REACH Counseling Services is seeking a Mental Health Therapist for the Westlake CJ Hendry & Associates location. You can create your own schedule with flexibility of working hours. Therapists are responsible for providing individual therapy to clients.

Responsibilities:

• Collect information about clients through interview, observation, and assessment tools.
• Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge.
• Counsel clients, individually to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, and making changes.
• Act as client advocate in order to coordinate required services or to resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
• Counsel family members to assist them in understanding, coping, and supporting clients.
• Modify treatment activities and approaches as needed on order to comply with changes in client status.
• Maintain confidential records relating to client treatment.
• Prepare and maintain all required treatment records and reports in the required timeframe.
• Maintain compliance with all laws and regulations governing the practice of counseling, social work and marriage and family therapy in Ohio.
• Collaborate with other staff members to perform clinical assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Meet with families, probation officers, and other interested parties in order to exchange needed information.
• Refer patients, clients, or family members to community resources or to specialists as necessary.
• Attend staff meetings.

Qualifications

• Ohio licensure required LSW, LISW, LISW-S, PC, PCC or PCC-S
• Experience with addiction is preferred, but must have the above licensure.
• Knowledge of child and family development, individual/group/family counseling techniques, solution-focused, short-term treatment techniques, and mental health diagnoses (DSM-5).
• Ability to work successfully in a team environment.
• Good written and verbal skills.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Flexible schedule and hours.