Mental Health Therapist

Amae Health

$85K — $125K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active California license as a Psychologist, LMSW, AMFT, or LPC; onsite supervision available for limited permits
  • Collaborative mindset with strong relationship-building skills among medical professionals
  • Minimum of 1 year experience with adults suffering from severe mental illness
  • Proficient in evidence-based therapies such as CBT, DBT, or MI
  • Professionalism in navigating challenging patient situations and maintaining confidentiality standards
  • Technologically adept, capable of learning new tools easily
  • Highly organized with the ability to work independently
  • Exceptional listening and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Provide individual and group therapy for complex SMI patients
  • Offer ongoing support to patients during their recovery process
  • Deliver holistic, evidence-based care within a wrap-around model
  • Collaborate with various healthcare teams to ensure integrated patient care
  • Address patients' medical needs related to social determinants of health
  • Consult and assist in program development with treatment team therapists
  • Engage in continuous communication with care teams to optimize patient treatment

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Parental leave available
  • Programs designed around employee well-being
  • Performance development opportunities in a research-focused environment
  • Collaboration with leading health systems for effective SMI care
Full Job Description
The Role

We are hiring a Mental Health Therapist to join us onsite in our Los Altos, California clinic. 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
  • 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 Building

As 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 & Benefits

Amae Health is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Base salary range for this role is $85,000 to $125,000 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.

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