CLINICAL PARTNERS TO ORGANIZATIONS & THEIR PEOPLE
The clinical partner institutions turn to when standard systems reach their limit.
An independent group of doctoral-level psychologists, OCC partners with institutions in two ways — clinical advisory and direct treatment — to support the people their internal resources, standard benefits, or local referral networks cannot adequately reach.
Whatever the engagement, we treat the whole person — never a case to be processed.
WHO WE SERVE
One standard of clinical care, across a range of institutions.
Different institutions, same gap: people whose lives, roles, or families require more depth, discretion, and continuity than standard access models typically provide. OCC brings doctoral-level clinical depth, discretion, and continuity to each setting.
Employers & Leadership Teams
Independent, confidential clinical support for employees and leaders — deliberately outside HR, so people can speak candidly and receive care with real clinical depth.
Concierge Medicine Groups
A doctoral-level behavioral-health partner for practices whose members expect the same caliber of attention in psychology as in medicine.
Private Hospitals & Discharge Partners
Senior clinical capacity that extends a hospital's reach and strengthens continuity after discharge, step-down, or transition.
Institutions of Learning
Off-campus continuity for students at colleges, universities, graduate programs, and prep schools who need more than an internal counseling center can sustainably carry.
Family Offices
Discreet psychological care for principals and families, coordinated with the discretion, judgment, and continuity the context demands.
Selective Institutional Partnerships
For thoughtful institutions with a real clinical gap, OCC helps define the problem and build the right response.
TWO WAYS WE PARTNER
Clinical advisory support. Direct clinical care. One standard of judgment.
OCC works with institutions in two related ways: we advise organizations trying to respond thoughtfully to psychological complexity, and we provide direct clinical care for people who need sustained treatment. Both are grounded in the same standard of doctoral-level clinical judgment.
Clinical Advisory
Confidential consultation, education, and program support for institutions navigating psychological complexity inside their organizations. OCC helps leaders, teams, and care systems understand what is happening, what level of response is clinically appropriate, and when direct treatment is needed.
CLINICAL ADVISORY INCLUDES
Leadership and management consultation
Case consultation without treating the person directly
Workshops and psychoeducation
Referral-pathway design
Program support for teams managing complex human situations
Clinical Care
Sustained, doctoral-level psychotherapy for individuals and families whose needs exceed what short-term, embedded, or benefits-based systems can reliably hold. OCC provides continuity, clinical depth, and a consistent treatment relationship for as long as care requires.
CLINICAL CARE INCLUDES
Long-term psychotherapy
Reserved-access referrals
Continuity after discharge, transition, relocation, or institutional handoff
Doctoral-level assessment and treatment planning
Consented coordination with existing supports when clinically appropriate
Whatever form our partnership takes, the front door is always the same: clinical judgment about what genuinely serves your people — not a protocol pulled off the shelf.
When someone needs more than an EAP, benefits directory, counseling center, discharge plan, concierge medical referral, or local provider list can reliably hold, OCC becomes the clinical continuity layer just beyond your walls.
BUILT FOR CASES LIKE
The executive carrying burnout behind strong outward performance — too visible for HR, too complex for an EAP.
BUILT FOR CASES LIKE
The student or young adult whose needs exceed what a counseling center's session limits can sustainably carry.
BUILT FOR CASES LIKE
The family-office principal — or their child — who requires discreet, long-term clinical continuity.
HOW ACCESS WORKS
From identified gap to held case — without the cold handoff.
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Partner identifies the gap
A person's needs exceed what your internal systems or benefits can reliably hold.
2
OCC consults
A senior clinician assesses what is happening and what level of response is clinically appropriate.
3
The right match is made
Appropriate cases move quickly into consultation or treatment with the right clinician.
4
Care continues
Treatment or advisory support continues, with consented coordination when useful.
Reserved access means defined clinical capacity is held for partner referrals, allowing appropriate cases to move quickly into consultation or treatment rather than entering an open-ended waitlist.
