Child and Adolescent Therapist LPC or LCSW Outpatient

Love working with kids, teens, and families? So do we.

Ellie Mental Health Waukesha is looking for a fully licensed LPC or LCSW who is passionate about providing therapy to children and adolescents (ages 5+) in a supportive outpatient setting.

Whether your approach includes play therapy, CBT, DBT-informed care, family systems, art-based interventions, or other evidence-based modalities, we believe clinicians do their best work when they have the freedom to practice authentically.

If you're looking for a role where you can focus on being a therapist, not chasing referrals or getting buried in administrative work, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Love About This Role

Competitive Compensation with Uncapped Earning Potential

Typical full-time earnings (25 sessions per week): $65,000–$75,000+, depending on caseload and schedule

A strong referral stream of children, adolescents, and families to help you build your ideal caseload

Flexible Scheduling That Supports Work-life Balance

• Manageable caseload expectations with full-time clinicians seeing a minimum of 25 client sessions per week
• Minimal administrative burden—our team handles billing, scheduling, insurance, and referrals
• Clinical autonomy to use the treatment approaches that best fit your clients
• Supportive, collaborative team culture with regular consultation and peer support
• Comfortable, fully furnished therapy offices designed for outpatient care
• Opportunities for professional growth, supervision, and leadership if that's a path you're interested in

What You'll Do

• Provide outpatient psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and their families
• Conduct comprehensive diagnostic assessments and develop individualized treatment plans
• Utilize developmentally appropriate, evidence-based interventions
• Collaborate with parents, caregivers, schools, pediatricians, and other providers as clinically appropriate
• Maintain timely and accurate clinical documentation, including assessments, treatment plans, and progress notes
• We're Looking For Someone Who
• Is a fully licensed LPC or LCSW (or Wisconsin equivalent)
• Holds a Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work, or another behavioral health field from an accredited program
• Has experience providing therapy to children and adolescents (ages 5+) and enjoys working with families
• Experience with play therapy, trauma-informed care, ADHD, anxiety, behavioral concerns, neurodivergent clients, or family therapy is highly valued
• Is organized, completes documentation in a timely manner, and maintains strong clinical boundaries
• Values collaboration, authenticity, and being part of a supportive team

Why Ellie?

At Ellie Mental Health, we believe mental health care should be accessible, creative, and centered around both clients and clinicians.

We Value

• Authentic relationships over rigid expectations
• Creativity and flexibility in clinical work
• Collaboration over competition
• Humor, compassion, and humanity in the workplace
• Reducing barriers so more children and families can access quality mental health care

We're building a team of clinicians who genuinely enjoy working together while making a meaningful impact in our community.

Ready to Apply?

If you're excited about helping children, teens, and families thrive—and want to work somewhere that supports you as much as you support your clients—we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and let's start the conversation.

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.

Flexible work from home options available.