JOB DESCRIPTION

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Job Title: Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Location: 610 N Wymore Rd. Suite 110 Maitland, FL 32751

Terms: Part-Time to Full-Time available (up to 34 weekly clients)

Hours: Monday through Thursday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Annual Compensation: $50,000 - $90,000

About Us: We are a Christian counseling practice centered around providing our clients with Hope for tomorrow, Help for today, and Healing from yesterday. Our vision is to remain a premier therapeutic provider in Central Florida assisting individuals (children through adults, couples, and families) navigating trauma, anxiety, neuro-developmental challenges (e.g., ADD/ADHD, autism, and gifted), neurocognitive stressors (e.g., Dementia, Parkinson’s, and TBI), and promoting healthy relationships. We assist families in discovering innovative ways to overcome educational, occupational, social, relational, and executive functioning challenges. We specialize in providing both EMDR and play therapy to our clients. Our team is heavily focused on receiving continual education trainings in neuroscience and bilateral processing using integrative techniques to assist our clients. We seek to help all individuals, couples, and families live their best lives!

About the Role: We are seeking to hire individuals trained in EMDR, neurobiologically minded, and have experience/specializations in the areas of trauma, grief/loss, anxiety, depression, attachment issues, as well as neuro-developmental challenges. Qualified candidates must have experience working with clients of all ages with ADD/ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety; those with experience working with individuals and families navigating dementia, aphasia, TBI's, and Alzheimers have a caseload of individuals waiting for your help. If you are reliable, enjoy working with others, desire to work in an environment where professionalism and continuing education are rewarded, and enjoy taking initiative working independently with clients (individuals, couples, families, and groups) as well as collaboratively in a team environment, apply today! If you have a medically trained background, neuroscience, EMDR, play therapy, and/or more than 5 years post licensure in mental health counseling and/or a related medical field, please highlight this on your cover letter.

Responsibilities:

• Prompt and punctual with sessions and required documentation.
• Foster and contribute to a healthy, secure, and collaborative team environment.
• Establish rapport quickly, maintain healthy boundaries, and navigate constructive sessions with clients.
• Ability to assess client progress and adapt treatment focus to the client’s needs and promote the client’s therapeutic progress.
• Understand neurological, biological, and developmental components of functioning and refer clients to the appropriate sources. Collaborate with referral sources to ensure the client’s overall well-being is promoted.
• Maintain ongoing education through trainings, podcasts, conferences, etc. to continue gaining knowledge in accordance with areas of specialization.
• Conduct initial biopsychosocial evaluations to onboard clients, gather all pertinent background information and perspectives from the client and any relevant party (e.g. spouse, parents, etc.), and create an effective treatment plan to promote therapeutic success.
• Promote insight and healing for clients as it relates to the their past traumas, interpersonal relationships, self-concept/identity, etc. (e.g. therapeutic alignment, therapeutic intervention, psychoeducation).
• Facilitate continuity of care by referring the client to additional services when needed (e.g. neuropsychological testing, physician/psychiatric care, speech-language pathology, etc.) and promote continuity of care by obtaining relevant information from the client’s current or past treatment team (e.g. existing psychiatrists, past therapists, etc.).
• Initiate creating and facilitating trainings in specialty areas for clients (e.g., parent workshops, grief/loss group, social skills group, etc.) as well as workshops and trainings for clients and/or clinicians to increase compensation.
• Promptly complete all session notes, group notes, treatment plans, and therapeutic summaries.
• Ensure client confidentiality is maintained, and HIPAA standards are followed.
• Maintain all required licensures and certifications; provide proof at the onset and at each renewal period.
• Maintain personal professional liability insurance coverage and provide proof of coverage at onset and at each renewal.

Candidate Requirements:

• Master’s degree or higher in Mental Health Counseling
• LMHC license for the State of Florida
• Bilateral Stimulation Integrative Training preferred (e.g., EMDR, A.R.T., EMDR with expressive arts, etc.)
• Play therapy trained is desired but not required

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $50,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan

Schedule:

• Day shift
• No nights
• No weekends

Application Question(s):

• Are you EMDR trained?
• Do you have experience in play therapy?

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Experience:

• Private practice: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• LMHC through the State of Florida (Required)

Work Location: In person