Job Description

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Bonus based on performance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Clinical Director - Ellie Mental Health
Ellie Mental Health is seeking a licensed Clinical Director to help lead and shape a growing outpatient mental health practice in Sherman Oaks.

This is an opportunity for a clinician who wants meaningful leadership, influence, and team impact without taking on the full financial and administrative burden of private practice ownership.

We are building a clinician-centered practice focused on excellent care, sustainable workloads, strong culture, and long-term team health. The role is ideal for someone who enjoys mentoring clinicians, shaping clinical culture, and helping build the kind of practice clinicians actually want to work in.

You’ll have the support of established operational infrastructure for billing, credentialing, HR, payroll, marketing, scheduling, and administrative operations, allowing you to focus primarily on clinical leadership, supervision, team development, and quality of care.

This is not a solo practice ownership role. It is also not a high-volume therapy role. It is a supported leadership opportunity with real influence, strong partnership, and room to grow.

What You’ll Do

• Lead clinical culture, quality, and care standards for the practice
• Provide supervision and mentorship to clinicians in accordance with California BBS requirements
• Support clinician onboarding, development, and retention
• Maintain a small, intentional caseload (approximately 6–10 clients)
• Partner with operational leadership on healthy, sustainable practice growth
• Support clinicians through complex cases and clinical decision-making
• Help create a collaborative, accountable, and supportive team environment
• Contribute to building a practice culture centered on strong care, clinician wellbeing, and accessibility

What Makes This Role Different


Many leadership roles in mental health come with high burnout, excessive administrative burden, or unrealistic expectations.

We are intentionally building something different:

• Real clinical leadership without running everything alone
• Administrative and operational infrastructure already in place
• Protected focus on clinical quality and team support
• Small caseload expectations
• Collaborative partnership model
• Opportunity to shape culture and influence growth
• Leadership role with sustainability in mind

This is a role for someone who wants impact and autonomy while still having support.

Ideal Candidate


We’re looking for someone who is:

• A strong clinician with sound judgment and professionalism
• Interested in leadership, mentorship, and team development
• Collaborative, emotionally steady, and communicative
• Supportive while still able to maintain accountability and boundaries
• Interested in helping build a healthy, sustainable outpatient practice
• Excited by the opportunity to shape culture and support clinicians

This role can be a great fit for someone stepping into larger leadership responsibilities for the first time, or for an experienced leader looking for a more balanced and supported environment.

Qualifications

Required

• Active California license in good standing (LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, PsyD, or PhD)
• Experience in outpatient mental health or similar clinical settings
• Experience supporting, mentoring, or supervising clinicians
• Experience supervising associates in accordance with California BBS requirements
• Strong communication and clinical documentation skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively with operational support teams

Preferred

• Prior leadership or clinical supervisory experience
• Experience helping build or support clinical teams
• Interest in practice development and community relationships

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $120,000 – $140,000 DOE
• Performance-based bonus opportunity
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Leadership growth opportunities
• Administrative and operational support infrastructure
• Flexible and sustainable leadership mode

About Ellie Mental Health


Ellie Mental Health was built on the belief that mental healthcare should be more accessible, human, and sustainable for both clients and clinicians.

Our goal is to create a practice environment where clinicians feel supported, clients receive high-quality care, and leadership is collaborative rather than isolating.

This clinic combines local clinical leadership with broader operational support, allowing the team to focus on delivering meaningful care while building a healthy and sustainable practice.

Compensation: $120,000.00 - $140,000.00 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?