Mental Health Therapist, Contractor - CO / Remote

Cartwheel·October 6, 2026·

🌍 Remote · United States - RemoteContractHealthcare

💰 $60 – $70/hr

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Remote · United States - Remote

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$60 – $70/hr · published by the employer

• ✓ Open to early-career candidates

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Job Description

Join Cartwheel to help tackle the student mental health crisis.

Cartwheel is an early-stage company building a new kind of mental health program for kids that puts schools at the center. We see our role as supporting school staff who see kids every single day. Instead of going around them, we collaborate with them. This means:

• Earlier intervention
• Higher student and family engagement in care
• Better coordination among the trusted adults in a student’s life

ABOUT THE ROLE

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Provide excellent care, including mental health assessments and tele-therapy, to PreK-12 students and school staff in Cartwheel’s partner school districts (typically 2-4 months per student with extension based on clinical need and clinician’s judgment)
• Participate in case discussions with other Cartwheel team members
• Support students and families with transition to community care providers
• Build collaborative, trusted, and lasting relationships with school leadership, staff, students, and families. Meet regularly with school staff to discuss student mental health needs and develop strategies to improve school services.
• If qualified and interested, provide clinical supervision to other care team members

WHO YOU ARE

• Passion for working with schools on mental health and growing a startup company
• Active independent license in Colorado to deliver mental health care (LCSW, LMFT, LPC, PhD/PsyD)
• Experience with CBT, DBT, ACT, solution-focused therapy, and/or motivational interviewing
• At least two years of experience delivering mental health services to children and youth via telehealth. We use Zoom, G-Suite (Google Calendar, Gmail, etc.), electronic health record systems, and other collaboration tools.
• Access to reliable, high-speed internet (50 Mbps download, 10 Mbps upload, you can test your internet speed at https://www.speedtest.net/)
• Excellent organization, communication, and teamwork skills
• Ability to offer hours during and especially after school (e.g., 3-8 pm your local time, Saturdays)
• Ability to provide effective and safe care to children and adults, including ability to manage crisis situations virtually.
• NOTE: As long as you have an active Colorado license, you can live anywhere in the United States

• Fluency in other languages (e.g., Spanish, Portuguese)
• Experience with parent guidance
• Qualified to provide clinical supervision in Colorado
• Active NPI number (Need to apply for your NPI? Visit this link. It takes 2-4 weeks)
• CAQH credentialing set up (Need to apply for CAQH? Visit this link. It takes 3-4 days)

WHY YOU’LL LOVE CARTWHEEL

• Flexible and 100% remote role (8-20 hrs/week)
• Competitive compensation ($60-$70/hour base hourly rate + up to 5% quarterly Mission Bonus for Master’s-level clinicians, dependent on licensure, experience, language, etc.)
  • The Mission Bonus of up to 5% is paid quarterly for serving higher-need populations ( based on the % of students you see who have Medicaid, are uninsured, or speak a non-English language)
• Access to free online accredited continuing education and a CEU stipend
• Clinical Supervision for associate level clinicians
• Administrative support from our experienced, full-time Care Coordinators, and optional access to an AI-enabled medical scribe that saves you hours of documentation time (this is used and loved by the majority of Cartwheel clinicians!)
• Team-based care with mission-driven colleagues building a truly innovative school-community partnership model
• Opportunities beyond clinical care, including working closely with schools on staff support, workshops, and other programming