our mission

A new standard for complex mental illness

Conventional healthcare is not designed for complex mental illness and leads to fragmented appointments, reactive care and disconnected providers — too much is left to chance when the stakes are highest.

Cendera exists to replace that with presence — one integrated team, woven into the family's life, ahead of the crisis rather than behind it.

our values

The three core principles we uphold and
that govern our decision making and culture

Courage

The willingness to walk into complexity, and to remain there until stability is restored.

Curiosity

A relentless drive to understand the 'why' behind every case, and to keep learning.

Tenacity

An unwavering commitment to long-term recovery, however long it takes.

Team

The people behind the care

Cendera was built by senior entrepreneurs and clinicians who have treated the most serious mental illness together for years, trained hundreds of others to do the same, and built technology-enabled solutions deployed on thousands of patients

Marc Goldberg

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Co-founded and led a behavioral-health company through to acquisition, and has spent twenty years building and investing in health technology.

Stephen O'Beirne

LCSW, Chief Operating Officer

Led intensive community psychiatry teams and programs for five years, then built the operational infrastructure behind a behavioral-health platform at national scale.

Satwik Seshasai

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Founding CTO of a New York preventive-medicine practice, with a doctorate and three degrees from MIT. He builds the platform behind the care.

Christine Carville

LCSW-R, Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer

On the faculty of Columbia's School of Social Work, she built the method that has trained more than 700 clinicians.

Carl Marci

MD, Chief Medical Officer

A psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a pioneer in digital health.

Marina Sisakian

MD, Medical Director

A board-certified psychiatrist who has spent 21 years and treated more than 500 patients in the most complex mental illness.

Toye Honeyman

Executive Coach

An executive coach with PhD in Clinical Psychology to senior leaders, working with our families on the return to work, structure and daily life.

Amanda Lefkowitz

DNP, PMHNP, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Board-certified, with a doctorate from Columbia, specializing in medication management, addiction and mood disorders.

Kara Nygaard

MPH, Director of Development

A public health leader from Princeton, with a master's from Johns Hopkins, who has spent two decades building health programs in some of the hardest places in the world.

Cendera exists 
because of Susan

She had a psychiatrist, a therapist, and residential 
treatment but never a team. A fragmented system couldn't see the whole picture.

An integrated team, one deeply embedded in her daily life, could have connected the dots between her trauma, anxiety, disordered eating, addiction, and suicidality, building a recovery plan around her, not just for her.

Everything we build begins with her.

Read about Susan
for families

Restore agency to your family

Coordinate an initial assessment with our executive clinical leadership team to evaluate diagnostic history, immediate risks, and current care gaps.

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for partners

Collaborate on complex cases

For the professionals around these families: hospitals, family offices, legal advisors and clinicians. Know us before a case arrives, so that when it does, referring is simple.

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