Part-Time
Workplace Mental Health Consultant with Therapy
Multiple Teams
Posted on 9/11/2025
Spring Health
1,001-5,000 employees
Personalized mental health platform for employers
Compensation Overview
$75 - $95/hr
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
In Person
16 hours per week onsite.
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- Minimum of 3 years of post-graduate experience with at least 1 year of post-licensed experience
- Training and experience in delivering management consultation, critical incident response, and training presentations
- Comfortable with technology and telehealth competent
- Training and experience in evidence-based modalities of care, including short-term, solution-focused therapy
- Unrestricted license to practice psychotherapy (Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Therapist, Social Worker, Counselor, etc.)
- Comfortable with providing safety planning and intervention during situations where a client might present with higher risks
- Committed to high quality documentation of service delivery that is completed in a timely manner
- Enjoy working independently, but also value support from a team and opportunities for collaboration
- Acknowledge and embrace diversity and inclusion amongst teams and clients
- Provide consultation and support to managers, people teams, and members that enhances employee wellbeing and workplace effectiveness for 16 hours per week onsite
- Proactively develop strong and trusting relationships with leaders and HR POCs and execute against a local action plan for your site
- Develop expert-level understanding of the Spring Health and customer benefit ecosystems/ available support programs, and provide appropriate referrals to members
- Provide individual therapy to employees onsite and virtually
- Assess for risk and manage member and organizational crises by providing in-the-moment support, triage, safety planning, and follow up
- Provide management consultation that enhances employee wellbeing and workplace effectiveness
- Complete management referral intakes according to established guidelines; assure appropriate placement of management referred employees; provide guidance regarding EAP protocols to counselors working with employees
- Coordinate and deliver critical incident response
- Conduct company tailored trainings and Spring Health benefit promotion events
- Complete required internal training and assignments and attend Spring Health Clinical Team meetings
- Follow Spring Health policies and maintain all confidentiality, compliance, and ethical standards
- Identify and problem-solve issues that serve as a barrier or disruption to care, with support from leadership
- Complete accurate and timely documentation of all service delivery
- Track and monitor available data to identify strategic workplace wellbeing insights, recommend targeted interventions, and collaborate with customer points of contact to successfully deliver targeted interventions
- Other duties as assigned
Spring Health provides personalized mental health solutions for employers and health plans. Its platform uses Precision Mental Healthcare to identify the most suitable support for each employee, offering a spectrum of services from digital tools and meditation exercises to therapy and medication. After a brief assessment, users receive a personalized care plan and recommended providers, with options to schedule appointments or access digital exercises. A Care Navigator offers clinical guidance and emotional support throughout the journey. The company monetizes by charging employers and health plans for platform access and services. Its differentiator is the data-driven, personalized care matching and integrated care navigation within a single platform, targeted at organizational buyers rather than individual consumers. The goal is to improve employee mental health outcomes and reduce organizational costs by delivering tailored, scalable mental health care.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Series E
Total Funding
$465M
Headquarters
New York City, null
Founded
2016
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Stonebrook partnership targets $190 ROI per $100 invested in behavioral health.
- Weight & Wellness Journey program captures growing GLP-1 medication support market.
- Combined entity delivering 10M mental health visits in 2026 strengthens payer negotiation leverage.
What critics are saying
- Headspace Health undercuts pricing 20-30%, commoditizing Spring Health's Precision Mental Healthcare.
- Alma integration fails due to cultural clashes, causing 25% provider churn.
- OpenAI launches clinician-supervised mental health GPT, capturing 40% digital-first users.
What makes Spring Health unique
- Alma acquisition creates unified platform supporting 170M lives across employment transitions.
- Guide AI demonstrates 25% faster symptom improvement for high-acuity mental health cases.
- VERA-MH open-source framework establishes industry safety standards for mental health AI systems.
