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Brownsville, Texas

Lyra Onsite Therapist (1099 Contractor) (Brownsville, TX) - Spanish speaking

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Compensation

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

About Lyra

Lyra Clinical Associates P.C. partners with Lyra Health, the leading provider of mental health solutions for employers supporting more than 20 million people globally.

The company has delivered 13 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 20 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness and cost efficiency.

Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs.

Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.

About This Opportunity

About This Onsite Opportunity:

Scope of Support: This opportunity requires a generalist scope of practice, as it involves supporting employees through a wide variety of conditions, which could be related to work or personal challenges.

Customer Environment: This Customer is a dynamic organization, and their specific support needs will likely evolve during the contract term. As such, new requests for additional services may arise as the Customer’s needs change

Scope of Services

Scope of Services

  • Contracted at 8 hours per week
  • Requested schedule: Weekly on Wednesdays
  • Requested start date: As soon as possible
  • Provide short-term, evidence-based treatment (from a private, on-site office (remove if virtual-only))
  • Conduct manager and clinical consultations
  • Support urgent or same-day assessments as needed and when available
  • Conscientious adherence to confidentiality issues, and the ability to act in compliance with local laws, regulations, and appropriate industry guidelines
  • Comply with professional standards and workplace safety
  • Coordinate and effectively communicate with Lyra team members and the employer's key contact

Develop and facilitate brief psychoeducational trainings or “lunch and learns” to employees (in collaboration with the employer and Lyra)

Participate in customer-sponsored events such as tabling events, customer-driven Lyra marketing opportunities, or customer-sponsored initiatives

Leverage the Lyra platform as the standardized tool for care documentation and schedule management to ensure program consistency

Professional Qualifications

Master’s degree from a clinical track (e. g., MSW, MFT, MC, MMHC) or Doctorate degree in clinical psychology from an accredited college or university

Job Description

Unrestricted license (i. e., able to work independently, without supervision from a licensed supervisor) without current, past, or pending disciplinary action

  • Skilled in exclusively providing evidence-based treatments (e. g., CBT, DBT, Exposure therapy)
  • Experience with Engineers, technicians, manufacturing personnel, construction, IT, food services, facilities, operations, and their dependents (spouses and children).
  • Previous experience delivering trainings, teaching, or public speaking
  • Full-time resident of the United States
  • Experience working with both adults and minors

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience providing mental health clinical consultation
  • Previous EAP experience
  • Experience developing content for presentations

Qualities for Success

  • Demonstrates adaptability and a willingness to evolve with the unique and changing needs of our Customers
  • Demonstrates a high degree of flexibility and adaptability to meet the diverse needs of the member population, ensuring equitable access and effective support
  • Eager to learn and develop competencies in delivering new innovative behavior change approaches via technology

Comfort and demonstrated experience with technology tools used to create efficiencies in workflows and track client progress

Demonstrates multicultural competencies and the ability to operate from an individual frame of reference across geographies, diverse groups, and cultures

  • Excellent interpersonal skills (communication and listening)
  • Grounded in cultural humility with a deep commitment to culturally responsive care and DEIB
  • Independent, open-minded, non-judgmental, compassionate, flexible, good humor
  • Passionate about mental health

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.

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Key Responsibilities

The therapist will provide short-term, evidence-based mental health treatment and conduct clinical consultations at an on-site office. They will also facilitate psychoeducational trainings and participate in customer-sponsored events to support employee well-being.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master's or Doctorate degree in a clinical field and possess an unrestricted professional license. Previous experience with diverse populations and a strong background in evidence-based therapeutic modalities are required.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Mental health counselingPsychoeducational trainingCrisis assessmentCase managementCultural competenceTechnology proficiencySpanish language

Counselor Career Context

Lyra Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 77/100, 195 active listings.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 22% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

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  • On-site

Living in Brownsville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$217k
Typical market rent
$1,583/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
86.0
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.