Couples/ Family Outpatient Mental Health Therapist
Full Time • Fairfax
Responsive recruiter
Join our Ellie Mental Health Fairfax City Virginia herd today!
Who is Ellie? Ellie Mental Health is a highly successful outpatient mental health company structured to provide world-class mental health services that are focused on the therapist and provide a place where you can be your authentic self while doing what you love in a space you want to be in.
Ellie strives to remove many of the daily obstacles and administrative aspects that get in the way of a successful and enjoyable private practice experience. Ellie prioritizes the CLINICIAN'S experience by offering centralized administrative support, excellent compensation, benefits, training, and flexible scheduling. This way our practitioners have more time to focus on what they love – serving clients!
We want our people to be happy because happy therapists do better work and provide better client care!
We are looking for a special kind of Couples/ Family Therapist:
Do you seek any of the following?
- To make a difference in the lives of diverse populations and "FILL THE GAP" in Fairfax, VA
- To grow and have your creativity not only encouraged but embraced
- A place where you can contribute to the vision and culture of a clinic full of autonomy, flexibility, compassion, acceptance, determination, and authenticity
- To have referrals matched to your specialty profile and scheduled for you via our Ellie Match system
- A flexible schedule that meets your needs and lets you determine your earning potential
- A caseload that helps ensure work/life balance based on your availability
- Reduced administrative obligations such as credentialing, marketing, and insurance billing handled through our shared services team
- Access to educational material suited for continuing education credits through the Ellie CEU library
- To be a part of a community, a family, a place where fun is expected and laughter is your language
Some Necessary Requirements
- We are looking for those who have already attained a master’s degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university
- We need you to have a Virginia clinical license (LPC, LCSW, LMFT, etc.) with the ability to practice independently and potentially would like to be supervisors for those who are coming along in their journey
- Experienced in completing psychosocial assessments, treatment plans, and clinical case notes
- Be effective in written and verbal communication skills
- Be able to complete and submit documentation of services and other documents promptly
- Have experience and comfort in working with diverse populations from the surrounding community
- Ability to demonstrate and model stable, appropriate boundaries with clients
- Experience with Couples and Families
- Comfort and familiarity working with a diverse client base
- Proficient in the use of standard office technology (computers, e-mail, etc.) and Electronic Health Record systems (experience with Valant a plus)
- Ability to pass a background check
Responsibilities and Duties
- Provide therapy services for couples, families, and groups
- Evaluate mental health diagnosis, create, and implement a treatment plan, and complete ongoing documentation including session progress notes, continual assessments, treatment plan reviews, and any other contact notes according to company guidelines and protocols
- Clinicians must maintain a completed caseload of a minimum of 25 1-hour client visits per week for full-time status
- Provide excellent customer service for clients and collaborate with a dynamic team to further the mission of filling the mental health gaps in our community
- Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals
- Be an advocate for your clients by coordinating services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as needed
- Attend and participate in all clinical staff meetings and training
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
- Experience with couples and families
- Ideal candidates will have knowledge of and experience with therapy services provided to couples and families in an outpatient setting.
- Familiar with community resources
- Certified in specialty treatment modalities specific to couples and families
- Fluent in a language in addition to English
What we have to offer:
- Ellie Mental Health offers a competitive salary with full-time opportunities for an excellent benefits package, PTO accrual, outstanding wellness programs, and professional development.
- Flexible scheduling
- Hourly pay structure PLUS commission on claims
- Paid Continuing Education time
- Pay for administrative time that covers consultation and documentation.
What else you should know:
- This position is located in Fairfax City, Virginia
- This position will be under the general supervision of the Clinical Director
We hire people passionate about making changes in the mental health community. We take a creative and collaborative approach to creating change while putting our team first.
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!
Compensation: $60,000.00 - $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?
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A company rooted in values of creativity, humor, compassion, acceptance, determination, and authenticity
Unique pay model with industry leading compensation
Comfortable, furnished offices and clinic environment