PART-TIME COUPLES & RELATIONSHIP THERAPIST Remote

PART-TIME COUPLES & RELATIONSHIP THERAPIST
Remote | 1099 Independent Contractor | 60% of Collected Session Fees | $195 per 90-Minute Session

The Opportunity
Life Migration Therapy is a trauma-responsive and culturally affirming boutique psychotherapy practice seeking an experienced Couples & Relationship Therapist to join our growing virtual practice as a part-time 1099 independent contractor.

Our work is rooted in liberation-oriented, decolonial, and culturally affirming approaches to care. We recognize that relationships do not exist in a vacuum. Culture, race, migration, identity, trauma, attachment, family and intergenerational experiences, gender, sexuality, belonging, power, and broader systems can influence how people experience connection, conflict, intimacy, and healing.

The Therapist We're Looking For

We are looking for a relational, culturally grounded, and trauma-responsive clinician who is comfortable doing depth-oriented couples work - not simply teaching communication skills.
The ideal clinician understands that relationship conflict may also carry stories of attachment, trauma, migration, racialized experiences, cultural expectations, gender roles, family-of-origin experiences, intergenerational patterns, identity, belonging, and power. You approach these complexities with curiosity, cultural humility, and respect rather than assumptions. You are LGBTQ affirming and comfortable working across diverse cultures, identities, families, and relationship structures.

What You'll Do
• Provide virtual psychotherapy to couples and relationship clients.
• Assess relationship concerns and collaboratively develop individualized treatment goals.
• Use evidence-informed couples and relational approaches to address conflict, communication, intimacy, attachment,
trust, and other relationship concerns.
• Integrate trauma-responsive, culturally affirming, and systemic perspectives into clinical work.
• Recognize how culture, identity, migration, family-of-origin experiences, intergenerational patterns, and broader systems
may influence relational dynamics.
• Maintain timely, accurate, ethical, and clinically appropriate documentation.
• Maintain client confidentiality and comply with applicable professional, ethical, and telehealth requirements.
• Maintain professional competence through continuing education and ongoing development in couples and relationship
therapy.

Qualifications
• Active, unrestricted independent clinical license in Maryland OR Washington, DC, plus at least one additional U.S. state or jurisdiction.
• Independent license such as LMFT, LCSW/LCSW-C/LICSW, LCPC/LPC/LMHC, or state equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years of clinical experience.
• Demonstrated experience providing couples and relationship therapy.
• Formal training in at least one established couples modality, such as EFT/EFCT, Gottman Method, Imago Relationship
Therapy, Relational Life Therapy (RLT), or another established couples-focused approach.
• Meaningful grounding in liberation-oriented, decolonial, culturally affirming, and/or anti-oppressive psychotherapy.

• LGBTQ affirming and respectful of diverse identities, cultures, families, and relationship structures.
• Strong clinical documentation and communication skills and ability to practice independently in a virtual environment.
• Maintain individual professional liability/malpractice insurance meeting practice requirements.
• Capacity to accept evening and/or weekend clients.

Final candidates will complete applicable background screening, professional license verification, and credentialing requirements.

Compensation & Practice Support

Clinicians receive 60% of collected session fees. Our standard 90-minute couples session begins at $325, resulting in clinician compensation beginning at $195 per completed 90-minute session. Session fees may be higher based on clinician experience, specialization, licensure jurisdiction, and applicable market rates. Where a clinician-specific session rate is higher, the clinician continues to receive 60% of the applicable collected session fee. Life Migration Therapy anticipates supporting an initial referral volume of approximately 4 couples per week, based on referral volume, client-clinician fit, clinician availability, scheduling needs, and client demand, with opportunity to grow over time.

• Administrative and practice infrastructure.
• Marketing and referral support.
• Complimentary monthly clinical consultation.
• $500 annual professional-development stipend after completing 12 months with the practice, subject to practice guidelines.
• Fully virtual, private-pay practice environment.
• A practice culture that values clinical autonomy, cultural humility, thoughtful clinical work, and sustainable caseloads.

Schedule & 1099 Independent Contractor Status
This opportunity is structured as a part-time 1099 independent contractor relationship, not W-2 employment. Clinicians establish their own availability and maintain independent clinical judgment. Applicants should currently have capacity to accept some evening and/or weekend clients.
Contractors are responsible for their own applicable federal, state, and local tax obligations and do not receive W-2 employee benefits through Life Migration Therapy. Contractors maintain their own professional licenses, continuing-education requirements, applicable business/tax obligations, and professional liability insurance, while complying with applicable laws, ethical requirements, documentation standards, and practice administrative and client-care policies.