Careers · Psychiatry in Motion · Brooklyn, NY
You’ve already had the thought.
Clinical and whole‑person roles. Brooklyn‑based, hiring across the United States.
The one you had standing in your job, or halfway through your program. Why is it done this way? We built a practice around people who cannot stop having it.
The three answers you want first
Psychiatry in Motion is a psychiatric practice at 134 Broadway in Brooklyn, founded by Dr. Ahmed Al‑Katib, MD, a board‑certified psychiatrist.
Will I actually be supported?
Yes.
Weekly time that is reserved, a team that meets every morning, and somebody available when it is urgent.
Will my schedule be protected?
Yes.
It gets designed before the revenue does. That order is the whole point.
Is there room to build?
Yes.
Most of why this practice exists. Bring the thing you keep sketching.
And the money? We answer that plainly too — just not before the rest of it.
Three things we decided on purpose
We put our clinicians’ schedules and our patients’ needs ahead of profit. As a business decision that is terrible.
It is also what happens when a practice is built for people, by the people. The business side is mine to solve — not yours.
One
Your schedule comes before the revenue
We need you to treat burnout in other people. We are not going to cause it in you.
We do not want to rush you, and we do not want to rush them. Those are the same decision.
- Never more than two to three hours of straight client work without a break
- Long sessions where long sessions are the point
- Admin time on the calendar, and it is yours
- Mornings or evenings — the day is built around how you work
Two
There is room to build, and someone behind you when you do
If you have ever thought I wonder why this is not done this way — here that thought is the start of a project, not a complaint.
- Write the workflows for your own seat
- Start the group, the programme, the offering you have been sketching
- Take trainees, mentor, help bring on the people after you
- Make content, run events, build a course — and we put real support behind it, money and admin included
Three
The support you are probably not getting anywhere else
Most people in this field are quietly unsure and almost nobody says it out loud. Say it here.
- Weekly time that is reserved and protected, not squeezed in
- Real supervision on hard cases at the weekly time, and somebody available if it will not wait
- A daily morning huddle — the clinical team and the admin team, every day we work
- If something is urgent, somebody is available. Not a scheduled session — available.
- Go deep on what you want to be good at — we build it into how you are trained
Flexibility
If you have choice, your patients get choice.
That is the whole reason we bend. A clinician with room in their life shows up differently, and can offer the hours the people who need them can actually use. So we would rather have some of you than none of you.
We see patients in New York, Florida and New Jersey today. That is where we are, not where we intend to stop — the goal is the whole country.
Outside the US entirely? Tell us what you are licensed to do and where. We are interested in building that too.
The honest trade
If money is the thing right now, go and get it.
We can tell you exactly where. A large hospital system. A national telehealth company. A multi‑site diagnostic group.
They will pay more than we can and the benefits will be better. That is not a criticism — those are real jobs and good clinicians do them.
But be clear about the trade
They will not protect your time. They will not protect your judgment.
And they will not advance you the way a small team does — because on a small team there is nowhere to hide, and nothing you build quietly disappears into somebody else’s org chart.
We are asking you to bet on the second thing.
“I’m not trying to make money right now. I’m trying to advance the world, and how we treat mental health. The money comes afterwards.”
See where you’d fit
Six questions, about two minutes. At the end you see how we would close the gap you name — and what we cannot offer yet. There does not have to be a seat open for this to be worth your time.
1 of 6
What do you do?
Or what you are training to do.
The short answer
Not yet — and it is not a brush‑off.
We are not an approved clinical site for any programme, so we cannot take students on rotation today.
You can only see patients here under a signed affiliation agreement between your school and this practice.
That agreement makes you a student rather than an employee. It sets who supervises you and what you may do. And it puts your malpractice cover, background check and HIPAA training on the school’s side.
Without it, letting you near a patient would not be lawful — however willing everyone is.
We would like to be that site. If your programme places students in Brooklyn, have your placement coordinator write to us.
Email us about an affiliation2 of 6
Where are you right now?
It decides which questions we bother you with.
