Mental Health Therapist

Summary

Join Cartwheel, a technology-enabled mental health services startup, and help address the student mental health crisis. As a Mental Health Therapist, you will provide teletherapy to elementary, middle, and high school students in partner school districts. This part-time (10-20 hours/week), 100% remote role involves collaborating with school staff, families, and other providers to deliver excellent care. You will build strong relationships, provide psychoeducation, and participate in treatment planning. Cartwheel offers competitive compensation, a signing bonus, administrative support, and opportunities for professional growth within a mission-driven team.

Requirements

• Passion for working in close partnership with schools on mental health
• Master’s Degree or higher from an accredited school of Social Work, Psychology, Counseling or Marriage, or Family and Child Counseling
• Active license in MA to deliver mental health care (LCSW/LICSW, LMHC, LMFT, or PhD/PsyD)
• Experience with CBT, DBT, ACT, solution-focused therapy, and/or motivational interviewing
• Experience delivering care via telehealth
• Strong technological skills and learning new systems, including Zoom, GSuite (Google Calendar, Gmail, etc.), electronic health record systems, and other collaboration tools
• Access to a reliable, high-speed internet connection (50 Mbps download, 10 Mbps upload)
• Excellent organization, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to deliver care during our peak hours (Mon-Fri 3-8 pm ET and Sat 8-5)

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent care, including mental health assessments and skills-based teletherapy, to elementary, middle and high school students in Cartwheel’s partner school districts (typically 2-4 months per student with possible extension up to 6 months)
• Collaborate closely with referring school counselors and other relevant providers at start of treatment and over the course of a student’s care journey (including through regular phone calls, emails, and virtual meetings)
• Build trusted relationships with school staff and families to support a student’s mental health needs, school engagement and engagement with school-based services, as applicable
• Provide regular psychoeducation and support to parents and caregivers to enhance a student’s mental health needs and individual therapy work
• Collaborate with Cartwheel MDs/NPs on treatment planning, care delivery and transition planning over a student’s care journey
• Partner with the External Referrals team to support the identification of referrals to community mental health and primary care providers
• Have the opportunity to participate in case consultations and discussions with other Cartwheel team members
• Help to further build Cartwheel’s clinical programming and wonderful Care Team

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluency in other languages (e.g., Spanish, Portuguese)
• Experience working in a shorter-term model of care delivery (e.g., 2 weeks to 6 months)
• Experience with parent guidance
• Active NPI number
• CAQH credentialing set up
• Active CANS certificate
• Excitement to join an early stage start-up and help bring Cartwheel to more students and school districts

Benefits

• Flexible and up to 100% remote role (10-20 hrs/week)
• Competitive compensation ($55-80/hour base hourly rate for Master’s-level clinicians, dependent on licensure, experience, language, etc.)
• $2K signing bonus conditional on staying at least 6 months
• Team-based care model with mission-driven colleagues
• Administrative support from our experienced, full-time Care Coordinators so you can focus on delivering care
• Opportunities beyond clinical care, including working closely with schools on staff support, workshops, and other programming