Lead Mental Health Therapist

The Problem

Severe mental illness affects over 15 million adults in the United States. Schizophrenia. Schizoaffective disorder. Bipolar I. Treatment-resistant depression. These are the conditions the rest of healthcare has systematically failed to build for.

What makes this problem different from most of healthcare is that the tools to solve it do not exist. The clinical protocols, the measurement science, the precision medicine, the technology to deliver coordinated longitudinal outpatient care for this population. None of it has been built. This is a frontier problem, and it requires frontier science and care delivery to solve.

We are developing all of it. The care, the science, the technology.

Who We Are

Amae Health is a Series B, venture-backed Public Benefit Corporation that delivers specialty outpatient care for people living with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar I disorder, and treatment-resistant depression. We design and operate high-acuity, in-person clinics across the United States.

Our model integrates psychiatry, therapy, primary care, dietitians, and community health workers under one roof to deliver coordinated, longitudinal care for a population that has historically been fragmented across systems.

Leading health systems partner with Amae to bring this model to their communities, including NewYork-Presbyterian, Cedars-Sinai, Mass General Brigham, Novant Health, and CommonSpirit Health. Our investors include health systems such as Cedars-Sinai and CommonSpirit Health, organizations that evaluated our model clinically and chose to back it.

Why We Are Different

Many clinicians who join Amae have worked in PHPs, IOPs, inpatient psychiatry, or community mental health. They understand the limitations of the traditional system. Amae was built to change that—for patients and for clinicians.

Integrated care, not a referral network. Psychiatrists, therapists, primary care providers, dietitians, and community health workers work side-by-side and share responsibility for the same patients.

Practice at the top of your license. Manageable caseloads, meaningful clinical depth, and purpose-built tools designed for this population.

Continuous learning. Through our partnership with Mass General Brigham, clinicians receive ongoing training, supervision, and mentorship in evidence-based SMI care.

Advancing the field. Our clinicians contribute to new outcomes frameworks and research shaping the future of severe mental illness care.

A model built for sustainability. Team-based care, thoughtful caseloads, and strong infrastructure make this work meaningful—and sustainable over time.

The Opportunity:

We are hiring a Lead Mental Health Therapist  to join us onsite in our soon-to-be open Charlotte, NC clinic as part of an interdisciplinary team committed to providing personalized, compassionate and high-quality SMI care. 

As a Lead Mental Health Therapist at Amae you will play an integral role in our collective mission to become the center of excellence for SMI care. In alignment with Amae’s holistic, wrap-around care model, this role supports therapist team members in a supervisory capacity and manages a panel of complex members through individual and group therapy, while also providing psychoeducation and support to patients’ families. Working within a collaborative and shared decision making model, you will have the opportunity to partner with clinical staff, peer specialists, primary care providers and community partners. A patient advocate, you will help members navigate the health and social services systems in San Mateo, connecting patients to resources and the community. Rooted in trust and rapport, you will initiate, establish and maintain relationships not only with patients, but also with families, as you care for members of Amae Health. 

About You:

A clinician who thrives at the intersection of clinical best practice, innovative care models and the latest technology, caring for complex patients is your north star. You take a person-centered approach to your work, you are energized by providing mentorship and supervision to colleagues and delivering evidence-based interventions and practice measurement-based care to patients If you are excited to work side by side with a dedicated, compassionate interdisciplinary team who are building the center of excellence for SMI care, we would love to hear from you! 

What You’ll Work On:

• Provide individual and group therapy to a panel of complex SMI patients 
• Supervise and mentor clinical teams including pre-licensed therapists, licensed therapists, and dietitians with clinical care delivery, documentation and patient related issues
• Work in close collaboration with Practice Manager to support a healthy care team environment and deliver exceptional care via the Amae Health care model
• Provide continuous, regular support as patients navigate recovery, both in person and on occasion, virtually
• Conduct training during the onboarding process for new therapist staff and continually, as needed
• Deliver evidence-based care in a holistic, wrap-around care model
• Collaborate with patient care teams and with behavioral health providers to ensure an integrated, cohesive approach to care
• Address medical needs to mitigate negative impacts of various social determinants of health
• Provide consultation to therapists on the treatment team, which may include licensed therapists as well as trainees, as well as assisting with program development.

What You’ll Have:

• Active Licensed Psychologist, LCSW, LMSW, LMFT or LPC license in the state of NC
• Board-approved clinical supervisor status in North Carolina (e.g., LCMHCS, eligible LCSW supervisor, psychology supervisor) with prior experience supervising or mentoring clinicians
• Thrives in a collaborative team environment and establishes positive relationships with other medical professionals
• Experience and interest in working with adults and at least 1 year of experience working with patients with severe mental illness
• Experience in evidence-based interventions, including CBT, DBT, or MI.
• Ability to navigate challenging situations with professionalism.
• Thorough understanding of confidentiality and appropriate documentation standards
• Technologically savvy, with the ability to learn and navigate new tools and technologies
• Highly organized with the ability to work autonomously
• Possess strong listening skills and excellent verbal communication capabilities

What We Provide: 

• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental & vision plans
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k)
• FSA & HSA savings programs
• Short & long-term disability
• Pre-tax commuter assistance program
• Paid time off
• Parental Leave - 12 weeks for birth and non birth parent
• 11 company holidays
• DEA/License/Certification reimbursement
• CME budget
• Unique team based care model designed to encourage true clinical collaboration, in-person with physician grand rounds and daily care team huddles including psychiatrists, Clinic Director, PCP, Therapists, Community Health Workers, Clinic Care Coordinators, Dietitians etc.  

What We’re Building

As a clinician at Amae, you are not adjacent to this work. You are essential to it.

• A national care delivery model for the highest-acuity patients in behavioral health.
• Precision medicine for SMI. Individualized treatment informed by multimodal clinical, behavioral, and social data.
• A clinical operating system that puts longitudinal data, real-time patient signals, and purpose-built tools into a single decision layer for care teams.
• Frontier science and measurement: defining and validating the outcomes frameworks that this field has never had. Hospitalizations avoided, days stable, functional improvement, and more.
• A partnership model with the country’s leading health systems that proves coordinated SMI care can work at scale.

What We Value

We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It’s how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.

We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.

We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.

Your job isn’t done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don’t hide behind titles or org charts.

We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don’t do blame.

We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.

Compensation & Benefits

Amae Health is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Base salary range for this role is $80,000-$90,000 per year and will be adjusted to market cost. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage. Parental leave and programs built around well-being. We’ll share specifics during the interview process.

If you want to practice at the top of your license, learn from the best in academic medicine, contribute to research that is defining a new field, and do it all inside a team that was actually built for this work, we’d like to talk.

What We Value

We center care in all we do. Empathy is not a brand value. It’s how we make clinical decisions, build products, and treat each other.

We challenge convention. The existing system is the problem. We question it, we test alternatives, and we move with urgency when something works.

We take the work seriously, not ourselves. High standards and humanity are not in tension. We hold a hard bar for quality while leaving room for humor and levity.

Your job isn’t done until the job is done. We close gaps, we follow through, and we don’t hide behind titles or org charts.

We win together and fail together. We own outcomes as a team. We learn fast. We don’t do blame.

We hustle with humility. Speed matters. So does integrity. We assume best intent and stay grounded in the mission.