Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Enterprise Mangement Solutions Inc•Baltimore, MD

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Freedom Healthcare LLC dba Community Wellness Outpatient Mental Health Center is seeking a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist to provide outpatient mental health services on a fee-for-service basis. The therapist will provide individual, couples, family, and group therapy services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families experiencing emotional, behavioral, relational, and mental health concerns. The Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist will be responsible for completing clinical assessments, treatment plans, therapy sessions, progress notes, family-based interventions, crisis support within outpatient scope, and care coordination. The role may include maintaining an ongoing caseload and supporting clients through evidence-based and family-systems-informed treatment. This position is ideal for a clinician who is comfortable working independently, managing a flexible caseload, and delivering high-quality outpatient therapy services in a community mental health setting.

Requirements

Active and unrestricted license as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the applicable state of practice.
Master’s degree or higher in marriage and family therapy, counseling, psychology, social work, or a related behavioral health field accepted for LMFT licensure.
Ability to provide outpatient mental health therapy within scope of licensure.
Experience working with individuals, couples, families, children, adolescents, or adults.
Knowledge of family systems, relational therapy, trauma-informed care, and behavioral health treatment planning.
Ability to complete timely and compliant clinical documentation.
Ability to work independently on a fee-for-service basis.
Professional liability insurance, if working as an independent contractor.
Ability to meet credentialing, onboarding, background check, and payer enrollment requirements, if applicable.
Strong clinical judgment.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to engage individuals, couples, and families.
Ability to manage conflict in family or couples sessions.
Strong documentation and time-management skills.
Knowledge of diagnosis and treatment planning.
Ability to work with diverse populations.
Cultural humility and sensitivity.
Trauma-informed approach to care.
Ethical decision-making.
Professional boundaries.
Reliability and responsiveness.
Ability to manage a caseload independently.
Ability to follow agency policies and documentation timelines.
Understanding of HIPAA, confidentiality, informed consent, mandated reporting, and professional ethics.
Prolonged periods of sitting, using a computer, reviewing clinical documentation, preparing psychological evaluation reports, and completing electronic health record entries.
Frequent use of standard office and clinical equipment, including computers, telephones, testing materials, scoring tools, and secure documentation systems.
Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with clients, families, clinical team members, administrative staff, and supervisors.
May require occasional standing, walking, reaching, bending, or carrying testing materials, files, or office supplies.
Must be able to maintain attention to detail during clinical interviews, psychological testing, scoring, report writing, and feedback sessions.
Work may include in-person clinical services, psychological testing appointments, feedback sessions, documentation, report writing, care coordination, and administrative communication.
Work may involve interaction with clients experiencing mental health symptoms, emotional distress, behavioral concerns, trauma histories, family concerns, or complex clinical presentations.
The role requires compliance with HIPAA, confidentiality standards, agency documentation policies, licensing board requirements, informed consent requirements, and professional ethical standards.
Scheduling may vary based on provider availability, client need, testing referrals, office workflow, and agency requirements.
Active and unrestricted license as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the applicable state of practice.
Professional liability insurance, if working as an independent contractor.

Nice To Haves

Outpatient mental health centers.
Community mental health settings.
Medicaid and commercial insurance documentation standards.
Children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Trauma-informed therapy.
Family systems therapy.
Parenting support and parent-child conflict.
Couples and relationship counseling.
Crisis assessment and safety planning.
Electronic health record systems.
Coordinating care with schools, psychiatric providers, primary care providers, and community agencies.

Responsibilities

Conducting initial clinical assessments and biopsychosocial evaluations.
Gathering client, family, relationship, behavioral, trauma, developmental, and mental health history.
Identifying presenting problems, family dynamics, relationship stressors, symptoms, strengths, risks, and treatment needs.
Completing diagnostic impressions within scope of practice.
Assessing for safety concerns, including suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, abuse, neglect, domestic violence, substance use concerns, and other risk factors.
Making appropriate recommendations for therapy, psychiatric evaluation, case management, higher level of care, community resources, or additional clinical services.
Updating assessments as clinically needed.
Providing individual therapy to clients presenting with concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, grief and loss, behavioral concerns, stress management, adjustment difficulties, mood instability, relationship problems, self-esteem issues, parenting stress, family conflict, school, work, or social difficulties, emotional regulation concerns, life transitions, anger management, and co-occurring family and relational stressors.
Providing therapy services for couples and partners, including support with communication difficulties, conflict resolution, trust and intimacy concerns, relationship transitions, separation, divorce, or co-parenting issues, parenting disagreements, blended family concerns, family-of-origin stressors, emotional disconnection, relational patterns impacting mental health, premarital or commitment-related concerns, and relationship repair and stabilization.
Using family-systems-informed approaches to help families address parent-child conflict, sibling conflict, behavioral problems in children or adolescents, communication breakdowns, family transitions, co-parenting concerns, blended family adjustment, trauma impact on family functioning, caregiver stress, school and home behavioral issues, family roles, boundaries, and patterns, and support for families managing mental health diagnoses.
Facilitating or co-facilitating groups based on agency needs, including parenting groups, anger management groups, coping skills groups, family support groups, relationship skills groups, trauma-informed groups, emotional regulation groups, adolescent or adult therapy groups, and psychoeducation groups.
Developing individualized treatment plans.
Establishing measurable goals and objectives.
Reviewing and updating treatment plans according to agency and payor requirements.
Ensuring treatment plans reflect client needs, diagnosis, strengths, barriers, and clinical interventions.
Incorporating family, caregiver, or partner involvement when appropriate and authorized.
Documenting progress toward treatment goals.
Completing accurate, timely, and compliant documentation, including intake assessments, diagnostic assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, family therapy notes, couples therapy notes, group therapy notes, risk assessments, crisis intervention documentation, discharge summaries, coordination of care notes, and authorization-related documentation.
Providing appropriate outpatient-level crisis support, including assessing client safety during sessions, creating and updating safety plans, consulting with clinical leadership when risk concerns arise, making mandated reports when required, referring to emergency services, crisis response, mobile crisis, inpatient care, or higher levels of care when clinically necessary, and documenting all risk-related interventions and referrals.
Coordinating with clients and families, parents, guardians, spouses, or partners when authorized, psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners, primary care providers, schools, case managers, social workers, hospitals or crisis teams, child welfare or court-related systems when authorized or legally required, internal administrative and clinical leadership, and other outpatient mental health providers.
Providing services within their license, training, and scope of practice, including individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, group therapy, diagnostic assessments, biopsychosocial assessments, treatment planning, treatment plan reviews, crisis intervention within outpatient scope, safety planning, parenting support, psychoeducation, relationship counseling, family systems interventions, trauma-informed therapy, behavioral interventions, discharge planning, care coordination, case consultation, clinical documentation, and referrals for psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing, substance use treatment, or higher levels of care when clinically indicated.