Therapist, Women's Recovery Association (WRA)

HealthRIGHT 360•San Mateo, CA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Women’s Recovery Association (WRA) provides a comprehensive continuum of care including residential treatment programs, professional clinical services, and community peer support. WRA’s individualized and integrated clinical services are designed to address the complexity of women’s needs. The clinical program is the core of every treatment plan for women in the residential program. This includes individual and family counseling, group therapy, and educational groups that focus on women’s recovery from substance use disorder and related addictive behaviors, such as eating disorders and nicotine dependence. The Therapist I, registered with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS), provides comprehensive therapeutic services, including individual, couples, and family therapy. Their role involves conducting clinical assessments, diagnoses, treatment planning, interventions, crisis management, and discharge planning. They facilitate psychoeducation groups covering core curricula and collaborate with care management staff to help clients secure entitlement benefits, housing, and medical services in the community. Working across diverse settings such as outpatient offices, residential treatment facilities, and in the field, the Therapist I ensures service delivery aligns with HealthRIGHT 360's mission, vision, and policies.

Requirements

Master’s degree in psychology, Counseling, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, or related field from an accredited graduate school.
Registration (AMSW, AMFT, APCC) from a regionally accredited graduate school and registration with the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS).
First Aid and CPR Certificate.
Supervised experience in mental health or psychiatric setting with varied populations.
Demonstrated clinical paperwork and record keeping abilities.
Familiarity with trauma informed therapy models, cognitive–behavioral therapy, brief psychotherapy and psycho-educational approaches.
Familiarity with working with psychotic and other severe mental health presentations.
Ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Clinical experience in performing risk assessments and crisis intervention.

Nice To Haves

Some experience in dual diagnosis substance abuse treatment in an inpatient or outpatient community mental health setting, preferred.

Responsibilities

Manages an individual therapy caseload.
Provides weekly individual therapy to clients in residential treatment, and to their partners and families when clinically appropriate.
Maintains confidentiality while working as part of a treatment team and adhering with program norms.
Participate in case conferences, treatment planning and clinical discussions to provide holistic care.
Communicates with prescribing psychiatrists regarding psychotropic medication compliance, side effects, follow up appointments.
Facilitates psycho-education groups on a variety of core curriculum topics including Seeking Safety, DBT, etc.
Coordinates discharge planning with client’s Care Coordinator.
Provides consultation to staff regarding symptom management, mental health conditions and crisis intervention strategies.
Participation in agency training as required.
Attends training, staff meetings, and clinical activities as needed.
Plans and presents programs for clinical days.
Provides psychological profiles of clients prior to program acceptance.
Refers children for counseling as needed.
Provides in-service training and education for counseling staff.
Available for consultation with individual clients.
In accordance with guidelines established by HealthRIGHT 360 to satisfy internal and external demands of evaluating agencies, maintains accurate documentation on all clients.
Maintains accurate records of all clients and gathers data for monthly reports.
Ensures action on items in logs daily.
Participate in the on-call therapist rotation.
Daily maintenance of monitoring of EMR report, to prevent and clear any compliance errors in records.
Conducts assessments, develops treatment plans, completes release and consent forms, and other required documentation in various electronic systems.
In addition, completes Managed-care, MediCal and Drug MediCal documentation, and billing requirements.
Documents individual and group services delivered in various electronic systems in accordance with guidelines established by HealthRIGHT 360 to satisfy internal and external evaluation requirements.
Participate in the on-call therapist rotation.