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Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mental Health Therapist

Counselor / TherapistFull-Time

Listed compensation

$60k-$80k

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Job Description

Recruiting Firm, Riderflex has been hired by our client, Lokiten Behavioral Health, to find their Mental Health Therapist!

  • Job Title: Mental Health Therapist Reports to: Tanya Portee, Clinical Director
  • Status: Full-time, Hybrid, flexible schedule Pay Range: $60,000 - $80,000 annually
  • Location: Colorado Springs, CO 80917 Number of Openings: 1
  • Come do meaningful work with people you actually like working with!

Lokiten Behavioral Health is growing, and we’re looking for a Mental Health Therapist who wants to be part of a team that takes great care seriously, but doesn’t believe work has to feel painfully corporate in the process.

We’re a locally grown behavioral health practice providing therapy, medication management, and intensive outpatient services. We’ve built Lokiten around a pretty simple idea: create an environment where clinicians can focus on doing excellent work, patients feel genuinely cared for, and everyone can still enjoy coming to work.

We’re looking for a therapist who is compassionate, dependable, clinically sharp, and equally important, someone we’d actually enjoy having on the team.

What You'll Do

  • Provide individual, family, and/or couples therapy based on your experience and interests
  • Complete assessments and develop individualized treatment plans
  • Maintain timely, thoughtful clinical documentation
  • Collaborate with therapists, prescribers, and other members of our clinical team

Help clients navigate real-world challenges including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, life transitions, and other behavioral health concerns

Bring your own clinical personality and strengths to the work. We aren't looking for robots.

What We Require

Active Colorado license in a mental health discipline such as LCSW, LPC, or LMFT, with the ability to see patients without supervision

Experience working with children. Our caseload is mixed, and working with kids is a core part of this role.

Who We'd Love to Meet

You Might Be a Great Fit If You

  • Care deeply about clients without taking yourself too seriously
  • Love working with children and teens
  • Communicate well and follow through on what you say you'll do
  • Enjoy being part of a collaborative team rather than operating on an island
  • Want a workplace where good ideas are welcomed, not buried under six layers of bureaucracy
  • Are interested in growing clinically and professionally as the organization grows
  • We care much more about finding the right person than checking every imaginable box.

Why Lokiten?

Because where you practice matters.

At Lokiten, you'll be joining a behavioral health organization that has grown from a small practice into a multidisciplinary team while still trying very hard not to become one of those places where nobody knows each other and every decision requires a committee meeting.

You'll Find

  • A supportive, collaborative clinical team
  • Opportunities to work alongside therapy, psychiatry, and IOP services
  • A growing organization with opportunities to take on new roles and responsibilities
  • Leadership that is accessible and involved
  • A culture where personality is allowed
  • Administrative support so you can spend more of your energy actually being a therapist
  • The opportunity to help shape what Lokiten becomes next
  • EMDR training provided, with a one-year commitment
  • And yes, we genuinely want people to enjoy working here.

The Kind of Person Who Thrives Here

You're good at what you do. You care about people. You can laugh. You are a team player. You communicate when something isn't working. You want to keep getting better. And when you walk into the office, your coworkers are happy you're there.

If that sounds like you, we'd really like to meet you.

Schedule and Location

Hybrid, split roughly evenly between working remotely and working in our Colorado Springs office. Flexible schedule.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Pay: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year

Your base salary is $60,000. On top of that, you earn 60% of the reimbursement rate on every billable hour you see beyond your weekly requirement, so your earning potential is largely in your own hands. That is what the range above reflects.

Compensation begins as a per-session split and moves to salary once billable hour targets are met. We will walk you through the full structure early in the conversation so there are no surprises.

Benefits

  • $300 monthly stipend through Thatch to choose your own marketplace health insurance plan
  • Three weeks of PTO
  • Five paid holidays
  • $250 per year in CEU reimbursement
  • EMDR training provided
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Flexible schedule
  • Professional development assistance

License/Certification

License to see patients without supervision (Required)

Work Location

Hybrid remote in Colorado Springs, CO 80917

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Key Responsibilities

Provide individual, family, and couples therapy while completing assessments and developing individualized treatment plans. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary clinical team to help clients navigate behavioral health challenges.

Requirements

Requires an active Colorado license in a mental health discipline such as LCSW, LPC, or LMFT with the ability to practice independently. Experience working with children is a core requirement for this role.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Individual therapyFamily therapyTreatment planningClinical assessmentCrisis interventionChild therapyAdolescent therapyTrauma-informed careAnxiety treatmentDepression treatmentCollaborationCommunication

Counselor Career Context

In Colorado, the Mental Health Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$72k (257 salary observations; 558 listings), vs ~$74k nationally (5,688 salary observations; 22,893 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 72% are remote, 24% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$60k–$80kMental Health Therapy median $74k (middle half $69k–$90k)13 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Colorado vs national$72k median in Colorado$74k nationally (−3%)257 state / 5,688 national salary observations
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$68k in purchasing powerColorado index 103.1 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in Colorado222 active7,969 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 72% remote · 24% no call · 72% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedColorado Counselor listings: 9% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 32% offer loan repayment331 active listings, Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Loan repayment
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Sign-on bonus
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 4.8
Better work-life than 40% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,918 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Riderflex

Staffing and Recruiting
Remote
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

$300 monthly stipend through Thatch for marketplace health insurance
Three weeks of PTO
Five paid holidays
$250 per year in CEU reimbursement
EMDR training provided
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Flexible schedule

Living in Colorado Springs

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$399k≈ 6.7× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,717/mo≈ 34% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
23 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
100.7
State income tax
Up to 4.4%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Colorado Springs, CO metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.