About Prospera

 

Prospera’s mission is to remove all barriers to moms accessing high quality mental health support. We combine digital tools, mental health coaches, and therapists to provide evidence-based emotional support for anxiety, depression, anger, intrusive thoughts, stress, birth trauma, and more. 

 

With a monthly subscription, clients have access to weekly sessions with highly trained mental health coaches with expertise in maternal mental health, and unlimited use of our digital tools library, which includes interactive, evidence-based tools to help clients develop emotion regulation skills.

 

Prospera is founded by clinical psychologists with a passion for making evidence-based mental health care more widely accessible and affordable to women in the perinatal period. Care quality is our top priority at Prospera, and sound clinical decision making, scientific evidence, and ethical practice is at the root of everything we do. Feel free to read more about our mission, team, and values here: https://prosperamhw.com/about/.

 

Postdoctoral Fellow Role

Prospera is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in clinical psychology interested in gaining experience at the intersection of maternal mental health, mental health tech, clinical supervision, research, and product development. This fellowship is ideal for candidates who want to broaden their expertise beyond traditional clinical and academic roles and gain experience working within a mental health technology startup.

The fellow will work closely with Prospera’s co-founders and licensed clinical psychologists, Dr. Sarah Stanger and Dr. Andrea Niles, and will receive supervision toward licensure while contributing to multiple aspects of Prospera’s clinical model. This role is ideal for candidates interested in clinical, product, or research roles at mental health startups.

This position provides unique training opportunities across several domains:

• Clinical leadership and supervision of mental health coaches with a focus on evidence-based practice for perinatal populations
• Digital mental health research and outcomes evaluation
• Mental health product development and content creation

Responsibilities

Clinical Leadership & Supervision

• Lead four weekly case consultation meetings for mental health coaches
• Provide ongoing support and guidance to coaches around clinical decision-making
• Assist coaches in navigating complex or higher-risk cases
• Support coaches in responding to urgent or high-risk situations
• Review session recordings and documentation and provide structured feedback
• Meet individually with coaches to provide mentorship and performance feedback
• Participate in new coach training

Research & Outcomes Evaluation

• Collaborate with Prospera leadership on research examining program effectiveness and clinical outcomes
• Analyze clinical data and contribute to scientific manuscripts and conference presentations
• Support dissemination of Prospera’s clinical model in academic and professional venues

Clinical Content & Product Development

• Collaborate with Prospera leadership to develop and refine digital tools and psychoeducational content used within the Prospera platform
• Help translate evidence-based psychological interventions into scalable digital formats
• Contribute to improving Prospera’s clinical model and coaching manual

Training & Professional Development

• Receive weekly individual supervision with licensed psychologists focused on clinical decision-making, supervision skills, and professional development toward independent licensure
• Attend ongoing professional development didactics in perinatal mental health and digital mental health care delivery
• Gain exposure to the operations of a digital mental health startup

 

Requisites

• Doctorate (PhD) in Clinical Psychology from an APA-accredited program
• Completion of an APA-accredited internship
• All doctoral degree requirements completed prior to fellowship start date
• Strong training in evidence-based cognitive and behavioral interventions, including:
  • Cognitive restructuring
  • Behavioral activation
  • Exposure therapies (in vivo, imaginal, and interoceptive)
  • Cognitive defusion
  • Distress tolerance skills
  • Assertive communication
• Experience with assessment and triage of suicidality, psychosis, and mania
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Interest in working in digital mental health and innovative models of care delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with clinical supervision, mentoring trainees, and/or group supervision settings
• Experience in clinical outcome research design and data analysis
• Experience translating clinical science into digital tools, psychoeducation, or structured interventions
• Interest in working within an early-stage startup environment

Qualities We Value

• Passion for dissemination of evidence-based psychological interventions
• Commitment to mentoring and teaching novice clinicians
• A strong sense of ownership, intellectual curiosity, and initiative, approaching the role as someone helping build and improve the program with new ideas, research, or improvements that strengthen the program
• Responsiveness and flexibility, with a willingness to go above and beyond when needed in a fast-moving startup environment

Position Details

• Full-time, W2 position
• This is a fully remote position
• Salary: $67,000 (we will follow NIH postdoctoral funding guidelines for 2026-2027)
• 1 year position, with potential renewal for 1-2 additional years
• Start Date: Flexible, Summer 2026
• Benefits: 
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) to help cover healthcare expenses
  • Paid time off, including 2 weeks of vacation, sick leave, and company holidays

Application Process

Step 1: Submit Application

Applications due April 15. We will begin reviewing applicants and interviewing immediately on a rolling basis until the position is filled. 
Step 2: Complete a written assessment (asynchronous, remote)
Step 3: Complete a clinical scenario-based interview (remote)
Step 4: Complete a final team interview (remote)

 

Contact: Please email Dr. Stanger at sarah.stanger@prosperamhw.com with questions.