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Psychiatrist roles qualify for employment-based green card sponsorship under EB-2 or EB-3, with employers filing PERM labor certification through DOL before sponsoring your I-140 petition. Hospitals, community mental health centers, and VA facilities regularly sponsor foreign-trained psychiatrists, particularly in underserved areas where J-1 visa waiver programs intersect with PERM pathways.
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At ERC Pathlight, we’re on a mission to change lives—and we’re looking for people who feel called to do the same. As one of the nation’s leading treatment providers for eating disorders and mood, anxiety, and trauma-related conditions, we bring innovative, evidence-based, and deeply compassionate care to patients across the country. With multiple locations nationwide and extensive virtual programming, we meet patients exactly where they are and help them move toward lasting recovery. Founded in 2008 by renowned psychiatrists and psychologists, ERC Pathlight now supports more than 6,000 patients each year. And as the need for world-class mental health care continues to rise, our commitment is stronger than ever: to expand access, elevate the standard of care, and empower every patient to rebuild their life with dignity and hope.
Why Join Us
When you join ERC Pathlight, you become part of a team that shows up every day to make a real difference. You’ll work alongside passionate clinicians, dedicated support staff, and mission-driven leaders who believe in collaboration, growth, and doing the right thing—always. Here, your work matters. Your ideas matter. You matter. If you’re energized by purpose, motivated by impact, and ready to help transform the future of mental health treatment, you belong here. Come build hope. Come save lives. Come grow with us.
Eating Recovery Center (ERC) and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center are seeking a full-time Psychiatrist to join our team in Austin, Texas, supporting patients across both of our programs. We’re looking for a General Psychiatrist who is comfortable treating patients across the age spectrum, from children and adolescents through adults. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training is not required. What’s most important is a psychiatrist who is comfortable and willing to treat younger patients as well as adults within our PHP setting.
What Makes This Opportunity Stand Out
- $45,000 Sign-On Bonus
- Competitive compensation
- Relocation assistance
- Full-time opportunity
- 100% onsite, 5 days per week in Austin
- Standalone Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) setting
- Support patients across both ERC and Pathlight programs
- Opportunity to treat children, adolescents, and adults
- Collaborative, multidisciplinary care model
- Exposure to eating disorders, mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, and other co-occurring psychiatric conditions
What You’ll Be Doing
Our psychiatrists lead multidisciplinary treatment teams and provide comprehensive psychiatric care to patients across Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center. This role provides the opportunity to work with individuals experiencing eating disorders as well as mood, anxiety, trauma-related, and other co-occurring psychiatric conditions.
Responsibilities Include
- Conducting comprehensive psychiatric evaluations
- Diagnosing psychiatric conditions and developing individualized treatment plans
- Prescribing and managing psychotropic medications
- Providing psychiatric care to children, adolescents, and adults
- Determining appropriate levels of care
- Collaborating closely with therapists, dietitians, nursing teams, advanced practice providers, and other healthcare professionals
- Participating in multidisciplinary treatment planning
- Advocating for patients within healthcare and insurance systems
- Completing timely and thorough clinical documentation
- Collaborating with families, support persons, and referring providers as appropriate
- Participating in insurance peer reviews to help optimize treatment duration and outcomes
Direct Patient Care & Professional Expectations
- Practice evidence-based, high-quality psychiatric medicine focused on exceptional patient care and outcomes
- Support patient understanding, engagement, and shared decision-making
- Maintain complete, accurate, and timely medical records
- Collaborate with clinical leadership, physicians, treatment teams, families, and referring providers
- Promote a culture of respect, collaboration, and clinical excellence
- Support organizational goals related to quality, compliance, outcomes, and patient satisfaction
- Participate in continuing education, staff training, and professional development
- Serve as a clinical resource, teacher, and mentor to members of the multidisciplinary team
Schedule & Call Expectations
This is a full-time, onsite position in Austin, Texas. During the week, physicians provide call coverage for their own patients as needed. There is no weekend call requirement for this role, as weekend coverage from Friday through Sunday is managed by the Plano, Texas on-call physician.
Required Qualifications
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)
- Completion of an accredited Psychiatry Residency Program or equivalent training
- General Psychiatry training required
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training is NOT required
- Must be willing and comfortable treating children, adolescents, and adults
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry
- Licensed to practice medicine in Texas or eligible for Texas licensure
- Maintain all required certifications, licensure, and registrations
Join a Team That Changes Lives Every Day
At Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center, our psychiatrists are more than providers. They are leaders, educators, advocates, and partners in recovery. If you're a psychiatrist looking for a collaborative environment where you can provide meaningful care across the lifespan and across both eating disorder and mood & anxiety treatment programs, we’d love to connect with you about our Austin, Texas opportunity.
