Mental Health Therapist

Pillars Community Health • Berwyn, IL

29d • $47,000 - $67,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Provides outpatient therapy services to children, adolescents, and adults within a collaborative, interdisciplinary behavioral health setting. This role is primarily office-based and designed to maximize client access through structured scheduling support, team-based collaboration, and integrated services across the organization. Therapy services follow evidence-based models that are responsive to the social, cultural, and clinical needs of the community and support whole-person, recovery-oriented care.

Requirements

• Masters degree in Counseling, Psychology, Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy or related degree required.
• Experience working with children, adolescents and/or adults living with mental illness in an individualized setting is required.
• Attention to detail and capacity to work independently is essential.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a nonprofit or community setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides individual, family, or group therapy to children, adolescents, and adults as determined by program needs.
• Provides an average of 5-6 hours of direct client service per workday to ensure community access to care and meet established performance standards.
• Completes clinical assessments to formulate an accurate diagnosis and comprehensive treatment interventions to serve the identified client and family.
• Provides services that reflect person-centered and family-centered, recovery-oriented care, attending to the cultural and social needs of each client and family.
• Learns and implements time-limited evidence-based practices as determined by client need and PCH standards of care, which may include Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-Suicide).
• In collaboration with clients/families and the inter-disciplinary care team, determines frequency, duration, and intensity of treatment, and develops actionable treatment plans.
• Completes clinical documentation in accordance with Behavioral Health and organizational policies and procedures, established timeframes, and meeting quality standards.
• Partners with integrated care teams across the organization – including medical, dental, and SA/DV – to support whole person care.
• Coordinates with other community agencies and external systems such as DCFS, schools, hospitals, and other providers.
• Responds to urgent clients and/or family needs outside of regularly scheduled session times, in accordance with established protocols.
• Participates in team meetings, case reviews, supervision, in-service and other trainings, and consultations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability, life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, FSA, Employee Assistance Program, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off for vacation, sick, personal time, holidays, & wellness day.
• Professional development membership to Relias Essential Learning.
• Reimbursement for position related clinical license and certifications.

What This Job Offers

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