Corporate mental health programs for the people your EAP was not built to reach.
CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians serving C-suite executives, founders, partners, physicians, and other senior professionals. Employers, executive teams, and professional associations use it to give their most senior people confidential clinical care the standard benefit rarely reaches them with: matched clinicians, extended session formats, and no broker layer between the person and the care.
CEREVITY runs corporate mental health programs for senior leaders: confidential, private-pay therapy with hand-matched independent licensed clinicians, delivered by secure telehealth in all 50 states in 50-minute, 90-minute, and 3-hour sessions. Employers, executive teams, and professional associations sponsor access; individual care stays invisible to the sponsor, and first sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of intake.
What CEREVITY is.
A nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians, offered through your organization as a confidential benefit.
CEREVITY is a nationwide network of independent licensed clinicians providing private-pay therapy by secure telehealth across all 50 states. It is not an app, not a coaching marketplace, and not an employee assistance program. Each person is matched by hand to a clinician experienced with high-responsibility roles, then keeps that clinician for the length of the work.
For a partner organization, the model is simple to reason about. Care is private pay with no insurance claim filed, so nothing routes through your health plan and no claim record is created. The program sits alongside an existing EAP rather than replacing it, reserved for the senior people a general-population benefit was never designed around. It can be structured as a direct contract, a seat-based arrangement, or stipend and lifestyle spending account funding, whichever fits how your benefits are already built.
The same structure runs as dedicated programs by vertical. A hospital system evaluating physician burnout solutions and a law firm scoping a lawyer assistance program alternative land in the same network, matched against the presenting issues of their own people; the resource rail at the end of this page indexes the programs CEREVITY currently runs.Why corporate mental health programs need a separate channel.
Nearly every organization already pays for mental health support. The people with the most riding on their judgment use it least.
The reason is structural, not personal. Most EAPs operate as a broker layer: a roster email goes out, whichever counselor responds first gets the case, and the handoff runs through a phone line nobody controls. Our honest comparison of EAPs and private therapy walks through the mechanics in detail.
The published utilization numbers describe how that design performs in practice.
median annual EAP utilization reported by large employers, against near-universal EAP access at large companies. Source: National Business Group on Health, Quick Survey Findings: Employee Assistance Programs, 2019 (2018 plan-year data).
No clinical matching occurs anywhere in that sequence. A general counselor two years into practice can be the first responder for a chief executive managing a board conflict, and both people know within minutes that the fit is wrong. CEREVITY starts from the opposite premise, set out in why executives do not use your EAP and what to offer instead: match first, then schedule.
The presenting issues differ too. An EAP is scoped for acute, workforce-wide concerns, and it does that job well. Executive burnout, founder identity, board and governance stress, and public-figure exposure sit structurally outside its design, and senior people know it, which is why they quietly route around the benefit or go without.
Sources · National Business Group on Health, Quick Survey Findings: Employee Assistance Programs, 2019 (2018 plan-year data; median across 59 employers reporting).
Amaral (2007), EAP benchmarking case use rate, as reported in the Journal of Insurance Regulation, National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
What senior people actually bring to the work.
Eight presenting patterns that repeat across every vertical CEREVITY serves, each with a dedicated clinical page.
Executive burnout
Not tiredness: a depletion that survives vacations and shows up first in judgment, pace, and patience. It is the most common reason a senior person enters the network, and executive burnout therapy is built around it.
Decision fatigue
Thousands of consequential calls a year erode the quality of the next one. Decision fatigue therapy rebuilds the capacity the role spends daily.
High-stakes anxiety
Performance under scrutiny that reads as composure from the outside and costs sleep, focus, and health underneath. High-stakes anxiety therapy treats the pattern rather than the moment.
Imposter syndrome
The more senior the seat, the fewer people it can be admitted to. Imposter syndrome in accomplished professionals responds well to structured clinical work.
Leadership isolation
No peer inside the organization, and a board that evaluates rather than confides. Senior people absorb every hard call alone, the exact pattern leadership isolation therapy exists for.
Role transitions
Exits, successions, acquisitions, and the question of who the person is without the role. CEO transition support and founder-identity work cover the inflection points.
Board and governance stress
Activist pressure, governance conflict, and fiduciary calls made with incomplete information. The load runs both directions; see board effectiveness and CEO wellbeing.
Relationship strain at home
The hours and the mental load follow senior people home, and families carry the overflow of a job that does not pause. Couples therapy is part of the network for exactly this reason.
The people an organization can least afford to lose are the least likely to use the benefit it already pays for.