What We Offer
At ERC Pathlight, caring for people is our mission and that begins with caring for our own team. Your well-being matters, and our benefit program is designed to support every part of your life. We offer competitive compensation; comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; generous Paid Time Off; Parental Leave benefits; Retirement benefits; and tuition reimbursement to help you continue growing in your career. We also recognize that mental health is part of every person’s experience. That’s why we strive to create a workplace where you feel supported, seen, and encouraged—personally, professionally, and at home. When you thrive, you can do your best work. And your best work changes lives.
Who We Are
At ERC Pathlight, we’re on a mission to change lives—and we’re looking for people who feel called to do the same. As one of the nation’s leading treatment providers for eating disorders and mood, anxiety, and trauma-related conditions, we bring innovative, evidence-based, and deeply compassionate care to patients across the country. With multiple locations nationwide and extensive virtual programming, we meet patients exactly where they are and help them move toward lasting recovery. Founded in 2008 by renowned psychiatrists and psychologists, ERC Pathlight now supports more than 6,000 patients each year. And as the need for world-class mental health care continues to rise, our commitment is stronger than ever: to expand access, elevate the standard of care, and empower every patient to rebuild their life with dignity and hope.
Why Join Us
When you join ERC Pathlight, you become part of a team that shows up every day to make a real difference. You’ll work alongside passionate clinicians, dedicated support staff, and mission-driven leaders who believe in collaboration, growth, and doing the right thing—always. Here, your work matters. Your ideas matter. You matter. If you’re energized by purpose, motivated by impact, and ready to help transform the future of mental health treatment, you belong here. Come build hope. Come save lives. Come grow with us.
Eating Recovery Center (ERC) and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center are seeking a full-time Psychiatrist to join our team in Austin, Texas, supporting patients across both of our programs. We’re looking for a General Psychiatrist who is comfortable treating patients across the age spectrum, from children and adolescents through adults. Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training is not required. What’s most important is a psychiatrist who is comfortable and willing to treat younger patients as well as adults within our PHP setting.
What Makes This Opportunity Stand Out
- $45,000 Sign-On Bonus
- Competitive compensation
- Relocation assistance
- Full-time opportunity
- 100% onsite, 5 days per week in Austin
- Standalone Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) setting
- Support patients across both ERC and Pathlight programs
- Opportunity to treat children, adolescents, and adults
- Collaborative, multidisciplinary care model
- Exposure to eating disorders, mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, and other co-occurring psychiatric conditions
What You’ll Be Doing
Our psychiatrists lead multidisciplinary treatment teams and provide comprehensive psychiatric care to patients across Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center. This role provides the opportunity to work with individuals experiencing eating disorders as well as mood, anxiety, trauma-related, and other co-occurring psychiatric conditions.
Responsibilities Include
- Conducting comprehensive psychiatric evaluations
- Diagnosing psychiatric conditions and developing individualized treatment plans
- Prescribing and managing psychotropic medications
- Providing psychiatric care to children, adolescents, and adults
- Determining appropriate levels of care
- Collaborating closely with therapists, dietitians, nursing teams, advanced practice providers, and other healthcare professionals
- Participating in multidisciplinary treatment planning
- Advocating for patients within healthcare and insurance systems
- Completing timely and thorough clinical documentation
- Collaborating with families, support persons, and referring providers as appropriate
- Participating in insurance peer reviews to help optimize treatment duration and outcomes
Direct Patient Care & Professional Expectations
- Practice evidence-based, high-quality psychiatric medicine focused on exceptional patient care and outcomes
- Support patient understanding, engagement, and shared decision-making
- Maintain complete, accurate, and timely medical records
- Collaborate with clinical leadership, physicians, treatment teams, families, and referring providers
- Promote a culture of respect, collaboration, and clinical excellence
- Support organizational goals related to quality, compliance, outcomes, and patient satisfaction
- Participate in continuing education, staff training, and professional development
- Serve as a clinical resource, teacher, and mentor to members of the multidisciplinary team
Schedule & Call Expectations
This is a full-time, onsite position in Austin, Texas. During the week, physicians provide call coverage for their own patients as needed. There is no weekend call requirement for this role, as weekend coverage from Friday through Sunday is managed by the Plano, Texas on-call physician.
