Remote Behavioral Health Clinician Jobs
Remote behavioral health clinician jobs are in strong demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed healthcare teams actively hiring licensed clinicians for telehealth counseling, crisis support, and behavioral health case management roles. Employers hiring remotely right now include Lyra Health, Included Health, and LifeStance Health. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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About Lyra Health
Lyra Health is a leading provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally in partnership with employers and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships. The company has delivered more than 15 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 35 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness, and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.
About the Role
As a Behavioral Health Clinician, you’ll be doing the important, meaningful work of managing crises, providing in-the-moment phone support to clients with complex behavioral health issues, ensuring client safety, and connecting clients to high-quality, evidence-based providers and facilities. This position does not involve providing in-person services or therapy but instead focuses on supporting clients in connecting to care, exclusively by phone and email.
This role may be for you if you are an excellent written and verbal communicator, an ace at time management, skilled with crisis management, and passionate about connecting individuals to excellent care. It’s important that you’re comfortable adopting new technology platforms and have a growth mindset. We’re all here for the same goal: to improve access to the highest quality mental health care for our clients–when they need it most.
You must be able to work the following shift(s):
Tuesday - Saturday 9:30am - 6pm PST (10:30am - 7pm MT / 11:30am - 8pm CT / 12:30pm - 9pm ET)
Sunday - Thursday 9:30am - 6pm PT (10:30am - 7pm MT / 11:30am - 8pm CT / 12:30pm - 9pm ET)
Weekends include a 10% shift pay differential!
This role's internal title is: Clinical Care Navigator. The position can be carried out fully remote/virtually. Remote candidates must be physically located within the United States.
Responsibilities
- Using evidence-based interventions, skillfully manage client crises, providing brief risk assessment, safety planning, and de-escalation with the goal of connecting the client to treatment
- Identify roadblocks to clinical care options for our clients using Lyra’s proprietary software and other methods to connect clients to the ideal treatment, based on specific needs and preferences
- Independently manage a caseload of complex, multi-need clients
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in clinical social work or equivalent; LCSW or equivalent independent clinical licensure is required (e.g. LMFT, LPC, LPCC, etc) or a Bachelor's degree in nursing (RN). We’re unable to provide supervised hours toward licensure. Candidates without a state license to deliver mental health services, independently, will not be considered (with the exception of the RN license)
- Must have 2+ years psychiatric intake, assessment RB, other related experience
- EAP/clinical call center experience preferred
- Must be Bilingual, Spanish-speaking
- Significant experience managing high-risk clinical situations (e.g., suicidality, mandated reporting)
- Must be a full time resident of the United States; work cannot be completed from outside the United States.
Pay and Benefits
As a full-time Clinical Care Navigator, you will be employed by Lyra Health, Inc. The anticipated base rate for this full-time position is $41 per hour. The base rate is determined by role and level, and the base rate will depend on a number of job-related factors, including but not limited to your skills, qualifications, experience and location.
The base rate is only one part of an employee’s total compensation package at Lyra. We also offer generous benefits that include:
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life and disability insurances)
- Lyra for Lyrians; coaching and therapy services
- Competitive time off with pay policies including vacation, sick days, and company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- 401K retirement benefits
- Monthly tech allowance
- We like to spread joy throughout the year with well-being perks and activities, surprise swag, regular community celebration…and more!
We can’t wait to meet you.
Protect yourself from recruitment fraud
Lyra Health does not use text or chat applications to conduct interviews or make job offers. We have a thoughtful and interactive interview process that primarily includes video-based interviews with our hiring teams. Communications will always be conducted from lyrahealth(dot)com or lyraclinical(dot)com domain names. Please disregard any other communications that do not include these domain names but appear to be from Lyra Recruiting.
"We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as per the Lyra Health Workforce Privacy Notice. Through this application, to the extent permitted by law, we will collect personal information from you including, but not limited to, your name, email address, gender identity, employment information, and phone number for the purposes of recruiting and assessing suitability, aptitude, skills, qualifications, and interests for employment with Lyra. We may also collect information about your race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which is considered sensitive personal information under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and special category data under the UK and EU GDPR. Providing this information is optional and completely voluntary, and if you provide it you consent to Lyra processing it for the purposes as described at the point of collection, for example for diversity and inclusion initiatives. If you are a California resident and would like to limit how we use this information, please use the Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information form. This information will only be retained for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described above. Please note that Lyra does not “sell” or “share” personal information as defined by the CPRA. Outside of the United States, for example in the EU, Switzerland and the UK, you may have the right to request access to, or a copy of, your personal information, including in a portable format; request that we delete your information from our systems; object to or restrict processing of your information; or correct inaccurate or outdated personal information in our systems. These rights may be subject to legal limitations. To exercise your data privacy rights outside of the United States, please contact globaldpo@lyrahealth.com. For more information about how we use and retain your information, please see our Workforce Privacy Notice."
