A resilience and burnout resource your people will actually use.
Educational, low-liability mental health support for teams. Built by a board-certified psychiatrist.
shrinQ is a self-paced program for overthinking, anxiety, and burnout, built by a board-certified psychiatrist. Companies can license it for their teams, so employees have something practical to turn to, privately, with no appointment and no waitlist.
Most wellbeing benefits get bought and barely opened.
The hard part of a wellbeing benefit isn't buying it. It's getting people to use it. shrinQ is built to be used: short modules, real exercises, a calm and honest tone, and genuinely practical tools for the loud days. It's the same program sold to the public, built from a board-certified psychiatrist's three books, not a thin corporate edition.
It includes a dedicated module on burnout, the pattern that most often shows up at work, and it sits alongside an Employee Assistance Program or clinical care rather than replacing either.
What your employees do in shrinQ stays private.
People won't use a mental-health resource if they think their employer is watching. So shrinQ is built the other way. The company funds access. It doesn't receive individual usage, progress, or assessment results, and it can't see who engaged and who didn't. At most, an employer sees a simple aggregate, like how many seats have been activated. The program belongs to the employee, privately. That's both the right thing to do and the reason the benefit actually gets used.
The full program, for every person.
Every seat is the complete shrinQ program: eleven modules across four phases, including the burnout module, a starting self-assessment, the checkpoint that helps a person recognize when something needs a clinician, the interactive exercises, the shrinkMD Reset, and lifetime access with free updates. There's no lesser employee version. Your people get the real thing.
Built for the people who carry a team.
shrinQ for teams is for team leads, HR, people ops, and founders who want to support employee mental wellbeing without the liability of clinical care. If you're trying to give your people something genuinely useful for the loud days, without turning your company into a healthcare provider, this is built for you. It's the same structured program sold to the public, licensed for your team, so you can offer real support that stays squarely in the educational lane.
It fits the moment when an employee is overthinking a decision, replaying a hard conversation, or running low on sleep before a deadline. Those are the everyday loops that quietly drain a team, and they're rarely a fit for therapy or an EAP. shrinQ gives people a practical, private place to turn that sits alongside the benefits you already offer rather than competing with them.
What's included with a team license.
- Group access to the shrinQ Program at a per-seat or organization tier
- Optional facilitated cohort sessions
- Manager guides on overthinking, rumination, and burnout signal recognition
- Quarterly content updates
- No PHI collected
- No clinical monitoring
If you want to see exactly how the method works before you bring it to your team, the how it works page walks through the experience step by step.
Why it's low-liability education, not treatment.
shrinQ for teams is educational programming. It teaches frameworks for working with overthinking and stress. It doesn't diagnose, it doesn't treat, and it doesn't collect personal health information. That keeps the offering inside the educational lane and outside the regulatory complexity of clinical care.
The pattern problems it addresses.
Most of what wears a team down isn't a single crisis. It's the recurring loops that quietly tax focus and energy. shrinQ teaches the underlying four-move pattern, and the Pattern Library maps the specific loops your people are most likely to recognize.
- Burnout
- Overwhelm
- Rumination
- Workplace anxiety
- Performance pressure
- Sleep impact
- Decision fatigue
A note from the psychiatrist who built it.
I'm Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, a board-certified psychiatrist, and I built shrinQ as an educational system, not medical care. Over the years I kept hearing the same thing from people who lead teams. They wanted to support their people, but they didn't want to take on the responsibility, the data, or the liability that comes with providing clinical care. That's a reasonable instinct, and it's exactly the gap a team license is meant to fill.
My goal was to give a company something substantive to hand its people without pretending to be a treatment provider. The program teaches a structure for working with overthinking and stress. It stays educational on purpose. If someone needs therapy or psychiatric care, shrinQ points them toward it rather than standing in for it. You can see the reasoning behind the method on the how it works page, and the underlying framework on the system page.
Set up in days, not quarters.
Most teams are live within one to two weeks of an agreement, and the onboarding is asynchronous, so it doesn't require a kickoff meeting or a dedicated project team. You buy seats, your people activate them, and they work through the program at their own pace. There's nothing to install and nothing for managers to administer day to day.
Managers get guides on recognizing the signals of overthinking, rumination, and burnout, so they can point a struggling team member toward a useful resource without playing clinician. If you want a more guided experience, optional facilitated cohort sessions give a group a shared starting point and a common vocabulary for the patterns the program names. The content refreshes quarterly, so what your team sees stays current.
Because the program collects no protected health information and does no clinical monitoring, there's very little for legal and compliance to review. The company funds access and sees aggregate engagement at most. It never sees an individual's usage, answers, or results.
One-time, per seat, with volume pricing.
shrinQ for teams is a one-time purchase per seat, not a subscription. Each seat gives one employee lifetime access. The per-seat price comes down with the size of the order, from the entry tier at a modest team size to custom pricing for large rollouts. The minimum order is five seats.
Employees can also reach shrinQ on their own. If your company offers a learning or wellness stipend, shrinQ qualifies as a professional-development purchase, and an itemized receipt is provided for reimbursement.
For team pricing, email [email protected] or use the inquiry form below.
Questions from people ops and HR.
No. shrinQ is structured educational programming. It supplements but doesn't replace an EAP.
No. shrinQ for teams doesn't collect PHI. Aggregate engagement metrics are available; individual usage isn't shared with employers.
shrinQ isn't a covered entity under HIPAA. It's educational programming, not clinical care.
Yes. shrinQ for teams sits alongside therapy benefits, EAPs, and meditation apps. It addresses the structural-pattern layer those services don't cover.
Most teams are live within one to two weeks of agreement. Onboarding is asynchronous.