Required Qualifications
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)
- Completion of an accredited Psychiatry Residency Program or equivalent training
- General Psychiatry training required
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training is NOT required
- Must be willing and comfortable treating children, adolescents, and adults
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry
- Licensed to practice medicine in Texas or eligible for Texas licensure
- Maintain all required certifications, licensure, and registrations
Join a Team That Changes Lives Every Day
At Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center, our psychiatrists are more than providers. They are leaders, educators, advocates, and partners in recovery. If you're a psychiatrist looking for a collaborative environment where you can provide meaningful care across the lifespan and across both eating disorder and mood & anxiety treatment programs, we’d love to connect with you about our Austin, Texas opportunity.
What We Offer
At ERC Pathlight, caring for people is our mission and that begins with caring for our own team. Your well-being matters, and our benefit program is designed to support every part of your life. We offer competitive compensation; comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; generous Paid Time Off; Parental Leave benefits; Retirement benefits; and tuition reimbursement to help you continue growing in your career. We also recognize that mental health is part of every person’s experience. That’s why we strive to create a workplace where you feel supported, seen, and encouraged—personally, professionally, and at home. When you thrive, you can do your best work. And your best work changes lives.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Psychiatrist
Verify your credentials meet ABPN equivalency
Foreign medical graduates need ECFMG certification and a completed U.S. residency before most employers will initiate PERM. Confirm your board eligibility status early, since USCIS scrutinizes whether your foreign degree satisfies the EB-2 advanced-degree requirement for psychiatry.
Target employers in HPSA-designated shortage areas
Hospitals and community mental health centers in Health Professional Shortage Areas face documented recruitment difficulty, which strengthens the PERM labor market test. These employers are also more practiced at sponsoring foreign psychiatrists and often have immigration counsel already on retainer.
Search green card sponsorship history using Migrate Mate
Filter by psychiatry roles and confirmed PERM-filing employers on Migrate Mate before applying. Seeing which health systems have actually initiated labor certifications for psychiatrists tells you far more than a job posting that vaguely mentions visa support.
Negotiate PERM filing into your employment contract
Get the employer's commitment to sponsor PERM in writing before you sign, including a timeline and who covers filing costs. Employers sometimes delay initiating labor certification after onboarding, and a contract clause protects you from years of waiting on an informal promise.
Understand how your country of birth affects your wait
EB-2 and EB-3 priority dates apply based on your country of birth, not citizenship. If you were born in India or China, expect multi-year backlogs even after I-140 approval. For most other nationalities, EB-3 for psychiatrists is currently current or near-current.
Prepare for the PERM prevailing wage before your offer
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the prevailing wage for your specific psychiatry SOC code in your target location before salary negotiations. Your employer must pay at least the DOL-certified wage throughout the PERM process, so knowing the number upfront prevents offer mismatches later.
Green Card Psychiatrist: Frequently Asked Questions
Do psychiatrist roles typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Psychiatrist positions almost always qualify for EB-2, since the role requires a medical degree plus residency training, satisfying the advanced-degree requirement. Some employers file under EB-3 as a backup or when the position is structured as a skilled worker role. Your employer and their immigration attorney determine which category to file under based on how the job duties are defined in the PERM application.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for psychiatrists?
Green card sponsorship through PERM leads to permanent residency, not a temporary status that expires. There's no annual lottery for EB-2 or EB-3 the way there is for H-1B visa, and the process isn't dependent on random selection. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone typically takes six to twelve months, with I-140 and adjustment of status adding more time on top. The payoff is a permanent outcome rather than renewing every few years.
What is the PERM labor certification process for a psychiatrist position?
PERM requires your employer to conduct a supervised recruitment process to demonstrate that no qualified U.S. worker is available for the role. DOL sets specific advertising requirements, including job postings, newspaper ads, and internal notice. If recruitment finds no qualified U.S. applicants, the employer files the ETA Form 9089 with DOL. Approval moves the case to I-140 petition filing with USCIS. The entire process requires meticulous documentation, and any procedural error can trigger an audit.
Which types of U.S. employers most actively sponsor psychiatrists for green cards?
VA medical centers, academic medical centers, federally qualified health centers, and psychiatric hospital groups in rural or underserved markets are the most active sponsors. These employers face documented shortages of U.S. psychiatrists and are experienced with the PERM process. Use Migrate Mate to identify health systems with a verified history of sponsoring psychiatry roles before targeting your job search, rather than relying on job postings that mention sponsorship without a track record.
Can I switch employers after my PERM is approved but before I get my green card?
Yes, under AC21 portability rules, you can change employers once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, provided the new job is in the same or a similar occupational classification. For psychiatrists, this generally means staying within psychiatry or a closely related specialty. The original I-140 must remain approved, and your new employer does not need to restart the PERM process from scratch.