Mental Health Clinician
Postgraduate and Licensed Associate Counselors
We have full-time & part-time opportunities with Supervision provided for those graduated from a Master's Program in the behavioral health field!
Job Types: Full-time (hybrid: in office and telehealth) and part-time (hybrid: in office and telehealth) positions available
Company Description:
Healing Hartze, PLLC specializes in supporting our clients as they navigate toward their ideal life and provide tools to overcome difficult life experiences, expectations and relational or cultural stressors. Our work will help our clients to develop and maintain healthy relationships, develop positive coping strategies, shift thinking and behaviors, and come into a confident self. The Healing Hartze’s approach is an integration of therapeutic modalities and theories that allow clients to grow by building hope, strength and resiliency through therapeutic interventions such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and modified Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) among many other therapy modalities to address issues and difficulties that prevent a person from reaching their potential. Using evidenced-based treatments, each member of the Healing Hartze Team strives to be a light in the lives of our clients and provide them with insights and tools that will help them to accomplish their goals. It is important to counsel the whole person: mind, body, and spirit in a trusting and nonjudgmental environment from the very first contact to completion date, and the therapeutic relationship is an integral part of the healing process for our clients. Therapy and the opportunity to help our clients to heal is sacred work. Our goal as a Company is to help as many people as possible grow into their full potential, including every intern/masters level student, graduate, licensed associate and licensed professional counselor that we welcome onto our team. If what you have heard about Healing Hartze aligns with your values and intentions both personally and professionally, we urge you to click Apply now below!
Job Summary:
The Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) is responsible for providing mental health assessments during the initial intake appointment with their assigned client as well as collaborating with their client to identify needs, goals, objectives and counseling interventions through the individual treatment planning process. The LAC will use motivational interviewing and client based approaches to create a plan and provide interventions that will assist our clients to complete their goals while continually monitoring and documenting client progress and outcomes. The LAC will be evaluating for risk assessment and the need for case presentation, staffing, and emergency intervention and will be meeting with their assigned clinical supervisor at least an hour per week.
The Licensed Associate Counselor shall utilize clinically approved modalities, including but not limited to the use of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution Focused, Mindfulness based, Person-centered and Trauma Focused therapies among others in accordance with their training and certifications. Healing Hartze also provides Continuing Education credits at no cost to the clinician through Relias.
Job Responsibilities:
The Licensed Associate Counselor will provide counseling services based on knowledge, trainings, certifications, psychological and human development theories, evidenced-based research and on-going self-improvement and growth through keeping updated on clinical interventions and effectiveness paired with the clients’ mental health assessments, needs, goals, strengths, and techniques to adults, children, and families and groups if/when appropriate.
The Licensed Associate Counselor will provide psycho education to clients while keeping the fundamental information from the Diagnostic and Statistical manual of mental disorders DSM-5 as the guide.
Completion of notes and other required documentation by 10:00 pm same day service was rendered. Must comply with documentation protocol necessary for best practice
Participates in meetings with or without the client and with or without the client’s family participating and when appropriate
The Licensed Associate Counselor will facilitate growth, development and adaptation by assisting the client to make connections between past and current interpersonal relationship issues as well as how trauma, beliefs, emotions and behaviors link to current mental and emotional disorders
Provides referrals, outreach and follow-up of services
Ensures the development and implementation of transition from initial intake with a client to completion of treatment, discharge and aftercare plans prior to discontinuation of behavioral health services
Performs all case management functions associated with caseload including completing the assessment and services planning processes; including identifying the need for further or specialty evaluations
Maintains the client's comprehensive clinical record, including documentation of activities performed as part of the service delivery process
Provides continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment through the ongoing assessment of the client and input from the client and relevant others resulting in modification to the service plan, as necessary
Minimum Education & Experience:
Master's Degree related to behavior health field (required)
In the process of obtaining supervision hours towards an LPC
Counselor I = Master's Degree, 0-6 months postgraduate; ready to apply or waiting on LAC.
Licensed Associate Counselor (Clinician II ) = Master's Degree, and licensed through the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners.
Bilingual applicants are strongly encouraged to apply!
Certifications/Licenses:
CPR & First Aid (required)
Valid Level 1 Fingerprint Clearance Card (required)
Proof of Professional Liability Ins. (required)
Valid Driver’s License and reliable transportation
Knowledge, skills, and abilities:
Computer skills including working knowledge of Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Calendar.
Experience with Apple products is a plus.
Effective interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to follow instructions, as well as following through
Humility to accept criticism as well as praise
The willingness to accept guidance on clinical documentation, and all other areas of Clinical experience and supervision
Able to acknowledge mistakes, stuck points, and deficiencies and putting the effort in to learn from them, as well as being honest with oneself in the learning and supervision process