Associate Therapist Children & Families-- LACMH / LMSW / LAMFT (W2, free supervision)

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Job Description:\n\nWHAT IF YOUR NEXT JOB FELT LIKE THE REASON\nYOU BECAME A THERAPIST?\nAssociate Therapist Children & Families— LACMH / LMSW / LAMFT (W2, free supervision)\nResilient Kids Child & Family Therapy • Middletown, Delaware • Full-Time • W2\nChild & Family Therapist • Outpatient • New Castle County, Delaware • Associate Licensed Counselor\nLACMH · LMSW · LAMFT · or Equivalent Provisional License · Supervised Hours Delaware\n✓ Free supervision — you keep every dollar you earn ✓ Paid supervision time ✓ 95%+ client show rate\n✓ Caseload matched to your strengths ✓ No non-compete ✓ New 10-office location opening this summer\n\nAt Resilient Kids, you will never negotiate with an insurance company, chase a claim, explain a past-due balance, or have an awkward conversation about a no-show fee. You will never be handed a random caseload, thrown into a full schedule before you are ready, or left to figure out the business side of therapy on your own. You will show up, do the work you trained for, and go home.\nThat is not a promise most practices can make. We can — because we built the whole thing around it.\n\nBuilt by a Therapist Who Has Been Where You Are\nResilient Kids Child & Family Therapy was founded in 2017 by Marissa Lloyd, LPCMH — a child and family therapist who left nonprofit community mental health after experiencing firsthand the burnout that comes when clinicians are not supported the way they deserve to be. She built this practice on a simple belief: when therapists feel genuinely cared for, their clients receive genuinely better care. Marissa is not a distant owner — she shows up as a clinician and leader, still integrated into the practice she built.\n\n“Coming here felt like a breath of fresh air. For the first time, someone actually asked what kind of clients I wanted to work with — and then listened to the answer.” — Resilient Kids clinician\n\nThis position exists because we are growing — not because someone left. This summer we are opening a new 10-office location with a dedicated group room in Downtown Middletown, Delaware. We are hiring multiple associate licensed therapists and child and family counselors to build out this location alongside an established supervision team that is already in place and ready to support you from day one. For clinicians nearing full licensure, supervisory roles at this location are on the horizon — we are building a team we intend to promote from within.\n\nYour Caseload — The Honest Picture\nWe want you to be able to picture your week before you apply.\n\nAges 3 to young adults — child therapy, adolescent therapy, and family therapy in outpatient private practice\nPrimarily anxiety, depression, school-related challenges, and self-confidence presentations\nParents doing their own therapeutic work so they can show up more fully for their children\nLife transitions, adoption, and co-parenting support\nSome trauma — present but not the primary focus\nMotivated families who show up, engage, and want to be here\nTypically weekly sessions — consistent, manageable, relationship-driven\nPrimarily in-person with one telehealth day per week if you want it\nMinimal DFS referrals, crisis calls, or higher-level-of-care transfers — our crisis and DFS referral rate is among the lowest in outpatient practice\n\nThis is the kind of caseload that lets you build real clinical skill, real therapeutic relationships, and a sustainable outpatient therapy career — without burning through your nervous system by year two.\n\nWhat You Will Earn\nYou deserve to know the numbers before you invest another minute reading this.\n\nClinical session rate: $33 per completed session — your baseline\nEvening/weekend sessions: $38/session — after 5:00 PM weekdays or any weekend session\nAdmin rate: $20/hour — supervision, team meetings, trainings, and documentation time\nDocumentation pay: 1 paid hour at $20 for every 10 completed sessions\nRate review: Increases automatically at each licensure milestone\n\nAt 25 sessions/week: ~$47,600+ annualized — and that is your floor, not your ceiling.\nClinicians who build beyond 25 sessions — which most do, because our systems make it manageable — typically earn $48,000–$58,000 annually. At 27 sessions per week with a modest evening mix you are at $52,000. At 28–30 sessions with regular evening availability you are approaching $58,000. A clinician carrying 8 evening or weekend sessions per week earns an additional ~$2,080/year above the base rate. More sessions, more income, on your own terms.\n\nWhat You Will Never Have to Do Again\nYou already know what it feels like when the administrative chaos bleeds into the therapy room. A client finds out their insurance lapsed mid-treatment. An awkward billing conversation derails a session. You finish the day wondering when that claim will actually pay — or if it will.\n\nAt Resilient Kids, none of that reaches you.