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How to become a mental health and therapy: 38 beginner jobs open today
Five steps for people changing careers, with the figures from today’s 349 open mental health and therapy postings: what employers ask for first, how much experience, and what beginners are paid.
- Open jobs today
- 349
- Open to beginners
- 38
- Experience asked, median
- 1 years
Five steps to your first mental health and therapy job
- Know what the work is. A mental health and therapy treats people for anxiety, depression and other conditions, often online. Beginner postings today use titles like Physical Therapist / PT (Home Health); Mental Health Therapist; Occupational Therapist / OT (Home Health); Clinical Psychologist - Autism Spectrum Disorders; Physical Therapist, Flex.
- Learn the skills employers name first. In today’s 349 postings: dbt (10%).
- Build proof you can show. Two or three results with a number, from a job, a course project or volunteer work. The kind of line a recruiter looks for: “Saw about 25 clients a week by video; 78% completed their treatment plan”.
- Write the resume and the letter. Start from the mental health and therapy resume example and the cover letter example, and replace every line with your own.
- Apply where beginners are hired. 38 of today’s 349 open mental health and therapy jobs are junior or intern roles or ask for two years of experience or less. See the open jobs and check each one with the resume match checker before you apply.
Questions about becoming a mental health and therapy
- How much experience do mental health and therapy jobs ask for?
- The median in today’s postings is 1 years; 73% of the postings that name a number ask for two years or less.
- Do I need a degree to become a mental health and therapy?
- None of today’s 349 postings say outright that no degree is required. Many others accept equivalent experience: read the requirements of each posting.
- How much does a beginner mental health and therapy earn?
- Few beginner postings state pay. Across all levels, the median advertised pay is $95K a year.
Everything about mental health and therapy work
Counted from the open postings on Nov 14, 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages and recounted on every update. Beginner jobs: junior and intern titles, and postings that ask for two years of experience or less.