Limited-License Mental Health Therapist – Full-Time
Ellie Mental Health–Clarkston is an independently owned private practice providing in-person and telehealth care throughout Michigan. Our furnished clinic and administrative support, including billing, allow clinicians to focus on client care and professional growth.
Join a collaborative practice committed to high-quality mental health care and the values of authenticity, compassion, creativity, humor, acceptance, and determination.
Compensation
This is a W-2 straight-commission position, not a salaried position. Clinicians earn a commission percentage of collected insurance and client payments for completed services, a common outpatient private-practice model. Compensation covers session preparation, client sessions, scheduling, documentation, and required meetings. Unlike a 1099 arrangement, the W-2 model includes employee benefits, employer-paid payroll taxes, and employment protections.
Caseload Development
Building and maintaining a caseload is a shared responsibility. The practice provides marketing, online scheduling, administrative support, community relationships, and practice-generated referrals. Clinicians must also maintain availability, respond promptly to referrals, support client retention, communicate their specialties, and participate in approved outreach.
Outreach may include building relationships with physicians, schools, hospitals, and community organizations. Approved outreach and caseload-development activities are paid at $20 per hour when authorized in advance.
Full-time clinicians must average at least 25 direct client-facing hours per week and initially offer approximately 35 scheduling hours per week to support caseload growth and cancellations. At least one evening is required. Additional evening or weekend availability is valuable when serving children, adolescents, and families.
Responsibilities
- Conduct intake assessments and establish diagnoses within license and scope
- Develop treatment plans and provide evidence-based psychotherapy
- Complete intakes, notes, treatment plans, risk documentation, and other records accurately and on time
- Submit documentation promptly for required supervisory review and co-signature
- Attend required supervision and implement feedback
- Maintain scheduling consistency and follow up after cancellations
- Participate in consultation, staff meetings, and quality-improvement activities
- Communicate professionally with clients, colleagues, billing staff, and referral partners
Required Qualifications
- Michigan limited clinical license in good standing as an LLPC, LLMSW, LLMFT
- Master’s degree in counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy, or a related field from an accredited institution
- Ability to practice under the supervision required for the applicable credential
- Commitment to maintaining supervision records and completing requirements toward full licensure
- Experience with assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, psychotherapy, and documentation
- Willingness to participate in caseload development and community outreach
- Strong communication, organization, dependability, boundaries, and follow-through
- Ability to serve diverse clients competently within scope of practice
- Proficiency with EHR and office technology; Valant experience is a plus
Preferred Qualifications
- Outpatient private-practice experience
- Progress toward independent licensure
- Insurance-based documentation experience
- Community outreach, presentation, or marketing experience
- Clinical specialties responsive to community needs
Benefits
- Paid time off and holiday pay
- Health coverage
- Short-term disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Free CEUs
- Flexible scheduling
- Administrative and billing support
- Paid, preapproved outreach opportunities
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.”
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?