Mental Health Therapist

Mental Health Counseling Services have spent the last 20 years building a clinician-led, employee-based mental health group practice designed for long-term sustainability—for our patients, our clinicians, and the organization itself.

This is not a contractor collective, and it is not a high-throughput model optimized for short-term income maximization. Our approach favors clarity, shared norms, and financial transparency. Rather than selling an ideal future or relying on an extractive command structure, we’ve spent our time developing shared tools and pooling resources to make collaboration, good care, and durable work lives possible.

We tend to work best with capable clinicians who want visibility into how the organization functions and who are interested in participating in decisions that affect their work, rather than having those decisions made in isolation.

How We Practice

Our organizational design is a direct extension of our values—particularly collaboration, dignity, growth, and competence.

Because we believe relationships are foundational, we prioritize shared understanding over individual negotiation. Because we believe dignity requires more than good intentions, we build systems that avoid extractive workloads and opaque decision-making. And because we take competence seriously, we expect to engage openly with the clinical, operational, and financial realities of practice rather than shielding them from view.

We believe good care emerges from:

• stable systems that reduce friction instead of displacing it onto individuals,
• sustainable workloads that make long careers possible,
• and clinicians who are trusted to participate thoughtfully in how the organization functions.

Our work is grounded in relationship-centered care, paired with the belief that trust is strengthened when roles, incentives, and trade-offs are discussed openly and shaped collectively, rather than decided behind closed doors or renegotiated case by case.

Clinicians here have meaningful autonomy in their clinical work and operate within shared norms that we revisit and refine together, with an emphasis on durability, coherence, and collective responsibility rather than constant reinvention.

What This Role Includes

• W-2 employee status
• Hybrid work model (in-person and telehealth)
• Substantial control over your clinical schedule, with shared constraints designed to support access, sustainability, and team coherence
• Fully integrated EHR and telehealth platform
• Excellent administrative support for billing, credentialing, scheduling, and patient payments
• Access to furnished office space (Maple Grove and Minneapolis)
• Collaboration and consultation with colleagues operating within the same organizational model
• Multiple physical locations:
  Maple Grove and Minneapolis

Unlicensed clinicians actively pursuing full licensure are welcome to reach out; supervision is provided.

Compensation & Benefits (Summary)

Approximate FTE Annual Wages: $92,962.91

Estimated Range Based on Productivity/Service Mix: $ 70256.73-$112070.15

We offer a competitive compensation structure and benefits package depending on eligibility, including:

• Paid Time Off and Sick & Safe Time
• Company-sponsored health insurance
• SIMPLE IRA
• Paid holidays
• Structured annual bonuses
• Reimbursement for eligible educational expenses
• Leave programs including FMLA, parental leave, bereavement, and short-term disability

Who Tends to Thrive Here

This role is often a good fit for clinicians who:

• appreciate open conversations about how decisions are made,
• prefer working in environments where expectations are discussed openly rather than renegotiated individually,
• are interested in understanding and helping shape the financial and operational realities of a practice,
• value sustainability and coherence over maximal independence,
• and want to be part of an organization that is intentionally designed, not improvised.

Who This Is Probably Not For

This is likely not a good fit if you are looking for:

• a contractor or eat-what-you-kill arrangement,
• complete independence from shared constraints or collective decision-making,
• unlimited schedule variability without regard for team or system needs,
• or a purely transactional…