Mental Health Therapist (rostered/non-licensed or licensed)

About Us

We are a Queer-owned, multi-modality somatics practice located in Burlington, Vermont (Abenaki Territories) with clinicians across the U.S. As a trauma-transformational, neuro-inclusive, HAES practice, we serve folks who have been harmed by the system and support them to find ease and home in their own bodies. We are building a collaborative team that forefronts equitable relationships, innovation, and a workplace that provides for a balanced, joyful life for all team members.

About You

You’re a therapist (rostered or licensed) who wants to do good work, be a whole person while doing it, and be paid a sustainable living wage. You may be tired of working in a system that underpays and overworks therapists. You’ve considered or are in private practice but prefer not to handle marketing, expenses, self-employment taxes, or isolation. You want a practice that pays a living wage, offers benefits, and allows you to support yourself, your (chosen) family, and community. You seek a team you look forward to seeing, who shares your approach to therapy as a tool for liberation.

You are:

• Integrating the body into your work (or want financial support to deepen that training)
• Queer and Trans-celebrating
• Neurodiversity-aligned
• An unabashed intersectional feminist
• Grounded with good boundaries

How It Works

• We build you a full-time caseload of 23 weekly clients.
• You set your schedule, except for 9 appointment slots between 3-8 PM/week and Thursday afternoons 1:00-2:30 PM (EST) for staff-wide somatic trauma training.
• Monthly supervision with our Somatics Supervision and Training Wonderperson, MawuLisa Adeyemo-Thomas (or weekly supervision toward licensure with Mike Piche if rostered).
• After 6 consecutive weeks of seeing 23 clients/week, your health stipend kicks in, you start accruing 3 paid weeks off/year, and become eligible for 401(k) contributions with an employer match.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with Vermont licensure OR rostered as a LCMHC, LICSW, or LMFT in good standing.
• Lived experience and/or embodied understanding with communities experiencing marginalization and/or multiple marginalization.
• Physical ability to sit for up to 4 hours consecutively during the day (with 5-10 minute breaks each hour).
• Ability to utilize a variety of offices (shared large, plant and light-filled space with rotating workspaces).
• Trauma-informed / trauma transformational approach.
• Desire to work with children 6yo+.

Desired Qualifications

• Training and/or certification in Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Sensorimotor, AEDP, Generative Somatics, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Strozzi Institute, Brainspotting, or other body-based therapeutic modalities.
• Current enrollment in Green Mountain Care (VT Medicaid).
• Experience working with children 6yo+.

We especially encourage qualified applicants with lived experience in a Body of Culture to apply.

Pay

• Rostered pay scale: $38,536–$58,080.
• Licensed pay scale: $65,800–$82,960.

Benefits

• Paid administrative time (up to 3.5 hours/week) for training and non-clinical work.
• Full-time = 26.5–27 hours/week (23 clinical hours + 2.5–3.5 supervision/group meetings).
• Flexible work week with 9 required appointment times between 3–8 PM; combination of remote and in-person work in Burlington, VT.
• 3 weeks paid vacation and immediate sick time accrual (VT State law).
• $512.50/month health stipend (taxable addition to paycheck).
• 401(k) plan with employer match (available to part-time team members).
• Annual education/training stipend.
• Monthly 1:1 supervision + in-person and quarterly Zoom training with a highly-experienced somatics practitioner with a liberatory lens.
• 3x monthly all-team somatic practice meetings + 1–2x annual somatics training retreats.
• Weekly supervision toward licensure for rostered/non-licensed team members.
• Free, same-day acupuncture appointments up to 3x/month.

Schedule

• Full-time = 26.5–27 hours/week.
• 23 clinical hours/week + 2.5–3.5 supervision/group meetings/week.
• Flexible schedule with 9 required appointment slots between 3–8 PM/week and Thursday afternoons 1:00–2:30 PM (EST) for staff-wide somatic trauma training.