Mental Health Therapist

Mental Health Therapist

Bannockburn/Deerfield, Illinois | Full-Time | Hybrid Flexibility

Build the private-practice career you want—without managing billing, credentialing, marketing, office expenses, and administrative work on your own. At Ellie Mental Health–Bannockburn, you can enjoy clinical autonomy and strong earning potential with the support of an established, locally owned team. We handle the business infrastructure and invest in helping you develop a sustainable caseload. We are hiring multiple therapists who work with adults, couples, families, older adolescents, or other populations. Experience treating children is welcomed but not required. We are especially interested in clinicians with expertise or interest in anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, grief, life transitions, perinatal mental health, or other areas of community need. We welcome LCSWs, LCPCs, LMFTs, PsyDs, LPCs, LSWs, and ALMFTs. An existing caseload or referral network is welcomed but not required.

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 free CEUs through TPN Health
• Professional development and leadership opportunities
• Collaborative culture with accessible local leadership

We Help You Build Your Practice We invest in Google Ads, Meta advertising, SEO, community outreach, local sponsorships, and referral development. We provide the platform and marketing support; you bring your clinical expertise, communicate your specialties, develop professional relationships, and deliver an excellent client experience. What You'll Do

• Conduct assessments and develop individualized treatment plans
• Provide high-quality, evidence-based therapy
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation
• Build toward and maintain approximately 25 completed sessions per week
• Collaborate with colleagues and referral partners
• Participate in consultation, meetings, and professional development

What You'll Bring

• Master's or doctoral degree in a behavioral health field
• Active Illinois license: LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, PsyD, LPC, LSW, 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, therapists do their best work when they feel supported, trusted, and connected. If you want private-practice flexibility without building everything from scratch, we would genuinely like 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.

Compensation: $70,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

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?