Neuro-Affirming Clinic Director - Transdisciplinary Outpatient (LPC/LMFT/LCSW License)

Where Leadership Meets Purpose

At Common Threads, we believe care should be collaborative, neuro-affirming, and grounded in deep respect for each individual’s lived experience. We challenge neuronormative expectations, prioritize regulation over expectations, and center relationships in everything we do.

We’re seeking a Clinic Director who is not only an experienced clinical leader, but someone who is energized by building something meaningful—someone who values curiosity over control, systems-thinking over quick fixes, and people over process.

This is an opportunity to lead a growing, innovative clinic alongside a passionate leadership team, shaping the future of care for Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent individuals and their families.

What You'll Do

As Clinic Director, you will oversee all aspects of clinic operations while partnering closely with the Executive Director to guide strategy, growth, and clinical excellence.

You’ll:

• Lead and support a transdisciplinary team, fostering a collaborative, neuro-affirming culture
• Provide clinical supervision, consultation, and mentorship across disciplines
• Oversee program operations, ensuring high-quality care, sustainability, and alignment with our values
• Guide program development, growth strategy, and budget management
• Ensure compliance with DHS 35/36 and maintain audit readiness
• Strengthen systems related to documentation, EHR, billing, and workflow efficiency
• Support hiring, onboarding, credentialing, and staff development
• Build and maintain strong relationships with community partners and stakeholders

This role blends big-picture leadership with thoughtful attention to operational detail—ideal for someone who can zoom out and zoom in with intention.

Who You Are

You’re a grounded, reflective leader who:

• Brings a strong clinical foundation and experience supervising teams
• Has a deep commitment to neuro-affirming, trauma-informed, and strengths-based care
• Understands the complexity of systems—and works to change them, not people
• Leads with curiosity, humility, and accountability
• Is skilled at balancing people-centered leadership with program sustainability
• Values collaboration and actively works to create inclusive, psychologically safe spaces

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in a related field and current licensure in the mental health field (LCSW, LMFT, or LPC)
• Experience working with Autistic and/or neurodivergent individuals
• 3–5 years of clinical leadership or management experience preferred

Why Common Threads?

• A deeply values-driven, neuro-affirming organization
• A collaborative leadership team that prioritizes reflection, growth, and shared responsibility
• A small, connected clinic environment where relationships matter
• The opportunity to meaningfully shape programs, systems, and culture
• Recently recognized as one of Madison’s Best Places to Wor

This role requires the ability to actively engage in a dynamic clinical environment, including responding to client needs in real time. Reliable transportation is required.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Retirement plan
• Retirement plan matching (up to 3%)
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• Generous paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Salary: from $90,000 per year.

Common Threads is an Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, Common Threads complies with laws prohibiting discrimination against employees or qualified applicants for employment in hiring or in any decision affecting job status or pay on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, religion, color, gender, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, cultural differences, ancestry, physical appearance, arrest record or conviction record, military participation or membership in the national guard, state defense force or any other reserve component of the military forces of the United States, or political beliefs, or any other status protected by federal, state, and/or or local laws.

Common Threads and all subcontractors agree not to discriminate on the basis of disability in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, the Wisconsin Statutes secs. 111.321 and 111.34, and Chapter 19 of the Dane County Code of Ordinances.

We do not sponsor visa for employment.