Child and Adolescent Therapist

Ellie Mental Health; Deerfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Company parties

Competitive salary

Dental insurance

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Opportunity for advancement

Paid time off

Training & development

Vision insurance

Bonus based on performance

Signing bonus

Job summary

Ellie Mental Health Bannockburn/Deerfield, IL is seeking a Child & Adolescent Therapist to help kids, teens, and families. You’ll have clinical autonomy with marketing support, benefits, and local team backing, while growing a sustainable private‑practice career.

The role emphasizes therapy with anxiety, ADHD, emotional regulation, and family dynamics, across school‑age children. Compensation ranges and flexible scheduling are highlighted to attract diverse clinicians.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and/or adolescents.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Commitment to ethical, compassionate, dependable care.
• Ability to complete required background screening.

Responsibilities

• Provide therapy to children and adolescents.
• Complete assessments and individualized treatment plans.
• Partner with parents and caregivers as appropriate.
• Provide evidence-based, developmentally appropriate care.
• Maintain timely clinical documentation; build toward ~25 sessions weekly.
• Collaborate with colleagues and referral partners.
• Participate in consultation and professional development.

Skills

Child & adolescent work

Communication skills

Ethical care

Education

Illinois license or pre-licence: LCSW/LCPC/LMFT/PsyD/LSW/LPC/ALMFT

Job description

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Company parties
• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Training & development
• Vision insurance
• Bonus based on performance
• Signing bonus

Child & Adolescent Therapist – LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, LPC or LSW

Bannockburn/Deerfield, IL | Full-Time | Hybrid Flexibility

Want the flexibility of private practice without having to build a practice by yourself?

At Ellie Mental Health–Bannockburn, we give therapists the clinical autonomy they want with the infrastructure, marketing support, benefits, and local team they need to build a rewarding career.

We are growing our child and adolescent services and are looking for a therapist who genuinely enjoys working with kids, teens, and families.

Our North Shore community has strong demand for clinicians who can help with anxiety, ADHD, emotional regulation, behavioral concerns, school challenges, family stress, and life transitions. We are particularly interested in therapists comfortable working with elementary-age children as well as adolescents.

You do not need to bring a full caseload with you. We actively invest in helping our clinicians grow through Google Ads, Meta advertising, SEO, community partnerships, school and provider outreach, sponsorships, and referral development.

Why Join Our Team?

• Competitive compensation with uncapped earning potential
• Paid time off
• BCBS medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) options
• Flexible in-person and telehealth scheduling
• Comfortable, fully furnished offices
• Billing, credentialing, EHR, and administrative support
• Individual and group supervision
• Accessible local clinical leadership
• Free CEUs through TPN Health
• Professional development and leadership opportunities
• Marketing and referral support to help build your caseload
• Collaborative team culture without the isolation of solo practice

Who We're Looking For

You May Be a Great Fit If You

• Enjoy working with children, adolescents, and families
• Are comfortable seeing younger school-age children, including some children around age 5
• Have experience with anxiety, ADHD, emotional regulation, behavioral concerns, or family dynamics
• Are comfortable partnering with parents and caregivers when clinically appropriate
• Have experience with play-based, CBT, behavioral, family, or other developmentally appropriate approaches
• Want the flexibility of private practice with more support and stability
• Are motivated to grow professionally and build a strong caseload

Independent licensure is preferred, but we will consider strong pre‑licensed clinicians with relevant experience and a marketable specialty.

Limited‑Time Transition Incentive

Qualified clinicians joining our Bannockburn team may be eligible for a transition incentive of up to $3,000.

Additional Eligibility Requirements Apply.

What You'll Do

• Provide therapy to children and adolescents
• Complete assessments and individualized treatment plans
• Partner with parents and caregivers as appropriate
• Provide evidence‑based, developmentally appropriate care
• Maintain timely clinical documentationBuild toward approximately 25 completed sessions per week for full‑time status
• Collaborate with colleagues and referral partners
• Participate in consultation and professional development

Qualifications

• Master's or doctoral degree in a behavioral health field
• Illinois license or pre‑license: LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, PsyD, LSW, LPC, or ALMFT
• Experience working with children and/or adolescents
• Strong communication and relationship‑building skills
• Commitment to ethical, compassionate, dependable care
• Ability to complete required background screening

If you want to work with children and families while building a sustainable private‑practice career—without having to manage billing, credentialing, marketing, and administration on your own we would love to meet you.

Location:

Bannockburn/Deerfield, IL 60015

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $70,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

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.

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