\n\nOur client care team handles every uncomfortable conversation — insurance lapses, past-due balances, no-show fees, overdue sessions — before it ever touches your clinical work. You are paid per completed session, not when a claim clears. We use SimplePractice — documentation templates and workflows are provided from day one, and our AI-assisted tools help you draft progress notes efficiently without sacrificing clinical quality. When a client hits their second no-show or sends a late cancel, the team handles it.\n\nThey also get to know you personally — your clinical strengths, your preferred presentations, the clients you work best with — and build your caseload around that. No random referrals. If the fit is not right, the booking does not happen. Our show rate is over 95% — that is what intentional caseload management looks like in practice.\n\nThe same team that protects your caseload also builds it. Our referral network is strong and consistent — we could fill your schedule in two weeks. We take 30 days on purpose so you arrive feeling confident, not overwhelmed. If you want to ramp up sooner, we support that too. All training is compensated — during ramp-up and beyond. You will never be asked to learn on your own time.\n\nA Schedule Built for the Long Game\nYou did not leave your last job to burn out somewhere new. This schedule was designed with that in mind.\nCore hours run Monday–Friday, 2–5 PM — when families are actually available. Add two weekday evenings (5–8 PM) or one weekend shift, and build the rest of your 30 hours of weekly availability however fits your life. Want slow mornings while everyone else battles rush hour to clock in by nine? Build it that way. Prefer midday availability? Do that instead.\n\nMost nights you are done by five — evenings are by choice, not by default\n25 sessions/week is your starting floor — most clinicians build well beyond it\nDaytime slots fill based on client demand — you will not be penalized while they build\nOne telehealth day per week available if you want it\nMore sessions here means more income, not more burnout\n\nSupervision That Actually Develops You\nWeekly individual supervision — every week, not monthly, not “as needed.” This is a requirement for Delaware LACMH, LCSW, and LMFT licensure — and here it is guaranteed, paid, and matched to your track.\nYour supervisor is matched to your licensure track and credentialed to sign your supervised hours in Delaware. Our supervisors hold PhD, LMFT, LCSW, and LPCMH licensure — and a Clinical Director oversees all of them. You are never dependent on one person’s availability or judgment.\nThe quiet anxiety of associate licensure is the math — enough client hours, consistent supervision, nothing falling through. Your caseload is structured to meet your licensure hour requirements and your supervision is guaranteed weekly. You will never end up short on either. Want your license as fast as possible? We are built for that.\nWe have been through the full arc with pre-licensed clinicians — the early overwhelm, the hard cases, the documentation pile-up, the moment things finally click. Your supervisor is not here to evaluate you. They are here to teach you, support you, and help you become the clinician you are working toward being. That is what supervision looks like here.\n\nAll supervision time is compensated at $20/hour — your clock does not stop running\nNo supervision repayment agreement — ever\nNo employment lock-in tied to supervised hours or licensure\nNo non-compete agreement — your license and your future belong to you\nYour rate increases automatically when you reach full licensure\n\nWe Believe Good Therapy Doesn’t Always Happen in a Chair\nWherever you work with us, good therapy is not confined to four walls. Our office locations in Whitehall and Downtown Middletown are warm, welcoming spaces designed for child and family therapy, play therapy, and experiential work — and we actively encourage walk and talk sessions, movement, fresh air, and the simple things that make clients and clinicians feel like humans. That is the baseline at every location.\nFor clinicians interested in nature-based therapy or animal-assisted therapy, we have built something most outpatient practices in Delaware cannot offer. Buddy’s Place is our working nonprofit farm partner in Middletown — a real farm with horses, dogs, chickens, rabbits, and gardens where evidence-informed therapeutic work happens every week. Clinicians who are interested can spend one day a week there exploring equine-assisted therapy, canine-assisted therapy, horticultural therapy, or small farm animal interactions — on their own timeline, in the direction that fits their clinical interests. Training and mentorship provided. No pressure, no obligation, no penalty for preferring the office.\nFor those who want to go deeper, Buddy’s Place is one of the very few nature-based therapy and animal-assisted therapy specialization pathways available in outpatient private practice anywhere in Delaware. We want you in the setting where you do your best work.