures in the research links are from CEREVITY's own clinical reviews. Block sizes, session counts, and renewal terms are those of CEREVITY's standard firm cost sheet, which is the governing document for figures.