Mental Health Therapist/Social Worker LMSW/Counselor LGPC

Mental Health Therapist (LMSW or LGPC)
As an Outpatient Therapist at Ellie Mental Health's locally owned and operated clinic in Columbia, Maryland, 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 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 (FT/PT), CEU's, and an incredibly inclusive environment. Additionally, Ellie provides centralized administrative support, technology, referral support, scheduling, client/therapist matching, and more.
Office Location: Conveniently located near the Columbia Mall at 10025 Governor Warfield Parkway, Suite 206, Columbia, MD 21044
Responsibilities include:

• Evaluate mental health diagnoses, create, implement and maintain treatment plans and complete ongoing documentation in a timely manner
• Provide excellent customer service for clients and collaborate with a dynamic team to further the mission of filling gaps in your community
• Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals
• Actively engage in consultations with your colleagues to ensure high quality care for all office clients
• Work cooperatively with your supervisor including participating in supervision and tracking your clinical hours

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• for social workers, LMSW is required; must pass the social work examination before being hired, but you can apply if your exam date is soon
• for counselors, LGPC is required; must pass the counseling examination before being hired, but you can apply if your exam date is soon
• Experience with completing diagnostic evaluations, treatment plans and clinical case notes in a timely manner
• Comfort and familiarity working with a diverse client base
• Candidates must be able to work in Maryland with a Maryland license, or relocating to Maryland and be license-eligible
• Ideal candidates will have a general knowledge of therapy services, community resources, insurance billing, and previous experience with mental health documentation
• Ability to demonstrate and model stable, appropriate boundaries with clients
• Opportunities for individual, family, and group therapy services as well as Telehealth. BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ encouraged to apply
• Proficient or able to quickly learn to use of Office 365 and EHR systems (Valant)
• 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.
• All providers on the team have the option of participating in outreach events and community partnerships to develop connections in their own areas of professional development goals; the directors will support the professional development of each provider, rather than try to fit a provider into an existing "mold"

Benefits & Compensation Include:

• Excellent compensation
• Paid training time
• CEU Stipend
• Health insurance reimbursement
• Liability insurance coverage
• Paid Time Off, including a paid day off the week of your birthday as well as flexible holiday time off for you to select the holidays that you'd like to be off; sick time and vacation time, too
• Supervision is included in this position as a benefit, provided at no cost to you, by an on-site LCSW-C
• Flexible Scheduling, including the option to work from home and to adjust your schedule as needed to help you have a work-life balance
• Opportunity to develop programs and engage in outreach projects related to areas of interest to you, while being paid!

Independent franchisees are Equal Opportunity employers committed to diverse and inclusive workforces. Franchisees are independent business people and not employed by Ellie Family Services, PLLP, d/b/a "Ellie Mental Health", Ellie MSO, LLC, or Ellie FAM LLC. Thus, each franchisee and each franchisee clinic is unique and the franchisee is alone responsible for all employment matters in their clinic, including the terms and conditions of employment for their employees, such as hiring, firing, discipline, supervision, staffing and scheduling. Depending on the clinic location you select, the job for which you apply may be in a clinic owned and operated by an independent franchisee, and not with the corporate-owned clinics, which are based in Minnesota. This means the franchisee, not Ellie Family Services, PLLP, is responsible for all employment matters at the clinic. If you are hired for the job, the franchisee will be your employer, not Ellie Family Services, PLLP or any of its affiliated entities. For franchisee clinic locations, please contact the franchisee organization directly to the extent you need assistance in completing forms or otherwise participating in that franchisee's application process. Ellie Mental Health is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change or adjustment to a job or work environment that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the operation of the business.
Flexible work from home options available.
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?