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Ellie Mental Health - 004
Colorado Springs, Colorado · Hybrid

Fully Licensed Outpatient Behavioral Health Therapist - Hollow Brook

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$70k-$90k

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

Ask the employer about call expectations, weekend coverage, nights and shift pattern and time off.

Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Opportunity for advancement
  • Paid time off
  • Training & development
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Competitive salary
  • Dental insurance

Flexible Schedule

We are hiring clinicians at our Hollow Brook location! At Ellie Mental Health we believe in our core values: Creativity, Authenticity, Humor, Compassion, Acceptance, and Determination. If you're all about helping people in the Colorado Springs community, we are all about YOU. Please apply if you are looking for a chance to be a part of a growing team that is all about mental health care.

  • Do you seek any of the following?
  • To make a difference in the lives of diverse populations and fill the gap in the Colorado Springs communiy?
  • To be heard while having fun at your job
  • To be challenged, grow, and have your creativity encouraged
  • A place where you can contribute to the vision and culture of a growing clinic full of autonomy, flexibility, humor, acceptance, determination, and authenticity
  • To have referrals matched to your specialized personal profile and scheduled to meet your needs
  • A hybrid work environment that allows telework from home
  • A caseload that helps ensure work/life balance
  • Reduced administrative obligations
  • To be a part of an ecosystem where fun is expected

Clinic Description

As an Outpatient Therapist at Ellie Mental Health - Colorado Springs, you'll share our vision for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care and thrive in an environment driven by our core values of authenticity, humor, compassion, creativity, acceptance, and determination.

Ellie was proudly founded on the principle of destigmatizing mental health and providing an inclusive environment for both clients and staff. The mental health industry is full of barriers, and we’ve made it our goal to fill the gap and find innovative ways to break down these barriers for the communities we serve.

At Ellie - Colorado Springs we provide an environment where clinicians are encouraged and supported to have a strong work-life balance. We expect our therapists to be their authentic-self, dream big, create, laugh, and be ready to make an enormous impact in our community. With a hybrid model, it allows flexibility in your schedule to work from home while meeting your client's needs.

We are excited to offer a very competitive hourly billable rate. At Ellie Mental Health - Colorado Springs we are always encouraging, seeking, and promoting diversity. Individuals within the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities along with those of different religious affiliations, sexual orientation, race, color, age, disability or national origin are all welcomed in this space.

Responsibilities Include

Evaluate mental health diagnosis, create, and implement a treatment plan, complete ongoing documentation including further diagnosis, treatment plan reviews, and case notes according to company policy

Provide excellent customer service for clients and collaborate with a dynamic team to further the mission of filling gaps in our community

  • Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals
  • Prepare and submit individual documentation for each session per company guidelines and protocol
  • For Full-Time status, clinicians must maintain a caseload of 25 billable hours per week
  • Coordinate services with case managers, families, work personnel, medical personnel, other Ellie staff, and school staff as needed
  • Other stuff we probably forgot to add but just as meaningful and important to your role;)

Required Qualifications and Skills

Candidates are required to be registered with DORA as licensed mental health professional (LSW, LCSW, LPCC, LPC, or LMFT) with a valid state of Colorado License

  • Required experience with completing DAs, treatment plans, and clinical case notes
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to model appropriate boundaries with clients
  • Ability to complete documentation of services in a timely manner

Comfort Working with a Diverse Client Base

Proficient in the use of Office 365 and Electronic Health Record systems (Valant experience a plus!)

Ideal candidates will have a general knowledge of therapy services, community resources, insurance billing, and previous experience with mental health documentation

The Employee Experience

The growth of Ellie - Colorado Springs is an endless opportunity! We take care of our people. It’s that simple. We think gratified clinicians 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!

Jobs in mental health are tough jobs! This profession carries a high risk of emotional fatigue, and burnout. At Ellie, we use all our core values of humor, creativity, authenticity, acceptance, determination, and compassion not just out in our communities, but we turn them inwards too! We are always doing our part to preserve the workforce, grow future clinicians, and attempt to eliminate burnout.

Benefits Include

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Retirement plan
  • 8 paid holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Paid administrative time
  • Paid case consultations

Paid Supervision

Credentialing completed by contract and credentialing team - Yay! You don't have to handle this!

  • Autonomy
  • Flexible scheduling

Telehealth and In-office Days

Independent franchisees are Equal Opportunity employers committed to diverse and inclusive workforces.

Franchisees are independent business people and not employed by Ellie Family Services, PLLP, d/b/a “Ellie Mental Health”, Ellie MSO, LLC, or Ellie FAM LLC. Thus, each franchisee and each franchisee clinic is unique and the franchisee is alone responsible for all employment matters in their clinic, including the terms and conditions of employment for their employees, such as hiring, firing, discipline, supervision, staffing and scheduling.

Depending on the clinic location you select, the job for which you apply may be in a clinic owned and operated by an independent franchisee, and not with the corporate-owned clinics, which are based in Minnesota.

This means the franchisee, not Ellie Family Services, PLLP, is responsible for all employment matters at the clinic. If you are hired for the job, the franchisee will be your employer, not Ellie Family Services, PLLP or any of its affiliated entities.

For franchisee clinic locations, please contact the franchisee organization directly to the extent you need assistance in completing forms or otherwise participating in that franchisee’s application process.

Ellie Mental Health is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.

A reasonable accommodation is a change or adjustment to a job or work environment that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the operation of the business.

Flexible work from home options available.

Key Responsibilities

The therapist will evaluate mental health diagnoses, create treatment plans, and provide ongoing clinical documentation. They will also collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to coordinate services and provide high-quality care to diverse populations.

Requirements

Candidates must be registered with DORA as a licensed mental health professional in Colorado, such as an LSW, LCSW, LPCC, LPC, or LMFT. Proficiency in clinical documentation, treatment planning, and electronic health record systems is required.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Mental health therapyDiagnostic evaluationCase managementCrisis interventionBoundary settingElectronic health recordsCommunity resource coordination

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Fully Licensed Outpatient Behavioral Health Therapist - Hollow Brook at Ellie Mental Health - 004 a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Mental Health Therapy counselor listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include remote work flexibility.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 72% are remote, 28% have no call, 70% require no weekends — this position is remote.

The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$80k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $78k in an average-cost state. 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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About Ellie Mental Health - 004

Mental Health Care
St Paul
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Paid administrative time
Paid case consultations