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↑ 1%Spring Health and Stonebrook Risk Solutions announce strategic partnership to deliver mental health support that accelerates clinical outcomes and reduces Total Cost of Care. Through this collaboration, Stonebrook will incorporate Spring Health's comprehensive mental health platform into its integrated ecosystem of medical management solutions and more... NEW YORK, March 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Spring Health, a global mental health company built on one connected platform, and Stonebrook Risk Solutions, a healthcare platform integrating specialized medical management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to bring integrated, outcomes-focused behavioral health support to Stonebrook's clients. Through this collaboration, Stonebrook will incorporate Spring Health's comprehensive mental health platform into its integrated ecosystem of medical management solutions, to stop-loss carriers, third-party administrators (TPAs), regional health plans, and self-insured employers seeking earlier intervention, stronger clinical outcomes, and measurable reductions in total cost of care. Behavioral Health Leave and Claims Costs Are Accelerating Mental health has become one of the most significant drivers of disability and medical cost trends. Recent data show that mental health conditions now account for more than 30% of short-term disability leaves, making them one of the leading causes of extended time away from work. At the same time, behavioral health medical claims trend has accelerated to approximately 9-10%, outpacing overall medical cost trend and contributing to growing claims volatility for self-insured employers and their risk partners. Anxiety, depression, and related conditions are increasingly represented among high-cost claims, particularly when care is delayed or fragmented. For stop-loss carriers, TPAs, and regional health plans, this translates into higher claim severity, longer disability durations, and greater unpredictability in total cost of care. Despite these pressures, many behavioral health vendors continue to report primarily on utilization rather than measurable clinical improvement or financial impact, limiting the ability of risk-bearing organizations to proactively manage mental health trend. A Connected Platform Built for Measurable Outcomes Spring Health brings members, providers, and organizations together within one integrated system. Every member interaction, provider workflow, and outcome is captured on a single platform, creating transparency and accountability across the care journey. Using Precision Mental Healthcare, Spring Health matches members to the right provider and level of care early, reducing trial and error that decreases cost while accelerating improvement. Members recover 5.9 weeks faster on average than their leading competitor, and reduce medical claims costs by $190 for every $100 invested in the mental health benefit by JAMA Network Open. Members have access to a full continuum of support, including self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, crisis services, and specialty programs, while Continuous Care supports engagement between sessions to sustain results. Because care delivery happens within one connected platform, employers and health plan partners gain real-time visibility into clinical improvement and financial impact through Spring Insights. This creates a clearer understanding of how mental health support influences disability duration, high-cost claims, and overall population health performance. Supporting Faster Recovery and Reduced Total Cost of Care Earlier, personalized intervention can shorten the duration of mental health-related leave, reduce avoidable high-cost events, and support more stable workforce outcomes. Through this partnership, Spring Health becomes part of the broader Stonebrook ecosystem of integrated clinical solutions designed to address the major drivers of high-cost healthcare claims. For stop-loss carriers and TPAs, this means better visibility into behavioral health risk and potential mitigation of catastrophic claims. For regional health plans and self-insured employers, it means stronger clinical outcomes, clearer reporting, and a more predictable total cost of care. "Behavioral health leave and claims costs are placing real financial pressure on employers and their risk partners," said Mark Angard, CEO at Stonebrook Risk Solutions. "Partnering with Spring Health allows us to bring a highly integrated behavioral health platform into the Stonebrook ecosystem - one that accelerates clinical improvement while delivering the transparency our clients need to better manage disability duration, high-cost claims, and long-term healthcare trend." "Spring Health was built to eliminate every barrier to mental health," said Dr. Adam Chekroud, President and Co-Founder at Spring Health. "Through our partnership with Stonebrook, we are expanding access to a unified platform that guides people to care that works and gives risk-bearing organizations the clarity they need to improve outcomes and reduce total cost of care." About Spring Health Spring Health is a global mental health platform that connects members, providers, and organizations through one integrated system. Independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute for achieving meaningful clinical outcomes and net savings, the platform delivers personalized mental health support, including self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. Today, more than 50 million people worldwide have access to Spring Health, which is trusted by leading employers, health plans, and channel partners, including Highmark, Target, The Coca-Cola Company, BlackRock, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Wawa. Spring Health is backed by leading global investors including Generation Investment Management, Kinnevik, the William K. Warren Foundation, RRE, Northzone, Tiger Global and others. For more information, visit www.springhealth.com. About Stonebrook Risk Solutions Stonebrook Risk Solutions is a healthcare platform company that integrates specialized medical management solutions to help stop-loss carriers, TPAs, regional health plans, and self-insured employers better manage high-cost healthcare risk. Through its connected ecosystem of clinical partners, Stonebrook delivers programs focused on early risk identification, improved health outcomes, and measurable reductions in catastrophic medical costs. For more information, visit www.stonebrookrisk.com SOURCE Spring Health The path to better health outcomes starts here. QUICK LINKS information
Spring Health has announced findings from VERA-MH, an open-source framework designed to evaluate AI chatbot safety in mental health conversations. The clinically grounded standard assesses how AI systems respond to suicide risk and acute psychological distress. Testing of commercially available AI models revealed significant differences in how systems evaluate risk, provide support, guide users to human care and maintain boundaries. The findings highlight the absence of consistent safety standards as conversational AI tools increasingly handle crisis situations. Launched in October 2025 with partners across healthcare, technology and ethics, VERA-MH provides structured evaluation criteria for high-risk mental health conversations. Spring Health is calling on the industry to adopt the framework, with suicide risk serving as the first focus area in a broader multi-year effort to establish shared safety standards.
