The RoleWe are hiring a
Mental Health Therapist for our Irvine, CA clinic (opening soon). Onsite supervision for limited permits is available.
What You Will Work On- Provide individual and group therapy to a panel of complex SMI patients
- Provide continuous, regular support as patients navigate recovery, both in person and occasionally virtually
- Deliver evidence-based care in a holistic, wrap-around care model
- Collaborate with patient care teams and behavioral health providers to ensure an integrated, cohesive approach to care
- Address medical needs to mitigate negative impacts of social determinants of health
- Provide consultation to therapists on the treatment team, including licensed therapists and trainees; assist with program development
What You'll Have- Active Licensed Psychologist, LMSW, AMFT, or LPC license in the state of CA; onsite supervision for limited permits available
- Active Medi-Cal credentialing is required.
- Thrives in a collaborative team environment and establishes positive relationships with other medical professionals
- Experience and interest in working with adults and at least 1 year of experience working with patients with severe mental illness
- Experience in evidence-based interventions, including CBT, DBT, or MI
- Ability to navigate challenging situations with professionalism
- Thorough understanding of confidentiality and appropriate documentation standards
- Technologically savvy, with the ability to learn and navigate new tools and technologies
- Highly organized with the ability to work autonomously
- Strong listening skills and excellent verbal communication capabilities
What We're BuildingAs a clinician at Amae, you are not adjacent to this work. You are essential to it.
- A national care delivery model for the highest-acuity patients in behavioral health.
- Precision medicine for SMI. Individualized treatment informed by multimodal clinical, behavioral, and social data.
- A clinical operating system that puts longitudinal data, real-time patient signals, and purpose-built tools into a single decision layer for care teams.
- Frontier science and measurement: defining and validating the outcomes frameworks that this field has never had. Hospitalizations avoided, days stable, functional improvement, and more.
- A collaboration model with the country's leading health systems that proves coordinated SMI care can work at scale.
Compensation & BenefitsAmae Health is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
Base salary range for this role is $75,000 to $115,000 per year based on a full-time schedule. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Parental leave and programs built around well-being. We'll share specifics during the interview process.
If you want to practice at the top of your license, learn from the best in academic medicine, contribute to research that is defining a new field, and do it all inside a team that was actually built for this work, we'd like to talk.
What We Value- We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It's how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.
- We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.
- We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.
- Your job isn't done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don't hide behind titles or org charts.
- We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don't do blame.
- We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.
