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Geode Health
Athens, Georgia · Hybrid

Licensed Mental Health Therapist - Athens

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$90k-$95k

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Job Description

Geode Health is a rapidly growing, national provider of outpatient mental health services. Our Mission is to “Transform mental health by making it more accessible, affordable and effective”.

We are actively recruiting for a passionate fully Licensed Mental Health Therapist in the greater Athens (Westpark Drive) market who can partner with us to achieve our mission.

As a Geode Health Therapist, you will diagnose and treat mental health disorders and do psychotherapy across the general spectrum of mental healthcare conditions. You will help people define goals, gain insights all through personalized committed care. You will collaborate with other healthcare professionals to provide care coordination, providing crisis intervention if needed.

Voted “Best Places to Work” in 2025 by Glassdoor.com

Things Our Mental Health Therapist Enjoy at Geode

Flexibility to create your own schedule.

You can create your own work schedule. We do need that in advance and expect full-time hours, but you get to design when you are available for booking. We offer after hours urgent support to give you a lifestyle you deserve, too.

Hybrid work schedule.

Most of our Mental Health Therapist work three days a week onsite and two days a week telehealth. It is reasonable to expect you may do more in-person time up front, while you build up your patient case load and schedule follow ups on telehealth days.

Our model is working. Our patients like it too.

We are an organization that employs evidence-based care and have a proven model that is significantly improving the lives of the vast majority of our patients. Our providers use a measurement-based care approach, which allows them to track outcomes through data to inform their plan of care, so they can strive to provide best-in-class psychiatric/therapeutic care. Check out our Google reviews – we think you will find our patients like it too.

Integrated care team.

You will be part of a team of dedicated mental health providers who all work together as colleagues to focus on providing great care. As a mental health therapist, you will partner with the Prescriber, so the full spectrum of psychiatric and therapeutic care is well coordinated.

  • We invest in you, too.
  • Competitive compensation, no earnings cap
  • Quality incentive bonus
  • Professional development including CME time off and reimbursement
  • Full Medical, Dental, Vision
  • 401(k) with a 4% company match
  • We partner with you to fill your patient case load
  • Spacious, beautifully designed modern office
  • Lots of support (administrative, marketing, operations and so on)

Our Mental Health Therapist Role Requires

Licensed Therapist (LCSW, LMSW/LSW, LPC/CPCS, LMFT or PsyD) in the state of Georgia.

Note: Geode will hire Therapist provisionally licensed as LMSW/LSW if you are committed to becoming fully licensed. When fully licensed, Geode will bump you to the 90-95k in pay for full-time hours.

Participation in clinical supervision is required to meet state licensing board requirements for independent licensure.

Passion for High Quality Care

  • Experience conducting compressive assessments of clients and developing individualized treatment plans
  • Proficiency in using an EMR system and ensuring accurate and up to date electronic health records for all patient encounters
  • Understanding of mental health disorders and treatment modalities
  • Desire and ability to see a general spectrum of mental health conditions. We believe everyone deserves access to care
  • Geode prefers Therapist who bring over one year of professional experience

Ready to learn more? Please apply now at careers.geodehealth.com

Estimated Earnings

$90,000.00-$95,000.00

Key Responsibilities

Diagnose and treat mental health disorders, provide psychotherapy, and develop personalized care plans across a broad range of mental health conditions. Coordinate care with prescribers and other healthcare professionals, track patient outcomes, and provide crisis intervention when needed.

Requirements

Applicants must hold a Georgia therapist license or provisional LMSW/LSW licensure and be committed to pursuing independent licensure, with clinical supervision as required. The role requires assessment and treatment-planning experience, proficiency with electronic medical records, knowledge of mental health disorders and treatment modalities, and a commitment to high-quality care; more than one year of professional experience is preferred.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Mental Health DiagnosisComprehensive Client AssessmentsIndividualized Treatment PlanningClinical DocumentationInterdisciplinary CollaborationGeneral Mental Health Care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Licensed Mental Health Therapist - Athens at Geode Health a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Mental Health Therapy counselor listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include remote work flexibility.

Counselor Career Context

Geode Health ranks #6 of 21 employers hiring Counselor on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay, and holds gold-tier status on the Top Employers work-life index, composite score 88/100, 98 active listings.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 50% are remote, 32% have no call, 62% require no weekends — this position is remote.

The cost-of-living index for Georgia is 96.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$93k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $96k in an average-cost state. 59.8% of Georgia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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About Geode Health

Mental Health Care
Chicago, IL
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation, no earnings cap
Quality incentive bonus
Professional development including CME time off and reimbursement
Full Medical, Dental, Vision
401(k) with a 4% company match
Marketing support
Administrative support
Hybrid work schedule