[Hiring] Trauma-Informed Mindfulness & Wellness Skills Coach @2070Health

Role Description

The Trauma-Informed Mindfulness & Wellness Skills Coach will provide structured, non-psychotherapy wellness support to clinician-referred adult outpatients in California, working under the direction of each patient's psychiatric provider. This is a non-clinical, non-therapy role with a clearly defined scope.

• Conduct brief individual wellness coaching sessions.
• Create individualized, clinician-aligned wellness routines.
• Teach safe, practical breathwork, mindfulness, grounding, and sleep-support skills.
• Facilitate live virtual group classes focused on stress regulation, emotional wellness, sleep optimization, and skills practice.
• Support patients in developing consistent practices between psychiatric appointments.
• Communicate clinically relevant concerns to the patient's treating psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner through approved secure channels.

Qualifications

• Strong spoken and written English, including the ability to communicate clearly, warmly, and professionally with U.S.-based adult patients.
• Formal training and demonstrated experience in mindfulness, breathwork/pranayama, yoga-informed wellness, health coaching, or a closely related discipline.
• Training in trauma-informed care and demonstrated ability to facilitate practices emphasizing choice, consent, pacing, patient autonomy, and emotional safety.
• Formal health-coaching education or a recognized coaching certification; international coaching training strongly preferred.
• Yoga teacher training or comparable formal yoga/pranayama education strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting individuals with anxiety, depression, ADHD, insomnia, stress dysregulation, and/or trauma-related symptoms.
• Familiarity with the boundaries between wellness coaching, psychotherapy, and medical care.
• Excellent active listening, rapport-building, and group-facilitation skills.
• Cultural humility and demonstrated awareness that U.S.-based patients may have different cultural contexts, stressors, expectations, and healthcare experiences.
• Exceptional reliability, punctuality, organization, and professionalism.
• Comfortable working with secure patient portals, video platforms, structured documentation, and digital workflows.
• Willingness and ability to complete all required practice onboarding and training before seeing patients.

Requirements

• Independent contractor; remote position, candidate may be based in India.
• Anticipated initial capacity of approximately 10–20 hours per week, ramping with patient volume.
• Required availability overlapping with U.S. Pacific Time, including a combination of daytime and evening hours.
• Flexible schedule based on patient demand and practice needs.
• Approximately 2–4 live virtual groups per week, subject to patient volume and program growth.
• Individual patient sessions are generally 30 minutes per month per enrolled patient.

Benefits

• Hourly rate for completed, documented individual wellness-coaching sessions (generally scheduled in 30-minute increments).
• A separate agreed flat rate for each live virtual group session facilitated (applies only to groups scheduled, conducted live, and documented per practice policy).
• Compensation for cancellations, no-shows, admin time, training, supervision, and documentation, if any, is governed by the independent contractor agreement or separate written policy.
• The contractor is responsible for their own taxes, insurance, workspace, equipment, internet, and other business expenses, except as expressly agreed in writing.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct initial individual wellness consultations for clinician-referred patients.
• Complete a structured, non-diagnostic wellness intake covering patient goals, prior practice experience, sleep/stress/emotional-regulation concerns, barriers to consistent practice, and any past adverse reactions to breath- or body-focused work.
• Develop individualized wellness routines using practice-approved techniques, consistent with the patient's psychiatric care plan.
• Teach practical skills patients can safely use between appointments, and support adherence and routine-building.
• Track patient-reported sleep, stress, mood, and practice adherence, as relevant to the care plan.
• Modify wellness routines within the approved scope based on patient feedback, tolerance, and stated goals.
• Help patients identify when concerns should be brought to their treating psychiatric provider.
• Facilitate live, virtual, video-based wellness-skills groups for adults who have completed an initial individual consultation.
• Provide welcoming, structured, trauma-informed, culturally responsive group experiences focused on stress management, breath-based relaxation, mindfulness, sleep-supportive routines, yoga nidra and body scans, gentle movement, ADHD-friendly regulation strategies, and practical daily-life application.
• Maintain group safety, privacy, professional boundaries, and respectful participation.
• Follow practice policy prohibiting recordings, screenshots, photography, and sharing of participant information.
• Ensure participants understand they may stop or modify any practice at any time.
• Deliver health education and individualized wellness-skills coaching that supports the patient's established care plan.
• Document coaching activities, time spent, patient response, home-practice plan, and relevant concerns in the practice's designated chronic care management platform.
• Maintain accurate group attendance records and use approved templates and workflows.
• Promptly communicate clinically relevant concerns, requests for clinical guidance, or signs of deterioration to the treating provider through secure practice channels.
• Participate in required supervision, training, and quality-assurance processes.

Scope Limitations & Safety Boundaries

• The coach is not a therapist, medical provider, or crisis clinician.
• The coach must not diagnose or assess psychiatric conditions.
• Provide psychotherapy, counseling, trauma processing, exposure therapy, or crisis counseling.
• Independently assess suicide risk, self-harm risk, homicidal risk, psychosis, mania/hypomania, or level of care.
• Provide medication education, recommendations, interpretation, or advice to start, stop, or change medications.
• Provide medical, nutritional, or dietetic advice, or recommend supplements, herbs, Ayurvedic medicines, detoxes, or fasting.
• Present Ayurveda, yoga, mindfulness, or breathwork as treatment or cure for psychiatric illness.
• Offer legal, financial, relationship, or other professional advice outside the assigned role.
• Use high-intensity, hyperventilation-based, forceful, cathartic, or prolonged-breath-retention techniques.
• Lead practices intended to induce altered states, catharsis, traumatic-memory recall, or emotional “release.”
• Continue a practice when a patient reports distress, panic, dizziness, dissociation, or other concerning symptoms.
• Manage emergency situations independently.
• The coach must promptly notify the treating provider or designated practice escalation contact of clinical or safety concerns and follow all practice escalation procedures.

Supervision, Training & Probationary Period

The coach will work under the clinical direction of each patient's treating psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner. Before independently providing patient-facing services, the coach must successfully complete practice onboarding and training, including:

• HIPAA and confidentiality.
• Secure communication and data-security practices.
• Use of the practice's telehealth, patient portal, and CCM documentation systems.
• Scope-of-practice boundaries and documentation requirements.
• Patient escalation and emergency procedures.
• Trauma-informed facilitation and U.S. cultural competence.
• Approved breathwork, mindfulness, body-scan, yoga nidra, and gentle-movement protocols.
• Practices and techniques that are prohibited or require specific clinician approval.

The role includes an initial three-month probationary period. Continued engagement will depend on clinical judgment, professionalism, reliability, documentation quality, patient feedback, adherence to scope and privacy requirements, and program needs.