Clinical Lead & Therapist; LCPC, LCSW, or LMFT

Clinical Lead & Therapist (LCPC, LCSW, or LMFT)

Ready to grow into clinical leadership without giving up the therapy work you love?

Walk With Me Counseling Center is seeking an experienced, independently licensed Illinois therapist to join our growing virtual group practice as a part-time W2 Clinical Lead & Therapist.

This role is designed for a strong clinician who enjoys direct client care and is ready to expand their impact through clinical leadership. You will maintain a part-time therapy caseload while providing clinical consultation, documentation oversight, and quality support to a small team of therapists.

This is a focused Clinical Lead role, not a full Clinical Director position. You will not be responsible for billing, scheduling, intake, marketing, or day-to-day practice operations.

• Part-time therapy caseload
• Approximately 2 to 3 paid Clinical Lead hours per week initially
• Fully remote
• Flexible schedule
• No weekends
• W2 employment
• Continue providing therapy while developing your clinical leadership experience
• Help strengthen clinical quality within a growing group practice

Therapy:$80 per completed therapy session

Clinical Lead Responsibilities:$50 per hour for approximately 2 to 3 hours per week initially

Pay:Biweekly

Caseloads are built gradually based on referrals, client fit, therapist availability, and scheduling needs. A specific caseload volume is not guaranteed upon hire.

• Provide virtual psychotherapy to adult clients throughout Illinois.
• Conduct clinical assessments and provide clinically appropriate diagnoses.
• Develop and update individualized treatment plans based on client needs, progress, and medical necessity.
• Complete timely, accurate, and clinically appropriate documentation.
• Reassess diagnoses as additional clinical information becomes available throughout treatment.
• Build and maintain a part-time caseload based on referrals, availability, client fit, and scheduling needs.

• Provide approximately one hour of weekly clinical consultation to therapists, including support with case conceptualization, treatment planning, interventions, complex cases, ethical concerns, and risk or safety concerns.
• Provide required documentation signatures for provisionally licensed therapists.
• Conduct a weekly random sample review of progress notes and treatment plans to assess clinical quality, medical necessity, and alignment among diagnosis, treatment goals, interventions, and documented progress.
• Review diagnoses and diagnostic codes as part of the weekly clinical quality review and identify when diagnostic reassessment is clinically indicated.
• Provide clear, constructive clinical and documentation feedback and follow up when needed.
• Serve as a clinical resource for complex, higher-risk, or ethically challenging cases.
• Escalate significant clinical, ethical, or safety concerns to practice leadership when appropriate.
• Providing required documentation signatures is separate from conducting an in-depth clinical quality review. The Clinical Lead is not expected to perform an in-depth review of every document before signing it.

• Current, active, unrestricted Illinois LCPC, LCSW, or LMFT license
• Independent clinical licensure
• Minimum of 3 years of clinical experience
• Experience providing psychotherapy to adults
• Strong clinical judgment and case conceptualization skills
• Strong knowledge of assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, clinical documentation, medical necessity, ethics, and risk assessment
• Ability to provide thoughtful, direct, and supportive clinical feedback
• Strong communication, organization, and follow-through
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fully virtual practice
• Some…