\n\nA Place to Grow — Not Just Practice\nWe believe great clinicians never stop learning. That's why our investment in your growth extends far beyond licensure. Through ongoing training, mentorship, consultation, and hands-on experience, we help clinicians strengthen their clinical skills, professional development, and leadership potential. As our practice grows, opportunities for advancement and supervision are prioritized from within whenever possible.\n\nThe Honest Picture: W2 Employment\nThis is a W2 position, and for associate licensed clinicians in Delaware, that matters. W2 employment means we cover a share of your payroll taxes, provide real benefits, and offer legal and financial protections that independent contractor arrangements do not. We believe clinicians who feel financially stable and professionally protected do better clinical work, especially early in their careers when there is already so much to navigate.\nAs a W2 employee at Resilient Kids, we cover your employer share of Social Security and Medicare taxes — saving you roughly 7.65% compared to self-employment. You also receive:\n\nHighmark Delaware health insurance — 50% employer-paid, beginning after 60 days\nPaid Time Off — 80 hours per year\nDelaware Paid Leave (HDFA) — paid family and medical leave for new parents, serious illness, or family caregiving\nDelaware EARNS retirement — optional pre-tax savings directly through payroll\nWorkers’ compensation\nUnemployment protection\n\nThis is the financial foundation you need to focus entirely on becoming the clinician you want to be — not on quarterly tax payments and benefit shopping while you are still building your career.\n\nYou Are Who We Are Looking For If…\n\nYou enjoy working with children, teens, and families — practicum, internship, agency, or community mental health setting\nYou are motivated to complete your supervised hours and become a fully licensed therapist you are genuinely proud of\nYou keep documentation current and your caseload managed — organization comes naturally to you\nYou pick up the phone — coordinating with schools, prescribers, and pediatricians as part of a child’s care team is part of the job to you\nYou see clinical growth as a career-long commitment — pursuing training, developing a specialty, and always looking to refine your craft\nYou are ready to stop interviewing and start belonging — you want a practice you can grow with, build roots in, and call home for the long term\nYou want to do meaningful work and get paid what you are worth — your income is in your hands\n\nQualifications\nRequired:\n\nMaster’s degree in counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy, or a related field\nPassed your licensure exam — ASWB Masters (LMSW), NCE or NCMHCE (LACMH), or AMFTRB (LAMFT)\nActive provisional licensure in Delaware (LACMH, LMSW, LAMFT, or equivalent) or eligible to obtain\nPrior clinical experience with children, teens, and families — practicum, internship, agency, or community mental health setting\n\nBonus — any one or more of the following is a plus, not a requirement:\n\nPlay therapy training or interest — CPT, RPT, or working toward it\nTrauma-informed care training — TF-CBT, CPP, or equivalent\nBilingual — Spanish preferred, any language welcome\nExperience with neurodiversity — ADHD, autism spectrum, or related presentations\nLGBTQ+ affirming care experience or training\nSchool-based or community mental health background\nNature-based therapy, animal-assisted therapy, or equine-assisted psychotherapy interest or training\n\nBilingual clinicians and therapists from historically underrepresented backgrounds in mental health are strongly encouraged to apply. Resilient Kids Child & Family Therapy is an equal opportunity employer.\n\nHere Is What Happens When You Apply\nWe designed our hiring process for you as much as for us. By the end of it you will know exactly what working here looks and feels like — before you ever have to say yes.\nStep 1 — Apply\nSubmit your resume and complete our short application. Applications take less than five minutes. We respond to every one.\nStep 2 — 30-minute call with Marissa Lloyd, LPCMH, practice owner\nThis is not a screening call. It is a real conversation about the practice, about you, and about whether this is genuinely the right fit for both of us. Come with every question you have. We will answer them honestly.\nStep 3 — Mock supervision session with our Clinical Director\nWe send you a case vignette in advance. You write a progress note and treatment plan based on it. We are not looking for perfection. We will talk through it together the way we would in any supervision session. There is no right answer — we are interested in how you think, not how polished your paperwork is. This is as much your chance to experience what supervision here feels like as it is ours to get to know you as a clinician.\n\nWe respond to every applicant. We want you to walk away from this process knowing whether this is right for you — not just excited, but certain.\n\nIf you have been waiting for a practice that invests