Play Therapist (LPC, LCSW, LMFT)

Play Therapist (LPC, LCSW, LMFT)

Ellie Mental Health Tulsa, OK

Make a Difference Through Play

Children often communicate through play long before they have the words to describe what they're feeling. We're looking for a compassionate, creative therapist who enjoys working with children and families and wants to make therapy engaging, developmentally appropriate, and effective.

At Ellie Mental Health, you'll have the freedom to bring your clinical style to your work while being supported by a collaborative team that values flexibility, professional growth, and clinician well-being.

The Role

As a Play Therapist, you'll primarily work with children, adolescents, and families using play-based and other creative, age-appropriate therapeutic approaches. You'll help young clients build emotional regulation, coping skills, confidence, communication skills, and healthier relationships.

Responsibilities include:

• Conducting assessments and establishing individualized treatment goals
• Providing individual and family therapy
• Incorporating play and creative interventions into treatment
• Supporting parents and caregivers with strategies to reinforce progress at home
• Coordinating care with schools, physicians, and other providers when appropriate
• Maintaining timely clinical documentation
• Participating in consultation, supervision, team meetings, and training
• Providing in-person and telehealth services when appropriate

Who We're Looking For

We're seeking a therapist who is patient, engaging, empathetic, and comfortable connecting with children. Experience with play therapy or child-focused treatment is strongly preferred.

Ideal candidates:

• Enjoy working with children, adolescents, and families
• Understand developmental and age-appropriate therapeutic approaches
• Can build strong relationships with both children and caregivers
• Are creative and flexible in their clinical approach
• Value collaborative, client-centered care
• Communicate effectively and maintain appropriate professional boundaries

Licensure

We welcome:

• LPC or LPC Candidate
• LCSW or LMSW
• LMFT or LMFT Candidate

Clinicians approaching full independent licensure are encouraged to apply.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Clinical supervision
• Flexible scheduling
• CEU support and ongoing training
• Paid administrative time
• Administrative support
• Telehealth opportunities
• Career growth opportunities
• Collaborative clinical environment
• Additional benefits for eligible full-time employees

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, Psychology, or a related behavioral health field

• Active Oklahoma license or eligible candidate/associate status

• Experience with children, adolescents, and/or families preferred

• Knowledge of assessment, treatment planning, and clinical documentation

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to successfully complete a background check

• Join Our Team

• You don't need to check every box to be considered. If you're passionate about helping children and families and want a practice where creativity and clinical autonomy are valued, we encourage you to apply.

• Equal Opportunity Employer

• Ellie Mental Health is committed to an inclusive workplace where all employees are respected and valued. We provide equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

• Franchise Disclosure

• Ellie Mental Health clinics are independently owned and operated as part of the Ellie Mental Health franchise system. Employment decisions, compensation, benefits, scheduling, and workplace policies are determined by the local franchise owner. This position is with an independently owned and operated Ellie Mental Health clinic and not Ellie Mental Health's corporate organization.

• We're just people helping people. Come join the herd.

• Seeking creative & collaborative humans with a passion for changing mental health care in fun and meaningful ways.

• Don’t meet EVERY requirement?

• Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Ellie Mental Health is devoted to purposefully building an inclusive and diverse workplace where all of our humans can be their authentic selves! If you’re excited about the chance to be a change-maker with us, but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with every single qualification of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. Our mental health jobs need dedicated individuals from every background who are willing to care for others. And who knows, you might just be the perfect candidate for another role!

• Employee Experience

• We take care of our people. It’s that simple. From investing in their financial future, to providing wages that shatter the ceiling in our industry to reasonable caseload expectations we ensure that our people are happy. Happy employees do better work and provide better client care! No matter what it is that you do in your mental health career at Ellie, our clients depend on us cultivating an environment where our employees can thrive so that they can thrive too!

• Y’all, jobs in mental health are tough jobs with a high risk of emotional fatigue and burnout. At Ellie, we use all of our core values of humor, creativity, authenticity, acceptance, determination, and compassion not just out in our communities, but we turn them inwards too! Our employees have clear growth paths for advancing their careers.

• We have created a culture that reminds us that our employees are our leaders!

• Company Structure

• Ellie is a socially responsible for-profit business, which allows us to be flexible and responsive to our community’s needs. Many mental health and wellness-focused companies are non-profits or government agencies, which rely on the general public, grants, or large donors for funding. This model often results in little creativity and lower compensation for employees, promoting a work culture that just makes people feel “blah.”

• Feeling blah doesn’t help employees stay motivated, engaged, or even in their jobs for a very long time! So we created a new model: one that puts flexibility, innovative decision-making, creativity, and our people first, while remaining a socially conscious and responsible for-profit business focused on changing how we treat mental health.

• In short, we’re just people helping people. Wanna join the herd?