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, summarizing interviews, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
About Lyra Health
Lyra Health is a leading provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally in partnership with employers and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships. The company has delivered more than 15 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 35 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness, and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.
About the Role
As a Behavioral Health Clinician, you’ll be doing the important, meaningful work of managing crises, providing in-the-moment phone support to clients with complex behavioral health issues, ensuring client safety, and connecting clients to high-quality, evidence-based providers and facilities. This position does not involve providing in-person services or therapy but instead focuses on supporting clients in connecting to care, exclusively by phone and email.
This role may be for you if you are an excellent written and verbal communicator, an ace at time management, skilled with crisis management, and passionate about connecting individuals to excellent care. It’s important that you’re comfortable adopting new technology platforms and have a growth mindset. We’re all here for the same goal: to improve access to the highest quality mental health care for our clients–when they need it most.
You must be able to work the following shift(s):
Tuesday - Saturday 9:30am - 6pm PST (10:30am - 7pm MT / 11:30am - 8pm CT / 12:30pm - 9pm ET)
Sunday - Thursday 9:30am - 6pm PT (10:30am - 7pm MT / 11:30am - 8pm CT / 12:30pm - 9pm ET)
Weekends include a 10% shift pay differential!
This role's internal title is: Clinical Care Navigator. The position can be carried out fully remote/virtually. Remote candidates must be physically located within the United States.
Responsibilities
- Using evidence-based interventions, skillfully manage client crises, providing brief risk assessment, safety planning, and de-escalation with the goal of connecting the client to treatment
- Identify roadblocks to clinical care options for our clients using Lyra’s proprietary software and other methods to connect clients to the ideal treatment, based on specific needs and preferences
- Independently manage a caseload of complex, multi-need clients
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in clinical social work or equivalent; LCSW or equivalent independent clinical licensure is required (e.g. LMFT, LPC, LPCC, etc) or a Bachelor's degree in nursing (RN). We’re unable to provide supervised hours toward licensure. Candidates without a state license to deliver mental health services, independently, will not be considered (with the exception of the RN license)
- Must have 2+ years psychiatric intake, assessment RB, other related experience
- EAP/clinical call center experience preferred
- Must be Bilingual, Spanish-speaking
- Significant experience managing high-risk clinical situations (e.g., suicidality, mandated reporting)
- Must be a full time resident of the United States; work cannot be completed from outside the United States.
Pay and Benefits
As a full-time Clinical Care Navigator, you will be employed by Lyra Health, Inc. The anticipated base rate for this full-time position is $41 per hour. The base rate is determined by role and level, and the base rate will depend on a number of job-related factors, including but not limited to your skills, qualifications, experience and location.
The base rate is only one part of an employee’s total compensation package at Lyra. We also offer generous benefits that include:
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life and disability insurances)
- Lyra for Lyrians; coaching and therapy services
- Competitive time off with pay policies including vacation, sick days, and company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- 401K retirement benefits
- Monthly tech allowance
- We like to spread joy throughout the year with well-being perks and activities, surprise swag, regular community celebration…and more!
We can’t wait to meet you.
Protect yourself from recruitment fraud
Lyra Health does not use text or chat applications to conduct interviews or make job offers. We have a thoughtful and interactive interview process that primarily includes video-based interviews with our hiring teams. Communications will always be conducted from lyrahealth(dot)com or lyraclinical(dot)com domain names. Please disregard any other communications that do not include these domain names but appear to be from Lyra Recruiting.
