Licensed Mental Health Therapist - Pediatric Experience - Part-Time Telehealth - Unrestricted LCSW, LMFT w/Diagnostic Privilege - New York

Lyra Health • New York, NY

26d • $47 - $58 • Remote

About The Position

Lyra Clinical Associates is hiring a part-time therapist for its Pediatric Outpatient Service Line. The therapist will provide evidence-based, developmentally appropriate care to children, adolescents, young adults, and their families, helping members build resilience, strengthen relationships, develop coping skills, and make progress toward individualized treatment goals. Depending on a member’s age and needs, treatment may include parents or caregivers to reinforce skills and support progress outside therapy sessions.

The therapist will work within a collaborative, integrated clinical team that includes behavioral case managers, psychiatric providers, nurses, coaches, and other clinical team members. The role offers opportunities to expand clinical expertise through consultation, training, evidence-based practice, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The position reports to a Clinical Supervisor and provides care via telehealth.

Requirements

• Ability to work part-time, 24 hours per week.
• Availability to provide care during afternoon and evening hours; potential Saturday availability based on program needs.
• Ability to maintain a private, professional workspace suitable for confidential telehealth services.
• Reliable internet connectivity for consistent, high-quality virtual care.
• Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States.
• Ability to meet applicable state licensing, credentialing, payer enrollment, and interstate practice requirements.
• Current, active New York license and registration in good standing permitting independent clinical practice and diagnosis, such as LCSW, Licensed Psychologist, LMHC, or LMFT; LMHCs and LMFTs must hold New York diagnostic privilege. License must have no current restrictions or pending disciplinary action.
• Doctoral degree (Psy.D. or Ph.D.) in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, or a related psychology discipline.
• Experience providing evidence-based behavioral health treatment to children, adolescents, young adults, and families.
• Ability to deliver culturally responsive, trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate care that respects members’ identities, lived experiences, family structures, and backgrounds.
• Experience using evidence-based interventions such as CBT, DBT, ACT, MI, PMT, EMDR, and other clinically appropriate approaches.
• Experience engaging caregivers as collaborative treatment partners while promoting developmentally appropriate member autonomy.
• Experience working collaboratively within an interdisciplinary care team.
• Strong clinical judgment, communication, organization, and documentation skills.
• Comfort using telehealth platforms, electronic health records, and other digital tools.
• Warm, engaging, collaborative clinical style and ability to build therapeutic rapport across developmental stages.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based individual and family therapy to children, adolescents, young adults, and caregivers.
• Conduct comprehensive behavioral health assessments and develop individualized treatment plans.
• Use evidence-based modalities, including CBT, DBT, ACT, MI, PMT, trauma-informed interventions, and other approaches suited to members’ clinical and developmental needs.
• Collaborate with psychiatrists, behavioral case managers, coaches, nurses, and other interdisciplinary team members to coordinate care.
• Engage caregivers as active treatment partners when clinically and developmentally appropriate through psychoeducation, collaborative goal setting, and skills coaching.
• Maintain timely, accurate, clinically meaningful, and compliant documentation.
• Participate in clinical consultation, supervision, ongoing training, and professional development.
• Support quality improvement initiatives and the continued delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree