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SOL Mental Health
Annapolis, Maryland

Associate Therapist

Counselor Top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling)Full-Time

Listed compensation

$60K - $75K

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Job Description

Start Your Career at SOL Mental Health Build your future as a therapist—with real support from day one. At SOL,  you’ll  learn fast, grow your confidence, and make an impact—while we support you on your path to full licensure with built-in clinical supervision.   Compensation & Benefits   $60,000 – 75,000+ inclusive of a guarantee plus clinical hour-based incentives   Medical, dental, vision,  FSA  and HSA    401(k) with match    Annual CEU budget of $1,500 annually   Admin,  billing  and marketing support   PTO + 10 paid holidays    Professional liability insurance   Employee Assistance Program (EAP)   Short & long-term disability    Life insurance    Office space in our Annapolis location  What You Bring   Pre-Independently licensed in MD (working toward  LPC, LMFT, LCSW, or LMHC )    Experience in direct clinical care (Internship experience counts)   Strong communication  skills    Eagerness to learn and grow as a clinician   What  You’ll   Do   Provide outpatient therapy to a diverse client population    Build skills using evidence-based approaches    Work with anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, and more    Participate in supervision and team collaboration   Why Start at SOL   You’re  never on your own  with a   collaborative, supportive team    Built-in supervision   to support licensure, both individual and group   Structured career path   from day one    Exposure to  diverse clinical cases     Integrated care model  = better patient outcomes + learning    Our Culture   We Lead with Heart   We Look for the Good   We Strengthen Each Other   We Strive for Excellence   We Break New Ground   Commitment to Inclusion   We’re  building a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone feels supported and valued.   Apply today and start building your career in mental health.

Key Responsibilities

Provide outpatient therapy to a diverse client population using evidence-based approaches. Participate in clinical supervision and team collaboration to support patient outcomes.

Requirements

Candidates must be pre-independently licensed in Maryland as an LPC, LMFT, LCSW, or LMHC. Experience in direct clinical care is required.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Anxiety treatmentTrauma treatmentEating disorder treatmentMental health counseling

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Associate Therapist at SOL Mental Health a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,933 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

In Maryland, the Mental Health Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$87k (72 salary observations; 133 listings), vs ~$75k nationally (2,134 salary observations; 5,983 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 26% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Maryland is 105.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$68k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $64k in an average-cost state. 62.9% of Maryland clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks31 jobs · 25 employers

401k / retirement match
84% this job
CME allowance
52% this job
Sign-on bonus
23%
Loan repayment
13%
PSLF eligible
6%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 7.2
Better work-life than 80% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,933 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Annapolis

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$587k≈ 9.8× annual pay
Typical market rent
$2,389/mo≈ 48% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
30 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.5
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About SOL Mental Health

Mental Health Care
Denver, Colorado
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision
FSA and HSA
401(k) with match
Annual CEU budget of $1,500
PTO + 10 paid holidays
Professional liability insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Short & long-term disability