California • Telehealth • Dedicated Admin Support • Low Burnout
Anxiety Relief Clinic
The Opportunity
We’re looking for caring, capable psychiatrists to join Anxiety Relief Clinic as independent contractors (1099), working 15 to 30 clinical hours per week. This is a fully remote position serving California adults, and candidates must reside in California. There is also the option to add some New York patients if you hold that license.
This is a specialty practice: our patients typically come in with OCD, anxiety, or related conditions. That said, if you have another clinical interest you’d like to develop alongside this work, whether that’s ADHD, depression, trauma, women’s mental health, etc., we’re flexible. Most referrals come from therapists who specialize in anxiety-related disorders and have grown to trust us with their patients. You should be excited about working with this population, whether you already have experience or want to develop it. We provide mentorship and clinical support, so you don’t need to arrive as an expert.
This isn’t a typical psychiatry job. We’ve built a practice where clinicians can focus almost entirely on patient care, not paperwork, not billing, not administrative hassle. Most of our patients are in-network and pay only a small copay, which improves access to care without sacrificing your earnings (see Compensation below). Our goal is simple: help you do meaningful work without burning out.
What Makes This Different
Less than 10% non-billable time. That’s not a typo. We’ve systematically removed the administrative burden that makes psychiatry exhausting. Here’s how:
- – Your own dedicated assistant handles scheduling, billing communications, note prep, pharmacy calls, and medication prior authorizations. When time allows, they can even help with professional and personal admin, whatever makes your life easier.
- – Optimized EHR workflows designed by a board-certified clinical informatics specialist. The system is built to offload paperwork so you can focus on thinking, communicating, and healing.
- – AI-powered documentation that actually works. We’ve trained the EHR-integrated AI to our specific clinic, note templates, and patient population, producing notes that are insurance audit-resistant, clinically useful, medico-legally protective, and regulatory-compliant. You review and finalize with minimal editing required.
- – All patient-provider contact is billable. Patients love that they can book same-day slots when needed (most pay just a small copay), and these visits fit naturally into your existing clinic blocks. No late nights or added stress, just additional revenue. The admin team handles all asynchronous patient communication.
- – Patient education built in. We’ve created videos and materials answering common questions specific to our patient population. Patients love them, and it means you’re not repeating yourself all day.
- – Zero billing work. The team handles everything: insurance verification and authorizations, claims management, collections, visit prior authorizations, etc. You get to focus on what you trained for.
- – Patient pipeline handled. The clinic manages all referrals, screening, and onboarding. You get a steady flow of patients who are a good fit, ready for their first visit. No need to recruit patients or network for referrals.
- – Clinical pre-work done before you walk in. Patients complete a structured questionnaire before every appointment, covering medication adherence, side effects, treatment response, and current concerns. You start each visit already knowing how they’re doing, which saves time, focuses the conversation, and makes documentation easier.
Efficiency changes everything: When non-billable time drops from 30–40% to under 10%, your effective hourly earnings increase dramatically. More of your working hours translate directly into income.
The Clinical Work
The work is meaningful. These conditions are highly treatable, and patients make real progress.
- – The clinic is in high demand due to a reputation for strong patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes that keeps referrals coming. You can build a caseload fairly quickly or take your time.
- – Most follow-ups are every 1–3 months, though you have flexibility to schedule as clinically appropriate.
- – We’re in-network with several major California insurers; about 25% of patients are self-pay or out-of-network.
- – For those interested, there’s also the option to see a few weekly therapy patients, a nice way to add variety and maintain therapeutic skills. Therapy supervision can be made available but is entirely optional.
Compensation
- – Your take-home pay: $250 to $310+ per hour depending on visit type and payer mix. This is your individual earnings, not gross billings. Expect to start around $250 and grow toward $310+ as your follow-up panel matures.
- – Intake bonus: $100 additional for each new patient you see, in recognition of the time it takes to review a case before the first visit.
- – The clinic covers all additional overhead: patient recruitment, community engagement, software, admin staff, billing operations, and malpractice insurance. You just practice.
Support & Autonomy
You’ll work independently.
- – Flexible scheduling: You set your own hours and days. The system syncs with your other calendars, so patients can only book into times you’re truly available which is seamless for you and private for everyone.
- – Clinical support: We tailor clinical support to what’s useful for you, whether that’s supervision, peer consultation, or occasional case discussion. You don’t need to be an OCD expert coming in. If you want to deepen those skills, the Medical Director is available for mentorship.
- – Operational support: We actively want your feedback on pain points and workflow improvements: making your job easier is a primary goal.
- – Culture: We’re intentionally building a low-burnout, calm environment for clinicians and the admin team alike. Anxiety is contagious; we want to model the opposite for our patients and each other.
About the Medical Director
Dr. Weston Ferrer completed psychiatry residency at UCSF in 2014 and served on faculty for eight years, co-directing the UCSF Anxiety and OCD Clinic. He’s board-certified in psychiatry and clinical informatics and has worked in health technology, including at Google subsidiary Verily. He started Anxiety Relief Clinic to combine clinical excellence with operational efficiency, using his informatics expertise to build a practice where the technology actually serves the clinician.
Requirements
- – MD/DO from accredited medical school; completion of ACGME-accredited psychiatry residency
- – Board certified or board eligible in psychiatry
- – California medical license (preferred) or willingness to obtain one prior to start date
- – Must reside in California (required for insurance panel participation)
- – Comfort with technology including telehealth and EHR systems
- – Collaborative mindset and genuine interest in OCD/anxiety treatment
- – All career stages welcome