Licensed Professional Counselor Expert
We're hiring licensed professional counselors as contractors to author and grade the counseling scenarios those evaluations run on.
Hiring companyAfterQuery Experts
About the role
No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
Why Apply
- $65 to $100/hr, paid hourly via Stripe.
- 100% remote and fully async with no caseload.
- Shape how frontier models handle mental health safely.
- Ongoing project work with hours you set each week.
Responsibilities
- Author realistic counseling scenarios, including risk and ethical dilemmas.
- Write reference responses with the therapeutic reasoning behind each choice.
- Grade model output for clinical accuracy, ethics, and risk handling.
- Flag responses that sound empathetic but mishandle risk, and say precisely why.
- Author realistic counseling scenarios, including risk and ethical dilemmas.
- Write reference responses with the therapeutic reasoning behind each choice.
- Grade model output for clinical accuracy, ethics, and risk handling.
- Flag responses that sound empathetic but mishandle risk, and say precisely why.
Required skills
- Treatment planning, safety assessment, and evidence based modality experience.
Preferred skills
- Specialty depth: trauma, substance use, couples, or adolescents.
- Crisis line or community mental health experience.
- Clinical supervision or counselor education experience.
Experience and education
- Active, unencumbered LPC or LMHC license.
- 2+ years of counseling practice after licensure.
- Real treatment planning and safety assessment experience.
- You can write clinical reasoning clearly enough for another clinician to follow it.
- Active, unencumbered LPC or LMHC license (US).
- 2+ years of counseling practice after licensure.
Language requirements
- Clear written English for clinical documentation.
Assessment requirements
Apply at /apply/licensed-professional-counselor-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.
Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.
Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.
Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.
Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.
Schedule details
Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.
Time Commitment: 10 hours/week.
Start Date: ASAP.
End Date: Ongoing.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Compensation details
- $65 - $100/hr.
- $65 to $100/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
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