Mental Health Professional

Must be local within 1 hour from Conroe, TX Requires work in the community in clients homes.

Overview

Do you have a passion for working with children and families? We are looking for compassionate, dedicated people in who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends.

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.
• Comfort 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

• Highly skilled Masters-prepared professional with training in behavioral and cognitive behavioral therapies and pragmatic family therapies (i.e., Structural Family Therapy and Strategic Family Therapy).
• LPC, LCSW, or LMFT preferred Will consider the following at lower pay, based on level of credentials:
• LPC-Associate, LMFT-Associate or LMSW under clinical supervision
• Master's Degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or related subject area
• Excellent customer service skills
• Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred (paid at a higher salary)
• Must possess a valid Texas driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to clients’ homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.
• Must live within a 30 – 45-minute travel time from the designated service area.

• Preferred Experience
• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
• Therapy with children and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques.
• Couples therapy using behaviorally based approaches.
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
• Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services.

Pay Rate

• Master's degree in Psychology, Counseling, Social Work - $55,620 Annually $58,597 annually, if Bilingual
• LPC-A, LMFT-A, LMSW - $63,860 Annually $67,691 annually, if Bilingual
• LPC, LCSW, LMFT - $74,160 Annually $78,609 Annually, if Bilingual

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