Work With Us

Medusa Cooperative is growing, and we are interested in meeting therapists who want something different from the traditional group-practice model.

We are a worker-owned mental health cooperative based in Maryland. The people doing the work have a voice in how the work gets done, how the practice grows, what we prioritize, and what kind of workplace we create together.

If you have ever thought, There has to be a better fucking way to do this, keep reading.

Why Medusa?

Mental health work is deeply relational and emotionally demanding. Too often, clinicians are expected to do that work inside systems built around productivity, hierarchy, and revenue rather than sustainability, community, or care.

We wanted something different.

Medusa is being built around:

  • Worker ownership and shared decision-making

  • Transparency around money and organizational decisions

  • Sustainable clinical work

  • Anti-oppressive practice

  • Mutual accountability

  • Autonomy without isolation

How Medusa Is Different

Medusa is an opportunity to work toward becoming a worker-owner of a growing mental health cooperative.

That means:

  • You are joining a cooperative you can eventually share ownership

  • You have a voice in how the practice operates and grows

  • You participate in decisions that affect your workplace

  • You contribute to the cooperative beyond your clinical caseload

  • You help shape what Medusa becomes

This is not a traditional group practice where a few people make the decisions and everyone else simply carries a caseload.

It is also not a utopia.

People disagree. Policies change. Sometimes we try something and discover it was a terrible idea. Cooperation does not mean avoiding conflict. It means learning how to move through conflict without recreating the same punitive, hierarchical bullshit many of us came here to escape.

What Ownership Looks Like

Worker ownership comes with both power and responsibility.

Worker-owners participate in decisions around things like:

  • Policies and operations

  • Finances

  • Workload

  • Programming

  • Growth

  • Workplace culture

  • The future direction of the cooperative

You do not need to arrive knowing how to run a cooperative. You do need to be interested in learning, participating, communicating, and sharing responsibility for the organization you own.

Our Approach to Care

Our clinical work is trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ affirming, sex-positive, weight-neutral, and anti-oppressive. We understand people within the context of their relationships, communities, identities, bodies, histories, and the systems they live within.

We are not interested in treating oppression as a cognitive distortion.

We are also not interested in making every clinician practice exactly the same way. We value different modalities, specialties, perspectives, and approaches alongside strong clinical judgment, curiosity, consultation, and accountability.

What We Ask of Each Other

Building something together requires more than seeing clients.

Worker-owners are expected to:

  • Maintain their clinical responsibilities

  • Participate in cooperative meetings and decision-making

  • Contribute to shared responsibilities

  • Communicate openly

  • Give and receive feedback

  • Bring ideas forward

  • Take accountability and participate in repair when things go sideways

  • Help create the kind of workplace we say we want to have

You Might Find Your People Here If...

You:

  • Want autonomy without working in isolation

  • Want a meaningful voice in your workplace

  • Are interested in worker ownership

  • Value transparency

  • Are comfortable with collaboration and shared decision-making

  • Can tolerate some ambiguity while building something that is still growing

  • Are willing to engage with feedback and conflict

  • Want relationships with your coworkers rather than simply sharing an EHR

This Might Not Be Your Thing If...

You:

  • Want a traditional employer/employee relationship

  • Prefer leadership to make organizational decisions for you

  • Want minimal involvement outside of clinical work

  • Are uncomfortable with shared decision-making

  • Are not interested in the responsibilities that come with ownership

There is nothing wrong with wanting a more traditional job.

This just isn't that job.

The Road to Ownership

Worker ownership is not automatic.

Prospective members become eligible for ownership after:

  • Achieving full clinical licensure

Once eligible, admission as a worker-owner requires:

  • A consensus vote of all existing members

  • A $3,500 capital contribution

The process is intentionally mutual. You are deciding whether you want to own Medusa just as much as Medusa's existing members are deciding whether we want to own it with you.

Think This Could Be Yours?

Medusa is still growing. There are programs we have not created yet, systems that will change, and ideas waiting for somebody to ask, Okay, but what if we actually did this?

If you want to practice therapy, have a real voice in your workplace, and help build something alongside the people you work with, we would like to hear from you.

Tell us a little about yourself, your clinical work, what draws you to Medusa, and why worker ownership interests you.

Come work with us. Then help us decide what “Medusa” becomes.