[Hiring] Child and Adolescent Therapist @Blackbird Health

Role Description

Blackbird Health is looking for SPACE-trained therapists to join our growing team. If you're certified or trained in SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) and passionate about working with anxious kids and the families who love them, this role was built for you.

SPACE is a parent-based treatment developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz of the Yale Child Study Center and shown to be efficacious in randomized controlled clinical trials. It treats children and adolescents with anxiety disorders, OCD, and related problems, by working with parents and caregivers to change their own behavior, reduce accommodation, and respond more supportively to their child's anxiety. The child doesn't always need to be in the room. The results speak for themselves.

At Blackbird, we take a whole-child approach, and SPACE fits perfectly into how we think about care. You'll work with families navigating:

• Separation anxiety
• Social anxiety
• Generalized anxiety
• OCD
• Selective mutism
• Panic disorder
• Phobias
• ARFID

Qualifications

• Active Virginia license: LCSW, LPC, LMFT, LMSW and SISW
• Completed SPACE training (required) and earned official SPACE certification
• Experience treating childhood and adolescent anxiety, OCD, or related conditions
• Comfortable working primarily with parents and caregivers in a parent-based treatment model
• Minimum 8 hours per week
• Build your own weekly recurring schedule
• Set your own pace and caseload
• 1+ year of experience with children and adolescent patients or related experience in child development
• 1+ year of telehealth or virtual setting experience
• Available after 3pm ET weekdays and/or weekends
• Passion for family-centered, high-touch care — you understand that helping a parent helps the child

Requirements

• Employment Options: 1099 Contractor | LCSW, LPC, LMFT, SISW, LMSW, or masters level professionals in Virginia
• LCSW, LPC, LMFT Pay: $85–$95 per session
• Associate License or Masters Level Clinician (LMSW/SISW): $50-$60

Benefits

• Do the work you trained for — we handle applicable credentialing, billing, insurance, and EMR so you can focus entirely on your patients
• Start seeing patients immediately — a guaranteed caseload means no waiting, no hustle, just care
• Grow as a clinician — paid weekly clinical consultation and peer support are built into your schedule, not bolted on
• Be part of something bigger — every session is a chance to help a child find their footing, a family breathe easier, and a young person discover what they're capable of
• Join a team that has your back — collaborative, mission-driven clinicians who are shaping the future of pediatric mental health care together

Salary Range

$80 — $95 USD

Fostering an inclusive environment

Blackbird is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and belonging. We are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. Blackbird provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected] so we can support you.

Our patient support team is busy helping children and families, please do not call or email them about your application — this helps us process your application more efficiently.