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Mindfully Behavioral Health
Broadview Heights, Ohio

School Based Clinical Counselor

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Listed compensation

$39-$47/hr

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Welcome to Mindfully, where diversity, inclusion, and equity are a cornerstone of our business. As a minority woman-owned company, we are committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered.

Mindfully, LLC is expanding our school-based clinical operations and is hiring a committed Licensed Mental Health Therapist to work full-time or part-time hours in Strongsville City Schools.

We are looking for a therapist to provide therapy services at Brecksville Broadview Heights High School on Tuesday's and Fridays, with the potential to offer additional support at the middle school as part of our backfill coverage needs.

Receive up to a $1,500 bonus and a monthly stipend!

Enjoy the benefits of a busy school year with a more relaxed summer. If desired, we also offer the option to pick up additional hours in office or teletherapy. You decide what works best!

Our mission is to promote and provide comprehensive, convenient access to quality mental health care that is affordable, progressive, and personalized.

We focus on matching clients with providers who specialize in the challenges they are facing, which helps our clients meet their goals with greater success and our providers find deeper fulfillment in their work. We also offer a private practice setting while doing the heavy lifting for you.

You became a mental health clinician to make a difference in other people’s lives, not to manage books, insurance contracts, credentialing, facilities upkeep, and all the other details that come with running a business.

Our private practice offers autonomy and independence while maintaining a sense of community, and our Mindfully Academy provides training opportunities in different modalities and specializations, such as DBT, child/Adolescent, SUD, Couples/IFS/Emotion Focused/Gottman and much more.

Why Join Our Team?

When you join our team, you work with a practice that is invested in your mental, physical, and financial health. The result is a greater sense of fulfillment in how you practice, more control over your work/life balance, and stronger results for your clients.

We Offer the Following Benefits

  • Attractive compensation options for 1099 contractors to work on your own, without all the hassle
  • Full access to our training center with ample opportunities to train, grow, and learn, as well as paid CEUs
  • Flexible schedules
  • Client-matching scheduling technology offers a caseload that matches your passions and expertise
  • Up to $100 per month stipend
  • Empowerment to select what insurances you want to be on
  • Regular peer-to-peer case consultation meetings offer support

Back-office support, small pods to build community, and large built-in network of clinicians to expand your knowledge, get a quick consult, or just have peace of mind that you have the support you need

Clinical teams who practice specific modalities can offer training in various areas of specific interest, such as DBT, eating disorders, trauma, adolescents, couples, and many more

A greater sense of fulfillment in how you practice, more control over your work/life balance, and stronger results for your clients

Required Qualifications

Licensed Clinician in the State of Ohio

  • Need to complete 15 hours weekly Tuesdays, and Fridays, with potential to offer additional support at the middle school.
  • Must be able to work with kids of all ages.
  • Experience in evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of students from elementary to high school is required.

Clinician will work directly in the school and in the event of a shutdown or school holiday break, be available to work teletherapy.

Therapist must be organized, self-motivated to work in a busy school district and able to communicate well with the school staff.

Ability to work during school hours and schedule; opportunities to pick up additional in office hours or Teletherapy if desired.

Comfortable with part-time 1099 position

Compensation

  • $39-$47 per client hour depending on license and experience
  • Up to $1,500 bonus
  • Up to $100 per month stipend
  • Tenure stipend

You can learn more on our website mindfully.com

Mindfully Behavioral Health is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and internship.

Mindfully Behavioral Health makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. Furthermore, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

Key Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive mental health therapy services to students within a school setting. Maintain organized documentation and communicate effectively with school staff while managing a caseload.

Requirements

Must be a licensed clinician in the state of Ohio with experience in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of students. Ability to work on-site at schools on Tuesdays and Fridays is required.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical counselingTreatment planningCase managementCommunicationChild and adolescent therapyCrisis intervention

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates School Based Clinical Counselor at Mindfully Behavioral Health a 6.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 8,035 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% are remote, 28% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Ohio is 92.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$89k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $96k in an average-cost state. 61.3% of Ohio clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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

median 6.1this job 6.2
Better work-life than 50% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 8,035 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Broadview Heights

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$344k
Median resident rent
$1,083/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
State income tax
Up to 4%
Sources & methodology

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

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

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About Mindfully Behavioral Health

Mental Health Care
Cincinnati, Ohio
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

Flexible schedule
Paid CEUs
Client-matching technology
Monthly stipend up to $100
Peer consultation
Back-office support
Training opportunities