10% of behavioral health job listings on BehavioralHires are fully remote, and another 18.8% are hybrid: 773 remote and 1,449 hybrid of 7,696 active listings on October 6, 2026.
Psychiatric nurse practitioner roles are the most remote-friendly, at 36.1% fully remote.
Share of listings that are fully remote, for roles with at least 50 active listings from 10 or more employers.
Hybrid share is in the table below.
| Role | Remote | Hybrid | On-site | Listings | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatric nurse practitioner | 36.1% | 26.7% | 37.2% | 449 | 31 |
| Psychiatrist | 24.4% | 50.4% | 25.3% | 693 | 30 |
| Therapist | 18.4% | 17.2% | 64.4% | 1,970 | 54 |
| Mental health counselor | 11.1% | 48.4% | 40.5% | 190 | 12 |
| Clinical director | 5.9% | 0.7% | 93.4% | 152 | 25 |
| Licensed clinical social worker | 4.2% | 24.6% | 71.2% | 553 | 16 |
| Substance abuse counselor | 4% | 0% | 96% | 126 | 13 |
| Peer support specialist | 1.8% | 0% | 98.2% | 109 | 14 |
| Clinical psychologist | 1% | 55.4% | 43.6% | 628 | 17 |
| Case manager | 0.9% | 0% | 99.1% | 222 | 23 |
| Board certified behavior analyst | 0.6% | 0% | 99.4% | 359 | 22 |
| Registered behavior technician | 0% | 0% | 100% | 1,524 | 23 |
| Behavioral health technician | 0% | 0% | 100% | 611 | 31 |
Employment type as each employer lists it, for the same roles.
| Role | Full-time | Part-time | Contract | Per diem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All listings | 75.5% | 14.6% | 8% | 1.7% |
| Psychiatric nurse practitioner | 68.2% | 19.2% | 12% | 0.4% |
| Psychiatrist | 65.2% | 6.3% | 27% | 0.9% |
| Therapist | 65% | 21.7% | 9.8% | 3% |
| Mental health counselor | 93.2% | 5.8% | 1.1% | 0% |
| Clinical director | 98% | 0.7% | 1.3% | 0% |
| Licensed clinical social worker | 87.3% | 5.4% | 2.9% | 4% |
| Substance abuse counselor | 90.5% | 5.6% | 3.2% | 0.8% |
| Peer support specialist | 78% | 21.1% | 0% | 0.9% |
| Clinical psychologist | 79.9% | 3.2% | 16.6% | 0.3% |
| Case manager | 79.3% | 14.9% | 2.7% | 3.2% |
| Board certified behavior analyst | 81.9% | 15.6% | 2.5% | 0% |
| Registered behavior technician | 82.2% | 17.8% | 0% | 0.1% |
| Behavioral health technician | 71% | 18.3% | 5.6% | 5.1% |
Contract includes temporary listings.
Shares can sum to less than 100% where a listing names another type or none.
All figures come from the 7,696 active job listings on BehavioralHires on October 6, 2026, posted by 80 employers.
We removed 363 exact duplicates (same employer, title, city, state and pay range) first.
A listing counts as remote, hybrid or on-site by the work arrangement on the employer’s own posting, as carried into BehavioralHires.
Large employers post many openings each: the largest single employer accounts for 17.3% of all listings and the five largest for 64.4%, so these shares describe the listings on the board, not the average employer.
Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all behavioral health jobs.
Figures are frozen for the Q4 2026 release and refreshed quarterly; earlier releases are not revised.
BehavioralHires, “Remote Behavioral Health Jobs: Q4 2026 Job Listing Data,” Q4 2026 data release, listings snapshot of October 6, 2026. https://www.behavioralhires.com/research/data/remote-behavioral-health-jobs/
More first-party data: Behavioral Health Pay Transparency.
All research: BehavioralHires Research.
