Benefits:

Competitive salary
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
Opportunity for advancement
Paid time off
Training & development

We are looking for an experienced, credentialed, versatile, and highly effective mental health therapist.

The candidate will have the following characteristics: They must value and conduct themselves with honesty, integrity, and a strong work ethic. They will act with personal responsibility, be patient, pleasant, curious, intelligent, and observant. They will view growth and wisdom as an ongoing goal and process that can be cultivated in psychotherapy. They will help clients take responsibility for their lives and engage in the work to meet their therapeutic goals. They will be warm, empathetic, easy to talk with and trustworthy.

We offer excellent earnings potential for a seasoned and credentialed clinical professional who is ready to jump right in. We also offer a full array of health and other benefits including case consultation, PTO, and reimbursement for licensure and continuing education.

We offer a flexible schedule, choice of clients, your own office, and the benefit of working with a highly committed and passionate team.

Essential

We are seeking an experienced, generalist clinician who can offer evidenced based psychotherapy.

This is an in-office position with the option to do telehealth when necessary.

We provide everything you need to step right in and start helping people. We do the additional credentialing if necessary, scheduling, and billing.

This candidate must be licensed as an LCMHC, LICSW, or LMFT in New Hampshire and be on the major insurance panels. Can bring existing caseload to us and we will make it happen.

Note. New Hampshire offers a 120-day temporary license for mental health professionals who wish to relocate to our wonderful area, or for people who live in neighboring states and want to commute to downtown Portsmouth. New Hampshire also now offers licensure by endorsement for out of state licensees.

This candidate will carry a full clinical caseload. We utilize a client-therapist matching tool that gives you control over your caseload. You have an opportunity to be creative and develop your passions into new programs and services.

Other Capacities

Are you a well-grounded professional with good boundaries and advanced interpersonal wisdom?

Are you committed to awareness of your own personal values and biases? Are you committed to doing the continual professional development work to understand how this impacts your interactions with clients?

Are you a good psychological container?

Are you innovative and flexible?

Can you do a thorough biopsychosocial assessment and apply effective treatment without contamination from confounding variables and third-party pressures to arrive at prior conclusions?

Are you able to focus on a singular goal – to help your patients get better?

If you have these capacities and you want to join a team comprised of other psychotherapy superstars you have come to the right place. This is your opportunity to be part of a new, locally owned Ellie Mental Health clinic in downtown Portsmouth. We need high-performing clinicians who love this work because they understand that every time we help one person or one family, we change the world.

Core Responsibilities

Engage patients artfully from the first contact to gain their confidence and trust.
Complete an expert, thorough, common-sense, and relevant biopsychosocial assessment for every patient that guides everything that follows.
Use advanced clinical judgment based on direct observation and other data to uncover the individual and relational factors that are contributing to the reason the patient contacted you.
Provide transparent and detailed informed consent about the expectations and the fees as part of the therapy contract before treatment commences.
Co-create relevant goals with patients that stem directly from their identified problems.
Provide relationship-oriented and creative psychotherapy to help clients achieve their goals.
Measure and record progress as a function of the evolving therapeutic relationship.
Coordinate services/referrals and collaborate with families, other professionals, and natural community supports.
Collaborate with our local team of psychotherapy superstars.
Provide all clinical documentation in the Valant electronic health record system on a timely basis.
Participate in clinical staff meetings, administrative meetings, individual supervision, and required training.
Conduct a minimum of 25 client visits per week to be considered full-time and receive benefits.

Other Skills

Experience completing biopsychosocial/diagnostic assessments, treatment plans, and clinical progress notes. We limit documentation to what is necessary to promote good care.
Proficiency in the English language. Bi-lingual a plus.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Proficient in Office 365 and electronic health record systems (Valant experience a plus).
Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a team environment that values accountability, authenticity, and humor.
Ability to meet professional expectations of the psychotherapy culture for demeanor and dress.

Compensation: $65,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Seeking creative & collaborative humans with a passion for changing mental health care in fun and meaningful ways.

Employee Experience

We take care of our people. From investing in their financial future, to providing wages that shatter the ceiling in our industry, to reasonable caseload expectations, we strive to create an enriching work culture. Fortified employees 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 have the energy and optimism to help patients get better.

Company Structure

As a Licensed Mental Health Therapist at Ellie Mental Health’s new locally owned and operated clinic in Portsmouth, NH, 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 is a socially responsible for-profit business, which allows us to be flexible and responsive to our community’s needs.

Ellie was proudly founded by clinicians on the principle of destigmatizing mental health. The mental health industry is full of barriers, and we have made it our goal to fill the gap and find innovative ways to break down these barriers for our local communities. We are excited to expand across the country by partnering with local leaders in your community.

Our clinics are structured to remove many of the 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, flexible scheduling, CEU’s, and an inclusive environment. Additionally, Ellie provides centralized administrative support, technology, referral support, scheduling, client/therapist matching, and more.

If you believe you would fit in well with our company culture, and you want to make a difference in the world during these tumultuous times, please contact us.

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!

In short, we’re just people helping people. Wanna join the herd?

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