You take care of medicine.
Who takes care of you?
Confidential, results driven therapy for physicians, residents, and medical professionals, with a psychologist who has been on your side of the white coat. Dr. Helmer Figueiredo holds doctorates in medicine, neuroscience, and clinical psychology.
Schedule a Confidential AppointmentSelf pay. No insurance records. Appointments typically available within days, not months.
Medicine trains you to endure.
It does not train you to be okay.
Persistent exhaustion that rest does not resolve, growing detachment from patients, and a declining sense of efficacy are the three recognized dimensions of burnout, not personal failings. Left unaddressed, they carry real risk to your wellbeing and your practice. They also respond well to evidence based treatment.
Burnout and moral injury
Energy depletion, detachment from work you once loved, and the grinding conflict between the care you want to give and the system you give it in.
Anxiety, OCD, and perfectionism
The vigilance that made you a great clinician does not clock out. Intrusive worry, checking, imposter syndrome, and the fear of the one mistake.
Depression and trauma
Codes that stay with you. Losses you never had time to process. A low mood you have been white knuckling through because patients needed you first.
The numbers physicians rarely say out loud.
Burnout in medicine is not a character flaw. It is a measured, well documented occupational health problem, and the barriers to getting help are just as well documented.
Burnout is improving, and still enormous
Share of physicians reporting at least one burnout symptom
Source: American Medical Association Organizational Biopsy, ~19,000 physician responses, 2025.
Why physicians stay silent
Reported barriers to seeking mental health care
Sources: Pew Charitable Trusts (2025) and peer reviewed physician stigma survey data.
The evidence is clear on two things.
Physicians carry a heavier mental health burden than the patients they treat, and the systems meant to help them often deepen the fear. Independent, confidential, self pay care exists precisely to close that gap.
Care that stays between you and your psychologist.
We know why physicians hesitate to get help. So we removed the reasons.
- Self pay, no insurance billing. No diagnosis submitted to an insurer. No claims database. No paper trail through your employer's plan.
- Independent private practice. We are not affiliated with any hospital system, EAP, or employer. Your care never touches your workplace.
- Discreet by design. A private renovated house in Mt. Auburn, not a hospital lobby. Or skip the commute entirely with telehealth from anywhere in Ohio.
Standard legal limits to confidentiality apply, as with any licensed healthcare provider. We are happy to walk you through exactly what is and is not protected before you begin.
You will not have to explain medicine to him. He has lived it, three times over.
Trained as a physician
Dr. Figueiredo earned his medical degree in Brazil. He knows the culture of medicine, the hierarchy, the hours, the identity, from the inside.
Studied the biology of stress itself
His Ph.D. in Neuroscience focused on the brain's stress circuitry, including published, peer reviewed research on the HPA axis and prefrontal regulation of the stress response. He did not just read about the biology of burnout. He helped write it.
Taught and treated your colleagues
Former faculty at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and therapy supervisor for psychiatry residents at the Orlando VA, where he practiced for six years.
Became a clinical psychologist, on purpose
His Psy.D. is his third doctorate. After years in medicine and the lab, he chose the treatment room, because relieving suffering is the point of all that science.
Evidence based and measurable: CBT, DBT, ACT, and interpersonal psychotherapy, the same standard of rigor you hold your own practice to. Sessions offered in English and Portuguese.
Want to see the science for yourself? Explore Dr. Figueiredo's published research
Three ways in. One standard of care.
Individual Therapy
Weekly or biweekly sessions built around goals and measured progress, for burnout, anxiety, OCD, depression, trauma, and the perfectionism medicine rewards until it breaks you.
Ketamine Integration
Dr. Figueiredo leads our ketamine integration program, psychotherapy timed within 24 to 48 hours of infusion to consolidate rapid antidepressant effects into lasting change. If you want the mechanism explained at journal club depth, ask him.
Psychological Assessment
Comprehensive diagnostic clarity for mood, personality, and ADHD, with a written report and a personalized treatment roadmap. Answers, not guesswork.
Getting started is the easiest part.
The fine print, up front.
Will seeing a therapist affect my medical license?
This worry keeps more physicians out of treatment than any other, and it is largely outdated. Ohio's licensure and renewal questions have moved toward asking only about current impairment, not the fact of having sought mental health care. Seeking treatment proactively is widely recognized, including by medical boards, as a sign of good judgment rather than impairment. We cannot give legal advice, but we can tell you this: because we do not bill insurance, there is no claims record generated by your care here, and your records stay in this practice.
Why do you not take insurance?
By design. Insurance billing requires a diagnosis submitted to a third party and creates records outside your control. Self pay keeps your care private, lets us set session length and frequency clinically rather than by contract, and gets you started in days. We can provide superbills if you choose to pursue out of network reimbursement, and that decision stays entirely in your hands. See our rates and payment page.
I work 60 plus hours a week. How does this actually fit?
Telehealth sessions from anywhere in Ohio, scheduling that works around clinical demands, and a goal oriented approach that respects your time. Dr. Figueiredo's model is active and structured. You will know what you are working on and whether it is working.
Is this just for physicians?
Physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students are the focus of this page, but Dr. Figueiredo and our team work with nurses, NPs, PAs, pharmacists, dentists, and veterinarians, anyone carrying the weight of caring for others.
What if I am not sure I need therapy?
Start with a conversation. Call or text our Practice Coordinator, a real human, not a phone tree, and we will help you figure out the right next step, even if it is not with us.
You diagnose and treat all day.
Let someone do it for you.
One confidential appointment. No insurance records. A psychologist who speaks your language, clinically and literally.
Schedule with Dr. FigueiredoPrefer to talk first? Call or text (513) 717-5566 · welcome@hellomentalhealth.com
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