Behavioral Health.
Mental health, substance use disorder, residential treatment, and outpatient operators. Senior recruiters who already know the operators worth talking to.
Behavioral health is a small, reputation-driven candidate pool.
Senior leadership in behavioral health is a tight world. Most CEOs, COOs, and Clinical Directors at the residential and SUD operators are known by name across their region. The search is rarely about advertising volume, it is about discreet, credible outreach from someone who already has the relationships.
Engaged search funds that work properly. The deposit covers the access and the dedicated headhunter time the search requires. The recruiter assigned has experience across both clinical credentialing realities and the operational structure these businesses run on.
We work mental-health operators (acute, residential, IOP/PHP, outpatient), SUD treatment operators, addiction medicine groups, autism/ABA operators, and behavioral-health adjacent organizations.
Where the search lives.
Senior leadership and niche-headhunter roles. The recruiter assigned to your search has spent a decade in this segment.
- CEOs
- COOs
- Presidents
- Regional VPs of Operations
- Chief Clinical Officers
- Chief Medical Officers
- Clinical Directors
- Medical Directors
- VP Operations
- Directors of Operations
- Compliance Officers
- Quality / Performance Improvement Leaders
- VP Business Development
- Directors of Admissions
- VP Marketing
- Directors of Outreach
Behavioral Health,
specifically.
The questions hiring operators send in the first call.
Three paths from here.
You're hiring 10+ BCBAs in the next quarter.
Scope an RPO cohort. We size it to your hiring plan in 48 hours and start sourcing inside two weeks. Read the BCBA staffing crisis post for the structural read first. Read the BCBA hiring playbook →
You have a Clinical Director, VP Clinical, or CCO seat opening.
Engaged search fits senior clinical leadership, the candidate pool is small, mostly passive, and confidential. We come back inside one business day with a market read. Start the scoping call →
You're benchmarking BCBA comp by metro before the next adjustment.
Pull the BACB credentialing data for your state and we'll send a one-page market read on local-market clearing comp inside one business day. Email the read request →
Tell us the program, the leadership gap, the urgency.
Inside one business day: a scoping call, a market read on BCBA availability by metro, and (for clinical leadership) the candidate pool mapped against your operating footprint.