Mental Health Therapist

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

Ellie Mental Health – Clarkston is an independently owned and operated private practice serving both the local Clarkston community and the state of Michigan through our office space and telehealth. We manage almost all of your administrative tasks, including billing, so that you can focus on what you love, client care.

At Ellie Mental Health – Clarkston, you'll be part of a dynamic team committed to expanding access to high-quality mental health care while embracing values that make the journey meaningful: authenticity, compassion, creativity, humor, acceptance, and determination. At EMH you'll deliver outpatient care in a fully furnished, welcoming clinic space designed to support both client wellness and clinician comfort. We offer a standout W2 pay model (straight commission) with industry-leading compensation.

What You'll Do at Ellie Mental Health – Clarkston:

• Deliver Care: Conduct comprehensive mental health intakes, develop treatment plans, and complete timely documentation including diagnoses, treatment plans, and session notes.
• Build a Full-Time Caseload: Maintain a minimum of 25 direct client facing hours per week as a full-time clinician, with an initial scheduling availability of 35 hours per week to support caseload growth.

Required Qualifications & Core Competencies:

• Mandatory Licensure for Clinical Practice: Applicants must hold full, unrestricted licensure in the State of Michigan– LMFT, LMSW, LPC.
• Advanced Educational Foundation: A master's degree in counseling, social work, or related field from an accredited institution.
• Clinical Proficiency: Experience in creating and implementing treatment plans, as well as maintaining detailed clinical documentation including case notes and diagnostic updates.
• Strong Communicator: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills that support therapeutic effectiveness, collaboration, and client trust.
• Professional Boundaries & Integrity: Demonstrated ability to establish and uphold stable, ethical boundaries with clients in a clinical setting.
• Timely and Accurate Documentation: Consistently completes session records, service notes, and required documentation promptly.
• Inclusive Clinical Approach: Comfortable and confident working with a diverse population across age groups, backgrounds, and presenting issues.
• Technology Competence: Proficient in day-to-day office tools and electronic health records (EHR); experience with Valant is a plus!

Preferred Qualifications & Expertise:

• Private Practice Savvy: Prior experience in a private practice setting equips candidates to thrive.
• Supervisory Experience: Background in providing clinical supervision or mentoring to limited licensed clinicians.
• Credentialing That Amplifies Access: Fully licensed clinicians who are credentialed with multiple insurance panels and EAPs are especially well-positioned to help us expand care access and reach more individuals in need.
• Marketing Mindset & Social Media Fluency: Candidates with experience leveraging social media and community marketing are especially valuable. Your ability to amplify visibility, drive engagement, and connect with local audiences supports both clinic growth and client access.

Exceptional Benefits That Support Your Well-Being and Growth:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive Health Coverage
• Holiday Pay
• Short-Term Disability Insurance
• 401(K)
• Free Annual CEUs
• Flexible Scheduling

We are excited to meet your authentic self! BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ encouraged to apply.

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $78,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

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?