About This Role
This role involves providing compassionate, evidence-based care to individuals, couples, and families as an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist. It offers an opportunity to use clinical skills in a supportive environment that values growth, innovation, and client-centered approaches, delivering high-quality psychotherapy services across diverse settings, including telehealth and community-based programs.
Responsibilities
- Exercise sound clinical and professional judgment
- Maintain a professional appearance and attitude in face-to-face interactions and on social media
- Help to maintain the safety, comfort, and appearance of your office, break room, and waiting room
- Schedule and hold 45-60 minute sessions with individuals, couples, and families to improve mental health
- Help clients to define and work on their goals for therapy
- Promptly communicate back with and schedule client referrals
- Promptly communicate with staff and supervisor
- Promptly communicate back with community and referral sources
- Complete intake assessments and progress notes for every session billed
- Effectively create and carry out treatment plans using evidence-based practices
- Attend staff meetings and supervision meetings
- Present cases and give feedback to other clinicians
- Assist in emotionally supporting other clinicians
- Complete invoices, bill payments, and progress notes within 24 hours of time of service
- Complete timesheet daily reflecting billable hours worked
- Maintain client’s charts and keep complete and correct documentation
- Complete discharge summaries as needed for each client
- Notify The Mountford Marriage and Family Therapy Group, Corp within 24 hours if you learn of your client’s intent to do harm to self or others (Tarasoff), receive a subpoena in relation to your work as a therapist regarding a client obtained via The Mountford Marriage and Family Therapy Group, Corp or counseling services performed at The Mountford Marriage and Family Therapy Group, Corp’s facilities, or file a child or adult protective services report
- Seek assistance from supervisors, other treatment providers, colleagues, CAMFT, or lawyers when needed
Requirements
- Ability to empathize with clients
- Master’s Degree in Professional Counseling or related field
- Licensed or pre-licensed in the state of California (LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, PsyD, PhD, Associate MFT, Associate PCC, etc.)
- Basic computer literacy ability to comply with department needs and expectations (i.e., electronic medical record documentation, obtaining background information and reports on patients, following up on appointments, etc.)