Mental Health Professional, Bilingual

Evidence Based Associates; Conroe (TX); Sur place; USD 56 000 - 79 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Evidence Based Associates in Texas is seeking compassionate MST therapists to empower youth and families at home. You will receive MST training and work with youth aged 12-17, their families, and community partners.

Role requires local residency within 1 hour of Conroe, TX, in-home visits, and bilingual Spanish/English abilities; licensure as LPC/LCSW/LMFT preferred; valid TX driver’s license and transportation required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in clinical or counseling psychology, social work, or a related field.
• Licensure as LPC, LMFT, or LCSW preferred; may consider supervised substitutes at lower pay.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred (paid at a higher salary).

Responsabilités

• Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST model.
• Conduct thorough assessments of clients and families to inform treatment.
• Engage primary caregivers, family members, and community staff in change-oriented treatment.
• Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation with supervision.
• Provide 24/7 access to support as needed in collaboration with team.
• Receive ongoing training, supervision, and professional development.
• Collaborate with school, probation, child welfare, and other agencies as needed.

Connaissances

Bilingual Spanish & English

In-home therapy

Assessment & case planning

Formation

Master's Degree in clinical or counseling psychology or social work

Description du poste

Must be local within 1 hour from Conroe, TX Requires work in the community in clients homes. MUST SPEAK SPANISH

Overview

Do you have a passion for working with children and families? We arelooking for compassionate, dedicated people inwho want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends.

You will receive ongoing training in the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model as you work with families, youth, their communities, and other key members of their ecology to implement MST as designed. Extensive research has proven the effectiveness of MST. MST therapists do whatever it takes, via close collaboration with all involved, to address the needs of juveniles with criminal offenses, including, in some cases, substance abuse. You will empower families to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help youth aged 12 - 17 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few. For more information on Multisystemic Therapy, please watch this video: How Does MST Work?

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST treatment model and principles. Some principles include leveraging strengths and focusing on the positive, understanding sequences of behavior, and increasing mature behavior.
• Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family: gather information on behaviors of concern and strengths in the family and their ecology to inform conceptualization of the problem behaviors and interactions within the family’s ecological context.
• Comfort working with a diverse community of clients.
• Knowledge of the types of families in the community
• Continuously work to engage the primary caregiver, family members, supports, and community agency staff(school, probation, child welfare)in change-oriented treatment.
• Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members.
• Receive regular training, professional development, supervision, and consultation activities designed to help you acquire extensive clinical skills within the MST treatment model.
• Assure, along with fellow clinicians, that clients have access to 24 hours/day, 7 days/week support as needed.

Qualifications

• Highly skilled Masters-prepared professional with training in behavioral and cognitive behavioral therapies and pragmatic family therapies (i.e., Structural Family Therapy and Strategic Family Therapy).
• LPC, LCSW, or LMFT preferred
• Will consider the following at lower pay, based on level of credentials:
• LPC-Associate, LMFT-Associate or LMSW under clinical supervision
• Master's Degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or related subject area
• Excellent customer service skills
• Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred (paid at a higher salary)
• Must possess a valid Texas driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to clients’ homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.
• Must live within 30 –45-minutetravel time from the designated service area.

Preferred Experience

• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
• Therapy with children and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques.
• Couples therapy usingbehaviorally basedapproaches.
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
• Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services.

Pay Rate:

• Master's degree in Psychology, Counseling, Social Work - $55,620 Annually $58,597 annually, if Bilingual
• LPC-A, LMFT-A, LMSW - $63,860 Annually $67,691annually, if Bilingual
• LPC, LCSW, LMFT - $74,160 Annually $78,609 Annually, if Bilingual

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