Associate Counselor

We are looking for both full-time (30+ hrs) and part-time (16-29 hrs) Associate Mental Health Counselors. This is a school-based position with locations all across Marin (Fairfax to Novato).

Marin Counseling Collaborative (MCC): Our community clinic offers professional, skilled, affordable, psychotherapy to address the challenges that life can bring. The Marin Counseling Collaborative is a community counseling center and training program operated by Bay Area Community Resources. MCC provides counseling to children, adults, couples, and families. All of our therapists specialize in working with children and adolescents and have school based counseling experience. Associates working for BACR have the opportunity to learn about private practice through their work with MCC.

*$500 Signing Bonus upon 4 months of successful continual employment in the position.

Benefits:

• Pay rate: $25-$30/hr (based on experience and license status)
• Approximately 9 weeks off paid per year (winter, spring and summer breaks and holidays)
• Employment Benefits: medical (full time only), employee assistance program, dental, vision, wellness program, life insurance, flexible spending account, commuter benefits (based on total weekly hours)

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's in counseling or related field
• Licensed MFT or LPCC (check out our position for unlicensed applicants https://apply.workable.com/bacr/j/1997A5F994/ )
• Experienced in working with children, adolescents, or high school-aged youth in a school setting.
• Ability to work well with both youth and families and school staff.
• Must include 2 letters of recommendation, cover letter, and CV/resume in application to be considered

Preferred

• Licensed MFT, Associates MFT, LPCC or APCC
• Bi-lingual (Spanish-English)

About The Program

Responsibilities

• Provide services to clients in an ethical, legal, and professional manner, including HIPAA, CAMFT, and NASW standards.
• Provide trauma-informed, strengths-based individual and group mental health services, including therapy, family consultation, case management, and prevention education.
• Provide crisis intervention and trauma response as needed.
• Consult with school administration, faculty, and staff on specific youth and families and on school mental health issues in general. Work with school staff, administrators, Community School Managers, and parents to coordinate services.
• Humility in cultural issues related to race, ethnicity, nationality, class, religion, and sexual orientation is required

Orientation: The didactic training begins with an intensive week-long orientation that provides information about the agency, an introduction to the traineeship, and an overview of the program structure and model. Orientation offers initial training on risk & crisis, working in schools, legal & ethical issues, psychosocial assessments, clinical interviewing, substance abuse, treatment planning, record keeping, and cultural diversity. Orientation is structured to provide trainees with enough initial information to begin work in the schools and feel supported in their training.

Supervision: Individual supervision will focus on the development of sound clinical judgment and of the intern’s expertise in assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy and crisis interventions. The emphasis is also on how to provide skillful clinical services in a school setting, as well as how to develop thoughtful case conceptualization. All supervisors are licensed clinicians and have extensive experience working within the field of school based counseling. Writing progress notes and audio taping are a regular part of supervision.

Group supervision: Group supervision will focus on building clinical skills, while focusing on specific cases in a small group format. Trainees will learn to do formal case presentations and will gain support around working with students, their families and the schools. Audiotapes and/or transcriptions of specific sessions are required for case presentations.

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