Licensed Mental Health Therapist - Chicago
Listed compensation
$75k-$85k
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
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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 Licensed Mental Health Therapist in the greater Chicago area 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.
Now Hiring at the following Geode locations: West Loop, West Town, Glenview, Algonquin, Aurora, and St. Charles.
Don’t see a location you’re looking for? Feel free to apply anyway! Our team would love to connect with you and explore opportunities that may be a fit.
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 Provider so the full spectrum of psychiatric and therapeutic care is well coordinated. Together, moving patients up and down the care continuum, as needed.
- 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 Fully Licensed Mental Health Therapist Role Requires
Active license (LCSW, LCPC, or LMFT) in the state of Illinois
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 have over one year of professional experience doing psychotherapy
Ready to learn more? Submit your application today at geodehealth.com
Estimated Earnings
$75,000.00-$85,000.00
Key Responsibilities
Diagnose and treat mental health disorders, provide psychotherapy across a broad range of conditions, and help clients set goals and gain insight through personalized care. Coordinate treatment with other healthcare professionals, partner with psychiatric providers, and provide crisis intervention when needed.
Requirements
Requires an active Illinois license as an LCSW, LCPC, or LMFT, along with experience conducting comprehensive client assessments and developing individualized treatment plans. Candidates should be proficient with electronic medical records, understand mental health disorders and treatment modalities, and be able to treat a broad range of conditions; more than one year of psychotherapy experience is preferred.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Counselor Career Context
Geode Health ranks #4 of 18 employers hiring Counselor on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay, and holds silver-tier status on the Top Employers work-life index, composite score 83/100, 83 active listings.
In Illinois, the Mental Health Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$68k (348 salary observations; 1,055 listings), vs ~$74k nationally (5,791 salary observations; 23,259 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-11-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | $75k–$85k | Mental Health Therapy median $62k (middle half $58k–$70k)12 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Illinois vs national | $68k median in Illinois | $74k nationally (−8%)348 state / 5,791 national salary observations |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$80k in purchasing power | Illinois index 100.0 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Mental Health Therapy listings in Illinois | 331 active | 7,579 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | remote | peers: 42% remote · 30% no call · 64% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | sign-on bonus | Illinois counselor listings (all specialties): 14% state a sign-on bonus (median $3k) · 19% offer loan repayment540 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| New Mental Health Therapy listings | 2,476 in the last 30 days | 1,365 the 30 days before (+81%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Mental Health Therapy pay trend | −1.8% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
| Geode Health | silver tier, 83/100 · #4 of 18 for pay | Top Employers work-life index83 active listings |
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