Spring Health to buy mental health startup Alma. Spring Health, a company that offers digital mental healthcare and navigation services, plans to acquire Alma to expand its offerings and tap into the startup's deep roster of health plan partners. Spring Health has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Alma, and the transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026 pending regulatory approvals, the company announced Thursday. Financial terms and valuation are not being disclosed. "Spring Health and Alma are addressing complementary parts of the same industry challenge. Spring Health brings precision mental health care, specialty care capabilities and an AI-enabled platform focused on improving outcomes and reducing total cost of care. Alma has built deep national and regional payer relationships and strong provider infrastructure that helps clinicians run thriving in-network practices," Adam Chekroud, co-founder and president of Spring Health, told Fierce Healthcare via email. "Together, these strengths allow the combined organization to expand access, reduce disruptions as people move across coverage or life stages, and support continuity of care across more points in a person's mental health journey," he said. The deal represents one of the largest pure-play mental health acquisitions in recent years. Spring Health executives say the acquisition of Alma will build a "lifelong mental health platform." People still struggle to get access to the right care for their mental health needs or experience disruptions as coverage, employment or life circumstances change. Alma, founded in 2018, is a membership-based network that helps independent mental healthcare providers accept insurance and build private practices. Alma's platform enables clinicians to care for more than 120 million lives through contracts with national payers as well as several regional plans. Harry Ritter, CEO of Alma, said the two companies serve different parts of the mental healthcare ecosystem but have well-matched capabilities. "Spring Health's best-in-class technology and proven specialty care capabilities, along with Alma's national health plan relationships and robust provider infrastructure, will deepen the value delivered across the full ecosystem - for providers, individuals, employers and health plans," he told Fierce Healthcare via email. The deal also sets up Spring Health for its next phase of growth, executives said. "The acquisition accelerates Spring Health's long-term strategy by expanding reach, strengthening provider infrastructure and enabling faster innovation. It supports the company's vision of building a durable, lifelong mental health platform that serves people across major life transitions while continuing to support employers and health plans as distinct access points into care," Chekroud said. Founded in 2016, Spring Health offers what it calls "precision mental healthcare" that matches each employee and member to the most effective care for them. The platform offers personalized mental health support, including self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management and specialty care. More than 50 million people worldwide have access to Spring Health through their employers or health plans. The company's enterprise customers include Highmark, Target, The Coca-Cola Company, BlackRock, Microsoft, Pfizer and Wawa. As demand for mental healthcare services continues to rise, Spring Health says it has experienced sustained growth over the past three years, with a compound annual growth rate exceeding 80%. The company focuses on tracking care outcomes, an approach that is generally lacking among many mental health providers. The company's data reveal that its workplace mental heath program delivers clinical and financial outcomes, according to a peer-reviewed study published in JAMA Network Open. Combined, Spring Health and Alma are on pace to deliver nearly 10 million mental health visits in 2026, the companies said. Ritter said both companies are mission-driven and focused on reducing barriers to mental healthcare. "Alma has built deep expertise in supporting clinicians to deliver high quality, in-network care delivery. Together with Spring we can invest even more in building great tools that help providers, expand access to specialty care capabilities and bring advanced technology solutions to our partners, while continuing to operate as a distinct brand focused on its clinician community and health plan partners," he said. April Koh will continue as CEO of Spring Health, and Ritter will continue as CEO of Alma, leading the organization within Spring Health. The deal comes as AI technology is rapidly reshaping mental health care. Spring Health says it has been investing in advanced technology that accelerates clinical outcomes and reduces total cost of care. "With Alma, Spring Health can extend the reach of its advanced AI-enabled capabilities. Guided by core principles that prioritize safety, privacy and the value of provider