Bilingual Mental Health Professional

Evidence Based Associates • Frisco, TX

13d • $36 - $36 • Onsite

About The Position

This is a community-based therapist opportunity for a compassionate professional who is passionate about working with children and families. The role uses the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model to empower youth and families to create strength-based behavior change that continues after treatment ends. The therapist works with youth ages 12–17, their families, communities, and other members of their ecology, including in cases involving criminal offenses and substance abuse. Treatment may include skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support. Ongoing MST training, professional development, supervision, and consultation are provided.

The position requires regular therapy in family homes and travel throughout the service territory. The therapist must live within one hour of the territory and maintain a flexible, non-traditional schedule, including evenings and weekends as needed. Along with fellow clinicians, the therapist helps ensure clients can access support 24 hours a day, seven days a week as needed. Spanish fluency is required.

Requirements

• Fluency in Spanish.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation to travel to clients’ homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.
• Master’s degree in clinical or counseling psychology, social work, or a related subject area.
• Professional licensure as an LPC-Associate, LMFT-Associate, or LMSW under clinical supervision.
• Willingness and ability to live locally, within one hour of the territory.
• Willingness and ability to provide therapy inside family homes regularly.
• Willingness and ability to maintain a flexible, non-traditional schedule, including evenings and weekends as needed.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly throughout the full service territory.
• Comfort working with a diverse community of clients and knowledge of the types of families in the community.

Nice To Haves

• Full licensure as an LPC, LMFT, or LCSW.
• Direct use of pragmatic family therapies, including structural, strategic, and functional approaches.
• Experience providing therapy to children and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques.
• Couples therapy experience using behaviorally based approaches.
• Experience implementing interventions within or between systems in a youth’s natural ecology, including family, peer, school, and neighborhood systems.
• Experience collaborating and partnering with community agencies.
• Previous experience providing in-home or community-based therapy services.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST treatment model and principles, including leveraging strengths, focusing on positive behavior, understanding sequences of behavior, and increasing mature behavior.
• Assess clients and families, gathering information about concerning behaviors and family and ecological strengths to inform treatment conceptualization.
• Engage primary caregivers, family members, supports, and community agency staff—including school, probation, and child welfare—in change-oriented treatment.
• Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with support from a supervisor and team members.
• Participate in MST training, professional development, supervision, and consultation.
• Help ensure clients have access to support 24 hours a day, seven days a week as needed, in coordination with fellow clinicians.
• Provide therapy in family homes as a regular part of the position.
• Travel throughout the full service territory to meet with families and provide services where needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level