3 of 6
What do you want more of?
Pick up to three. We are not going to ask what is wrong where you are now.
4 of 6
What’s actually in the way?
Between who you are now and who you want to be. Pick the biggest one.
5 of 6
What would you say?
Someone comes in certain. They have read everything, they know what they have, and they know what they want you to do about it today. You do not think it is right yet — and they are worn out from being dismissed by three people before you.
6 of 6
And here?
Six weeks in and what you are doing is working. They are better. They also sleep five hours, have not moved in a year, and eat once a day. They ask what is next.
Your read
Here’s how we’d answer that.
What you said is in the way
Then you need to watch someone think, and then be checked.
Most people leave training having watched almost nobody reason out loud. The theory is printed. The reasoning is not.
Here you shadow and work alongside before you carry anyone on your own. You see how a messy story becomes something defensible, and how an experienced clinician knows when they are wrong. Then you do it, and somebody checks your work — not once, weekly.
Then you need people who want to be asked.
We start every working day with a huddle — clinical and admin in the same room, so the day is oriented before it starts and you know who is carrying what.
You also get weekly time that is reserved and protected — not a review of who you saw, but: here is the person I have, here is my question, what else could this be. And if something is genuinely urgent in between, somebody is available — we will not pretend we can conjure a supervision session the same afternoon, but you will not be alone with it either.
Then the numbers have to be different, not the pep talk.
Long sessions where long sessions are the point. Documentation time inside the block, not after hours. Never more than two to three hours straight without a break. Admin time on the calendar, and it is yours.
And the practice is written down — intake, follow‑up, coverage, escalation. When one of our procedures is wrong, telling us is information, not an accusation.
Then say the number out loud and we will build toward it.
Structure is open: base, productivity share, or a combination. Tell us the income you are aiming for and we will show you what gets you there. We want you earning the most you can, because we are growing and there is room.
And when you want to build something — a programme, a group, an offering — we back it. Not “go ahead in your own time.” Actual support: budget, admin, the systems, and somebody senior in the room with you.
Then this is the part you came for.
You have had the idea. Somewhere in a job or a programme you thought why is this not done this way, and there was nowhere to put it.
Put it here. Write the workflows for your own seat. Start the group, the programme, the thing you keep sketching. Take trainees. Help bring on the people after you. Dr. Al‑Katib’s job is to back it — that is not a perk we added, it is why the practice is built this way.
Then we hand you the scaffolding.
Dr. Al‑Katib built this practice’s public presence himself. You would create alongside him — the method, the formats, the systems, and an audience to learn in front of.
And if you want to take it further — a course, a workshop, a programme of your own — we will work with you to make it happen and put real support behind it, financially and administratively. Our rules are written down and strict — no patient stories, ever — so you are never guessing where the line is.
The part we say out loud
You can make more money somewhere else right now. We are growing and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
We are also not anxious about it. Do the work properly — the way that fits you and your training — and the money follows. That has never been the hard part.
The hard part is building somewhere people want to come to and want to work at. That is what we are protecting, which is why the money admin is our problem rather than something pushed onto your schedule.
What we want back
People who push for what they want and run with it. Creators. People who live some version of what we prescribe. And people who believe what we believe — that mental health is broken, and treating everyone the same is a good part of why.
There is a seat open that fits you
Founding Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner — Brooklyn and telehealth, part‑time to full‑time, $70–$100 per hour.
Read the full roleNothing is posted for you today. Reach out anyway.
We would rather move on someone who clicks with us now than wait until we are “in a position” to hire them. If you believe in what we are doing and you are willing to work with us on how, we will look for the way to make it work — sometimes that is a seat we had not written down yet.
Bring your specialty and we will build around it. Bring the structure that suits your life and we will look at how to make it work. And if you are licensed in a state we do not reach yet, say so — that is the thing we are shortest of.
Leave your details and we come to you first, before anything gets posted anywhere.
This one is a collaboration, not a job
Nutrition, training and coaching sit alongside the clinical work rather than inside it — that keeps everyone’s scope clean and it is better for the people we see. What that looks like in practice is a conversation, and we would like to have it.
