Who We Work With
Impressive on paper. Running on empty in private.
Our clients are the women everyone else calls first. She runs the department, the classroom, the caseload, the business, the ministry, the household, sometimes several at once. From the outside, your life looks decided. Privately, there is the 3 a.m. mental replay, the resentment with nowhere to go because the asking never stops, and a suspicion that you are everyone's everything and no one's priority, including your own.
Most of our clients would never have called it anxiety. They called it being tired and wired, unable to turn their mind off, short with the people they love. Whatever you call it, if it is costing you sleep, peace, or yourself, it belongs here. Naming it is part of the work.
You do not need to be in crisis to deserve this. You need one hour a week that belongs entirely to you, with someone trained to do more than listen.
- The constant hum of pressure that hides behind competence, control, and a full calendar
- The mental load of being the one who holds the family together: the calendar, the crises, and everyone's feelings
- Relationships where you overgive, keep the peace, and quietly disappear, in marriage and beyond
- Snapping at the people you love, then lying awake ashamed of it
- Fertility and IVF: the waiting, the grief, and a body that will not follow the plan, no matter how well you execute it
- Transitions in career, marriage, motherhood, and identity
- Burnout from being the strong one in every room, at work and at home
“Therapy here is not another place to perform. It is the one room where you can finally set it all down.”
Services
Serious clinical care, built around your life.
Individual Psychotherapy
Weekly or biweekly 50-minute sessions grounded in evidence-based approaches and tailored to women managing anxiety, perfectionism, and relational strain. Focused, structured, and honest.
Telehealth, Statewide
Every session is held on a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform. No commute, no waiting room, no rearranging your week. Los Angeles to Sacramento, your therapist travels with you.
Founder-Led, and Growing
Today every client works directly with Dr. Burnett, a DSW-prepared clinician and university faculty member. As licensed clinicians and associates join the practice, each is selected and supervised by her, so the standard of care does not change with its size.
How Care Works Here
One clinician. One standing hour. No guessing.
Continuity is the point. Good therapy depends on being known over time by someone who remembers last week, and the practice is arranged around that.
How It Begins
Three steps. The first takes fifteen minutes.
A free consultation call
We speak for fifteen minutes by phone. You share what is bringing you in, ask anything you like, and we decide together whether the practice is the right fit. No forms, no commitment.
Your intake session
A full session to map where you are, where the patterns come from, and what you want to be different. You leave with a clear picture of the work ahead.
The weekly hour
A standing appointment that is yours alone. Most clients notice a shift within the first several weeks: sleeping better, reacting less, and telling the truth sooner.
A Specialty
When the plan is IVF, and the plan is not cooperating.
Fertility treatment asks capable, organized women to live inside uncertainty they cannot manage their way out of. Dr. Burnett has been through IUI, IVF, and pregnancy loss herself, and she sees every fertility client personally. Three ways in, depending on what you need right now:
Fertility Therapy
Weekly sessions through treatment, the two-week wait, loss, and the decisions that follow. For women residing in California.
About fertility therapy →IVF Without Losing Yourself
A 90-minute psychoeducational workshop, Saturday, November 7. You leave with a written plan for the waiting, the spirals, and the difficult days.
Workshop details →Why the Waiting Is So Hard
An article on the psychology of the IVF wait: the portal checking, the searching, and why another woman's cycle cannot predict yours.
Read the article →
Founder & Clinical Director
Dr. Dezetta Burnett, DSW, LCSW
I am a doctorate-level licensed clinical social worker in clinical practice since 2008, with nearly two decades across direct care, behavioral health leadership, and graduate social work education. I have run organizations, taught the clinicians who will treat the next generation, and sat with hundreds of women in the quiet work of getting their lives back.
Burnett Clinical Group is built on one standard: care I would send my own people to. The practice is growing deliberately. Every clinician who joins will be selected by me, supervised by me, and part of the weekly case consultation I lead, so the care you receive is the same whether you work with me or with someone I have trained.
Fees
Clear pricing. Choose your clinician.
Every path begins with the same free 15-minute consultation. Care is currently provided by Dr. Burnett; the team rates below apply as licensed clinicians and associates join the practice, and your consultation will tell you what is available.
Work with Dr. Burnett
$275 / 50-min session
Intake session $325
Direct care with the practice founder: DSW, LCSW #64299, in clinical practice since 2008, and a deliberately small caseload. For women who want the most senior clinician in the practice.
Work with a Licensed Clinician
$200–$225 / session
Intake session $250
Fully licensed therapists selected by Dr. Burnett and practicing under her clinical direction. Ask at your consultation whether a team clinician is currently available.
Work with an Associate
$135–$150 / session
Intake at the same rate
Registered associate clinicians providing the same structured care at a lower fee, under Dr. Burnett’s direct clinical supervision. Offered as associates join the practice.
Availability
The practice keeps a deliberately small caseload so that every client has a consistent standing time, including select early morning and evening hours for demanding schedules.
Scope of care
The practice serves adult women, 18 and over, residing in California, for outpatient individual telehealth psychotherapy. Your marriage, your children, and your family load all belong in the work; the client is you. We do not provide couples or family therapy, crisis services, treatment for minors, or residential levels of care.
For Clinicians
BBS-qualified individual and group supervision for California associates, and a growing practice for licensed clinicians who share our standard of care for women.
FAQ
Common questions
I have never done therapy. What is the first call like?
It is a conversation, not an evaluation. You share what has been going on in whatever words come, we ask a few questions, and we tell you honestly whether the practice is the right fit and which of our clinicians would serve you best. If we are not the right fit, we will point you toward someone who is.
How much does therapy cost, and do you take insurance?
Sessions with Dr. Burnett are $275, and the initial 15-minute consultation is always free. As licensed clinicians and associates join the practice, their sessions are $200 to $225 and $135 to $150. We are private pay and provide superbills for out-of-network reimbursement; in-network insurance participation is expanding. Under the federal No Surprises Act, you have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges before beginning care.
Is online therapy as effective as in person?
For adults seeking outpatient psychotherapy, research consistently finds telehealth comparably effective, particularly for anxiety. Most clients find they are more consistent and more candid from a private space of their own choosing.
How often will we meet, and for how long?
Most clients begin weekly to build momentum, then adjust as goals are met. Length of treatment varies with what you bring; this is focused work, not therapy without a destination.
Do you prescribe medication?
No. The practice provides psychotherapy. When a medication evaluation may help, we refer to trusted psychiatric providers and coordinate your care with your consent.
What if I am in crisis?
This practice does not provide crisis or emergency services. If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room.
Is what I share confidential?
Yes. Sessions are confidential and held on a HIPAA-compliant platform, within the limits of California law, which we review together in full at intake.
Begin
The strongest thing you do this year might take fifteen minutes.
Ready now? Pick a time directly on the secure booking calendar. Prefer to start with a few words? The form below reaches us just the same, and you will hear back within two business days.
Book a time now Prefer email? drburnett@burnettclinicalgroup.com