Job Description
Love working with kids, teens, and families? So do we.
Ellie Mental Health Waukesha is looking for a fully licensed LPC or LCSW who is passionate about providing therapy to children and adolescents (ages 5+) in a supportive outpatient setting.
Whether your approach includes play therapy, CBT, DBT-informed care, family systems, art-based interventions, or other evidence-based modalities, we believe clinicians do their best work when they have the freedom to practice authentically.
If you're looking for a role where you can focus on being a therapist, not chasing referrals or getting buried in administrative work, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll Love About This Role
- Competitive compensation with uncapped earning potential
- Typical full-time earnings (25 sessions per week): $65,000–$75,000+, depending on caseload and schedule
- A strong referral stream of children, adolescents, and families to help you build your ideal caseload
- Flexible scheduling that supports work-life balance
- Manageable caseload expectations with full-time clinicians seeing a minimum of 25 client sessions per week
- Minimal administrative burden—our team handles billing, scheduling, insurance, and referrals
- Clinical autonomy to use the treatment approaches that best fit your clients
- Supportive, collaborative team culture with regular consultation and peer support
- Comfortable, fully furnished therapy offices designed for outpatient care
- Opportunities for professional growth, supervision, and leadership if that's a path you're interested in
What You'll Do
- Provide outpatient psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and their families
- Conduct comprehensive diagnostic assessments and develop individualized treatment plans
- Utilize developmentally appropriate, evidence-based interventions
- Collaborate with parents, caregivers, schools, pediatricians, and other providers as clinically appropriate
- Maintain timely and accurate clinical documentation, including assessments, treatment plans, and progress notes
We're Looking For Someone Who
- Is a fully licensed LPC or LCSW (or Wisconsin equivalent)
- Holds a Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work, or another behavioral health field from an accredited program
- Has experience providing therapy to children and adolescents (ages 5+) and enjoys working with families
- Experience with play therapy, trauma-informed care, ADHD, anxiety, behavioral concerns, neurodivergent clients, or family therapy is highly valued
- Is organized, completes documentation in a timely manner, and maintains strong clinical boundaries
- Values collaboration, authenticity, and being part of a supportive team
Why Ellie?
At Ellie Mental Health, we believe mental health care should be accessible, creative, and centered around both clients and clinicians.
We value:
- Authentic relationships over rigid expectations
- Creativity and flexibility in clinical work
- Collaboration over competition
- Humor, compassion, and humanity in the workplace
- Reducing barriers so more children and families can access quality mental health care
We're building a team of clinicians who genuinely enjoy working together while making a meaningful impact in our community.
Ready to Apply?
If you're excited about helping children, teens, and families thrive—and want to work somewhere that supports you as much as you support your clients—we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and let's start the conversation.
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.
Flexible work from home options available.
Compensation: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 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?