For partners, the outcome is not only access. It is fewer cold handoffs, better clinical fit, stronger continuity, and more confidence that complex cases are being held.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
We treat the whole person — not the symptom in front of us.
At the center of everything we do is a conviction: people are helped most when they're treated as whole human beings, not as problems to be processed. Whether it's a single workshop, an advisory meeting with an organization's leadership team, or ongoing psychological treatment, our team brings that same level of seriousness about the human beings with whom we work.
We are clinicians first, and the person always comes before the format. Whatever the engagement, we begin by understanding who someone actually is and what they genuinely need — then let that, not a template, shape the care.
FROM THE WORK THAT SHAPES OUR CLINICAL ETHOS
“…valuing honesty over expertise, truth over appearances, and modesty over omniscience.”
— Robert A. Graceffo, A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology
Published by Routledge · Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
OUR STORY & MISSION
We began on the college campus — caring for students the counseling center couldn't hold.
The same gaps, we learned, run through institutions of every kind. So we widened who we serve.
We think of ourselves as the net below the net. Institutions already build systems to support their people — counseling centers, EAPs, medical teams — and we don't replace any of it. We reinforce it: the independent continuity layer that catches the people who would otherwise fall through, whose needs outlast or outpace what's available in-house. So no one drops through the gap between systems.
Senior psychologists. Institutional experience. Reserved clinical continuity.
Clinical depth
Doctoral-level psychologists, ABPP board certification, psychoanalytic training.
Clinical depth
Harvard-affiliated training, U.S. Naval Academy, hospitals, universities, private practice.
Clinical depth
Multi-state licensure, PSYPACT reach, reserved-access partner care.
95%
of patients remain in care past 90 days
9–14 mo.
average episode of care
2 vols.
published clinical philosophy (Routledge)
Our leadership
Clinicians first — by training and by conviction.
Off-Campus Clinicians was built and is led by senior psychologists whose careers span hospitals, university counseling, military and high-performance settings, and private practice.
Robert A. Graceffo, Ph.D.
FOUNDER & CLINICAL DIRECTOR
Dr. Graceffo earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Toledo, studying personality assessment and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He completed his predoctoral internship at Massachusetts Mental Health Center / Harvard Medical School and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Program for Psychotherapy at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School. Since completing training in 2017, he has maintained a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry, where he teaches and supervises in various psychology training programs.
His clinical work spans hospital, community clinic, university counseling, and private-practice settings — from people living with serious mental illness to students and young professionals navigating life after school.
He recently authored A Humane Vision of Clinical Psychology, a two-volume work published by Routledge, exploring the nature of mind, psychological transformation, and the meaning of the psychotherapeutic encounter.
Matthew C. Johnson, Ph.D., ABPP
CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Dr. Johnson is a board-certified psychologist through the American Board of Professional Psychology. He earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University, completed his predoctoral internship at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, served as a psychologist at the U.S. Naval Academy's Midshipmen Development Center, and led the Behavioral Health Department at Naval Health Clinic Annapolis.
His advanced training spans a postdoctoral M.S. in Clinical Psychopharmacology from Fairleigh Dickinson University, psychoanalytic training at the Contemporary Freudian Society in Washington, D.C., and a certificate in Executive Coaching from Emory University. His expertise in high-performance academic and military settings shapes his leadership at the practice.
Alek K. Davila, Ph.D.
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Dr. Davila is a licensed psychologist who earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College. He completed predoctoral clinical training across the outpatient psychiatry departments at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Anxiety in Boston. He holds a faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry.
His work is grounded in a patient-centered approach integrating psychodynamic, relational, attachment, and third-wave cognitive-behavioral principles, with extensive experience supporting people in high-stress, high-demand environments.
Tell us where your current system stops. We'll help you think it through.
We will help you determine whether OCC is the right clinical partner for the people who need more.