Family and Couples Mental Health Therapist

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Join Our Team

National Pike Health Center (NPHC) is seeking a compassionate, skilled, and dedicated Family/Couples Therapist to join our outpatient mental health team. We are looking for clinicians who are passionate about strengthening relationships, improving family functioning, and helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life's challenges.

The ideal candidate will possess specialized training and experience in couples counseling, marriage therapy, and family systems work, and will be comfortable providing services to diverse populations across the lifespan.

National Pike Health Center was founded in 2001 as a clinic dedicated to providing behavioral health counseling to children, adolescents, adults, and their families. Decades later, with 2+ locations, we are more committed than ever to providing these clients with quality, service, and a sense of community.

NPHC is a community-based Outpatient Mental Health Center with offices in Catonsville, Dundalk, and Westminster. We provide mental health therapy and a psychiatric rehabilitation program (PRP) for all ages and groups. A multidisciplinary team of outstanding mental health therapists, psychiatrists, rehabilitation coordinators, and administrative staff joins us on this mission. From inception to through treatment, there is an ongoing planning and review of each case until the client is discharged. Our preventative and therapeutic outpatient mental health services provide treatment and psychiatric rehabilitation based on continually monitored and individualized treatment and/or rehabilitation goals.

Description of Role:

The National Pike Health Center Mental Health Therapists/Clinicians utilize their skills to provide therapy services within the school setting and communities. The services offered, along with time and location, are based on the individual needs of each client and family. Clinicians are given the opportunities to be flexible and creative to meet the clinical needs of their caseloads. Clinicians provide individual, family, and group therapy. Clinicians are expected to meet billing targets to ensure reimbursement for services.

Job Types : contractor

Compensation: $70 to $80 per clinical note (1099 contract)

Benefits:

What We Offer

- Flexible scheduling with hybrid opportunities (1099)
* Competitive compensation
* Administrative and billing support
* Ongoing clinical consultation and professional development
* Collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment
* Opportunities for growth and leadership within the organization

Work Location: Catonsville and Dundalk, MD.

We look forward to you joining our team!

Responsibilities

* Provide outpatient psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, families, and children/adolescents.
* Conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments and develop individualized treatment plans.
* Utilize evidence-based interventions to address relational, behavioral, emotional, and family system concerns.
* Facilitate couples and family therapy sessions focused on communication, conflict resolution, parenting, infidelity recovery, blended family issues, and life transitions.
* Maintain timely and accurate clinical documentation in accordance with agency, state, and payer requirements.
* Collaborate with psychiatrists, PRP staff, case managers, schools, and other community providers as clinically appropriate.
* Participate in clinical supervision, staff meetings, trainings, and interdisciplinary treatment planning.
* Maintain ethical and professional standards consistent with licensing board requirements.

Preferred Areas of Expertise

* Couples counseling and marriage therapy
* Family systems therapy
* Parent-child relational issues
* Co-parenting and divorce adjustment
* Communication and conflict resolution
* Trauma-informed care
* Premarital counseling
* Blended family dynamics
* Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Structural Family Therapy, or related modalities

 

Competencies:

Clinical Abilities:
Understanding of Clinical modalities and capable of providing quality and sound mental health treatment. Adept at incorporating supervisory feedback into offering exceptional individualized therapeutic intervention. Continued investment in growing clinically through on-going learning and training.

Strategic Capabilities:
Creates and implements a schedule that incorporates the needs of clients and stakeholders. Navigates the fluid environment and systems within the school community for opportunities to provide education regarding mental health. Effectively juggles direct care, documentation, care coordination, administrative duties, and outreach. Flexibility, self-motivation and creativity to work independently at site. Capable of meeting billable targets

Employee Development:
Continues to seek growth opportunities and is open to developing as a clinician and employee. Able to adapt to work with multiple people and systems. Willingness to learn and coachable to engage with the feedback cycle. Able to utilize conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

Therapists are expected/required to:

• Be professional and ethical when handling clients’ issues.
• Turn in their reports/notes weekly that meet COMAR regulations.
• Therapy sessions may be performed onsite or offsite; sessions are to last 45 minutes minimum.
• Therapists are to follow all policies pertaining to: Diagnostic (Dx) Evaluations, Treatment (Tx) Planning, Clinical Services, Referrals, & Discharge Planning must be done in a timely manner. Incident Reports & Crisis Plans should be completed as needed.
• Therapists are required to participate in agency meetings, trainings, as well as maintain a current state-mandated license to practice within their scope of practice.
• Therapists are required to provide the agency with updated personnel records necessary for the maintenance of the agency’s human resources files.
• Therapists are required to sign the agency's confidentiality agreement and comply with HIPAA regulations as it relate to National Pike Health Center Inc.'s medical records.

Job Skills Required

• Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
• Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

Requirements

Qualifications

Required:

•   Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, or related behavioral health field.
• Active Maryland clinical license or license eligibility.
• Experience providing psychotherapy services in an outpatient setting.
• Strong clinical documentation and organizational skills.

Preferred:

• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) or Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (LCMFT).
• Specialized training and demonstrated experience in couples and family therapy.
• Experience utilizing evidence-based couples and family treatment approaches (e.g., Gottman Method, EFT, Structural Family Therapy, CBT, Solution-Focused Therapy).
• Bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply.

Qualifying applicants must have a Master’s Degree & one of the following board-certified licenses:

Master's Degree and MD. State-approved licenses:

LCMFT, and LMFT - LMFT, requires @ least three (3) times a month by a board-approved supervisor