Mental Health Counselor

Who is Ellie?

Ellie Mental Health is a highly successful mental health organization with clinics structured to remove many of the daily obstacles that get in the way of providing world‑class mental health services. Ellie makes the clinician’s experience a priority by offering excellent compensation, benefits, training, and flexible scheduling. We also provide centralized administrative, technology, referral and inquiry support, scheduling, client/therapist matching, billing and collections, and even CEU programs.

Ellie strives to lower the administrative aspects of providing care to the absolute minimum, so 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!

The perfect candidate will share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care and will thrive in a culture that emphasizes autonomy, flexibility, creativity, authenticity, humor, compassion, acceptance, and determination. Opportunities for individual, family, and group therapy services as well as Telehealth.

• Evaluate mental health diagnosis, create and implement a treatment plan, complete ongoing documentation including further diagnosis, treatment plan reviews, and case notes according to company policy
• Maintain a caseload of 25 client sessions per week
• Provide excellent customer service for clients and 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 needed
• Attend and participate in all clinical staff meetings and training
• Other responsibilities as needed

• Master’s degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university
• Fully licensed mental health professional (LICSW, LMFT, LPCC, LP) in the state of Maryland
• Experience with completing DAs, treatment plans, and clinical case notes

• Creative and innovative approaches to mental health
• Experience with children, adolescents, and teens
• Experience with couples and families
• General knowledge of therapy services, community resources, and insurance billing

• Competitive salary, excellent benefits package, PTO accrual, and professional development
• Flexible scheduling
• Hourly pay structure PLUS commission on claims
• Access to Continuing Education CEU Library

• This position will be under the general direction of the Clinical Director
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Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

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!

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…