Pre-Licensed Child & Adolescent Therapist - InStride Health

About Us

InStride Health’s mission is to deliver specialty anxiety and OCD care that works for every kid, teen, young adult, and family who needs it. Through this mission, we are expanding access to insurance-based care, increasing engagement in treatment, and improving treatment outcomes. We are doing this by combining research-backed clinical care and innovative technology to eliminate the major problems with care today: difficulty finding providers, months of waiting to be seen, arduous onboarding processes, and inconsistent use of evidence-based therapies and outcomes tracking. Our vision is to become the nation’s most trusted provider of pediatric anxiety and OCD care.

Core Values

• Give Heart: We lead with heart, treating patients and their families the way we want our loved ones to be treated.
• Work Smart: We find smarter ways to solve hard problems and fix the broken mental health system by leveraging technology, diversity of thought, and innovation.
• Have Humility: We leave our egos at the door, empowering our team to collaborate, celebrate diversity, and adopt a growth mindset.
• Embrace Community: We all belong. We are in this together, and we never worry alone. We believe in each other and recognize that every voice matters.

About the Role

We are looking for a virtual Pre-Licensed Therapist to join our team to deliver family-centric and evidence-based care to Children, Adolescents, & Young Adults. This is a fully remote position.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based individual and group clinical care to patients and families
• Use measurement-based care to inform treatment planning
• Lead and collaborate with other care team members (e.g., coach and psychiatrist)
• Provide feedback on program curricula and training protocols
• Provide feedback regarding the various applications of technology in treatment
• Maintain awareness of risk management issues
• Complete documentation in a timely and thorough manner
• Participate in initial and ongoing trainings on the application of evidence-based and tech-enhanced care delivery
• Facilitate skills or skills practice groups as assigned. These CBT-based groups are for parents/caregivers and focus on skills development and implementation based on the InStride Health curriculum, integrating aspects of ACT and PMT

What You Need to Succeed

• Provisional / Associate licensure with the following designation:
  • Provisional / Associate Counseling License & Master's Degree from an accredited graduate program
• Active license in New Jersey
• Graduate-level clinical internship with therapy training required
• Background in working with children and adolescents, with anxiety and related disorders, or preferably both
• Experience and training in delivering evidence-based treatments (e.g., CBT, ACT, DBT) preferred
• Basic computer skills, facility with, and openness to new technologies
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to be flexible, embrace change, and work well both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment
• Culturally responsive with regard to diversity and inclusion
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information in a manner that inspires confidence and trust
• Commitment to Progressing Toward Independent Licensure: This is a pre-licensed role intended for clinicians who are actively working toward full independent licensure. Once you have completed the supervised clinical experience and other state requirements, you will be expected to promptly obtain independent licensure within six months for master's-level clinicians (LCSW/LPC or equivalent) or nine months for doctoral-level psychologists (Ph.D/Psy.D).

Salary & Benefits

• Starting Salary: $70,000 annually (compensation increases upon obtaining full independent licensure)
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible PTO, paid holidays, and paid service days
• 4-week paid sabbatical
• 12-week paid parental leave
• Health benefits starting on your first day
• Fully virtual work setup with periodic in-person retreats

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)

We want to make our clinical services available for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or how you identify. To achieve this, we recognize we must continually make progress in building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive team to deliver high-quality patient care and build a lasting mission-driven business.