Child & Adolescent Therapist
Full Time • Hybrid - US
Responsive recruiter
Have you been burnt out by excessive productivity requirements? Have you worked in a toxic environment where your voice wasn’t heard? If so, WE WANT YOU!!
Ellie Mental Health in Lexington is seeking creative, compassionate, and child/adolescent-focused therapists who are seeking a different employment experience to ignite their creativity while minimizing the barriers that come with traditional therapy practices. We are especially looking for clinicians with experience working with children and teens and availability during afternoons, evenings, and/or at least one weekend day to meet the growing needs of families in our community. That said, your schedule isn’t limited to those hours—daytime sessions are an option and welcome too; we just have the biggest need later in the day.
This role offers flexibility, autonomy, and hybrid work options, while still providing the structure and support of an in-person team. You’ll help children, teens, and their families thrive through developmentally appropriate, evidence-based, and creative interventions—and you’ll do it within a workplace that truly values authenticity, humor, compassion, creativity, acceptance, and determination.
At Ellie, we prioritize our therapists just as much as our clients. We believe that happy therapists make the best therapists, and our benefits, culture, and support reflect that.
Salary Range: $63,000 - $123,000
What we offer
• Competitive compensation with uncapped earning potential
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• 25 clinical hours per week for full time status
• Flexible scheduling with strong preference for availability weekdays from 3 pm on and/or at least one weekend day
• Team-centered, supportive, and creative culture
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) Match
• 401(k) Match
• Free CEU credits + paid CEU time
• Pay for administrative time
• License renewal reimbursement
• Credentialing, office space, and technology provided
• Free supervision provided for licensure if needed
• Robust administrative support, referral assistance, and client/therapist matching
• Robust administrative support, referral assistance, and client/therapist matching
• Not 100% remote—hybrid flexibility with meaningful in-person connection
Responsibilities include:
• Provide therapy to children and adolescents, using developmentally appropriate and creative, play and/or expressive based interventions
• Work collaboratively with caregivers, schools, and other providers for wraparound support
• While caseload is primarily youth-focused, there is also opportunity to work with adults across the lifespan
• Complete diagnostic assessments, treatment plans, and timely case documentation
• Maintain a minimum of 25 weekly client sessions for full-time status
• Attend weekly team meetings/group supervision, trainings, and contribute to Ellie’s collaborative, inclusive environment
Required Qualifications and Skills:
• Master’s degree in behavioral health field (Social Work, Counseling, MFT, etc.)
• Candidates will have active Massachusetts clinical license (LICSW, LMHC, LMFT, etc.) or be working towards licensure
• Experience providing therapy to children, teens, and families
• Comfort using creative, expressive, or play-based approaches
• Strong diagnostic and documentation skills
• Tech-savvy and comfortable with EHRs (Valant experience a plus)
• Successful background check
• Authorization to work in the US
About Ellie Mental Health
Founded by clinicians, Ellie’s mission is to destigmatize and humanize mental health care. We believe therapy should be accessible, authentic, and—even in the hard moments—enjoyable. Our Lexington office is locally owned and driven by the belief that therapists deserve a workplace where they feel heard, supported, valued, and empowered.
Come As You Are 💜
Come As You Are 💜
Don’t meet every single qualification? If you’re passionate about this work, we want to hear from you—we encourage you to apply even if your experience isn’t a perfect match. Authenticity, inclusion, and breaking the mold are kind of our thing.
This location is at:
450 Bedford St, Suite 2400
Lexington, MA 02464
Flexible work from home options available.
Compensation: $63,000.00 - $123,000.00 per year
Seeking creative & collaborative humans with a passion for changing mental health care in fun and meaningful ways.
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!
Employee Experience
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 thrive so that they can thrive too!
Y’all, jobs in mental health are tough jobs with a high risk of emotional fatigue and burnout. At Ellie, we use all of our core values of humor, creativity, authenticity, acceptance, determination, and compassion not just out in our communities, but we turn them inwards too! Our employees have clear growth paths for advancing their careers.
We have created a culture that reminds us that our employees are our leaders!
Company Structure
Ellie is a socially responsible for-profit business, which allows us to be flexible and responsive to our community’s needs. Many mental health and wellness-focused companies are non-profits or government agencies, which rely on the general public, grants, or large donors for funding. This model often results in little creativity and lower compensation for employees, promoting a work culture that just makes people feel “blah.”
Feeling blah doesn’t help employees stay motivated, engaged, or even in their jobs for a very long time! So we created a new model: one that puts flexibility, innovative decision-making, creativity, and our people first, while remaining a socially conscious and responsible for-profit business focused on changing how we treat mental health.
In short, we’re just people helping people. Wanna join the herd?
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A company rooted in values of creativity, humor, compassion, acceptance, determination, and authenticity
Unique pay model with industry leading compensation
Comfortable, furnished offices and clinic environment