Care and Counseling, Inc.
Care and Counseling, Inc. enhances emotional, relational and spiritual well-being. We do this through exceptional quality and accessible counseling, professional training, and community education.
REPORTS TO: Director of Clinical Services
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: A staff therapist provides individual, group, couple, and family counseling. He or she participates as a clinical staff team member, teaches in the training program when appropriate, shares in staffing meetings and case conferences, performs necessary administrative tasks, and participates in center community relations.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITES:
1. Professional counseling services
2. Clinical staff participation
3. Center administration and development
EXAMPLES OF WORK:
Professional Services
- Providing the number of agreed upon clinical hours
- Representing the standards and practices of his/her primary professional field
- Maintaining clinical records in keeping with center policies and procedures
- Working with the administrative staff to set and collect appropriate fees
Clinical Staff Participation
- Working cooperatively with staff colleagues, consultants, and referring professionals
- Actively participating in clinical staffings and case consultations
- Attending administrative staff meetings, staff retreats, and other team building activities
- Teaching in the training program
Center Administration and Development
- Participating in the development of the center’s referral network
- Participating in the center’s programs of education, consultation, and community relations
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master’s or doctorate degree in psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, counseling or equivalent
- Clinical training and experience, validated by certification or licensure by the groups corresponding to their fields, including the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), Academy of Clinical Social Workers (ACSW), and clinical state licensure in psychology, social work or counseling
- Ability to help clients deal with theological and/or spiritual issues utilizing resources within his/her own belief system
- Understanding of the dynamics of religious experience and the implications for counseling
- A willingness to think theologically about the therapeutic task and the relation of therapy to the client’s conscious or unconscious belief system
- Evidence of having had enough personal therapy to work freely with clients and to protect them from the therapist’s own problems
- Mastery of a coherent theory and practice of psychotherapy
- Ability to use the language and methodology of differential diagnosis and familiarity with the contributions of various diagnostic tests
- Ability to assess a client’s therapeutic needs, to establish a therapeutic relationship, and to conduct, complete, terminate, and evaluate that therapy
- Ability to relate the contributions of various disciplines to the therapeutic task and to make appropriate use of inter-professional collaboration
- Ability to work effectively with religious leaders, congregations, and other community sponsors and resource persons
- Ability and willingness to develop and cultivate his/her own caseload by representing the Center in the community and relating to referral sources
- Ability to establish and maintain appropriate personal and professional relationships and boundaries both within and outside the Center
- Other duties as assigned
Please apply by sending a cover letter and CV to Stephanie Whitney at swhitney@careandcounseling.org.