Session formats built for working calendars.
Three lengths, matched to the work rather than to a billing standard.
The steady cadence of ongoing therapy. Most clients spend most of their care in 50-minute sessions.
For work that needs more room than a standard hour can hold. See 90-minute sessions.
For work that needs uninterrupted time to reach resolution. See 3-hour therapy intensives.
Care is delivered in 50-minute, 90-minute, and 3-hour sessions by secure telehealth, nationwide. A weekly 50-minute cadence suits steady ongoing work; a 90-minute block goes deeper when travel keeps breaking a standing slot; a 3-hour intensive compresses identity and transition work into a single sitting. Clinical need dictates the length, not an insurance model, and the person keeps the same clinician across formats.
One conversation, whatever shape the partnership takes.
Benefits teams, executive teams, boards, and associations all start the same way: a confidential briefing on how the program would fit your people. No pitch deck, no obligation.
Request a partnership briefingHow a leader is matched.
Every person is matched by hand by CEREVITY's clinical leadership, not assigned by an algorithm or a first-response roster.
The eligible individual submits a confidential intake form covering presenting issues, modality preference, professional context, and scheduling parameters. Operated by CEREVITY directly, 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 is matched to the leader, who receives the match with the clinician's profile, modality, and credentials, plus a direct online scheduling link.
Scheduling runs directly through CEREVITY infrastructure with no phone handoff. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of the match.
Care continues on the cadence the clinical work requires, in 50-minute, 90-minute, or 3-hour sessions, without an employer-imposed session cap.
Capability comparison for employers, executive teams, and associations.
An evaluation framework on the dimensions that matter when scoping corporate mental health programs. All three models have a place; they are designed for different populations.
| Dimension | Typical EAP | Executive-tier platform | CEREVITY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Network model | Broker layer between employer and contractor roster | Single-vendor platform, W-2 or contracted pool | Independent clinical network with direct relationships |
| Clinician assignment | First contractor to reply with availability | Algorithmic matching on intake-form inputs | Clinical review by network leadership |
| Intake and scheduling | Phone handoff to the clinician's line | App-based intake and scheduling | Network-operated intake, direct online scheduling |
| Session formats | Standard 50-minute, capped session counts | Standard 45 to 50-minute sessions | 50-minute, 90-minute, and 3-hour formats, no cap |
| Clinical scope | Acute, broadly applicable concerns | Workforce-wide, executive tier as an upsell | Built around the presenting issues of senior leaders and professionals |
| Modality fit | Generalist talk therapy | Generalist therapy with some specialty | CBT, DBT, psychodynamic, IFS, matched at intake |
| Reach | National via roster density | National telehealth, roster variance | All 50 states via telehealth |
| Payment model | Employer-sponsored, in network | Per-employee-per-month seat pricing | Private pay, out of network, partnership agreement |
| Partner visibility | Aggregate, broker-mediated | Vendor dashboards with engagement metrics | Administrative reporting only |
| Right fit for | Workforce-wide acute support | Mid-tier ongoing care with an executive add-on | employers, executive teams, and associations, end to end |
If you are running a formal evaluation, our notes on what to look for in a private therapy provider cover the procurement side in detail.
What the partner organization sees, and what it does not.
For any of this to work, the person has to trust that using the benefit creates no visibility into their care. CEREVITY is built around that requirement, whoever the sponsor is.
- 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 leader's clinical content.
- Whether a specific named leader has scheduled, attended, or engaged.
- What clinical issues are being addressed, or which clinician is assigned.
- Session notes, treatment plans, or diagnostic information.
- Any attendance detail at the individual level.
Clinicians 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 the agreements governing it are defined in writing before the partnership goes live. Our notice of privacy practices and privacy policy are published in full.
Clinical records, session content, and individual engagement data sit inside the clinical platform. The administrative layer the partner interacts with is structurally separate from the clinical layer.
Eligibility lists are maintained on the partner side and confirmed 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, and whether one applies is a determination made with counsel rather than assumed. The partnership agreement defines the administrative reporting scope in writing before anything goes live. See also our terms of service.
Senior people frequently ask about downstream exposure before they will engage at all. The most common version of the question, whether the employer can see any record of care, is answered directly on our site.
What the first 30 days look like.
The hardest part of a leadership-tier partnership is not the contract. It is the period between signature and the first leader in care.
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. The BAA, where applicable, is executed.
Your team provides the eligible-individual list. CEREVITY confirms it against the network and establishes the verification path at intake. Only eligibility confirmation flows forward.
