Primary Therapist, Eating Disorders

🏢 Compass Health Center · all 11 jobs

📍 United States

💰 USD 55,000 - 75,000 / annual

📅 Posted Sep 4, 2026 · via Himalayas

🏷 Primary Therapist, Eating Disorders Therapist, Clinical Therapist, Behavioral Health Therapist, Mental Health Therapist, Eating Disorder Specialist +1 more

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Compass Health Center is a leading provider of specialized mental health care services, offering immediate access to tailored treatment for children, teens, and adults facing various psychological challenges.
Compass Health Center
Employee count: 201-500

Salary: $55K – $75K per year
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Weekly outpatient therapy isn't always enough, and a trip to the ER isn't the only answer. Patients and their families rely on Compass Health Center when in crisis – every day, we help people overcome depression, anxiety, suicidality, obsessions/compulsions, trauma, chronic pain, and other obstacles in order for our patients to live freely.
About This Role

As a Primary Therapist in the Over-18 Eating Disorders Program, you’ll work thoughtfully with our patients to develop and implement their individualized treatment plans. This role will consist of conducting individual therapy meetings, providing secondary support for meals and snacks, collaborating with patients’ outpatient teams, and leading patients through their overall treatment program. You’ll partner closely with the entirety of our treatment teams, including Registered Dietitians, Group Therapists, Family Therapists, and Psychiatry Team Members to ensure comprehensive and compassionate care.

Compass is proud to be a trailblazer within the future of behavioral health, offering fully virtual PHP/IOP programs to patients across the entire state of Illinois. Our virtual programs meet the needs of modern healthcare, providing flexibility for both patients and clinicians while increasing access to fundamental care.
What You'll Do:

Assessment and Formulation
- Complete initial intake evaluations to determine diagnosis and appropriateness for program
- Build and maintain transdiagnostic case formulation based on maintaining mechanisms throughout course of patient’s treatment
- Sequence treatment using program’s treatment target hierarchy

Individual Treatment
- Deliver individual therapy with evidence-based eating disorder interventions (e.g., CBT-E, exposure therapy, CBT-AR), integrating ERP, DBT, ACT, and other interventions for eating disorders and co-occurring conditions
- Assign individualized homework, including design, assign, and debrief individual exposures
- Identify and address accommodation and safety behaviors

Care Coordination
- Serve as case lead for the treatment plan, coordinating the work of Registered Dietitians, Group Therapists, Family Therapists, and prescribers
- Participate in interdisciplinary treatment rounds
- Partner with Family Therapist on family involvement
- Utilize Compass’s Evidence-Based Assessment system to monitor progress and guide treatment planning
- Coordinate with outpatient providers and complete aftercare handoff

Medical and Risk
- Monitor medical status in collaboration with nursing and prescribers; recognize indicators of medical instability and escalate per protocol
- Assess need for higher level of care, step-down, or discharge

Program Operations
- Provide secondary (Non-RD) coverage for supported meals and snacks
- Complete required documentation throughout treatment
- Participate in required program training, fidelity monitoring, supervision, and consultation
- Other duties, as assigned

Who You Are:

Credentials and Experience
- Independently licensed as a psychologist, LCSW, LCPC, or LMFT in the state of Illinois (required)
- 2+ years post-Master's clinical experience in eating disorder treatment (preferred)
- Experience treating eating disorders (required)
- Experience treating OCD, anxiety, PTSD, and/or depression (preferred)
- Have experience in a PHP, IOP, residential, or inpatient setting

Skills and Approach (preferred)
- Working knowledge of conceptualization of eating disorder treatment and co-occurring conditions
- Ability to deliver interventions that reliably address maintaining mechanisms of disorders, and ability to tolerate patient distress without accommodating or reassuring
- Practices from weight-inclusive framework
- Adopts “all foods fit” approach towards clinical nutrition
- Works within defined curriculum and fidelity expectations rather than an idiosyncratic model
- Seeks and uses supervision and consultation
- Excellent time management skills, ability to juggle multiple demands simultaneously in a fast paced and changing environment

We are committed to a fair and equitable work environment. The expected compensation range for this role is below. This range includes multiple career path levels across the organization; where you fall in the range is dependent upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, your years of experience, type of experience, location, and education/certifications. Compass reserves the right to update these ranges.

