Experiential Therapist at Charlie Health

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Remote, United States

Why Charlie Health?

Young people across the nation are grappling with a mental health crisis characterized by escalating rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use disorders, and suicide. Individuals who seek support are met by geographical and financial barriers, driving increased urgency for a new approach to behavioral health treatment.

At Charlie Health, our mission is to connect the world to life-saving mental health treatment. Our treatment programs combine curated peer groups, individual therapy, and family therapy into personalized, evidence-based treatment plans to provide long-term healing from home. By prioritizing connections among young people with shared mental health experiences and goals, Charlie Health fosters sustainable healing and achieves industry-leading clinical outcomes, with over 90% of our clients seeing improvement in their most severe mental health symptoms.

Every member of the Charlie Health team is fueled by an unwavering passion for our mission. If you share this commitment, we invite you to join us in making a tangible impact on the mental health landscape.

About the Role

Charlie Health is a pioneer in its approach to mental health treatment. In addition to providing superior Clinical care from the nation’s most talented and passionate clinicians, Charlie Health offers unparalleled and effective holistic treatment via our groundbreaking Experiential Therapy Department, Contemplative Practices Department, and Creative Arts Department. We firmly believe that thriving, sustainable health is the result of treating the whole person - mind, body, and spirit - and our vIOP deeply embodies this philosophy. As such, we advocate for and provide inclusive, accessible, diverse, cosmopolitan healing approaches that transcend the conventional Western psychological model. Charlie Health’s synergistic Clinical + Experiential + Contemplative + Creative treatment model affords cutting edge mental health care that proudly serves our amazing clients. Experiential Therapists at Charlie Health support our clients through the use of various expressive tools, hands-on activities, and immersive experiences and believe that healing occurs in the experience itself. Through experience and action, we are able to connect with hard to reach feelings, learn healthy coping skills, and re-enact emotional experiences in order to have new and more adequate responses to situations.

Charlie Health is excited to grow its Experiential Therapy Department. Some of the therapeutic modalities we want to include are:

Experiential Therapy
Adventure, Wilderness, Eco, and Nature-Based Therapy
Recreation Therapy
Psychodrama
Sociometry
Expressive Therapy
Play Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Poetry and Narrative Therapy
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
Somatic Experiencing
Experiential Education & Learning

Charlie Health is hiring a few exceptional Experiential Therapists to provide remote, Telehealth services to our adolescent and young adult clients. We’re eager to work with forward-thinking mental health and substance use professionals to enhance our programming and provide the best possible care to our clients.

This is a contract / 1099 position that allows you the flexibility to schedule sessions and work wherever you are most comfortable. We request that our facilitators are able to dedicate at minimum 9 hours per week to facilitate group sessions and build valuable connections with our clients.

People know Charlie Health for our warm and empathetic team. While each individual facilitator has their own interests, expertise, and style, we require all team members to be well versed in a variety of therapeutic modalities. Our clients are struggling to cope with underlying mental health issues and benefit from facilitators that are sophisticated and relational. Successful candidates are committed to bettering the mental health of their clients, and are adept at self-care, ensuring they are prepared to give their best every day to address the rural mental health crisis.

This position reports to the Director of Experiential Programming.

About You

Creative, innovative, interdisciplinary, and integrative in your approach to mental health care
Able to demonstrate expertise in your experiential modality and feel confident integrating them into your treatment approach
Confident and experienced in working with teens and young adults
Passionate about the benefits of group practices and skilled in conducting group sessions virtually
Ability to work effectively in a team
Creative and engaging, especially over video!
Must have availability weekday evenings in order to meet the schedules of our clients

Responsibilities

Facilitate weekly group therapy via Telehealth
Develop creative ways to conduct experiential group treatment virtually
Assist with the creation of experiential therapy curriculum by submitting weekly group session plans
Contribute to treatment team, group supervision, and curriculum planning meetings
Ensure your clinical services are delivered in accordance with recognized best practices
Continuously further your knowledge of a psychosocial functioning of groups
Use thoughtful risk management
Communicate clearly and professionally with clients, staff, families, agencies, and referents
Complete documentation in a timely manner and be accurate and well-written.
Maintain and model professional ethics, including appropriate boundaries and confidentiality

Requirements

Licensed mental health professional preferred
Experience with youth and young adults preferred
Master’s degree in mental health or related field
Experience and training in your experiential modality (all disciplines are welcome to apply) including, but not limited to: adventure, experiential, expressive therapy, creative therapy, recreation therapy, narrative therapy, play therapy, sociometry, or psychodrama
Technical ability to run effective Telehealth sessions
Reliable WiFi connection when meeting with clients
Familiarity with and willingness to use cloud-based communication software—Gmail, Slack, Zoom, Dropbox–in addition to EMR and outcomes survey software on a daily basis
Work authorized in the United States and native or bilingual English proficiency
1099 position
At least 9 hours total availability needed a week, including availability at least 2 nights a week from 3-9pm MST Monday - Thursday

Our Admissions Team Handles the Details, so you don’t have to

The Charlie Health Admissions team handles all of the scheduling to align with your availability, so you don’t have to waste time trying to find times with a client
All communication outside of sessions with clients and their parents is handled by the Admissions Support Team
The Admissions team handles all billing and insurance questions
We have full time outreach and marketing team members, to ensure that your schedule is as full as you’d like it to be

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Our Values

Connection

Care deeply

We care personally about every single person in the Charlie Health ecosystem: our clients, providers, and team members alike.

Inspire hope

We inspire hope with every interaction, reminding our clients that we truly and unconditionally believe in them.

Congruence

Stay curious

We ask “why” five times before we’re satisfied with the answer. We don’t stick to the status quo; we challenge our assumptions and remain humble.

Heed the evidence

Above all, we’re results-oriented. When we find data that calls our original plan into question, we modify or pivot.

Commitment

Act with urgency

We work as swiftly as possible. The mental health crisis is relentless, and so are we.

Don’t give up

Our clients don’t give up and neither do we. Persistence is our superpower.

Please do not call our public clinical admissions line in regard to this or any other job posting.

Please be cautious of potential recruitment fraud. If you are interested in exploring opportunities at Charlie Health, please go directly to our Careers Page: https://www.charliehealth.com/careers/current-openings. Charlie Health will never ask you to pay a fee or download software as part of the interview process with our company. In addition, Charlie Health will not ask for your personal banking information until you have signed an offer of employment and completed onboarding paperwork that is provided by our People Operations team. All communications with Charlie Health Talent and People Operations professionals will only be sent from @charliehealth.com email addresses. Legitimate emails will never originate from gmail.com, yahoo.com, or other commercial email services.

Recruiting agencies, please do not submit unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We have a roster of agencies with whom we partner, and we will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals.

At Charlie Health, we value being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to cultivate an environment where individuals can be their authentic selves. Being an Equal Opportunity Employer means every member of our team feels as though they are supported and belong. We value diverse perspectives to help us provide essential mental health and substance use disorder treatments to all young people.

Charlie Health applicants are assessed solely on their qualifications for the role, without regard to disability or need for accommodation.

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