Pediatric Mental Health Therapist, California - Fully Remote

Littleotter

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Remote Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 27, 2025 Last posted March 27, 2025
Job description

Welcome to Little Otter!

Little Otter is a childhood mental health company that focuses on the mental health of young children and their parents. Little Otter’s mission is to bring expert care for children’s mental health to every home. With both everyday wellness tools and our award-winning online child therapy app, we’ve empowered more than ten thousand therapists and hundreds of thousands of clients across the country in the healthcare and insurance landscape.

About the Role

We are looking for full-time pediatric clinical therapists who want to build a new way of delivering high-quality, evidence-based mental health care to children 0-14. We hire mental health providers who are excited to work at an early-stage startup and impact the accessibility of exceptional behavioral health for children and families. 

Responsibilities:

  • Provide high-quality, evidence-based teletherapy via the Little Otter platform to children ages 0-14 years old, parents, and families
  • Conduct evidence-based interventions for children and families including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies, Exposure Therapy for Anxiety, Parent Management Training (PMT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child and Family Psychotherapy (CPP), etc.
  • Complete clinical documentation using the Little Otter platform for each patient including intake notes, progress notes, treatment plans
  • Participate in a weekly case review and manager meeting

About You:

  • Masters level therapists independently licensed in California, ie. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT), Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC)
  • 1+ years of independent direct clinical experience providing psychotherapy to children and families. Demonstrated expertise in treating common mental health disorders in children through evidence-based practices
  • Comfortable with technology and interested in incorporating technology solutions into clinical care.
  • Must not be opted out of Medicare
  • Passionate about providing mental health care services to children and families and excited to work at an early-stage startup to impact the way we provide these exceptional virtual services!

Schedule

  • 40 hours a week
  • 80% of your clinical sessions should be within 3pm-8pm PST (M-F) or on Saturdays 8am-4pm PST (in any combination) in order to accommodate children's schedules

Compensation: 

  • Full-Time W2: $103,000/yr - $120,000/yr based on preferred schedule 
  • $2000 Sign-On Bonus & Retention Bonus paid within 1st year

Total Rewards:

  • 100% remote work in the US
  • Premium healthcare insurance with coverage 
  • A Flexible Time Off Policy (take what you need)
  • 12 Company Holidays and a company close-down for the last week of December
  • Continuing Education and License Reimbursement
  • Computer and technology you need to WFH
  • Malpractice insurance coverage
  • Life insurance, Long term, short term disability insurance
  • New Parent leave
  • A supportive and inclusive environment that values our clinicians!

Research suggests that women and people of color often believe that they need to meet 100% of job qualifications in order to apply. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t! Little Otter is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. 

Please be alert for potential recruitment fraud. All correspondence will come from email addresses with [email protected] and not from public email addresses such as Gmail. If you are unsure about legitimacy, please confirm open roles through viewing them in www.littleotterhealth.com/open-roles. Little Otter will never ask you to pay money, provide banking information or download anything.

About this role

Summary

Provide teletherapy to children and families using evidence-based practices.

Job title

Pediatric Mental Health Therapist

Experience level

1+ years

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

Remote work allowed for candidates in the US.

Salary

$103,000/yr - $120,000/yr

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

licensed marriage and family therapistlicensed clinical social workerlicensed professional clinical counselorpsychotherapytechnology

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

teletherapycognitive-behavioral therapyparent management trainingchild psychotherapy
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

United States

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