Mental Health Counselor Masters

Job Description

The Mental Health Therapist provides outpatient behavioral health services with a primary focus on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health conditions. This position serves individuals experiencing a broad range of psychiatric, emotional, and behavioral health concerns and requires knowledge of co-occurring substance use disorders as part of comprehensive care. Responsibilities include behavioral health assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, referral, care coordination, and facilitation of group psychotherapy. The therapist supports individuals throughout the continuum of treatment using evidence-based, recovery-oriented interventions that promote symptom stabilization, resilience, improved functioning, and overall well-being.

Essential Functions

Clinical Assessment and Treatment

• Gather and review information from patients, families, providers, and other collateral sources to assess clinical needs, strengths, risks, and treatment goals.
• Conduct comprehensive behavioral health assessments, including evaluation of co-occurring substance use disorders.
• Formulate DSM and ICD diagnoses based on clinical findings.
• Screen referrals and determine appropriateness for services.
• Develop, implement, and update individualized treatment plans that reflect patient goals and clinical needs.
• Provide individual, family, and group psychotherapy using trauma-informed and evidence-based practices.
• Monitor treatment progress and modify interventions as clinically indicated.
  Crisis Intervention and Care Coordination
• Promote recovery, resilience, and improved functioning through therapeutic engagement and skill development.
• Assess safety concerns and respond to behavioral health crises, including suicide risk, self-harm, and psychiatric emergencies.
• Provide crisis intervention, stabilization, and referral to higher levels of care when appropriate.
• Coordinate care with primary care providers, psychiatrists, hospitals, substance use treatment programs, and community resources to ensure continuity of care.
• Facilitate referrals and support transitions across care settings.
• Collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team to ensure integrated, patient-centered care.
  Co-Occurring Disorders
• Identify and address co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders through screening, assessment, treatment planning, and ongoing intervention.
• Incorporate recovery-oriented approaches and evidence-based practices into treatment.
• Refer patients to specialized substance use treatment services when indicated and collaborate with those providers to support treatment goals.

Documentation and Compliance

• Complete accurate, timely, and clinically appropriate documentation in the electronic health record (EHR).
• Document services, assessments, treatment plans, and progress notes within 24 hours of service delivery.
• Maintain compliance with organizational policies, professional standards, regulatory requirements, and confidentiality guidelines.
• Participate in quality improvement, team meetings, and clinical consultation activities as assigned.

Providence caregivers are not simply valued - they're invaluable. Join our team at Providence St. Peter Hospital and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Mental Health counseling or equivalent.
• 2 years Acute Care or community based mental health work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working with and/or a knowledge base of homeless services and/or substance use.

Why Join Providence?

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.

About Us

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.


Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.


Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.


Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

About the Team

Providence has been serving the Pacific Northwest since 1856 when Mother Joseph and four other Sisters of Providence arrived in Vancouver, Washington Territory. Today, Providence is the largest health care provider in Washington located in communities large and small across the state. In western Washington, Providence provides care throughout the greater Puget Sound from Snohomish County to Lewis County.

Our award-winning and comprehensive medical centers are known for outstanding programs in cancer, cardiology, neurosciences, orthopedics, women's services, emergency and trauma care, pediatrics and neonatal intensive care. Our not-for-profit network also provides a full spectrum of care with leading-edge diagnostics and treatment, outpatient health centers, physician groups and clinics, numerous outreach programs, and hospice and home care.

Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.


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