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About J.R. Hernandez

Psychotherapist, Burnout Specialist
& Emotional Intelligence Researcher

I founded Baseline Psychotherapy after a decade living across six countries on three continents: Venezuela, Chile, France, the United States, Singapore, and Russia. Each relocation came with its own version of the same pattern: rebuilding identity in unfamiliar systems, managing invisible exhaustion while performing competence, and navigating grief that no one around you recognizes because the move was voluntary.

I built this practice for the people I understand best: professionals, expats, and high-performers whose burnout runs deeper than a vacation can fix, whose anxiety has become structural, and whose emotional regulation has been eroded by years of sustained pressure without adequate support. The work is evidence-based, cross-cultural, and grounded in emotional intelligence research and neuroscience.

Based in SingaporeServing Clients WorldwideEnglish & Spanish

Clinical Approach

Why Process-Based,
Not Protocol-Based

Most therapy practices describe their approach as a list of modalities: CBT, ACT, mindfulness, somatic work. Those are tools, not an approach. The approach is what determines which tool gets used, when, and why.

At Baseline Psychotherapy, the approach is process-based. Every case begins with a structured clinical assessment that identifies what is maintaining the difficulty, not just what the difficulty looks like from the outside. Burnout that presents as exhaustion may be driven by perfectionism, relational depletion, nervous system dysregulation, or unprocessed grief. The intervention depends on the mechanism, not the label.

Sessions follow a defined structure: review of progress, a focused clinical target for the current session, practical tools or interventions applied in real time, and a clear direction for what to work on between sessions. Progress is tracked in observable terms every session. If something is not working, we adjust. This is not open-ended exploration. It is structured, measurable clinical work with a defined trajectory.

Education & Clinical Training

The Training Behind the Work

Counselling and Psychotherapy

The School of Positive Psychology of Singapore

The clinical backbone of every case. Structured assessment, outcome-tracked intervention, and the therapeutic relationship as a clinical tool. 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.

Anxiety and Mood Disorders Specialization

American Psychological Association (APA)

Diagnostic precision for differentiating burnout from depression, primary anxiety from stress-driven activation, and mood instability from emotional dysregulation. In practice, this matters most at the assessment stage: ensuring the intervention targets what is actually driving the problem, not just the most visible symptom.

Master in Emotional Intelligence

Instituto de Estudios Psicológicos de España

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 and intervene at the correct level.

Medical Neuroscience

Duke University School of Medicine

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. It is the basis for 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.

Integrative Medicine Specialization

University of Minnesota

The clinical framework for incorporating evidence-supported complementary approaches alongside standard psychotherapy. 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.

Telehealth Specialization

Duke University

Clinical competence in remote assessment, structured video-based interaction, and the ability to conduct evaluations that typically depend on physical presence. This specialization covers proper session preparation, patient-centered communication, and the neurological screening skills needed to identify cognitive and physiological presentations through a screen.

Master of Arts in International Psychology

The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Cross-cultural clinical expertise. Understanding how culture, migration, and identity intersect with psychological functioning. This training directly informs the work with expats, international professionals, and individuals navigating life across borders, languages, and cultural frameworks.

Why This Practice Exists

Built by an Expat,
for Expats and Global Professionals

Most therapists who treat expats have read about relocation stress. I have lived it, six times. I know what it costs to rebuild a social network from zero. I know the specific exhaustion of operating in a language that is not your first. I know the grief of watching your children grow up far from the family that would have been their daily world.

This is not a marketing angle. It is clinical relevance. When a client describes the disorientation of arriving in a new country, the identity confusion of not knowing who they are outside their previous context, or the relationship strain that relocation creates, I am not interpreting from theory. I am recognizing a pattern I have navigated personally and treated clinically in hundreds of sessions.

Baseline Psychotherapy was born in New York in 2019 and has operated across time zones ever since. The practice is designed for people whose lives do not fit neatly into one country, one language, or one cultural framework.

Books & Research

Published Work on
Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence and Behavioral Therapies by J.R. Hernandez

Emotional Intelligence & Behavioral Therapies

A 10-step guide integrating emotional intelligence into CBT for adults managing stress, anxiety, and depression.

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Toto's Journey Through Emotions by J.R. Hernandez

Toto's Journey Through Emotions

A picture book for young children about naming and understanding emotions. For parents and educators.

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Get Started

Start Your Process

If you have been functioning on fumes and know that something has to change, the next step is a conversation. Reach out on WhatsApp to schedule your first session. No referral needed, no waitlist. You will hear back directly from J.R. Hernandez.

Free 15-minute consultationOnline via Google MeetEnglish & Spanish