Job Title: Virtual Licensed Therapist - Foster - Impacted Youth and Families
Status: Full-Time (35 hours/week)
Reports To: Clinical Director
(Medicaid - New Mexico)
About Here Now Health:
Here Now Health is the first virtual healthcare company specifically built for children and families impacted by the child welfare system. We deliver child welfare–informed, high-touch care to Medicaid-covered youth navigating foster care, adoption, kinship placements, and juvenile justice. Our model prioritizes consistency, trust, and accessibility in systems where they are too often missing.
Role Summary
As a Virtual Licensed Therapist with Here Now Health, you will provide compassionate, trauma-informed mental health care to Medicaid-covered youth and families impacted by foster care and related systems. You will support clients navigating instability, system involvement, and complex trauma, often across multiple placements or life transitions.
Our care model centers around relational continuity, caregiver support, and evidence-informed clinical practice. You will join a collaborative, mission-driven team focused on transforming how care is delivered to system-impacted youth.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide virtual one-on-one therapy to youth and caregivers using evidence-informed, trauma-focused modalities
- Conduct clinical assessments and develop collaborative, measurement-based care plans
- Build relational continuity across transitions, supporting clients through placement or life changes
- Collaborate with non-clinical Care Advocates to ensure clients can access needed services and supports
- Offer caregiver support sessions to improve family stability and outcomes
- Maintain thorough and timely clinical documentation aligned with Medicaid and telehealth standards
- Attend weekly supervision, team meetings, and required trainings
- Provide support during moments of escalation or crisis in alignment with trauma-informed care practices
- Engage in peer consultation and cross-functional collaboration with clinicians and care team members
What Sets This Role Apart
- Low caseloads designed to prioritize depth, trust, and sustained engagement
- The opportunity to serve youth often excluded from traditional care models, including those without stable placements or consistent caregivers
- A team culture where lived experience in foster care, kinship care, or system involvement is valued and welcomed
- An integrated care model connecting therapy with caregiver support, care coordination, and advocacy
Qualifications
Required
- Licensure: Active, unrestricted independent license in New Mexico as an LCSW, LMFT, or LMHC/LPC. Additional licenses beneficial.
- Licensure: Prefer minimum 3-5+ years of post-independent licensure experience (Required to satisfy multi-state endorsement rules and streamline cross-licensing).
- Clinical Experience: Direct experience working within child welfare and foster care systems, pediatric mental health, and complex trauma. Comfortable working with youth ages 5 - 26 years old and their caregivers.
- Technical & Managed Care: Experience with telehealth platforms and Medicaid clinical documentation standards.
- Ability to build trust and consistency with youth navigating instability
- Ability to complete background checks required by Medicaid and child welfare systems
- Willingness to obtain additional state licenses within Here Now Health’s service areas is an important part of this role. Here Now Health covers all associated licensing costs to support your professional growth and expand your impact.
Preferred
- Lived experience within the child welfare system is highly valued and welcomed alongside formal experience
- Experience working with Medicaid plans/population
- Approval to provide Medicaid-covered services or prior Medicaid billing experience strongly preferred
- Bilingual Spanish/English strongly preferred; additional languages a plus
Work Environment & Hours
- 100% remote
- Must have access to a private, quiet workspace with reliable high speed internet.
Compensation and Benefits
Compensation
- Full-time, salaried role based on a 35-hour work week
- Base Salary: $64,000 - $78,000 annually, based on licensure, experience, and relevant expertise
- Uncapped Productivity Bonus: Earn $70 for every billed clinical hour over 80 hours/month with a likely opportunity to earn an additional $12,000 - $25,000+ annually in addition to base salary
Availability Requirements
- 15 hours per week after 4:00PM on weekdays and/or on Saturdays (8:00AM - 5:00PM) to support you and families during peak demand hours
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% employer-paid employee-only premiums and significant contributions toward family coverage.
- Company-sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
- Paid time off (PTO), paid sick leave, company holidays, and floating holidays.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) for eligible high-deductible health plans.
- Reimbursement for licensure expenses including CEUs
- Company-provided laptops and equipment, as applicable.
- Reimbursement for approved business-related travel expenses.
- Flexible and remote work arrangements
Benefits eligibility may vary based on employment classification, scheduled hours, plan requirements, and applicable company policies.
