The problem BehavioralHires is built to solve
Few parts of healthcare are as short-staffed as behavioral health, yet the field's hiring still runs through job sites designed for every industry at once.
Type “therapist” into one of those and you'll wade through physical therapy, respiratory therapy, and spa listings. An outpatient clinic's LCSW posting ends up buried under openings that have nothing to do with counseling.
The result is a mismatch on both ends: qualified clinicians scroll past irrelevant results, and the programs that need them struggle to be seen.
Licensure makes it harder still.
A professional counselor might hold an LPC in one state, an LMHC in another, and an LPCC or LCPC somewhere else, while supervision rules and scope differ at every border. Generic job sites don't account for any of that.
So this board keeps its focus narrow on purpose: the listings, the pay data, and the licensing coverage all concern behavioral health work, and only that.
Who I am
BehavioralHires was started by me, Gabriel Meierotto.
Here's what I'm not. I have no clinical license or training: I'm not a therapist, counselor, social worker, prescriber, or any other type of clinician.
I have never provided care to a patient. Nothing here should be read as medical, clinical, or mental health advice or as a clinical review, and none of it replaces treatment. If you came looking for care rather than a job, please look elsewhere, and if you're in crisis right now, call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
What I do know is the business side: how organizations in this industry recruit and hire.
That's why anything we publish about clinical scope, licensure, or state law rests on primary sources instead of my say-so or anyone's recollection. The process is laid out in the next sections.
How jobs end up on the board
Each job on BehavioralHires arrives by one of two routes. Most are collected, on a continuous refresh, from employers' own career sites and public job feeds. The rest are submitted straight to us by the hiring organization.
Any collected listing points back to where it was originally posted, so your application goes directly to the employer.
The one paid placement is Featured: a Featured post, or any post on the Brand slot plan, sits at the top of the feed and carries a “Featured” badge. Beyond that, search order isn't for sale.
Our research rules for guides and salary pages
Much of what we publish deals with licensure, scope of practice, and pay. Getting one of them wrong could set a clinician back months, cost them money, or lose them an offer.
Four rules govern everything we write:
- Before any state-level legal or licensure statement goes live, we check it against a primary source: that state’s licensing board, the statute or regulation that controls the issue, or written guidance published by the board.
- Pages about regulations show the date they were last verified, so you can judge how fresh they are.
- Pay numbers come from sources we name, such as salaries posted in listings on BehavioralHires and government wage data. We don’t make figures up.
- For numbers that move often, we explain the overall picture instead of quoting a precise figure that would soon go out of date.
A page only carries a “medically reviewed” label when a specific, credentialed clinician has in fact gone over it.
We don't invent reviewers or use stock photos to suggest an expert board that doesn't exist.
Treat our guides as general background; they aren't legal or medical advice.
For a decision about licensure, scope of practice, or how to structure a business, your state board or a qualified professional is the right source.
Found something wrong?
Rules for supervision hours, license titles, and pay shift all the time. If you notice a requirement we haven't caught up with, an outdated wage number, or a listing that no longer works, please tell me.
Write to [email protected] and I'll check it and fix what needs fixing.
On a site that covers this much changing regulation, updates like that are routine, and they make the guides better for everyone.