School Based Mental Health Therapist

📍 Location: Maryland (Baltimore County) — School-Based, Hybrid
🎓 License Requirements: Active Maryland license required
💰 Compensation: Fee-for-Service W-2 + Monthly Bonus Potential

This is more than a therapy role. You'll have the opportunity to build relationships with students, families, educators, and school teams while providing accessible, trauma-informed mental health care both in person and through telehealth.

As a clinician-led, minority-owned organization, we believe when clinicians thrive, kids thrive.

If you're looking for a role that combines purpose, flexibility, competitive compensation, and real community impact, we'd love to have you join us.

This is a hybrid role designed to combine the connection of in-person school-based care with the flexibility of telehealth.

• 🏫 Minimum 3 in-person school days per week
• ⏰ 8 hours per in-person school day
• 💻 Telehealth days available to support flexibility and continuity of care
• 🎒 Telehealth allows continued care during school breaks and closures

You'll have the opportunity to build meaningful relationships with students while maintaining flexibility throughout the school year.

As a School-Based Mental Health Clinician, you'll provide individual, group, and/or family therapy to students both at assigned school sites and through Backpack's secure telehealth platform.

Your day-to-day will include:

🩺 Conducting intake evaluations and risk assessments

📝 Developing individualized, trauma-informed treatment plans

💙 Providing individual, group, and family therapy

🏫 Maintaining a consistent in-person schedule at assigned school site(s)

💻 Providing telehealth services to maintain continuity of care

📋 Completing accurate, timely clinical documentation in Backpack's EHR

🤝 Collaborating with school staff, pediatricians, families, and Backpack's interdisciplinary clinical team

🚨 Supporting school teams with behavioral health challenges and crisis response

🎓 Conducting wellness workshops for caregivers, educators, and administrators

👥 Participating in individual and group supervision if pre-licensed

We're seeking clinicians who bring both clinical expertise and a genuine passion for helping young people.

• 🎓 Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related field
• 📜 Active Maryland license: LCSW-C, LMSW, LCPC, LGPC, LCMFT
• 👧 Minimum 1 year of experience providing therapy to children and adolescents
• 🧠 Familiarity with trauma-informed care and school-based systems
• 🌎 Commitment to culturally responsive care
• 📝 Strong interpersonal, organizational, and clinical documentation skills
• 💙 Passion for increasing access to mental healthcare for underserved youth

We all walk around with an invisible backpack.

It carries our emotional experiences, traumas, stress, and unresolved feelings. Just like a physical backpack, it can become heavy when filled with too many things.

We're reimagining mental healthcare for children, teens, and young adults by making high-quality behavioral health services more accessible where kids already live, learn, and grow.

As a clinician-led, minority-owned organization, our mission is simple:

At Backpack, we're not just offering a job. We're offering purpose, flexibility, professional growth, and the opportunity to change lives every day.

If you're ready to bring mental health care directly into schools, build meaningful relationships with students and families, and join a team that believes in both clinician wellbeing and better outcomes for kids, we'd love to hear from you.

Bring your clinical expertise. Bring your passion. We'll bring the support, referrals, and opportunity to grow. 💙🎒

Backpack Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe the strength of our care depends on the diversity and wellbeing of our team. We celebrate differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and other traits that make each person unique. We welcome and encourage diverse candidates to apply for any position for which they are qualified and to bring their unique perspectives, experiences, and talents to our team.