Ellie Mental Health is in Tennessee!
What If Your Fandoms Could Help Change Lives?
We’re Looking for a Therapist Who Gets It.
Some clients connect through music. Others through books, movies, gaming, anime, comics, fantasy, or the latest thing everyone is talking about online.
At Ellie Mental Health, we believe those interests can be more than conversation starters—they can become bridges to connection and meaningful therapeutic work.
We’re looking for a Tennessee-licensed therapist who is comfortable meeting clients where they are and incorporating their interests, including contemporary media, video games, literature, and geek culture, into the therapeutic process.
Our approach is built around three ideas:
Affinity. Resonance. Understanding.
Find what matters to the client. Connect through it. Then use that connection to help them grow.
Therapy, But Make It Personal
You might use a favorite game to explore problem-solving.
A fictional character might help a client talk about identity.
A book might open the door to a difficult conversation.
A shared interest might be the thing that finally helps a client feel understood.
We’re not looking for a therapist who has every fandom memorized. We’re looking for someone who is curious, creative, open-minded, and willing to learn what matters to the person sitting across from them.
And yes, a sense of humor is absolutely welcome.
What You’ll Do
You’ll provide quality mental health care while bringing your own clinical creativity to the work. Responsibilities include:
- Assessing, diagnosing, and treating behavioral health concerns
- Developing individualized treatment plans
- Providing engaging, client-centered therapy
- Using creative interventions to support client goals
- Completing diagnostic updates, treatment plan reviews, case notes, and other documentation
- Coordinating care with families, case managers, schools, medical professionals, and other providers as needed
- Collaborating with the clinical team
- Participating in staff meetings, consultation, and training
- Supporting other clinic initiatives that help expand access to quality mental health care
Who We’d Love to Meet
You should be:
- A licensed mental health professional in Tennessee
- Experienced with children, adolescents, teens, and/or adults
- Comfortable working with diverse clients and presenting concerns
- Experienced with or interested in couples, families, trauma, substance use, and/or school-based services
- Familiar with therapy documentation, community resources, and insurance billing
- Creative, authentic, and collaborative
- Someone who understands that sometimes the best way to connect with a client is to meet them in their world
Why Ellie?
Ellie Mental Health is a growing multi-clinic organization focused on reducing stigma, filling gaps in care, and finding innovative ways to make therapy more accessible.
We also want clinicians to spend more time being therapists and less time buried in unnecessary administrative work.
You’ll have access to:
- Competitive pay, including base hourly compensation and profit sharing
- Flexibility to manage your caseload
- Supportive supervision and consultation
- Team-building opportunities
- Free access to Ellie’s Learning Management System
- Opportunities to create programs around your clinical interests
- Clinical supervision opportunities for aspiring LCSWs, LPC-MHSPs, and LMFTs*
- Swag and additional perks as we grow
*Supervisor availability may vary.
Your Interests Might Be Part of the Therapy
If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I could bring more of this into my clinical work,” this could be your opportunity.
We’re building a therapy environment where creativity is encouraged, curiosity is valued, and clients don’t have to leave the things they love at the door.
Bring your clinical skills.
Bring your curiosity.
Bring your fandoms.
Most importantly, bring yourself.
Important Employment Information
Ellie Mental Health clinics are independently owned and operated franchises. If hired, you’ll be employed by the applicable franchisee—not Ellie Family Services, PLLP or its affiliates. Each franchisee is responsible for employment matters at its clinic, including hiring, supervision, and employment decisions.
Ellie Mental Health and its franchisees are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected basis. Applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations under the ADA.
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.”
Feelingblah 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?