Primary Therapist- Master Level Psychologist

Modern Recovery Services; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Modern Recovery Services is seeking a Master Level Psychologist to provide individualized therapy remotely via telehealth. The role focuses on supporting clients with mental health and substance use challenges, guiding recovery, and coordinating care with the Clinical Director and Group Facilitator.

Responsibilities include delivering teletherapy, offering recovery education, and facilitating client plans while connecting them with community resources to sustain long-term recovery goals.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Master’s degree in Psychology from an accredited college or university.
• Demonstrated understanding of the recovery process and the drug/alcohol treatment system.
• Comfortable working with both adolescent and adult populations.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual therapy via video conferencing/teletherapy.
• Serve as role model, mentor, advocate, and motivator in recovery.
• Collaborate with Clinical Director and Group Facilitator to align with treatment plans.
• Offer recovery education to clients across phases of recovery.
• Identify goals, strengths, and barriers to support client progress.
• Establish linkages to community resources and supports.
• Promote self-advocacy and client voice in care planning.
• Support smooth transition from clinical services to community-based resources.
• Develop relationships with community groups and partners to enhance services.

Skills

Teletherapy

Video conferencing

Recovery education

Education

Master’s degree in Psychology

Job description

Primary Therapist- Master Level Psychologist

Modern Recovery Services is a virtual intensive outpatient program for individuals working through mental health and substance use challenges. The Primary Therapists’ role is to support others in recovery from a substance use disorder and/or co-occurring disorders. The Primary Therapist will serve as a role model, mentor, advocate, and motivator to recovering individuals to help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery. The Primary Therapist works in collaboration with the Clinical Director and Group Facilitator to meet the clients’ needs in accordance with their treatment plan, by providing Individual sessions to clients in need of these services.

Job Duties:

• Provide recovery education to clients for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery maintenance.
• Assist recovering persons to identify their personal interests, goals, strengths, and weaknesses regarding recovery.
• Assist/coach recovering persons develop their own plan for advancing their recovery.
• Facilitate the transition from professional services to community-based services.
• Promote self-advocacy by assisting recovering persons to have their voices fully heard; their needs, goals and objectives established as the focal point of rehabilitation and clinical services.
• Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual self- help groups, professional services, etc.) that support the recovering person’s goals and interests.
• Provide hope and encouragement for opportunities at varying levels of involvement in community-based activities (e.g., work, school, relationships, physical activity, self-directed hobbies, etc.).
• Develop relationships with community groups/agencies in partnership with others in the agency.
• Identify barriers (internal and external) to full participation in community resources and develop strategies to overcome those barriers.
• Ability to provide services via video conferencing/teletherapy when determined appropriate for clients and the organization. Teletherapy may include evaluation, assessment, consultation, treatment planning, case management, coaching, individual therapy, couple/family therapy,and group therapy. Telehealth will occur primarily through interactive audio, video, telephone and/or other audio/video communications.

Recommended Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Psychology from an accredited college or university
• Must be 21 years of age (licensing requirement)
• Must be able to provide Level 1 fingerprint clearance card

Minimum Qualifications:

• Individuals must understand and respect everyone's unique path to recovery.
• A person must have a working knowledge of the drug and alcohol treatment system and a demonstrated commitment to the recovery community.
• A person must be comfortable working with both adolescent and adult populations.