We have not written this seat down yet, which is not the same as not wanting you. Tell us what you would build and we will look for the way to make it work.
Last bit
Who should we write back to?
Three fields. A real person reads every one of these.
Please tell us your name.
We need an email we can reply to.
Please paste a link starting with http.
Sending
One moment.
Got it. Thank you.
We read every one, and we keep them. When a seat opens that matches what you told us, you hear from us before it is posted anywhere.
If there is a fit now you will hear from us directly — and if there is not, we will tell you that too.
That did not go through.
Your answers are still here. Try again, or reach us directly — either works.
What’s open — and the conversation that doesn’t need an opening
What is genuinely open is first, with the pay range in the advertisement the way New York requires. After that is the part that matters more.
Open nowFounding Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
$70–$100 per hour
Brooklyn and telehealth · part‑time to start, path to full‑time · W2 · evenings available
You shadow and do joint intakes while your credentialing processes, then carry your own panel once you meet the standards. Founding means founding: write the workflows for your seat, take trainees, help bring on the people who come after you.
Read the full role →The more important part
Should you reach out if nothing is posted? Yes.
We would much rather move on someone who clicks with us now than wait until we are “in a position” to hire them. Waiting is how you lose the person.
If you believe in what we are doing here — changing mental health, and changing the way we talk about feeling good and living long — and you are willing to work with us on how to make it happen, then it is a conversation worth both our time. We will look for the way to make it work. Sometimes that is a seat we had not written down yet.
Bring what you have
Your specialty — we build around it. A structure that suits your life, whether that is W2, 1099, part‑time or network — we look at how to make it work. For the right people we are very flexible.
Nothing has to be open. Tell us what you would do here.
Start the conversationLicensed anywhere in the US? Especially then.
People find us through the content, read how we practise, and then discover we cannot see them where they live. Those people go on a waitlist. We would much rather they got care.
We intend to reach the whole country. So a licence in a state we do not serve yet is not a complication — it is the thing we are shortest of. If you hold one and want to build that lane with us, that is a conversation for this week, not next year.
And if you are outside the US: tell us what you are licensed to do and where. We are open to building that network too.
Tell us where you’re licensed| Role | Where it sits |
|---|---|
| Psychiatrist (MD / DO) | Clinical — the medical director seat |
| Psychiatric Physician Assistant (PA‑C) | Clinical — a third clinical lead |
| Psychotherapist (PsyD, PhD, LCSW, LMHC) | Clinical — alongside our licensed therapist |
| Couples and family therapist | Clinical — the work a medication visit cannot reach |
| Sex therapist | Clinical — asked for constantly, referred out constantly |
| Developmental psychologist (testing) | Clinical — formal assessment, in house |
| Operations, intake and billing | The people who make all of the above possible |
We are not going to pretend these are mapped to start dates. They are the gaps we feel every week and the referrals we keep sending elsewhere. None of them is an open advertisement today — we will not post a job we cannot fill, and we will not leave an old listing up so the page looks busy. Run the six questions above and we come to you first.
| Who | Why we want you |
|---|---|
| Registered dietitian or nutritionist | Because we ask every patient what they eat and then have nowhere good to send them |
| Personal trainer or movement specialist | Because movement is the through‑line of this practice, not a closing line in a visit |
| Coach | Because some of what people need is not treatment, and pretending otherwise helps nobody |
These sit alongside the clinical work rather than inside it. That keeps everyone’s scope clean and it is better for the people we see. If that is you, start with the questions above and tell us what you would want to build.
Not looking for a job at all — you just want to get better
We run a mentorship for licensed nurse practitioners and physician assistants: weekly case consultation on the patients you are already carrying, observation in a working practice with patient consent, and diagnostic teaching. It is education, not employment — you would not carry our patients, write in our charts, or bill under us, and it is not a job offer.
It runs on the education side of the business, so the dates and details live there.
See the mentorship →What it is actually like to work here
The things people ask in the first ten minutes of an interview.
