Candice Schaefer

Dr. Candice Schaefer is a board-certified licensed clinical psychologist and Director for the Center for Burnout Recovery & Prevention in Seattle, Washington. Her coaching practice specializes in helping individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations that are suffering from burnout and wish to increase their psychological resilience and team culture.

Dr. Schaefer spent 10 years as a practicing clinician in medical settings and private practice before moving to the tech industry in 2017. Candice spent 2 years working with Facebook on building their resiliency training programs for content moderators as a Global Resiliency Program Manager and consulting psychologist. She then made the jump to Twitter in 2019 to become the head of employee wellness, overseeing all wellness programs for employees and continuing to develop best practices for teams handling content moderation.

After serving 5 years in the social media industry, she joined mental health unicorn start-up Spring Health in 2022 as their Head of Employee Health & Performance, emphasizing the importance between organizational mental health and high performance.

Dr. Schaefer also serves as an adjunct instructor for New York University's Masters in Counseling and Wellness Program. She has served as a panelist and keynote speaker at many employee well-being conferences around the world, with a focus on building employee resilience and designing a comprehensive mental health strategy for organizations.

Dr. Schaefer is board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in Business and Organizational Consulting Psychology, and currently serves as a board member. In 2021, Dr. Schaefer was awarded the Early Career Woman Psychologist in Management Award from the Society of Psychologists in Leadership.

Candice have been featured on many podcasts, including "Silent Superheroes", "The Working Well Podcast", "Psych Health & Safety", and "Truth, Lies and Workplace Culture".