relationships, Spring Health and Alma will focus on personalizing care for individuals, reducing administrative burden for clinicians and creating value for employers and health plans," executives said in a press release. In October, Spring Health, along with an expert clinical advisory panel, released an open-source evaluation for validating AI in mental health. The framework aims to assess the safety and effectiveness of AI chatbots used in mental healthcare. The deal combines two well-funded companies in the mental health space. Spring Health has raised $470 million to date, pocketing $100 million in series E funding in July 2024, which bumped its valuation to $3.3 billion. It's backed by investors Generation Investment Management, Kinnevik, the William K. Warren Foundation, RRE, Northzone, Tiger Global and others. Alma has raised at least $220 million, with a $130 million round in 2022. That series D round was backed by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, Cigna's venture arm, Optum Ventures, Insight Partners, Tusk Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners and Sound Ventures. Through the acquisition, the companies will benefit from shared innovation, resources and technology, company executives assert. "Spring Health and Alma bring complementary technology strengths to the combination," Chekroud said. "Spring Health has built an advanced, AI-enabled platform focused on personalization, clinical decision support, and delivering strong mental health outcomes, particularly for individuals with complex care needs. Alma has developed robust practice management and referral infrastructure that helps independent clinicians efficiently run their practices and participate in national and regional health plan networks at scale." After the deal closes, the companies plan to "thoughtfully leverage" these synergistic capabilities to expand access to care, support care continuity and improve operational efficiency for clinicians, while maintaining strong privacy and security standards, according to Chekroud. "AI will continue to support clinical excellence, personalized care and reduced administrative burden, guided by principles that prioritize safety, privacy and provider relationships," Chekroud said, noting that there are no immediate changes to products, programs or go-to-market approaches as the companies move toward closing.
Spring Health acquires Alma to boost mental healthcare. Following the acquisition, April Koh will continue as CEO to lead Spring Health and Harry Ritter will remain CEO of Alma as the brands operate separately. Spring Health, which offers AI-enabled digital mental healthcare and navigation services, has acquired Alma, maker of software and support tools for mental health professionals building their practices. New York-based Spring Health works with employers and health plans to connect individuals with virtual mental health services. Through the platform, members take an assessment that screens for 12 conditions, then receive a list of mental health providers for a clinical evaluation. They also receive a comprehensive care plan with personalized recommendations from their care provider and can access Moments, the company's on-demand digital exercises. Alma provides personalized searches for one to access a healthcare provider based on their needs, insurance, language, session availability, identity and therapy style. The company says it allows one to start therapy in three days instead of months. The partnership will see the two companies come together, though they will still run as separate companies with April Koh continuing as CEO of Spring Health and Harry Ritter remaining CEO of Alma, leading the organization within Spring Health. The companies said in a statement that both businesses will remain focused on serving their respective customers while sharing their innovations, resources and technology, and the acquisition allows Spring Health to extend the reach of its AI-capabilities using Alma. "Alma has focused on empowering clinicians to deliver high-quality, in-network care over the long term," Harry Ritter, founder and CEO of Alma, said in a statement. "Joining Spring Health accelerates our ability to support clinicians with industry-leading technology while improving quality, experience, and outcomes for members and health plan partners." The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026. In 2024, Spring Health scored $100 million in a Series E funding round, raising its valuation to $3.3 billion. Spring Health raised $71 million in April 2023, two years after securing $190 million in Series C funding. In 2022, the company acquired Weldon, which provided mental wellness guidance to parents through chats with therapists, social workers and parenting coaches, as well as group support and educational content. That same year, Alma raised $130 million in Series D funding, about a year after the company announced its $50 million Series C raise.
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