Child and Adolescent Therapist

Seeking Creative & Collaborative Humans With A Passion For Changing Mental Health Care In Fun And Meaningful Ways

If you're looking for a place you can thrive in your professional life and make a difference in your community, you've found it! Ellie Mental Health has been dedicated to providing exceptional mental health services since our founding. Our clients appreciate our personalized approach and commitment to their well-being, while our employees thrive in a supportive culture rooted in values of creativity, humor, compassion, acceptance, determination, and authenticity.

About The Role

Join Ellie Mental Health as a Child and Adolescent Therapist in Rochester, NY, where you will make a meaningful impact on the lives of young individuals in our community. We are looking for compassionate and skilled professionals to provide therapeutic support in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct individual and/or group therapy sessions for children, adolescents and parents.
• Utilize evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mental health challenges.
• Develop, implement and monitor personalized treatment plans in collaboration with clients and families.
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation of client progress and treatment outcomes.
• Provide crisis intervention and support as needed.
• Foster a safe and supportive environment for clients to express their feelings.
• Participate in community outreach and engagement initiatives.
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in mental health care.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Social Work
• Valid state licensure (LCSW, LMSW, LMHC)
• Experience working with children and adolescents in a therapeutic setting.
• Strong understanding of developmental psychology and mental health disorders.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
• Compassionate demeanor with a passion for helping young individuals.
• Commitment to ongoing professional growth and learning.

Additional Benefits

• 401(k)
• Flexible work from home options available
• Training & development
• Opportunities for advancement

Compensation: $35.00 - $45.00 per hour

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! 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!

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?