Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Remote)

13 days ago
Remote - NationwideContractMarriage & Family Therapy
✓ No Call✓ No Weekends

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Job Description

About the Role

Join BetterHelp as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist – Remote in United States. Private practice with no doors and no overhead. BetterHelp is one of the world’s largest online therapy platforms for mental health professionals who want to focus on client care — not admin or overhead.

Key Responsibilities

  • provide therapy without supervision.
  • provide therapy services, you cannot be a provider on BetterHelp at this time.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of mental health counseling experience Master’s or Doctorate in Counseling, Psychology, Social Work, or Marriage & Family Therapy Fully independent license (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, LMHC, etc.
  • ) and can provide therapy without supervision.
  • A private and professional environment for conducting sessions.
  • Excellent written communication.

Benefits & Compensation

  • care Insurance + cash

Work Schedule

  • Contract position.
  • Remote position - work from anywhere.
  • Flexible scheduling available.

Apply to join BetterHelp as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist – Remote.

Key Skills

Mental health counselingClinical decision makingWritten communicationCrisis interventionTherapyCase management
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Position Insights

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Remote) at BetterHelp a 7.7 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 10% of all Marriage & Family Therapy psychologist listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements, remote work flexibility.

Positions in this range offer a solid balance between clinical responsibility and personal time. Most providers report manageable workloads with adequate recovery time.

Marriage & Family Therapy — Psychologist Career Context

This Marriage & Family Therapy position at BetterHelp is open to psychologist candidates.

Psychologists are seeing unprecedented demand driven by the mental health crisis, with telehealth dramatically expanding access and enabling fully remote practice.

Remote psychologist positions in Marriage & Family Therapy have grown significantly in recent years, offering clinicians the ability to maintain a full patient panel without geographic constraints or commute-related burnout.

Location & Logistics

This is a fully remote psychologist position. Remote clinicians can practice from any state where they hold an active license, eliminating commute time and offering maximum schedule flexibility. Many remote healthcare positions also allow providers to establish a more sustainable long-term practice pattern.

Why This Position Stands Out

  • No on-call requirements — clinicians are completely off-duty after hours
  • No weekend shifts — preserving personal and family time
  • Fully remote — work from anywhere with an active license

Skills, Responsibilities & Benefits

Key skills and qualifications: Mental health counseling, Clinical decision making, Written communication, Crisis intervention, Therapy, Case management. Candidates with experience in these areas may be especially well-suited for this Marriage & Family Therapy role.

Core responsibilities: Provide high-quality mental health therapy to adults, couples, or teens within a private practice model. Manage client care independently while utilizing the platform's infrastructure for administrative and billing support.

Benefits package: $500 First Client Bonus, $650 Health Benefit Stipend, Free CEU Courses, Free BetterHelp Membership, Insurance + Cash-Pay Clients, Additional Bonuses, Zero Overhead, Autonomy Over Clinical Decisions. A comprehensive benefits package is an important factor in evaluating total compensation beyond base salary.

About WeekdayDoc

WeekdayDoc is the only healthcare job board that scores every position for burnout risk and work-life balance. Every listing includes a proprietary burnout score, transparent salary data when available, and lifestyle filters for no-call, no-weekends, and remote positions. Browse more Marriage & Family Therapy psychologist jobs on WeekdayDoc to compare work-life balance scores and compensation across employers.

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About BetterHelp

Mental Health Care
Mountain View, California
2-5

Benefits & Perks

$500 First Client Bonus
$650 Health Benefit Stipend
Free CEU Courses
Free BetterHelp Membership
Insurance + Cash-Pay Clients
Additional Bonuses
Zero Overhead
Autonomy Over Clinical Decisions
7.7

Work-Life Balance Score

Top 25%

Protective Factors (4)

Remote work (RR 0.57; 14-23% ↓ burnout)

No on-call (β=6.95; p<0.001 for ↓ exhaustion)

No weekends (57% ↓ work-life conflict)

Flexible scheduling (Schedule control protective)

Interpretation: Position demonstrates all major evidence-based lifestyle protective factors.

Job Details

Employment Type

Contract

Posted

13d ago