Ellie Mental Health–Clarkston is an independently owned outpatient practice providing in-person and telehealth services throughout Michigan. We seek an experienced, fully licensed clinician to serve as Clinical Director and help lead a growing practice grounded in authenticity, compassion, creativity, humor, acceptance, and determination.
This leadership role combines clinical care with responsibility for clinical quality, compliance, staff development, performance management, and sustainable practice growth. The Clinical Director collaborates with the Clinic Owner, Clinic Manager, clinicians, supervisors, billing and credentialing partners.
Clinical Leadership
- Establish and maintain clinical, documentation, ethical, safety, and quality standards
- Monitor compliance with Michigan licensing requirements, HIPAA, professional ethics, payer requirements, and clinic policies
- Review documentation trends and lead corrective action when records are late, inaccurate, copied forward, or clinically insufficient
- Address clinical concerns, client grievances, risk issues, and continuity-of-care needs
- Lead clinical meetings, consultation, case review, and professional development
- Support clinicians with complex cases, treatment planning, boundaries, and ethical decision-making
- Review policies, procedures, and workflows for clinical accuracy and compliance
Staff Leadership
- Participate in clinician recruiting, interviewing, selection, onboarding, and clinical orientation
- Evaluate clinical competence, judgment, documentation readiness, reliability, and private-practice fit
- Conduct performance reviews and address concerns through coaching, measurable improvement plans, and consistent follow-through
- Promote a supportive and inclusive culture while maintaining accountability
- Coordinate licensure supervision only when appropriately qualified and specifically assigned
Practice Growth and Operations
- Guide referral-development, outreach, and community-partnership priorities
- Monitor access, inquiry conversion, intake attendance, retention, availability, documentation, and quality trends
- Collaborate with billing and credentialing partners to resolve clinical, payer, documentation, and service-line issues
- Evaluate new services and growth opportunities for clinical appropriateness and sustainability
- Maintain a clinical caseload with a current target of approximately 20 client-facing sessions per week
- Work a consistent five-day schedule with a predominantly in-office leadership presence and availability for urgent consultation
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree or higher in counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or a related field
- Current, unrestricted Michigan clinical license in good standing, such as LMSW, LPC, LLP, LMFT, or LP
- Strong outpatient experience with assessment, diagnosis, psychotherapy, treatment planning, risk assessment, and documentation
- Demonstrated leadership, consultation, performance-management, and conflict-resolution skills
- Working knowledge of Michigan behavioral-health requirements, HIPAA, ethics, and insurance-based care
- Ability to address difficult concerns directly, respectfully, consistently, and in writing
- Strong organization, communication, judgment, boundaries, and follow-through
- Proficiency with EHR and office technology; Valant experience is a plus
Preferred Qualifications
- Clinical Director, program-management, or outpatient leadership experience
- Experience with documentation audits, corrective action, and quality improvement
- Experience supervising or mentoring limited-license clinicians
- Michigan-recognized qualifications to provide licensure supervision
- Private-practice, billing, credentialing, outreach, or referral-development experience
Compensation and Benefits
This is a W-2 position with compensation reflecting both clinical services and assigned leadership responsibilities. Clinical expectations, protected leadership time, compensation, schedule, decision authority, and performance measures will be clearly documented in the employment offer.
Benefits include paid time off, holiday pay, health coverage, 401(k), annual CEU opportunities, billing support, a furnished clinic environment.
We are excited to meet your authentic self. BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ clinicians are encouraged to apply.
Flexible work from home options available.
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, 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?