Psychotherapist (LCSW) Illinois - Remote, Full-Tme

Remote Psychotherapist (LCSW) - Illinois License Required

At Author Health, we’re revolutionizing how mental health care is delivered, and we want you to be part of it! Our mission is to bring compassionate, high-quality care to people with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and dementia, including older adults.

We don’t just treat symptoms. We treat people — fully, holistically, and with heart! Through our virtual-first, innovative care model, we deliver community-based wrap-around outpatient mental health care inclusive of psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and care management services. We partner with primary care providers, hospitals, families, and caregivers to keep patients out of the hospital and empower them to live healthier, more connected lives.

At Author, inclusivity isn’t a checkbox. It’s how we build trust and drive better outcomes! We honor the unique cultures, identities, and stories that shape every patient’s experience, and we’re creating a workplace where team members can show up as their full selves, too.

If you’re driven by purpose, ready to shake up the status quo, and eager to make a real impact in people’s lives, we’d love to meet you. Let’s build the future of mental health care together!

Summary/Objective

The Licensed Psychotherapist will work as a dedicated full-time employee and part of a multidisciplinary team to provide virtual-first psychosocial assessments and skill-based psychotherapy and education to individuals with serious mental illness (SMI), and caregiver support to the people supporting patients with SMI, dementia, and other disorders.

Essential Functions

Direct Patient Care (87%)

• Provide virtual-first psychosocial assessments and psychotherapy to individuals with serious mental illness; facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care

• Provide audio-only follow-up sessions in the event of technical issues or if the patient is unable to access video technology.

• Provide time-framed, goal-focused, skill-based psychotherapy using evidence-based techniques (including CBT, solution-focused treatment, motivational interviewing, behavioral activation, and others)

• Document treatment response and monitor clinical symptoms

• Provide support and advocacy to caregivers and family members of patients with dementia and serious mental illness as needed

• Lead/facilitate support groups and group therapy

Interdisciplinary Team Collaboration (13%)

• As part of a multidisciplinary care team, identify social determinants of health needs that team members will work to resolve

• Serve a crucial role on a multidisciplinary care team of psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, community health workers, and medical assistants; participate in huddles and multidisciplinary communication

Competency Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

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  Comfort working in a startup environment with a rapidly growing and evolving team

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team setting

• Ability to maintain effective and professional relationships with patients and other members of the care team

• Ability to effectively engage patients and their caregivers in a therapeutic relationship

• Ability to work with patients via telehealth platform and via telephone

• Working knowledge of differential diagnosis of common mental health and/or substance use disorders, when appropriate

• Working knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial treatments and brief behavioral interventions for common mental health disorders, when appropriate (e.g., motivational interviewing, problem-solving treatment, behavioral activation)

Required Education and Experience

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  Experience with screening for common mental health and/or substance use disorders.

• Experience with assessment and treatment planning for common mental health and/or substance use disorders.

• Experience conducting psychotherapy via telehealth

• Active and unrestricted licensure as an LCSW in Illinois

Preferred Education and Experience

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  Experience with collaborative care is a plus

• EMDR trained or certified is a plus

• Bilingual (Spanish-English and/or Haitian-Creole/English) preferred

Work Environment

Employees will work from their homes, utilizing virtual tools and software to manage tasks, communicate with team members, patients and other stakeholders. They will also complete administrative duties on a computer provided by the company.

Physical Demands

This role requires sitting for extended periods of time in front of a computer screen.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

Full-time, Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm CT

Other Duties

Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Author Health is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is the company’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. The company’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible experience for all applicants. If you require any accommodations at any stage of the process, please let us know.

The company is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. In accordance with applicable legal requirements such as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Author Health will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm CT