Associate Licensed Mental Health Therapist

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Bonus based on performance
• Company parties
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Free food & snacks
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Wellness resources

WE ARE OPENING A 2ND LOCATION IN POST FALLS  - ESTMATED TO PHYSICALLY OPEN IN MARCH 2025!! (options to start early virtually until the office physically opens)

As an Associate Therapist at Ellie Mental Health, you'll share our vision for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care and thrive in an environment driven by our core values of authenticity, humor, compassion, creativity, acceptance, and determination. Ellie Mental Health was founded in 2015 by Erin Pash, LMFT and Kyle Keller, LICSW when they opened the first Ellie clinic in Minneapolis.

Since then, the Ellie Fam has continued to grow with multiple clinics in Minnesota and a growing number of locally owned and operated franchises across the country. Ellie was proudly founded on the principle of destigmatizing mental health. The mental health industry is full of barriers, and we’ve made it our goal to fill the gap and find innovative ways to break down these barriers for the communities we serve.

Associate Therapists!!! The perfect candidate will share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care in our local community and will thrive in a culture that emphasizes autonomy, flexibility, creativity, authenticity, humor, compassion, acceptance and determination (our core values). Opportunities for individual, family, and group therapy services as well as Telehealth. We love to have fun and help our community.

As an Associate Clinician you would be under direct clinical supervision. You will be provided a high level of training and 1:1 time to learn all industry wide best practices with clinical documentation (CDAs, treatment plans, progress notes, discharge summaries, etc.)

Complete comprehensive diagnostic assessments and evaluate and provide mental health diagnosis within the first week of services, and update yearly. Create and implement a treatment plans 30 days after initiating treatment, and update every 90 days. Complete progress notes for every session according to company policy.

Full-time clinicians schedule a minimum of 30 clients per week and are expected to execute a minimum of 25 sessions per week. Most schedule more, exceed the minimum, and make more money!

Provide excellent customer service for clients, and be highly responsive to all communications.

Collaborate with a dynamic team to further the mission of filling gaps in our community.

Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals.

Coordinate services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as indicated.

Attend and participate in all clinical staff meetings and trainings, and other fun stuff that we do.

Other stuff we probably forgot to add but just as meaningful and important to your role.

• Candidates are required to have a master’s degree (or very close to it) in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university and on track to obtain licensure in their designated field.
• Candidates should minimally have Idaho state licensure (Intern, LPC, LAMFT, LMSW) and actively pursuing clinical licensure.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to demonstrate and model stable, appropriate boundaries with clients.
• Ability to complete and submit documentation of services and other documents in a timely manner.
• Comfort and familiarity working with a diverse client base.
• Proficient (or can be with a little training) in the use of Microsoft Office 365 and Electronic Health Record systems (Valant experience a plus!).
• Comfort with collecting the patient's financial responsibility at time of service and discussing billing issues with clients.
• Comfort with be your client's primary form of contact for all needs. (our model does not have an office receptionist).
• Ability to pass a background check.

• Preferred experience with completing CDAs, treatment plans and progress notes.
• Preferred openness to a range of ages and types of clinical presentations, as it is hard to know your specialty starting out.
• Prefer that they are pursuing licensure in both Idaho and Washington.
• We prefer that candidates share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care in our local community and come with ideas of how to can improve access in our community.
• We prefer that candidates see our core values of Autonomy, Flexibility, Creativity, Authenticity, Humor, Compassion, Acceptance and Determination, and they instantly feel that this is right place for them to be.

All Ellie we believe that we must first take care of our therapists, nurture their growth, support their ideas, and provide them with the…