Therapist

StepStone Family & Youth Services; Charleston (WV); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

StepStone Family & Youth Services in Charleston, WV seeks a compassionate Therapist to provide trauma-informed, youth-centered clinical services. You will conduct assessments, develop treatment plans, and deliver individual and family therapy while coordinating with case managers, schools, and foster families.

The role emphasizes empathy, adaptability, and collaboration within a multidisciplinary team to support healing, stability, and long‑term positive outcomes for youth and families.

Qualifications

• Culture-sensitive service delivery.
• Ability to collaborate with families and teams.
• Ability to set boundaries and maintain a helping role.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial mental health assessments.
• Provide individual and family therapy; document sessions per regulatory standards.
• Develop individualized treatment plans with client goals.
• Coordinate with schools, foster families, and treatment teams to ensure coordinated services.
• Maintain timely clinical documentation and comply with confidentiality and ethics.

Skills

Cultural competence

Team collaboration

Boundary setting

Education

Master’s degree in psychology, social work or counseling

Tools

Electronic health records

Job description

Overview

StepStone Family & Youth Services provides trauma informed, youth centered services to children and families with complex emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs. The Therapist plays a vital role in providing individualized clinical services that promote healing, emotional well-being, stability, and positive outcomes for youth and families.

Our Company

StepStone Family & Youth Services

Overview

StepStone Family & Youth Services provides trauma informed, youth centered services to children and families with complex emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs. The Therapist plays a vital role in providing individualized clinical services that promote healing, emotional well-being, stability, and positive outcomes for youth and families.

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Therapist who is passionate about supporting children and families through trauma informed, strengths based, and family centered practices. This role is ideal for a clinical professional who values relationship building, collaboration, advocacy, and providing individualized therapeutic support to youth who have experienced trauma and other significant life challenges.

The Therapist is responsible for completing clinical assessments, developing individualized treatment plans, providing individual and family therapy, delivering crisis intervention and ongoing therapeutic support, and maintaining accurate and timely clinical documentation. This position collaborates closely with youth, families, case managers, foster families, schools, community providers, and multidisciplinary treatment teams to ensure services are coordinated and responsive to each individual's needs.

The ideal candidate is empathetic, adaptable, clinically focused, and solutions oriented, with a strong commitment to providing high quality, trauma informed therapeutic services that empower youth and families, strengthen relationships, and promote long term healing, stability, and success.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial mental health assessments
• Provide individual, family, and/or group therapy sessions to clients as determined by the treatment plan and document the sessions according to best practice documentation and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain electronic record to meet regulatory management standards and document all client meetings, progress toward treatment goals and ensure compliance with confidentiality and ethical standards.
• Develop individualized treatment plans Based on client needs and goals
• Utilize evidenced based, trauma informed, therapeutic techniques, such as trauma therapies, TF-CBT (Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral and Solution
• Focused Techniques and other modalities necessary to assist client in meeting goals
• Participate as a member of the child and family team
• Provide consultation to non-clinical team members, when appropriate
• Abide by company policy when receiving a subpoena for records and/or court appearances.
• Work in consultation with and report any concerns to State Executive Director and/or Statewide Treatment Director
• Attendance is an essential function of the job
• Other job-related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Possess a working knowledge and understanding of culture and its function in human behavior and society.
• Deliver services that are sensitive to client’s culture.
• Foster mutually respectful partnerships with persons served and their families in which they are helped to gain the skills and confidence to address identified issues they face.
• Able to effectively partner with other team members.
• Possess a conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.
• Able to set appropriate boundaries and maintain a helping role and intervene appropriately to meet the needs of the person(s) served or other family.
• A Master’s degree in a psychology, social work or counseling
• 1 year experience in child welfare services.
• A valid professional Master’s level, provisional or full license in social work, therapy or counseling.

About Our Line Of Business

StepStone Family and Youth Services, an affiliate of BrightSpring Health Services, provides the full spectrum of support to children in need of alternative, safer, and more positive living environments with residential and family services. StepStone connects children and youth who need homes with foster families, as well as foster care training, respite care and support services. For young adults transitioning from foster care to independent living, StepStone provides personalized guidance and training on basic life skills, including money management and education. For more information, please visit www.stepstoneyouth.com . Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn .

Additional Job Information

Our position follows a hybrid work structure where employees may work remotely at home or in the community as well as from the office, based on the demands of specific tasks. Working from the office is encouraged for tasks that require a high degree of collaboration. The population being at-risk youth, therapy sessions will primarily occur outside of school hours, unless otherwise indicated by the youth’s treatment plan.