Alamo Heights Counseling Inc. is a locally owned and operated mental health establishment consisting of LPCs, LFMTs, and LCSWs serving north central San Antonio both in person AND via telehealth.

Our practice has been growing, and we're looking for a counselor who wants to provide services to primarily COUPLES and FAMILIES , with the understanding that it may be necessary to see individuals as well at first while building a caseload.

We are looking for at least one (or maybe 2!) client-focused, independent, responsible counselors/therapists/social workers to join our team. While we ALWAYS welcome those who would like to join us part time or telehealth, we are primarily looking for someone who wants to be here on site and who is willing to make this their primary practice location by seeing or more per week.

We have several significant sources of referrals and often have a wait-list of clients waiting for just the right counselor. We are in-network with nearly all health insurance companies and will add our newest colleague to them all---this may take a couple of months, but you can see sliding scale, private pay, and EAP clients while you wait.

All our contract clinicians make their own schedules, but right now we're looking for a couples counselor who would like to work Thursday through Sunday or Thursday through Monday. We are also open to an evenings-only couples counselor (4-5 evenings per week, every week).

We have office staff present Monday through Friday 7 AM to 7 PM M-F and variable hours on weekends.

We are a predominantly insurance-based practice with an on-site credentialer and a seemingly unlimited flow of referrals. For those who are not already empaneled with insurance companies, we will complete this process for you. You do not need to worry about credentialing, advertising, or billing as we handle all of that for you. We provide a furnished and decorated office with a computer and internet access, full time staff, access to EHR, and total file maintenance. You assess and treat your clients, write treatment plans and clinical notes, and submit a monthly invoice to our biller for payment.

In addition to our health insurance and private pay clients, we do have contracts with DFPS that require all our clinicians be credentialed by Texas Medicaid and pass a background check and central registry check. We ask that clinicians newly joining the team be willing to work with clients who are referred by DFPS, especially in their first six months with us while waiting to be empaneled with all insurance companies. (DFPS-referred clients includes children in family-based cases, children in kinship care, adults who are caring for children in CPS cases, and adults who are working to be reunified with their children. Children in foster care can only be seen once you are in Superior Health Plan.)

It is our intention to develop a long-standing professional relationship and work together for many years to come. The ideal candidate is a clinician who would like to be in private practice without the overhead of renting space, advertising, billing, and bookkeeping; a clinician who has a specialized focus but is comfortable seeing some clients with differing presenting problems and from a variety of backgrounds while building a caseload. A clinician who is willing to take specific trauma-related continuing education or who already has specialized training in treating trauma would be ideal. We're especially looking for stability--a clinician who would like to make this their practice home and remain with us for many years to come.

The ideal candidate is one who is looking to establish a long-term, office practice; one who is a self-starter, client-oriented, able to work well with others or alone. Being able to work amiably with office staff is critical. Being willing and able to complete treatment plans, progress notes, and invoices TIMELY is a requirement, but we will never micromanage the content of your notes or plans.

This is a contract position with a nearly unlimited number of client referrals for the counselor who is willing to see clients with a wide variety of presenting concerns, and who would consider specializing later.

This is a contract position, not an employed position.
We will also be advertising an employed position with different terms based on state and federal laws.

We are eager to add you to our team, and get you a full caseload as quickly as possible, therefore we will submit your credentialing information to all MCOs and insurance companies as soon as possible. You will not be permitted to serve DFPS clients until the DFPS Contract Manager has approved you, but there are a few referral sources that may be able to approve you immediately. As soon as you are empaneled with the first referral source, we will start assigning you clients from that source.

If you are interested in being contracted, please submit your resume. You will be contacted by telephone, email, and indeed message to submit additional required documentation and schedule a telephone and/or in-person interview.

Job Type: Full-time

Contract Income: $42.00 to $65.00/hour (payments differ based on payor. Maximum payment per hour at this time is $105.00 an hour is based on full-rate private pay.)
A counselor seeing a full caseload with a mixture of payment amounts and taking time off for weekends and vacation is able to make $75,000 or more.

Health Insurance: Our group insurance plan allows both employees and contractors to join, so if you are interested in health insurance, please be sure to give us a heads up during the contracting process so we can provide you that information.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Free CEs are available to those who join us for our monthly Lunch-n-Learn meetings (one hour per month, usually on Mondays).

***If you are an LPC Associate, LMFT Associate, or LMSW we are unable to add you to our DFPS contract and our insurance panels. Please contact us once you have completed 3000 supervised hours and applied for your license to be upgraded for independent practice.***

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract

Pay: $42.00 - $70.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Work Location: In person