Community-Based Therapist
This role requires candidates to provide therapy to youth and families� inside the family home, where they are most comfortable.� This will require a mix� of both in-office and community work.�
Candidates must reside locally.�
Overview�
Do you have a passion for working with children and their families? We are� looking for compassionate, dedicated professionals who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends.�
You will receive ongoing training in the Multisystemic Therapy� (MST)� model as you work with families, youth, their communities, and other key members of their ecology to implement MST as designed. Extensive research has proven the effectiveness of MST.� MST therapists do whatever it takes, via close collaboration with all involved, to address the needs of juveniles with criminal offenses, including, in some cases, substance abuse.� You will empower families to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help youth aged 12–17 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few. For more information on multisystemic therapy, please watch this video:� How Does MST Work?�
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST treatment model and principles. Some principles include leveraging strengths and focusing on the positive, understanding sequences of behavior, and increasing mature behavior.
- Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family: gather information on behaviors of concern and strengths in the family and their ecology to inform conceptualization of the problem behaviors and interactions within the family’s ecological context.�
- Very comfortable working with a diverse community of clients.
- Knowledge of the types of families in the community
- Continuously work to engage the primary caregiver, family members, supports, and community agency staff� (school, probation, child welfare)� in change-oriented treatment.
- Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members.
- Receive regular training, professional development, supervision, and consultation activities designed to help you acquire extensive clinical skills within the MST treatment model.
- Assure, along with fellow clinicians, that clients have access to 24 hours/day, 7 days/week support as needed.
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in clinical or counseling psychology, social work, or a related subject area� in social services such as psychology, social work, rehabilitation, counseling, sociology, human growth and development, special education, educational psychology, early childhood education, or early childhood intervention.�
- Professional licensure in a related field (LMSW, LPC-A, LMFT, LCSW, LPC)
- Experience in serving families in community-based programs
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred but not required
- Ability and willingness to work with families in their own homes
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Strong clinical skills
- Ability to adapt and individualize program interventions to utilize family strengths and skills.
- Skill in handling multiple tasks and meeting multiple deadlines.
- Valid driver’s license; maintain current insurance and registration; and have a clear driving record.
- A clear result from a criminal background check.
- Must live within one-hour� travel time from the designated service area.�
- Clear drug screen results from the organization’s designated medical facility.
Salary LPC/LPCA - MST Salary $51,614 Annually
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