Mental Health Counselor

CounselorIncludes callIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

As a mental health counselor, you will oversee individual and group counseling as assigned, maintaining an active caseload of students. Consultation with academic departments, residence life, the registrar's office, academic affairs, and admission is occasionally required.

You will provide students with community referrals and supervise department trainees and interns.

Among other duties, you will complete outreach for assigned psychoeducational program development and presentations, promptly document student contact in the computerized documentation system, and participate in quarterly student orientations.

Responsibilities include student crisis intervention, participation in department performance improvement initiatives, and the preparation of PRs for supervisor approval. You will also maintain a personal schedule within the master and computerized schedule and inform your supervisor of staff development needs. As assigned, you will complete on-call duties.

The ideal candidate is committed to upholding the highest levels of privacy and confidentiality. They desire to work in a multidisciplinary, professional environment.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Master's or doctoral degree in counseling, social work, or psychology
  • Training or experience in utilizing brief therapy models

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

  • Associate license or fully license eligible within three years of hire (associate license expected within one year)

Travel Required

  • Less than 10%

Work hours: The university work week is Sunday through Saturday. Most offices are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. To accommodate business needs, employees may be assigned to other workdays and/or hours, including weekends and evenings.

ADA tag: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements and minimum qualifications listed represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and/or meet the minimum qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

Oversee individual and group counseling for students while managing an active caseload and providing crisis intervention. Collaborate with university departments and supervise trainees and interns to support student mental health.

Requirements

Requires a Master's or doctoral degree in counseling, social work, or psychology and experience with brief therapy models. Candidates must be eligible for licensure within three years of hire.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Individual CounselingCase ManagementPsychoeducational ProgrammingStudent OrientationClinical DocumentationSupervision

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Mental Health Counselor at Savannah College of Art and Design a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Counseling counselor listings evaluated on our platform.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 18% have no call, 52% require no weekends.

Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Georgia is 96.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.8% of Georgia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks35 jobs

401k / retirement match
94%
CME allowance
60%
Sign-on bonus
37%
Loan repayment
23%
PSLF eligible
9%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 6.0
Better work-life than 50% of Counseling listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 579 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends

Living in Savannah

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$300k
Typical market rent
$1,757/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
95.2
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Savannah, GA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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