About
J.R. Hernandez,
Psychotherapist & Burnout Specialist
I founded Baseline Psychotherapy in New York, in 2019, after a decade living across six countries on three continents: Venezuela, Chile, France, the United States, Singapore, Russia. The reinvention, the invisible exhaustion, the grief you carry while performing competence, I've navigated all of it. I built this practice for professionals, expats, and high-performers whose burnout runs deeper than a vacation can fix. My specialization in Anxiety and Mood Disorders (APA) trained me to differentiate occupational exhaustion from clinical depression, primary anxiety from stress-driven activation, and mood instability from emotional dysregulation. The work is evidence-based, cross-cultural, and grounded in emotional intelligence research and neuroscience. The intervention targets the mechanism, not just the symptom.
This training is the clinical backbone of how every case moves from first contact to measurable change. This training prioritizes structure over intuition: identifying what is maintaining the problem, determining which specific skills will shift it, and tracking whether the intervention is landing. It shapes how sessions are organized, how the therapeutic relationship functions as a clinical tool, and how clients build capacity to act differently in the situations that brought them in. Every assessment-first, outcome-tracked element of this practice traces back to this training.
A specialization in the diagnostic frameworks and clinical profiles of anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and related conditions. This credential sharpens the ability to differentiate between presentations that often overlap: burnout from clinical depression, primary anxiety from stress-driven activation, mood instability from emotional dysregulation. This precision matters most at the assessment stage: ensuring the intervention targets what is actually driving the problem, not just the most visible symptom, determines whether the work produces lasting change.
A medical-level neuroscience foundation that bridges mind and body in clinical work. This training covers how the central nervous system organizes attention, arousal, emotion, and recovery, and what happens when those systems sustain prolonged strain. It is the basis for the integrative, somatic dimension of this practice: understanding why burnout is neurophysiological, why anxiety activates the body before it reaches conscious thought, and why sleep disruption, cognitive fatigue, and emotional reactivity connect at the level of neural circuitry. This is what makes the clinical work genuinely integrative.
This specialization provides the clinical framework for incorporating complementary approaches alongside standard psychotherapy. The focus is on rigorous decision-making: assessing whether a specific tool is appropriate for a given case, evaluating its evidence base, educating clients about benefit and risk, and measuring whether it produced the intended effect. Guided imagery and mindfulness (covered in depth in this program) are among the most evidence-supported methods for downregulating the nervous system in burnout and chronic stress. Their integration here is grounded in that training.
A postgraduate degree in the science of emotions: how they are generated, how they dysregulate, and how they can be worked with systematically in therapy. This credential forms the foundation for emotion-focused intervention across burnout, anxiety, and depression. It supports the ability to trace emotional patterns to their neurophysiological source (activation, appraisal, relational triggers) and intervene at the correct level. When a client presents with reactivity, emotional shutdown, or chronic overwhelm, this training determines how that pattern is identified, mapped, and systematically changed.
Delivering psychotherapy online requires clinical competence in remote assessment, structured video-based interaction, and the ability to conduct evaluations that typically depend on physical presence. This specialization covers the essentials of telehealth delivery: proper session preparation, patient-centered communication, and the neurological screening skills needed to identify cognitive and physiological presentations through a screen. When a client presents with cognitive symptoms, the ability to screen for neurological contributors remotely adds a layer of clinical precision that a standard assessment would miss.
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