Child Focused Therapist

Job Description

Job Description

As a full-time or part-time Child Focused Therapist at Ellie Mental Health, you'll share our vision for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care to kids, adolescents, and families, and thrive in an environment driven by our core values of authenticity, humor, compassion, creativity, acceptance, and determination.

Full-time Benefits :

• Healthcare, Dental, Vision
• Free access to virtual urgent care and short-term counseling
• 401k, Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Unique pay models to choose from with industry-leading compensation
• Reasonable caseload expectations and flexible scheduling
• Comfortable, furnished offices and clinic environment
• Free Supervision
• Free attendance for internal CEUs

Required Skills / Abilities :

• Masters degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university
• Candidates will have clinical licensure or be on licensure track for LMFT, LPCC, LICSW, LP etc.
• Passion and experience working with and meeting the unique mental health needs of children, adolescents, and families.
• Knowledge of developmental principles and awareness of the intersection between normative child development and psychopathology in the diagnosis and treatment of children / families
• Experience completing diagnostic assessments, treatment plans and clinical case notes. (Experience with DC : 0-5, ECSII / CASII, SDQ assessments preferred)
• Ability to demonstrate and model stable, appropriate boundaries with clients
• Proficient in the use of Office 365 and EHR systems (Valant), including collection of co-payments

Responsibilities include :

• Provide diagnostic assessment, treatment (including family and individual therapy), and referrals to minor clients and their parents / guardians.
• Create and implement a treatment plan, complete ongoing documentation including further diagnosis, treatment plan reviews, and case notes
• Collaborate with other Child Services providers including medication management, psychological assessment services, and other mental health providers to meet client needs.
• Coordinate services with external care providers including case managers, families, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as needed
• Attend and participate in all clinical staff meetings and trainings

Providers offer individual and family therapy using a broad range of modalities. Clinicians may offer Play Therapy, Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Dance / Movement Therapy, or other specific modalities.

Overall, practice includes play-based and interactive methods, regular caregiver involvement and / or family therapy, and tailored approaches that meet the developmental needs of children and adolescents.

Ellie was proudly founded by clinicians on the principle of destigmatizing mental health. The mental health industry is full of barriers, and we have made it our goal to fill the gap and find innovative ways to break down these barriers for our local communities.

We are excited to expand across the country by partnering with local leaders in your community.

This role leverages in-person and telehealth care, meeting our clients where they're at. This allows for a hybrid clinician schedule to collaborate with the team in the clinic and work from home!

Our clinics are structured to remove many of the obstacles that get in the way of providing world-class mental health services.

Ellie makes the clinicians experience a priority by offering excellent compensation, benefits, training, flexible scheduling (FT / PT / days / nights / weekends), CEUs, and an incredibly inclusive environment.

Additionally, Ellie assists in providing centralized administrative support, technology, some referral support, scheduling, and client / therapist matching.

There is the opportunity to provide tele-health services, but you do need to be able to commute into the office on a regular basis.

Ellie Mental Health is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.

A reasonable accommodation is a change or adjustment to a job or work environment