Priority Care Counselor

Mosaic Counseling Center • Tyler, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Priority Care Therapist is a Staff Therapist who provides timely access to assessment and psychotherapy for clients who would benefit from beginning care more quickly than traditional outpatient scheduling may allow. Clients may present with elevated clinical acuity, recent loss or life transition, emerging mental health concerns, or may simply choose Priority Care as a more immediate pathway into treatment.

The Priority Care Therapist conducts comprehensive clinical and risk assessments and, when appropriate, provides a focused, time-limited course of psychotherapy, typically 8–20 counseling sessions. Throughout care, the therapist assesses progress, responds to safety and support needs when they arise, and helps determine whether the client can appropriately conclude treatment, transition to longer-term care within Mosaic, or would be better served by community providers, psychiatric services, or a higher level of care.

Success in this role requires strong clinical judgment, excellent assessment and risk-management skills, the ability to establish therapeutic rapport quickly, effectiveness in focused and time-limited psychotherapy, and thoughtful transition planning. The Priority Care Therapist works collaboratively with Client Services and the broader clinical team to support timely access, continuity of care, and appropriate treatment planning.

Mosaic values collaborative care and believes excellent therapy is strengthened through consultation, humility, curiosity, and thoughtful engagement with the diverse sources of meaning, purpose, and connection that shape clients' lives.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's or doctor's degree in counseling, psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, pastoral counseling or equivalent.
• Valid license within the State of Texas required, must be free from any license sanction and/or professional restrictions that could negatively impact the organization.
• Demonstrates capacity to work freely with clients and to protect them from the therapist's own problems.
• Demonstrates a willingness to build and maintain self-reflective capacity, including awareness of personal dynamics that may arise in clinical work and the ability to engage in ongoing growth and supervision.
• Proficiency in a coherent theory and practice of therapy, ability to clearly articulate how theory impacts work with clients.
• Ability to use the language and methodology of differential diagnosis and familiarity with the contributions of various diagnostic tests.
• Ability to assess a client's therapeutic needs, to establish a therapeutic relationship, and to conduct, complete, terminate, and evaluate that therapy.
• Ability to relate the contributions of various disciplines to the therapeutic task and to make appropriate use of inter-professional collaboration.
• Ability to work effectively with the community, including but not limited to donors, sponsors, other nonprofits, and agencies that collaborate with the organization.
• Ability to honor and integrate a client's spiritual and/or religious beliefs and practices within the therapeutic process.
• Ability to think wholistically about the therapeutic task and the relation of therapy to the total task of integrating care for mind, body, and spirit.
• Demonstrated commitment to or experience with culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and inclusive care for diverse populations.
• Ability and willingness to develop and cultivate his/her own caseload by representing the organization in the community and relating to referral sources.
• Ability to establish and maintain appropriate personal and professional relationships and boundaries both within and outside the organization.

Nice To Haves

• Membership to corresponding professional associations respective of licensure preferred.
• At least 2 years of clinical training and experience respective of field of practice and licensure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide Priority Care assessment, psychotherapy, stabilization, and transition-of-care services within the scope of practice indicated by licensure.
• Participate in organizational provider activities, including SERT groups, Peer Reviews, Continuing Education, and other clinical consultation and development activities.
• Participate in Center administration, referral development, education, consultation, and community relations.

What This Job Offers

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