Description

Join a Practice Where You Can Grow, Belong, and Build the Career You Envision

At Valiant Minds Counseling, we believe exceptional therapy begins with clinicians who feel supported, respected, and empowered to do their best work. We are a growing outpatient group practice serving the Pittsburgh community with a commitment to compassionate, individualized, evidence-based mental health care.

Our philosophy is grounded in resilience, self-compassion, and empowerment, values that guide not only how we care for our clients, but also how we support the clinicians who choose to grow their careers with us. Our team brings diverse clinical interests, therapeutic approaches, personalities, and areas of expertise while sharing a commitment to thoughtful, ethical, and high-quality care.

We are proud that this commitment has been recognized within our community. In 2025, Valiant Minds Counseling was recognized as the #2 Psychotherapy Practice in Pittsburgh by BusinessRate®, based on Google Reviews and client feedback. While recognition is meaningful, what matters most to us is what it represents: the trust our clients place in our clinicians and the quality of the therapeutic relationships our team works to create every day.

Valiant Minds has developed particular expertise in ADHD, executive functioning, anxiety, trauma, emotional regulation, and related concerns, but we don't expect every therapist who joins us to practice the same way or serve the same population.

We want you to grow into the therapist you want to become.

As part of Valiant Minds, you'll have the freedom to develop your own clinical identity, therapeutic style, preferred populations, specialties, and areas of expertise. Whether your passion is working with adults, children and adolescents, couples, families, trauma, anxiety, neurodivergence, relationships, or an area you hope to develop further, we want to provide the support and infrastructure that allow you to build a meaningful and sustainable clinical practice.

Our goal is to offer the best of both worlds: the autonomy and earning potential of private practice with the connection, resources, referrals, administrative support, and professional community of an established group practice.

You won't have to build your practice alone. Valiant Minds provides credentialing support, billing and insurance management, marketing, ongoing client referrals, furnished office space, clinical consultation, shared professional resources, and direct access to practice leadership, allowing you to devote more of your time and energy to your clients and your growth as a clinician.

We are seeking compassionate, dependable, motivated, and collaborative mental health therapists who care deeply about their clients and want more than simply a place to see appointments. We want clinicians who are interested in establishing themselves professionally, contributing their unique strengths to our team, collaborating with colleagues, and continuing to evolve throughout their careers.

Whether you are an established clinician bringing years of experience or a developing therapist building your professional identity, our goal is to create an environment where you can practice with autonomy while still having connection, consultation, mentorship, and support when you need it.

If you're looking for a practice where you can provide meaningful care, develop a caseload that reflects your interests, and build a professional identity that feels authentically yours, we invite you to grow with Valiant Minds Counseling.

Why Join Valiant Minds Counseling?

• Beautiful, fully furnished office space in a newly renovated location serving the Castle Shannon/Mt. Lebanon area of Pittsburgh
• Electronic health record and secure payment-processing systems provided
  
• Comprehensive administrative support, including insurance verification, claims submission, invoicing, and billing
• Credentialing management and support with major insurance panels
  
• Practice marketing and ongoing client referrals, including a professional clinician profile on the Valiant Minds Counseling website
  
• Collaborative clinical community with private consultation channels, shared resources, and direct access to practice leadership
  Clinical supervision available for qualifying clinicians
  
• Professional autonomy and room to grow: develop your own clinical identity, therapeutic style, ideal client population, and areas of specialization while receiving the support and mentorship needed to grow with confidence
  
• A positive and supportive work environment that values clinician well-being, professional development, collaboration, and high-quality client care
• Competitive percentage-based compensation: Licensed clinicians currently earn approximately $51–$83+ per completed session, depending on payer and reimbursement rate
  
• Strong earning potential: Based on current reimbursement rates, a licensed clinician maintaining a full-time caseload may earn approximately $65,000–$100,000+ annually. Actual earnings vary based on completed sessions, caseload, payer mix, reimbursement rates, cancellations, and time worked throughout the year. This represents estimated earning potential and is not a guaranteed salary.

Responsibilities
As a Mental Health Therapist at Valiant Minds Counseling, you will have the autonomy to develop your clinical practice while providing thoughtful, individualized care within a supportive and collaborative group practice environment.

• Provide high-quality individual, couples, and/or family psychotherapy based on your clinical experience, interests, areas of specialization, and preferred populations
• Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments and diagnostic evaluations to identify client needs, strengths, presenting concerns, and appropriate treatment recommendations
• Develop and maintain individualized, measurable treatment plans in collaboration with clients and regularly evaluate progress toward therapeutic goals
• Utilize evidence-based and clinically appropriate therapeutic approaches while continuing to develop and refine your own professional identity and therapeutic style
• Maintain accurate, timely, and clinically appropriate progress notes, treatment plans, assessments, discharge documentation, and other required clinical records within the electronic health record
• Establish and maintain a consistent and sustainable outpatient caseload while managing scheduling, attendance, cancellations, and continuity of care with administrative support from the practice
• Provide compassionate, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and client-centered care that respects each client's experiences, identities, values, strengths, and goals
• Maintain appropriate professional boundaries, confidentiality, informed consent, and ethical standards in accordance with Pennsylvania licensing requirements, professional codes of ethics, and practice policies
• Assess and respond appropriately to client safety concerns and clinical risk, including risk assessment, safety planning, documentation, consultation, and referrals when clinically indicated
• Coordinate care with physicians, psychiatrists, schools, family members, and other treatment providers when clinically appropriate and with proper client authorization
• Recognize when clients may benefit from a higher level of care, specialized services, psychological or psychiatric evaluation, or additional community resources, and facilitate appropriate referrals
• Participate in clinical consultation, peer collaboration, supervision when applicable, and practice meetings to support continued professional development and high-quality client care
• Remain current with licensure requirements, continuing education, ethical standards, and evidence-based clinical practices relevant to your areas of specialization
• Contribute to a positive, respectful, and collaborative practice culture while maintaining the independence and professional judgment expected of a mental health clinician
• Continue developing your clinical niche and professional interests, with opportunities to expand into populations, specialties, treatment modalities, and services that align with your long-term professional goals

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Master's or doctoral degree in counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy, psychology, or a closely related mental health field
• Active Pennsylvania clinical or associate-level license in good standing, as applicable to your profession (such as LPC, LCSW, LMFT, LAPC, licensed psychologist, or other qualifying Pennsylvania credential)
• Independently licensed clinicians are preferred; qualified associate-level clinicians are also encouraged to apply
• Current professional liability/malpractice insurance
• Current criminal background, FBI, and Pennsylvania Child Abuse clearances, as applicable to the clinician's work
• Ability to independently manage clinical responsibilities, documentation, scheduling, and client communication
• Commitment to ethical, culturally responsive, collaborative, and client-centered care

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or demonstrated interest in providing mental health therapy to diverse populations, including children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to establish meaningful therapeutic relationships
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, sound clinical judgment, and the ability to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment
• Experience or interest in developing expertise in specific populations, clinical concerns, or therapeutic modalities
• Commitment to continued professional development and lifelong learning
• Motivation to establish and maintain a thriving, sustainable outpatient caseload while growing professionally within a supportive private practice

Grow With Valiant Minds
At Valiant Minds Counseling, we aren't simply looking for someone to fill a caseload. We're looking for clinicians who want to build something meaningful.

We want to provide you with the foundation, referrals, resources, professional community, and support you need while giving you the freedom to shape a clinical career that reflects who you are as a therapist and the work you are passionate about doing.

If you're passionate about helping others thrive and are looking for a collaborative private practice where you can grow personally and professionally, we'd love to hear from you.