El Centro Family Health - Las Vegas, NM
posted about 2 months ago
Las Vegas, NM
Hospitals
About the position
The Behavioral Health Therapist position is licensed at a post-master's degree level. This counselor primarily provides brief and intensive therapy to individuals, children, adolescents, families and/or groups to ameliorate their identified problems in order to improve or restore their skills and abilities to successfully manage their lives and interact positively with their families and community.
Responsibilities
- Provide brief and intensive therapy to individuals, children, adolescents, families, and/or groups.
- Ameliorate identified problems to improve or restore skills and abilities.
- Help clients manage their lives and interact positively with their families and community.
Requirements
- Graduation from an approved and accredited school with a master's degree in social work, Counseling, Psychology, or other related human service field.
- Holds a current license in the State of New Mexico at the master's level such as LMSW or LPC.
- Completion of internships during or following attainment of the master's degree, with appropriate level of supervision.
- CPR certification.
Nice-to-haves
- LCSW or LPCC license.
- Experience with treatment of substance abuse.
- Experience in group work and family/couples counseling.
- Ability to work with children of all ages and with their families.
- Bi-lingual: English / Spanish - Fluency in Spanish.
