Licensed Therapist – Grow Your Private Practice Career
Bannockburn/Deerfield, Illinois | Full-Time | Hybrid Flexibility
You became a therapist to help people—not to spend your evenings managing billing, credentialing, marketing, and paperwork.
At Ellie Mental Health–Bannockburn, you can enjoy the flexibility and earning potential of private practice with the support of an established, locally owned team. We handle the business side and invest in helping you build a strong, sustainable caseload.
Our North Shore community values experienced clinicians who provide exceptional care. We are especially interested in independently licensed therapists with strong clinical expertise, referral relationships, or an existing caseload. We will also consider highly motivated pre-licensed clinicians with a marketable specialty who are prepared to help build their practice.
Why Therapists Choose Ellie
- 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 office space
- Billing, credentialing, EHR, and administrative support
- Individual and group supervision
- Clinical consultation and accessible local leadership
- Free CEUs through TPN Health
- Professional development and leadership opportunities
- A collaborative, supportive team culture
We Help Grow Your Caseload
We do not simply provide an office and expect you to figure out the rest. We invest in Google Ads, Meta advertising, SEO, community sponsorships, outreach, and referral development to attract clients who fit your practice.
We provide the platform and marketing support. You bring your clinical expertise, specialties, professional relationships, and commitment to an excellent client experience.
Who May Be a Great Fit
- Experienced therapists seeking private-practice flexibility without the administrative burden
- Clinicians who want stronger support, autonomy, and earning potential
- Independently licensed therapists with specialties valued by North Shore families
- Therapists with an existing caseload or referral network
- Motivated pre-licensed clinicians with a clear specialty and growth mindset
- Clinicians experienced with children, adolescents, couples, or families
Limited-Time Transition Incentive
Experienced clinicians joining our Bannockburn team may qualify for a transition incentive of up to $3,000. This program supports therapists seeking a new professional home while maintaining continuity of care for clients who independently choose to continue working with them.
Additional terms and eligibility requirements apply.
What You’ll Do
- Conduct assessments and develop individualized treatment plans
- Provide high-quality, evidence-based therapy
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation
- Build and maintain approximately 25 completed sessions per week for full-time status
- Collaborate with colleagues and referral partners
- Participate in meetings, consultation, and professional development
- Optionally provide supervision if qualified
What You’ll Bring
- Master’s or doctoral degree in a behavioral health field
- Active Illinois license or pre-license: LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, PsyD, LSW, LPC, or ALMFT
- Experience with assessment, treatment planning, and documentation
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Commitment to ethical, compassionate, and dependable care
- Willingness to participate in caseload development
- Ability to complete required background screening
At Ellie, clinicians do their best work when they feel supported, trusted, and connected. If you want to build a meaningful private-practice career without building everything from scratch, we would love to meet you.
Complete our application questions to apply. If your experience and goals align with our practice, a member of our local team will contact you.
Location: Bannockburn/Deerfield, IL 60015
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.”
Feelingblah 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?