Access Therapist (BH)

CounselorFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 7mo ago

Job Description

At Riverwood Center we have a team of caring and committed professionals providing a wide array of personalized services to individuals with behavioral health, intellectual & developmental disabilities and substance use disorders.

Riverwood Center is located in beautiful Southwest Michigan with staff at seven sites across Berrien County.

We are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and a member of Southwest Michigan Behavioral Health, Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards, and the National Council for Behavioral Health.

Benefits

  • Fourteen (14) Holidays
  • Twenty (20) PTO Days
  • Defined Benefit Pension
  • Outstanding Health, Vision & Dental Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending
  • Strong Work/Life Balance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Generous Continuing Education
  • YMCA 360
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Full administrative support

Responsibilities

  • Provides phone and face-to-face triage, crisis intervention, brief therapeutic interventions, and initial “Requests for Service” to consumers seeking services
  • Provides a screening of consumer benefits and level of need to determine population eligibility
  • Provides referrals to services to internal and external service providers

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in an appropriate mental health discipline
  • Two or more years’ experience providing treatment to individuals with a mental illness
  • Excellent computer and interpersonal skills, punctuality, ability to organize and manage several projects/tasks simultaneously, and work independently
  • Licensed by the Michigan Department of Commerce or Professional Regulation as a LLMSW, LMSW,

TLLP, LLP, LLPC or LPC and must become fully licensed with-in 30 months of date of hire

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Computer SkillsOrganizationTime ManagementIndependence

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Access Therapist (BH) at Riverwood Center a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 8,002 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 34% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
83% this job
Sign-on bonus
38%
CME allowance
34% this job
PSLF eligible
31%
Loan repayment
24%

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Work-life snapshot

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About Riverwood Center

Mental Health Care
Benton Harbor, Michigan
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

14 Holidays
20 PTO Days
Defined Benefit Pension
Health Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
Short-Term Disability