Compensation
$55,000—$75,000 USD

We know job descriptions can be intimidating, so if this sounds like an opportunity for you, please don't hesitate to apply!
Who We Are

Compass Health Center is a recognized leader in crisis-level mental health, bringing passion, connection, and patient-centered care to the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient space (PHP/IOP). Based in Chicagoland, we serve hundreds of patients every day, ranging from ages 5 through adulthood, in our onsite facilities or through our flourishing virtual programming. Compass fills a critical gap between outpatient and inpatient care through an intermediate level of Behavioral Healthcare.

A few more things we want you to know: our values are super important to us, and hopefully will be to you, too. Cultural humility, teamwork, continuous improvement, connection, patient centered care, passion, innovation, and agility should be your power sources. Joining Compass is an opportunity to feel fulfilled through a joint mission towards healing our communities.
Benefits & Perks

We know that you will be dedicated to your purpose here. We look at that investment as a two-way street. We are proud to offer plenty of space for growth, and opportunities to pursue continuous development within our organization.

For eligible positions, our other benefits include: comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans, 401k program with company matching, generous PTO (including competitive parental leave after 1 year of employment), and continuous training through CEU seminars and volunteering opportunities.
What’s Next?

Compass is committed to cultivating diverse and dynamic teams who exude passion for their craft, so whether or not you check all the boxes, we encourage you to apply – we’d be grateful to hear from you!

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Sep 04, 2026
Job type
Full Time
Experience level
Mid-level

Salary

Salary: $55K – $75K per year

Education
Bachelor degree

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Primary Therapist Eating Disorders Therapist Clinical Therapist Behavioral Health Therapist Mental Health Therapist Eating Disorder Specialist Therapist

Skills
CBT Exposure Therapy ERP DBT ACT Eating Disorders Treatment Individual Therapy Treatment Planning Clinical Assessment Case Conceptualization Family Therapy PHP IOP Treatment Clinical Documentation Care Coordination Eating Disorder Treatment Intake Assessment Documentation PHP IOP Evidence Based Assessment Practices Trailblazer

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Compass Health Center is dedicated to providing immediate access to specialized and evidence-based behavioral health treatment tailored for individuals across all age groups. Its focus on Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) Programs addresses common mental health challenges such as anxiety, OCD, trauma, depression, and substance use disorders. The center is uniquely equipped to serve children, teens, and adults through age-specific approaches that ensure the highest level of care. Founded by experienced psychiatrists, Compass Health Center was established in response to the increasing need for timely mental health intervention, allowing individuals and families to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency room visits that often result from delays in care.

At Compass Health Center, the commitment to quality is evident not just in their specialized programs but also in their impressive outcomes. With no waiting lists, patients can often receive care the same day or the next. Their multidisciplinary team includes over 55 psychiatrists and numerous master-level clinicians who work collaboratively to develop personalized treatment plans. The center's impact is significant, as reflected by the high satisfaction rates among patients and families. Patients typically report improvements and many would recommend the center to others. With locations throughout Illinois and virtual services available, Compass Health Center is at the forefront of mental health care, emphasizing the importance of immediate and individualized support to foster lasting recovery.

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Job type
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Mid-level

Salary

Salary: $55K – $75K per year

Education
Bachelor degree

Location requirements
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United States

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Job categories
Primary Therapist Eating Disorders Therapist Clinical Therapist Behavioral Health Therapist Mental Health Therapist Eating Disorder Specialist Therapist

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201-500 employees

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2011

Chief executive officer

David Schreiber, MD

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Behavioral Health Mental Health Treatment Healthcare Services Psychiatric Care Outpatient Healthcare Telehealth Child and Adolescent Mental Health Trauma and PTSD Treatment Addiction Treatment Depression and Anxiety Treatment

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