Child & Adolescent Outpatient Therapist

Ellie Mental Health-Capital Region NY; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 72,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k)

Competitive salary

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Ellie Mental Health is seeking passionate therapists to join our Virginia clinics. We offer a supportive environment where clinicians feel empowered to provide evidence-based therapy, complete assessments, and maintain thorough documentation.

Our culture emphasizes autonomy, flexibility, and collaboration, with telehealth options and a robust benefits package. We welcome therapists specializing in EMDR, play therapy, bilingual Spanish speaking, and advanced modalities.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or related behavioral health field from an accredited institution.
• Current Virginia clinical licensure or Resident in Counseling status.
• Experience completing assessments, treatment plans, and clinical documentation.
• Strong clinical judgment, professional boundaries, and ethical decision-making.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team.
• Comfort utilizing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
• Commitment to timely documentation and quality client care.
• For telehealth services, access to a private, professional, HIPAA-compliant workspace.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized, evidence-based therapy to a diverse client population.
• Complete comprehensive assessments, develop treatment plans, and maintain timely, accurate clinical documentation.
• Maintain a full-time caseload of 25 completed client sessions per week.
• Use creativity and clinical expertise to help clients achieve meaningful progress.
• Collaborate with families, schools, medical providers, and community resources when appropriate.
• Participate in clinical meetings, training, and professional development.
• Contribute to a positive, supportive, and collaborative team environment.
• Bring your ideas, personality, and passion to the clinic!

Skills

Clinical judgment

Independent work

EHR proficiency

Documentation

Team collaboration

HIPAA privacy

Education

Master's degree in behavioral health

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

Responsive recruiter

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k)
• Competitive salary
• Flexible schedule

We're Hiring Therapists! Join the Ellie Mental Health Family!

Looking for a place where you can be yourself, do meaningful work, and actually enjoy coming to work?

At Ellie Mental Health, we're growing and looking for passionate, creative, and dedicated therapists to join our Virginia clinics!

We're a locally owned, rapidly growing practice committed to expanding access to high-quality mental health care. We believe great therapy happens when clinicians feel supported, valued, and empowered to do what they do best.

Our culture embraces autonomy, flexibility, creativity, authenticity, humor, compassion, and collaboration. We want therapists who bring their unique personalities, strengths, and clinical expertise to the team.

Whether your passion is working with individuals, children, adolescents, couples, or families, we want to hear from you!

What You'll Do

• Provide individualized, evidence-based therapy to a diverse client population.
• Complete comprehensive assessments, develop treatment plans, and maintain timely, accurate clinical documentation.
• Maintain a full-time caseload of 25 completed client sessions per week.
• Use creativity and clinical expertise to help clients achieve meaningful progress.
• Collaborate with families, schools, medical providers, and community resources when appropriate.
• Participate in clinical meetings, training, and professional development.
• Contribute to a positive, supportive, and collaborative team environment.
• Bring your ideas, personality, and passion to the clinic!

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or a related behavioral health field from an accredited institution.
• Current Virginia clinical licensure or appropriate Resident in Counseling status.
• Experience completing assessments, treatment plans, and clinical documentation.
• Strong clinical judgment, professional boundaries, and ethical decision-making.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team.
• Comfort utilizing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
• Commitment to timely documentation and quality client care.
• For telehealth services, access to a private, professional, HIPAA-compliant workspace.

We'd Especially Love To Meet Therapists With Experience In

• EMDR and trauma-focused treatment
• Play therapy and child-centered interventions
• Bilingual - Spanish Speaking
• Specialized or advanced clinical treatment modalities

We welcome clinicians who bring unique specialties and a desire to continue developing their skills.

We believe therapists should be able to focus on providing exceptional care without unnecessary administrative stress.

• Straightforward, transparent compensation — hourly pay plus commission on claims.
• Flexible scheduling that supports work-life balance.
• PTO accrual and an excellent benefits package for eligible employees.
• Professional development opportunities and access to a continuing education (CEU) library.
• Furnished, welcoming clinical offices designed to provide a comfortable therapeutic environment.
• Opportunities for individual, couples, family, and telehealth services.
• Career growth opportunities as our clinics continue to expand.
• A leadership team that values communication, collaboration, and the people who make our clinics successful.

Why Ellie?

Because we believe mental health care should be different — for both clients and clinicians.

We want you to feel comfortable being your authentic self, using your creativity, and practicing in a way that reflects your clinical strengths.

We work hard, support one another, celebrate successes, and believe a little humor goes a long way.

We're not just filling positions. We're building a team of clinicians who want to grow, make an impact, and be part of something meaningful.

Ready to Join the Ellie Family?

If you're passionate about helping others and want to work somewhere that values both your clinical expertise and your individuality, we'd love to meet you!

Seeking creative & collaborative humans with a passion for changing mental health care in fun and meaningful ways.

Don’t meet EVERY requirement?

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Ellie Mental Health is devoted to purposefully building an inclusive and diverse workplace where all of our humans can be their authentic selves! (Authenticity is one of our core values, after all…)

If you’re excited about the chance to be a change‑maker with us, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with every single qualification of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. Our mental health jobs need dedicated individuals from every background who are willing to care for others. And who knows, you might just be the perfect candidate for another role!

Employee Experience

We take care of our people. It’s that simple. From investing in their financial future, to providing wages that shatter the ceiling in our industry to reasonable caseload expectations we ensure that our people are happy. Happy employees do better work and provide better client care! No matter what it is that you do in your mental health career at Ellie, our clients depend on us cultivating an environment where our employees can thrive so that they can thrive too!

Y’all, jobs in mental health are tough jobs with a high risk of emotional fatigue and burnout. At Ellie, we use all of our core values of humor, creativity, authenticity, acceptance, determination, and compassion not just out in our communities, but we turn them inwards too! Our employees have clear growth paths for advancing their careers.

We have created a culture that reminds us that our employees are our leaders!

Company Structure

Ellie is a socially responsible for-profit business, which allows us to be flexible and responsive to our community’s needs. Many mental health and wellness-focused companies are non-profits or government agencies, which rely on the general public, grants, or large donors for funding. This model often results in little creativity and lower compensation for employees, promoting a work culture that just makes people feel “blah.”

Feeling blah doesn’t help employees stay motivated, engaged, and even in their jobs for a very long time! So we created a new model: one that puts flexibility, innovative decision-making, creativity, and our people first, while remaining a socially conscious and responsible for-profit business focused on changing how we treat mental health.

Compensation: $72,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year