Complete Schedule Sovereignty
You control your calendar, direct session hours, and caseload size between 2 and 25 hours per week.
Join the Collective
Join the Collective
Deaf & Melanin Collective Psychotherapy Inc. is a multistate virtual mental health collective delivering culturally grounded psychotherapy in American Sign Language (ASL). Rooted in decolonized trauma-informed care, we operate on a decentralized, self-managing organizational blueprint.
Open role
Licensed Telehealth Clinician (1099 Independent Contractor)
- Location
- 100% Remote / Virtual Telehealth (California Licensure Required)
- Caseload
- Flexible & Self-Directed: 2 hours minimum to 25 hours maximum per week
- Start
- Preparing for Early 2027 Practice Rollout (California Panel)
- Compensation
- Annual Compensation Range: $19,200 – $150,000
(Earnings depend on your weekly session commitment, from the 2-hour weekly minimum up to the 25-hour practice cap).
About the practice
Protected Clinical Focus
We manage administrative operations, billing, insurance claims, and client intake routing so you can focus entirely on clinical care.
Decentralized Support
Sustainable caseload limits, optional weekly peer collaboration hangouts, and structured consultation pathways.
Primary responsibilities
- Provide direct individual psychotherapy in American Sign Language via HIPAA-compliant virtual telehealth platforms.
- Provide couples and family therapy, utilizing our dedicated roster of qualified interpreters to facilitate communication across mixed-hearing and multilingual relationships.
- Implement structured, evidence-based clinical interventions tailored to client goals and lived experiences.
- Conduct clinical diagnostic intakes and maintain timely, ethical documentation (treatment plans, progress notes) in accordance with California BBS or Board of Psychology standards.
Required qualifications
Active California Clinical Licensure
Current, unencumbered California license as an LCSW, LPCC, LMFT, or Licensed Psychologist (PhD/PsyD).
Clinical Experience
Minimum of 2 years of post-licensure clinical experience providing outpatient psychotherapy.
Linguistic Fluency
Fluent in American Sign Language (ASL). Open to both Deaf and hearing clinicians with fluent ASL communication skills.
Clinical Modality Competence
Demonstrated experience in at least one established therapeutic intervention (e.g., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy [CBT], Dialectical Behavior Therapy [DBT], Motivational Interviewing [MI], Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT], Somatic Experiencing, or EMDR).
Telehealth Infrastructure
Clinician-provided computer (laptop or desktop) equipped with an HD webcam, modern processor, and updated operating system. High-speed broadband internet connection (minimum 25 Mbps download / 10 Mbps upload) with low latency for clear ASL video streaming. Private, confidential, and well-lit workspace meeting HIPAA privacy and security regulations.
We especially welcome clinicians of color, in keeping with our collective’s mission of shared lived representation for diverse communities of color.
How to apply
Send your application directly to join@dmcpinc.com with the subject line:
California 1099 Clinician Application – [Your Full Name, Credentials]
Include in your email:
- Current CV or Resume highlighting your post-licensure clinical outpatient work.
- California License Number (BBS or California Board of Psychology).
- Primary therapeutic intervention(s) utilized in your work (e.g., CBT, DBT, MI).
- Desired weekly caseload tier (between 2 and 25 hours per week).
The Blueprint
How we work: building a better way
Traditional corporate healthcare often repeats the very systemic harm, isolation, and burnout that marginalized individuals and clinicians seek to heal from. At DM Collective, we actively dismantle these structures.
Our blueprint unites decolonized clinical justice with the principles of self-managing, liberated workplaces—drawing foundational insights from Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT) and Decolonized Trauma-Informed Care.
A liberation-based, relational-cultural clinical framework
We operate on a liberation-based clinical model anchored in Relational-Cultural Theory. Rather than pathologizing the individual, we recognize that psychological distress is often an understandable reaction to systemic oppression, chronic marginalization, racism, audism, and historical trauma. Healing takes place through authentic connection, mutual empathy, and shared power.
For Leadership: We reject authoritarian, top-down corporate control. Leaders act as liberating guides, mentors, and facilitators whose role is to remove barriers, share power, and provide the exact resources clinicians need to thrive.
For Work Culture: We refuse to build our practice on exploitation or exhaustion. By actively supporting our clinicians’ well-being, we prioritize emotional safety, sustainable workloads, fair compensation, and mutual respect.
For Community Members: We dismantle the rigid “expert-patient” medical hierarchy that strips power from marginalized individuals. You are the ultimate expert on your life. We walk alongside you as equal partners in your healing, addressing both personal growth and the systemic roots of distress.
A decentralized, self-managing structure
We distribute decision-making and autonomy directly across our collective rather than hoarding authority at the top.
Schedule Autonomy & Balance: As 1099 clinicians, you have full control over your calendar. You set your own availability and choose your caseload between 2 to 20 direct session hours per week (with a maximum cap of 25 hours) to ensure your practice remains sustainable, energizing, and balanced.
Weekly Peer Collaboration Hangouts: Virtual work should never feel isolating. We host weekly peer collaboration hangouts where clinicians can connect, share space, exchange clinical wisdom, and cultivate genuine community without corporate pressure.
Protected Focus: Decentralization at DM Collective does not mean saddling clinicians with operational burdens. We manage administrative and billing logistics behind the scenes so you are completely free to focus on therapy and your personal well-being.
Cultivating Wholeness: We celebrate your full self. Clinicians and staff can show up with their complete cultural, linguistic, and intersectional identities without code-switching or conforming to dominant-culture expectations.
Tiered consultation and clinical support
When complex situations, diagnostic questions, or advocacy dilemmas arise, clinicians have a clear, supportive pathway for consultation that centers collaboration over hierarchy:
Immediate Team Consultation: Meet first with your assigned team or peer pod to talk through situational dynamics, explore cultural factors, and gather diverse perspectives.
Collective Consultation: If the situation calls for broader insight, the discussion moves to a collective consultation with all teams across the practice to tap into the wider wisdom of our community.
CEO Mentorship & Resource Facilitation: If additional support is still needed, the CEO steps in directly as a mentor and facilitator—working alongside you to provide specialized guidance, navigate systems, and secure whatever external resources or tools are required to support both you and the community member you serve.
The power of combining both models: practicing what we preach
Our Liberation Clinical Model and Decentralized Organizational Structure reinforce one another:
Refusing to Replicate Harm: We cannot provide decolonized, trauma-informed care to our community if our internal workplace replicates the surveillance, control, and hierarchy found in traditional systems.
True Autonomy & Agency: Treating clinicians as trusted, self-directed professionals allows them to show up for community members with clarity, emotional ease, and open hearts.
Shared Power, Collective Healing: When power is decentralized and shared, clinicians build a peaceful workplace where every provider has a voice, every community member is seen as an equal partner, and our collective thrives together.