"We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as per the Lyra Health Workforce Privacy Notice. Through this application, to the extent permitted by law, we will collect personal information from you including, but not limited to, your name, email address, gender identity, employment information, and phone number for the purposes of recruiting and assessing suitability, aptitude, skills, qualifications, and interests for employment with Lyra. We may also collect information about your race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which is considered sensitive personal information under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and special category data under the UK and EU GDPR. Providing this information is optional and completely voluntary, and if you provide it you consent to Lyra processing it for the purposes as described at the point of collection, for example for diversity and inclusion initiatives. If you are a California resident and would like to limit how we use this information, please use the Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information form. This information will only be retained for as long as needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described above. Please note that Lyra does not “sell” or “share” personal information as defined by the CPRA. Outside of the United States, for example in the EU, Switzerland and the UK, you may have the right to request access to, or a copy of, your personal information, including in a portable format; request that we delete your information from our systems; object to or restrict processing of your information; or correct inaccurate or outdated personal information in our systems. These rights may be subject to legal limitations. To exercise your data privacy rights outside of the United States, please contact globaldpo@lyrahealth.com. For more information about how we use and retain your information, please see our Workforce Privacy Notice."
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, summarizing interviews, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Who's Hiring
- Lyra Health2
- Included Health1
- LifeStance Health1
- Cambia Health Solutions1
Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance3
- Technology & Software1
- Healthcare & Medical Services1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote behavioral health clinician jobs.
- Master's degree in social work, counseling, psychology, or a related behavioral health field
- Active state licensure such as LCSW, LPC, LMFT, or associate-level equivalent
- Experience delivering individual and group therapy using evidence-based modalities such as CBT or DBT
- Proficiency with electronic health record systems for clinical documentation and billing
- Knowledge of crisis assessment, safety planning, and mandated reporting requirements
- Experience with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders across diverse populations
Tips for Your Remote Behavioral Health Clinician Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote behavioral health clinician openings from across the U.S. in one place. Check regularly, apply directly to roles that match your licensure and caseload experience, and don't wait since remote postings close fast when demand is high.
Highlight telehealth platform fluency upfront
Remote employers want to know you can run sessions without IT support on-site. Name the specific platforms you've used, such as Doxy.me, SimplePractice, or Zoom for Healthcare, and note any training you've completed in virtual crisis intervention or remote intake workflows.
Demonstrate async clinical communication skills
Remote behavioral health roles depend on clear written handoffs, detailed session notes, and timely responses in electronic health record systems. Show that your documentation is thorough and timely by referencing your EHR experience and any remote care coordination you've handled across distributed teams.
Confirm multistate licensure before you apply
Many remote behavioral health clinician roles serve clients across multiple states, so employers prioritize candidates with compact licensure or licenses in several states. Check whether your discipline participates in a licensure compact and apply first to roles that match your current licensed states.
Prepare for video-based clinical interviews
Remote employers conduct interviews the same way you'd conduct sessions, over video. Test your setup in advance, treat the call as a demonstration of your telehealth presence, and be ready to discuss how you build therapeutic rapport and manage clinical risk without being in the room.
Remote Behavioral Health Clinician Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote behavioral health clinician job?
Target companies that have built distributed clinical teams, such as telehealth platforms, digital mental health startups, and managed care organizations that operate across multiple states. Remote employers screen for strong written communication, comfort with electronic health records, and the ability to manage a caseload independently without in-person supervision. Demonstrating licensure portability across states and experience with video-based sessions gives candidates a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote behavioral health clinicians?
Remote behavioral health clinician roles are posted by Lyra Health, Included Health, and LifeStance Health and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These include telehealth-first organizations, integrated behavioral health networks, and digital care platforms that staff fully distributed clinical teams.
Can you get a remote behavioral health clinician job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land because employers expect new clinicians to work independently from day one with minimal in-person oversight. Telehealth training programs, practicum hours completed via video, and coursework in trauma-informed care help demonstrate readiness. Highlighting strong async communication skills and familiarity with telehealth platforms can open doors at smaller digital health organizations hiring at the entry level.
Do you need a degree for remote behavioral health clinician jobs?
Usually, yes. Most remote behavioral health clinician roles require at minimum a master's degree in counseling, social work, or a related field, along with state licensure. That said, some roles emphasize demonstrated clinical competencies, peer support certification, and hands-on case management experience alongside or in place of advanced credentials, particularly at community mental health organizations operating distributed teams.
Which industries hire the most remote behavioral health clinicians?
Most remote behavioral health clinician openings sit in Insurance, Technology & Software, and Healthcare & Medical Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors rely on distributed clinical teams to deliver services across wide geographic areas without requiring clinicians to be on-site.
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