CEREVITY provides a confidential, leadership-tier comms template explaining the benefit, the privacy posture, and how to access intake. It is written to be received without stigma.
Eligible individuals begin intake on their own cadence. First sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days. By day 30 the partnership is operational and a quarterly review cadence is in place.
The business case, whoever signs.
Retention, performance, and recruiting are the levers, and they are the same levers whether the sponsor is an employer, a board, or an association.
Retention of key people
Replacing a senior leader costs multiples of salary and months of momentum, and avoidable departures usually announce themselves in wellbeing long before they reach a resignation letter. Confidential clinical care is one of the few interventions that reaches the people least likely to ask for help; retaining high-value employees sets out the mechanics.
Sustained performance
Judgment, focus, and decision quality degrade under chronic unmanaged stress, measurably and well before anyone steps back. Burnout's impact on productivity compounds quietly at exactly the seniority where output is hardest to replace.
Recruiting and signaling
A leadership-tier program signals that the organization treats its senior people as long-term assets. That reputation compounds in recruiting, in retention conversations, and, for associations, in the value of membership itself.
Questions partners ask first.
How are corporate mental health programs different from an EAP?
It is a different instrument for a different population. An EAP is a high-volume, short-term benefit for the whole workforce, and CEREVITY does not replace it. A corporate mental health program in the CEREVITY model sits alongside the EAP as a leadership-tier channel: hand-matched senior clinicians, extended formats, and no broker layer, for the people the general benefit consistently fails to reach.
Who partners with CEREVITY?
Three shapes cover nearly every partnership. Benefits and HR leaders add a leadership tier above an existing program, with eligibility defined by the employer. Executive teams, boards, and sponsors arrange a concierge benefit outside the employer framework, common with founders, private equity portfolio companies, and family offices. Professional associations offer the network as a member-facing resource, with no clinical visibility to the association. How to set up confidential therapy for your executives walks through the first shape in detail.
What do corporate mental health programs cost?
Structure is agreed in the partnership conversation and depends on the number of people covered and the scope of access. There is no discounting logic to model: CEREVITY is a private-pay network with transparent standard rates, published on our pricing page, and the partnership defines who funds them and how.
What does our organization see about an individual's care?
Confirmation the program is running, aggregate utilization, invoicing, and eligibility reconciliation. Never individual scheduling or attendance, clinician assignment, session content, or diagnostic information. Clinicians are bound by their own licensure confidentiality and privacy obligations, and the governing agreements, including any Business Associate Agreement where applicable, are defined in writing before the partnership goes live.
How quickly is someone matched and in care?
Intake is a confidential form reviewed by CEREVITY's clinical leadership, a specific clinician match follows with a direct online scheduling link, and first sessions are typically scheduled within 5 to 10 business days of intake. If the fit is ever wrong, re-matching is immediate and does not restart the process.
Does this work for people spread across many states?
Yes. Care is delivered by secure telehealth across all 50 states, so one partnership covers a distributed leadership team, a multi-site hospital system, or a national membership without anyone needing to be anywhere in particular.
Is this executive coaching under another name?
No. It is therapy, delivered by licensed clinicians, and it is confidential clinical care with no stakeholder except the person in the room. Coaching optimizes performance and often reports upward; therapy treats what is actually going on. Executive counseling versus executive coaching draws the line precisely.
How do we begin?
Request a briefing with the form below, call (562) 295-6650, or reach us through the contact page. A member of CEREVITY's clinical leadership follows up directly and confidentially; implementation typically runs 30 days from kickoff to the first people in care.
Request a partnership briefing.
Tell us about your organization and the people you want to support. A member of CEREVITY's clinical leadership will follow up directly and confidentially.
Further reading and related partnerships.
Research, buyer-side guides, and the dedicated programs CEREVITY runs by vertical.
Research and reports
For buyers and boards
Programs: legal and medical
Programs: finance, founders, and more
A note on sources.
EAP utilization figures are drawn from the National Business Group on Health Quick Survey on Employee Assistance Programs (2019), which reported a median utilization rate of 5.5 percent across responding employers for the 2018 plan year, and from the research literature summarized in the Journal of Insurance Regulation (National Association of Insurance Commissioners), which places typical EAP utilization below 10 percent, including Amaral's 2007 benchmark case rate of 3.9 percent. The structural argument on this page is based on the firsthand experience of CEREVITY clinicians who have served on EAP panels, combined with publicly available vendor materials. Specific contractual scopes, including any Business Associate Agreement, are confirmed in writing in the partnership agreement before a partnership goes live. Additional CEREVITY research is collected in the knowledge base.