Group Home Therapist 1

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$57k-$73k

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
Not specified
Posted 22m ago · Verified live

Job description

Join Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch as a Group Home Therapist – Youth Mental Health, $56K-$73K in Boulder, Montana, United States.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Salary: $56,969 - $73,016

Work Schedule

  • Full-Time position.
  • No explicit call, weekend, or night shift information provided.

Apply to join Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch as a Group Home Therapist – Youth Mental Health, $56K-$73K.

Key Responsibilities

Provide evidence-based individual, family, and group therapy to adolescents within a trauma-informed care framework. Manage clinical documentation, treatment plans, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to ensure compliance with licensing and accreditation standards.

Requirements

Requires a Master's degree in social work, counseling, or a related field and a current Montana professional license (SWLC, PCLC, MFLC, LCSW, LCPC, or LMFT). Candidates must pass a criminal and child abuse background check and demonstrate the ability to build therapeutic rapport with youth.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

CPR

Key Skills

Individual therapyFamily therapyTreatment planningCrisis interventionBehavior modificationChild developmentPsychological testingClinical supervisionCase managementInterdisciplinary collaborationEthical complianceFirst aid

Counselor Career Context

In Montana, the Mental Health Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$100k (43 salary observations; 75 listings), vs ~$75k nationally (9,269 salary observations; 18,605 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 54% are remote, 38% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Montana is 94.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$65k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $69k in an average-cost state. 59.2% of Montana clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Sign-on bonus
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Work-life snapshot

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Listing-based score

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About Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch

Mental Health Care
Billings, Montana
201-500 employees