How big is the team?
Small right now, and deliberately so — but that is not a promise to stay small. A physician, two physician assistants and a licensed therapist on the clinical side, plus a practice manager who is also our HIPAA privacy officer, and a concierge who runs patient booking and communication. You will know everyone’s name in a week.
We intend to grow, in the direction we choose and at the pace the work earns. Which is the honest reason to come now rather than later: what you join is not what it will be, and you would be one of the people deciding that.
Where are you, and who do you treat?
134 Broadway, Floor 4, Brooklyn, NY 11249, plus telehealth. We see patients in New York, Florida and New Jersey, and we take insurance and cash‑pay.
We are a diagnostic practice. Our intakes are long on purpose, and getting the diagnosis right is what patients tell us they could not find anywhere else. Movement, nutrition, sleep and emotional regulation are the practice here — not advice added after the prescription is written. That is why the team is not only prescribers.
What does Psychiatry in Motion treat?
ADHD, autism, burnout and burnout recovery, and diagnostics — the cases where somebody needs the diagnosis to finally be right. Serious mental illness if that is your interest. Substance use treatment is not our focus: we screen every patient for it and refer out for dedicated treatment.
Who supervises the clinical work?
Dr. Ahmed Al‑Katib, MD, a board‑certified psychiatrist (ABPN), oversees all clinical work and supervision. Every case is supervised, and weekly supervision time is reserved and protected rather than squeezed in around the schedule.
What are the benefits?
We cover malpractice insurance for our W2 clinicians. Beyond that, the benefits package is being built and we are not going to advertise something we do not have yet. Roles start part‑time with a path to full‑time, and we will tell you straight what we can do today.
Do you handle credentialing?
Yes. We start payer enrollment the day an offer is signed, because it takes months and we would rather you started with a panel than waited for one.
Can I work remotely, on weekends, or from another state?
Yes to all three. Weekend and evening hours are supported rather than tolerated, and telehealth days are by agreement.
On states: we see patients in New York, Florida and New Jersey today, and we intend to reach the whole country. If you are licensed anywhere in the US, that is a reason to talk, not a barrier — people find us through the content and cannot book because of where they live.
Outside the US, tell us what you are licensed to do and where. We are open to building that network too.
If you have another job, a family, or something of your own running alongside this, tell us. We would rather build around it than lose you to it.
Are roles W2 or 1099?
Either can work. W2 is the usual shape for a supervised clinical seat inside the Brooklyn practice, and it is what lets us cover your malpractice. 1099 fits people who set their own hours, carry their own cover, and work across more than one practice — including clinicians building a state lane with us.
Tell us the shape that suits your life and we will tell you straight what is possible. We are very flexible for the right people.
I have a specialty. Will there be room for it?
That is usually the reason we want you. Perinatal, psychosis, trauma, eating disorders, geriatrics, testing, couples work — tell us what you are good at and what you want to get better at, and we will build the practice around it rather than asking you to park it.
What does the hiring process look like?
An introduction call with our practice manager. Then a clinical conversation with Dr. Al‑Katib — a case discussion rather than a quiz, because how you think is the thing we are hiring. Then a day in the practice, where you should be deciding about us as much as we are deciding about you. Then an offer, and credentialing starts immediately.
Can I make content or build my own thing here?
Yes, and it is encouraged rather than tolerated. Content, a workshop, a course, a programme of your own — we will work with you to make it happen.
And we back it properly: budget, admin, the systems, and time on the calendar. Not a hobby you do after hours.
Our social‑media rules are written down and strict — no patient stories, ever — so you are never guessing where the line is.
There is no seat open for what I do. Is it still worth applying?
Yes, and this is the answer we most want people to read. We would rather move on somebody who clicks with us now than wait until the org chart says we are allowed to. Waiting is how you lose the person.
If you believe in what we are doing, and you are willing to work with us on how to make it happen, we will look for the way. Sometimes that is a role nobody had written down yet.
The six questions above take about two minutes, and we come to that list before we post anywhere.