Mental Health Therapist – DC, MD, VA
One Alkaline Life Virtual Therapy Practice
part-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Waldorf • Maryland • United States
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Salary
💰 $40 - $60 per hour
About the role
- Responsible for providing group and individual counseling a minimum of 25 sessions per week.
- Provides crisis intervention and linkages to existing resources in the community.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary treatment team in establishing clients’ strengths and needs to develop individualized treatment plans for the clients.
- Participates in a full range of clinical and therapeutic services.
- Regularly performs direct clinical services to clients.
- Conducts quality assurance duties by reviewing clients’ medical records to ensure proper standards of care.
- Regularly provides comprehensive mental health assessment for the clients.
- Coordinates psychiatric and medical interventions for the clients.
- Responsible for providing a full range of clinical services to clients including individual, group, and family therapies.
- Completes the treatment plan reviews for all active clients.
- Provides therapeutic case management to the clients.
- Regularly participates in scheduled multidisciplinary team meetings, conferences, in-service training, and other staff meetings.
- Identifies and coordinates appropriate resources, internal and external to the Program, to support client recovery.
- Develops individualized treatment plans as well as concurrent treatment plans with requisite updates and follow-ups.
- Acts as liaison with other organizations.
- Participates in in-service staff training.
- Participates in staff development, quality assurance, and professional activities as arranged by the Program Director.
Requirements
- Work requires a professional level of knowledge in dual diagnosis counseling, addictions, family therapy, crisis intervention, treatment planning, and human relations training.
- Work requires knowledge and background in psychiatry and psychology.
- Work requires a sufficient level of interpersonal skills to conduct individual group therapy and family sessions with clients and their families.
- Work requires a level of analytical ability sufficient to collect and interpret quantitative and qualitative data in order to resolve psychosocial problems, prepare complex treatment plans and document clinical services.
- Work requires approximately 2 years counseling experience in mental health or chemical dependence treatment setting.
- Ability to be empathetic, genuine, respectful with persons of all classes and psychological profiles.
- Work requires knowledge in the principles and concept of pharmacology, medical terminology and public health education.
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
- Professional development assistance
- Bonus pay
- Commission pay
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
dual diagnosis counselingaddictions counselingfamily therapycrisis interventiontreatment planningmental health assessmentclinical servicestherapeutic case managementpharmacologymedical terminology
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillsempathygenuinenessrespectfulnessanalytical abilitycommunication skillscollaborationproblem-solvingorganizational skillstraining and development