Lead Therapist - Birmingham Clinic
Bloomfield Hills / Birmingham / Troy
Lead Therapist - Birmingham Clinic
Full Time • Bloomfield Hills / Birmingham / Troy
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Paid time off
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Bonus based on performance
- Company parties
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
Ellie Mental Health is seeking a fully licensed therapist to serve as the Lead Therapist for our Birmingham clinic. This full-time position combines an active clinical caseload with on-site leadership, clinical consultation and supervision, clinician development, clinic oversight, and structured community outreach.
The Lead Therapist will provide Birmingham with a consistent, accessible local leader who is invested in the success of the clinic, its clinicians, and its clients. This position requires on-site presence five days per week and approximately 35–40 total working hours per week.
Clinical Responsibilities
- Maintain a minimum of 20 clinical hours per week
- Provide high-quality, ethical, and client-centered mental health services.
- Complete clinical documentation accurately and within required timeframes.
- Maintain strong client engagement, retention, and continuity of care.
- Model strong clinical judgment, professionalism, compliance, and documentation practices.
Clinical Leadership and Supervision
- Serve as the consistent, visible on-site leader for the Birmingham clinic.
- Provide clinical consultation to Birmingham clinicians.
- Provide formal supervision to assigned limited-license clinicians
- Conduct regular clinician check-ins and monitor team needs, morale, satisfaction, and barriers.
- Follow up with new clinicians after onboarding and initial training.
- Monitor caseload development and identify issues affecting referrals, scheduling, productivity, documentation, compliance, or client retention.
- Provide coaching, direction, and accountability.
- Escalate significant clinical, personnel, performance, or operational concerns to the Clinic Director.
- Strengthen communication between the Birmingham clinic and the broader organization.
Clinic Oversight
- Maintain awareness of day-to-day clinic operations and address routine on-site concerns.
- Promote a professional, welcoming, organized, and collaborative environment.
- Identify facilities, equipment, or office concerns and communicate them to the appropriate internal leader.
- Share relevant facilities and operational updates with Birmingham staff.
- Monitor office utilization and identify scheduling or space concerns.
- Help ensure clinic processes and expectations are followed consistently.
Community Outreach and Growth
Community outreach is an ongoing responsibility of this position. Ellie leadership will provide structured training, target audiences, outreach tools, activity expectations, and measurable performance indicators.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop relationships with local referral partners and community organizations.
- Conduct consistent outreach throughout Birmingham and surrounding communities.
- Represent Ellie Mental Health at meetings, networking opportunities, and community events.
- Follow an established outreach process and follow-up cadence.
- Track outreach activities, relationships, and next steps in the designated system.
- Meet established outreach activity and performance expectations.
- Communicate referral-partner feedback and identify growth opportunities.
- Coordinate outreach with clinic leadership and the organization’s broader growth strategy.
Schedule and Work Structure
- Approximately 35–40 total working hours per week.
- Minimum of 20 completed clinical hours per week.
- Remaining time will be allocated among leadership, supervision, clinician support, administration, outreach, onboarding follow-up, and clinic coordination.
- Responsibilities and time allocation may vary based on clinic needs.
- On-site presence is required five days per week.
- Daily hours may be structured flexibly around client schedules, therapist needs, clinic coverage, outreach activities, and operational priorities.
Required Qualifications
- Current Michigan license permitting independent mental health practice.
- Master’s degree or higher in counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain a consistent clinical caseload.
- Prior experience with professional outreach, referral development, networking, community engagement, or business development.
- Strong leadership, communication, organization, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to provide direct, constructive feedback while maintaining strong professional relationships.
- Strong clinical documentation and compliance practices.
- Ability to balance clinical, leadership, administrative, supervisory, and outreach responsibilities.
- Ability and willingness to work on-site five days per week.
Preferred Qualifications
- Qualification to supervise limited-license clinicians under applicable Michigan requirements.
- Formal clinical supervision training or willingness to complete the necessary training.
- Experience as a clinical supervisor, lead clinician, program leader, or agency-based manager.
- Experience supporting clinician onboarding, development, productivity, or performance.
- Experience in a community mental health, group practice, nonprofit, or agency setting.
- Knowledge of revenue-cycle management, insurance billing, utilization management, or clinical operations.
- Experience with documentation compliance, medical necessity, audits, or quality assurance.
Compensation combines:
- Ellie’s clinical compensation model for completed clinical hours; and
- Separate hourly compensation for approved Lead Therapist responsibilities.
Total earnings will vary based on completed clinical hours, leadership hours, and overall performance. Candidates consistently meeting the position’s clinical and leadership expectations may reasonably expect annual cash compensation of approximately $75,000–$95,000 or more. Higher sustained clinical production may result in higher earnings, while lower production may result in lower compensation.
This is an estimated earning opportunity and not a guaranteed annual salary.
Eligible full-time employees may also receive health plan options, paid time off, paid holidays, and 401(k) participation.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is an experienced therapist who wants to continue practicing clinically while taking meaningful responsibility for the success of a clinic and its team.
This person should be approachable but accountable, comfortable addressing concerns directly, and motivated by helping clinicians succeed. They should enjoy developing staff, providing consultation and supervision, building community relationships, and creating a supportive environment for clinicians and clients.
Compensation: $75,000.00 - $95,000.00 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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