Master's Associate Counselor

A Center for Mental Wellness; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 57,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance contribution

Vision benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement plan with employer match

Paid time off 10 days

Paid holidays

Birthday off

Floating holiday

Job summary

A Center for Mental Wellness, Inc. in Dover, Delaware, is hiring a Masters Associate Counselor (Master’s-Level) in a full-time, salaried position. You will provide individual, group, and family counseling under structured supervision to work toward independent licensure.

This role offers comprehensive supervision, cohort-based teamwork, and growth pathways including addiction credentialing support and CEU-forward training, with a patient-centered, collaborative approach to care.

Qualifications

• A master’s degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• A genuine interest in working toward independent licensure with real support behind you.
• Comfort working as part of a small, collaborative treatment team.

Responsibilities

• Carry a caseload of individual, group, and family counseling clients.
• Receive one hour of individual, in-person clinical supervision every week with oversight.
• Participate in weekly group supervision with your cohort and supervision team.
• Complete progress notes, treatment plans, and assessments with your supervisor’s sign-off.

Skills

Counseling

Team collaboration

Licensure pursuit

Education

Master’s degree in psychology/counseling/social work

Job description

Masters Associate Counselor (Master’s-Level, Working

$63,000/year

About Us

A Center for Mental Wellness, Inc. has been part of the Dover community

since 2008. We treat and assess every client thoroughly to determine the right course of

care, and when a client’s substance use is part of their story, we address it as part of

one connected treatment plan. If a client’s needs call for expertise beyond what their

treating provider offers, we expect that provider to pursue an internal referral, an

external referral, or consultation right away - getting the client to the right care matters

more than keeping them on any one caseload. We’re building something we think is

different from a typical outpatient practice: small, supported treatment teams (we call

them cohorts) where you’re never the only clinician figuring things out alone. ACFMW is

owned by licensed clinicians, not a venture-backed healthcare group - our owners hold

LPCMH licenses themselves and have done this work firsthand. We built these roles to

be ones we’d genuinely want to work in ourselves.

About the Role

We’re hiring a full-time, salaried Masters Associate Counselor working

toward independent licensure. You’ll join a four-person cohort led by an experienced,

licensed Clinical Supervisor, providing individual, group, and family counseling to clients

across the lifespan. This is a master’s-level position - no prior independent licensure

required, since real, structured supervision is built into how the role works, not an

afterthought.

What You’ll Do

• Carry a caseload of individual, group, and family counseling clients - currently, that
• means a quarterly average of 26–30 billable hours per week. We intentionally keep
• this realistic rather than requiring 40 hours of billable time like some practices do,
• since that usually means far more than 40 hours of actual availability once no-shows
• are factored in. Work-life balance matters to us
• Receive one hour of individual, in-person clinical supervision every week - not
• occasional check-ins
• Participate in weekly group supervision with your cohort
• Complete progress notes, treatment plans, and assessments with your supervisor’s
• direct support and sign-off
• If you work with child and adolescent clients, gain access to Registered Play
• Therapist (RPT) training and supervision, overseen by a Registered Play Therapist–
• Supervisor (RPT-S) credentialed through the Association for Play Therapy
• Interested in addiction-specific credentialing? ACFMW provides the addiction specific
• training and supervised clinical hours the Delaware Certification Board
• requires toward the CADC, CAADC, or CCDP (Co-Occurring Disorders Professional)
• credentials. You’ll still need to pass the required IC&RC exam yourself, but we make
• sure the training and supervised hours are there for you along the way

What We’re Looking For

• A master’s degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or
• a related field from an accredited college or university
• A genuine interest in working toward independent licensure with real support behind
• you
• Comfort working as part of a small, collaborative treatment team

Why ACFMW

• Full-time salary, not fee-for-service - your pay isn’t at the mercy of no-shows or a
• slow week
• Real weekly supervision built into your schedule, every week, guaranteed
• A defined path forward: cohort supervision experience is designed to build toward
• future leadership opportunities as you grow with us
• Specialized training tracks (RPT for those working with youth, plus addiction
• credentialing support) most practices in Delaware simply don’t offer
• Monthly rounds with our psychiatric and psychology consultants, plus quarterly
• Grand Rounds - a mini-conference each quarter with multiple presentations and
• discussion topics, complete with an agenda and certificate of attendance. For LCSW
• and LPCMH-level clinicians, this documentation is generally accepted toward
• required continuing education hours for license renewal - meaning a meaningful
• chunk of your CEUs can come from simply being part of our team, not from paying
• out of pocket elsewhere. (CEU acceptance depends on your specific license and
• board.)
• Two supportive locations serving Dover and the surrounding community
• Health insurance contribution, vision, and dental
• Retirement plan with up to a 3% employer match
• 10 days (80 hours) of PTO
• Paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor
• Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day
• Your birthday off, paid
• A floating holiday, so you can celebrate a day that’s personally or culturally
• significant to you, whatever that is