🌟 Licensed Mental Health Therapist — Bilingual English/Spanish Strongly Preferred
📍 Remote | Illinois License Required | Part-Time or Full-Time
💜 Help families feel seen, heard, and understood — in the language that feels most natural to them.
At Backpack Healthcare, we believe every child and family deserves access to high-quality, culturally responsive mental health care. We provide virtual behavioral health services to children, teens, and young adults — covered by most insurance.
We’re growing across Illinois, and Spanish-speaking families are looking for clinicians who understand their language, culture, and experiences.
If you're a bilingual therapist who believes culturally responsive care isn't an added benefit — it's essential to effective care — we'd love to have you join us.
🎒 What You'll Do
As a Licensed Mental Health Therapist, you'll provide compassionate, trauma-informed care through telehealth while partnering with families to support meaningful, lasting change.
You'll manage a caseload of 15–36 sessions per week, with the flexibility to choose part-time or full-time.
Your day-to-day will include:
- 🧠 Conducting clinical intakes and assessments
- 📝 Developing client-centered, trauma-informed treatment plans
- 💻 Providing individual, family, and group therapy via telehealth
- 🤝 Collaborating with therapists, PMHNPs, psychiatrists, and other members of our interdisciplinary team
- 📋 Maintaining timely and accurate documentation in our EHR
- 👨👩👧👦 Providing family education and care coordination
- 🌎 Delivering culturally responsive care that recognizes each family's unique needs and experiences
Scheduling: Most clinicians work weekday afternoons and evenings, typically 2:00–9:00 PM EST. Weekend availability is a plus.
✨ What We Offer
We want our clinicians to feel supported, valued, and empowered to grow.
- 💰 $45–$65 per billable hour, based on license level
- 🎯 Monthly bonus opportunities for eligible clinicians based on applicable productivity and performance criteria
- 🏥 Medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees
- 💵 401(k) with 3% company match
- 🌴 Paid time off
- 📚 $300 annual CEU reimbursement
- 🎓 Free clinical supervision for LMSW/LPC roles
- ❤️ $25,000 company-paid life insurance
- 🌱 Employee Assistance Program
- 🚀 Clinical leadership opportunities, including our Residency & Fellowship Program
- 🏡 Fully remote work
💸 Earn More with Monthly Bonuses
Eligible clinicians have the opportunity to earn an additional monthly performance-based bonus based on applicable productivity and performance criteria. It's another way Backpack recognizes clinicians who consistently deliver high-quality care while meeting established expectations.
🔎 What We're Looking For
We're looking for compassionate clinicians who are passionate about helping children, teens, and families thrive.
Required:
- Active Illinois license: LPC, LCPC, LMSW, or LCSW
- Experience working with children, adolescents, and families
- Ability to work independently and effectively in a remote environment
- Strong clinical judgment and communication skills
- Commitment to trauma-informed care
Strongly Preferred:
- 🇺🇸🇪🇸 Bilingual English/Spanish fluency
- Experience providing culturally responsive care to Spanish-speaking families
💜 Why Backpack Healthcare?
Since 2020, we've supported 12,000+ children and families through accessible, virtual behavioral healthcare.
And we're focused on outcomes: 78% of families report that their child is doing better after three months of care.
But our work isn't just about numbers.
It's about helping a child feel understood. Helping a parent feel supported. And making sure families don't have to choose between quality care and care that understands who they are.
When clinicians thrive, kids thrive. That's not just a tagline — it's how we build. 🎒💜
Ready to make an impact?
If you're passionate about accessible, culturally responsive mental health care — and especially if you can provide care in both English and Spanish — we'd love to meet you.
Backpack Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity in age, background, identity, and experience — and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.