Confused about whether psychiatric care is right for you?
These services are not yet available. The fees and formats below describe the practice being planned for after licensure, expected 2028. No appointments are being scheduled and no services are being offered at this time. You are welcome to join the notification list to hear when the practice opens.
Get clarity in 15 minutes with a PMHNP who understands professional context. No obligation. No pressure to book further care. Just honest conversation about your situation and options.
Price
$0
Time
15 minutes
Format
Video call
This consultation is for you if you're:
- ✓ A high-performing professional (executive, attorney, physician, engineer, founder)
- ✓ Struggling with focus, mood, sleep, or anxiety you can't quite solve
- ✓ In Chicago or Illinois and want flexible access to care
- ✓ Unsure whether psychiatric care is worth the time/money/risk
- ✓ Looking for someone who GETS professional context (not just symptoms)
Before the consultation
You're thriving professionally but struggling privately.
- • Can't focus despite blocking time
- • Sleep disrupted by work rumination
- • Burnt out but don't know why
- • Tried everything: exercise, meditation, apps
- • Wondering if something's wrong or if you're just weak
After the consultation
You have clarity and a concrete next step.
- • Understand if psychiatric care could help
- • Know what the initial evaluation involves
- • Feel heard by someone who gets it
- • Have realistic expectations
- • Know if this practice is a fit
What happens in 15 minutes:
- 1. Understand your situation — You tell me what's happening. I listen and ask clarifying questions.
- 2. Initial assessment — Is this something psychiatric care can address? What kind of care might help?
- 3. Your questions answered — About the initial evaluation, medication, cost, confidentiality, or anything else.
- 4. Next steps (if you want them) — No pressure. You decide if you want to move forward.
Why you should take this consultation seriously
Jerrin Mathew, RN, BSN — 11+ years clinical experience
- ✓ 2 years ICU critical care nursing
- ✓ 2 years Level II trauma center cardiac nursing
- ✓ 2 years Level I ICU neurocritical care
- ✓ Chamberlain University PMHNP graduate student
- ✓ 45+ published articles on professional mental health
- ✓ Specializes in high-performing professionals
Common questions:
But I don't have time for another appointment...
15 minutes is faster than replying to three emails. This is the fastest clarity you'll get.
What if I don't actually need psychiatric care?
That's literally the point of the consultation. You'll know after talking to someone trained to evaluate it.
What if the practice isn't a fit?
No obligation. The consultation is for YOUR clarity, not to sign you up for ongoing care.
Will this affect my career or licensing?
No. This conversation is confidential and separate from your professional credentials.
Is this just someone trying to sell me on medication?
No. The goal is understanding what's actually happening. Medication is one tool among many—and only if it fits.
Here's exactly what happens:
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You submit your info (2 minutes)
Name, email, brief description of what's going on.
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2
We send calendar link (within 24 hours)
Direct link to book your 15-minute slot. No back-and-forth emails.
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You choose your time (no pressure)
Pick whatever works. Chicago/Illinois professionals available evenings and weekends.
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You get 15 minutes with Jerrin (video call)
One-on-one conversation. No waiting. Confidential.
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You leave with clarity (and next steps if you want them)
No follow-up pressure. No sales pitch. Just honest conversation.
Jerrin's availability fills 2-3 weeks out during the academic year. The sooner you submit, the sooner you get clarity. Psychiatric care works better when you address it early — waiting often means developing more invisible compensation, which makes treatment more complex later.
No credit card. No obligation. Confidential.
Questions? Email hello@jerrinmathew.com
A superbill is available if you choose to seek out-of-network reimbursement yourself. That is entirely your decision, and it does put a diagnosis code into your insurer’s hands — which is worth knowing before you submit one.
What it does remove is the automatic transmission of your diagnosis to an insurance company as a condition of receiving care. For the people who ask me about this, that is the part that was actually worrying them.
It is worth being precise, because overstating this would be its own kind of dishonesty. A clinical record still exists — I am required to keep one. That record remains subject to subpoena or court order, and mandatory reporting obligations apply regardless of how care is paid for. Cash-pay is not anonymity, and no clinician can offer you that.
What cash-pay does not do
No prior authorisation. No visit limits. No utilisation review deciding that six sessions should have been enough. How often we meet and for how long is a clinical decision made between us.
No one outside the room decides how much care you get
Without a payer in the room, the diagnosis in your record is the one I actually believe is correct. Sometimes that is a formal diagnosis. Sometimes it is an honest statement that the picture is not yet clear. Neither has to satisfy anyone but the clinical facts.
Insurance reimbursement requires a billable diagnosis, and it has to be one the payer accepts for the service provided. That creates quiet pressure toward codes that justify reimbursement rather than codes that best describe what is actually happening.
Your diagnosis reflects clinical judgement, not billing requirements
For a physician thinking about credentialing, an attorney thinking about the bar, or anyone who has ever wondered what a life or disability insurance underwriter might one day request, that distinction is not abstract.
When care is billed to insurance, a diagnosis code is submitted with the claim and becomes part of that insurer’s records. When there is no claim, there is no code to submit. Nothing about your care is transmitted to a third-party payer at all.
No claim means no diagnosis code sent to a payer
This practice does not bill insurance. For most people that is simply a cost consideration. For the people this practice is built for, it changes three things that matter more than the fee.
What cash-pay actually changes
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