Child & Adolescent Therapist — Flexible Private Practice

Ellie Mental Health - Chicagoland; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Training & development

Vision insurance

401(k)

Dental insurance

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Ellie Mental Health - 026 is seeking licensed and in-training therapists to join our multi-location private practice in the Chicago Western Suburbs (Downers Grove, Oak Brook & Itasca). We value creativity, acceptance, and authenticity while offering work-life balance and flexible scheduling to support clinicians and clients alike.

New clients are scheduled via our online system or routed by our care team; billing and insurance processing are handled to ensure timely payments.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in behavioral sciences from an accredited college or university and on track to obtain licensure.
• Candidates should have or be pursuing clinical licensure (LMFT, LCPC, LCSW, etc).
• Experience with DAs, treatment plans and clinical case notes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to maintain boundaries with clients and document services timely.
• Comfort working with diverse client base and pass a background check.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate mental health diagnosis and implement treatment plans per policy.
• Maintain a minimum caseload for full-time clinicians (27 visits/week).
• Use creative interventions to help clients reach goals.
• Prepare and submit session documentation per guidelines.
• Coordinate services with case managers, families, and school personnel.
• Attend clinical staff meetings and trainings.

Skills

Written and verbal communication

Background check readiness

Valant EHR

Timely documentation

Clinical documentation

Education

Master's degree in behavioral sciences

On track to licensure (LMFT/LCPC/LCSW)

Tools

Valant

Office technology

Job description

Transforming the culture of mental health.

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

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 thattheycan 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.”

Feelingblahdoesn’t help employees stay motivated, engaged, or 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.

In short, we’re just people helping people. Wanna join the herd?

A company rooted in values of creativity, humor, compassion, acceptance, determination, and authenticity

Unique pay model with industry leading compensation

Comfortable, furnished offices and clinic environment