Remote Crisis Care Therapist (LCSW, LMHC)

About the role

Mental health crises affect over 12 million Americans annually, with 1 in 5 adults experiencing a mental health illness. Willow Health aims to improve this situation by offering affordable, high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health care through its virtual crisis care program.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive clinical assessments and develop differential diagnoses
• Create and implement co-created personalized treatment plans with our multidisciplinary team
• Conduct short-term crisis psychotherapy sessions utilizing supportive psychotherapy, motivational interviewing, and/or problem-solving therapy
• Manage a caseload of patients for 8 to 12 weeks, providing crisis psychotherapy
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and safety planning
• Utilize validated clinical tools to aid in differential diagnosis
• Work across our multidisciplinary clinical team to facilitate comprehensive behavioral health crisis care
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings
• Maintain appropriate documentation of all patient-related care
• Weekly clinical supervision
• Collaborate with patients, their families, and providers in the community to ensure comprehensive behavioral health care

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent non-U.S. degree) in psychology, clinical social work, or related fields
• Master’s of Social Work or Master’s of Mental Health Counseling degree completed successfully
• Active license of clinical social work or mental health counseling in New York
• Maintain all state requirements and continuing education requirements to provide behavioral health care
• Experience with clinical assessments, developing differential diagnosis, creating and implementing clinical treatment plans
• At least 3 years of clinical experience post-licensure
• Experience with clinical risk management, suicide risk assessment, and safety planning
• Experience and comfort with using validated clinical tools to enhance clinical care
• Experience with and comfort with using technology and an EMR
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary clinical team

Qualifications

• Thoughtful, empathic, and skilled clinician
• Fully virtual role
• Working hours: Monday - Friday from 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM Eastern Time

Skills

• Experience with emergency mental health services and/or urgent behavioral healthcare
• Comprehensive knowledge of substance abuse, mental health, and recovery issues and principles
• Experience with using clinical outcomes to enhance clinical care
• Experience launching and iterating on a clinical care model
• Experience with problem-solving therapy, motivational interviewing, supportive psychotherapy
• Experience in a start-up healthcare setting and/or an innovative healthcare program

Benefits

• PTO including sick leave, certain federal holidays, and vacation
• Continuing education time and stipend
• 401K
• Health insurance
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Clinical supervision
• Multidisciplinary team collaboration

Pay

The listed salary range for this role reflects a range of potential seniority levels, experience, and clinical scope. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, years of clinical experience, licensure, relevant specialty expertise, and role level. For full-time employees, Willow utilizes a RVU-based compensation model that aligns earnings with clinical volume and performance. This model includes a guaranteed base salary, with the opportunity to earn additional compensation based on productivity metrics. Details of the compensation structure will be shared during the interview process.

Schedule

Working hours for the clinic are Monday - Friday from 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM Eastern Time.