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Richmond, Virginia

Bilingual Community Based Counselor QMHP

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$24-$25/hr

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Job Description

Community Based Counselor

EMS of Virginia is seeking a Bilingual (English/Spanish) Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) to provide Intensive In-home and Mental Health Skill Building Services in the greater Richmond area (city of Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield, Petersburg, Hanover, and surrounding areas).

EMS of Virginia has been in business since 2005 serving the mental health needs of the Tri-Cities area. We pride ourselves in being a "boutique" style agency. While you may find other agencies that provide IIH and MHSS, we consider ourselves to be more than "just another one of those agencies".

We are constantly looking for ways to be different, to provide services to clients in a way that tailors to their specific needs, and to provide a positive, comfortable, and fun work environment for our team members. We expect hard work, but hard work pays off at EMS of Virginia!

Duties Include (But Are Not Limited To)

  • Seeing clients in the community such as the client's home
  • Providing 1-1 mental health counseling related to goals
  • Providing skill building to adults with serious mental illness
  • Taking adult clients to appointments
  • Taking adult clients to link with resources in the community
  • Case Management to ensure client's basic needs are met
  • Providing individual and family counseling to children and adolescents
  • Completing individualized services plans
  • Completing quarterly reports
  • Completing progress notes for each session with a client
  • Providing information for authorization of services
  • Meeting regularly for supervision

Attendance at Team Meetings

EMS of Virginia has been in business since 2005. We strive to hire invested individuals who are willing to help the company reach our goals so that we can help you reach your goals.

In addition to a competitive hourly wage, we offer health insurance to full-time team members, accrued PTO, flexible schedules, incentives for client referrals, and incentives for referring skilled team members. We also have a tenured tier system that rewards team members the longer they are with us.

We pride ourselves in being able to provide good clinical work to clients and seek to hire individuals who are licensed or licensed-eligible as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).

If you are on this path, we will work with you to provide your supervision experience toward licensure. If you are QMHP with experience with children and/or adults, we also want to hear from you! Please visit our website: emsofvirginia.com, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram to get a sense of who we are!

Key Responsibilities

Provide intensive in-home and mental health skill-building services to clients within the community. Responsibilities include conducting individual and family counseling, managing cases, and maintaining accurate clinical documentation.

Requirements

Candidates must be a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) and bilingual in English and Spanish. Preference is given to those who are licensed or license-eligible as an LCSW or LPC.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Individualized service plansCrisis interventionResource linkageTreatment planning

Counselor Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Virginia is 101.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$51k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $50k in an average-cost state. 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Mental Health Counseling listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% are remote, 48% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

Mental Health Counseling pay on WeekdayDoc is up 18.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks29 jobs · 21 employers

401k / retirement match
93%
CME allowance
31%
Loan repayment
21%
Sign-on bonus
17%
PSLF eligible
10%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 4.8
Better work-life than 40% of Mental Health Counseling listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 752 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Richmond

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$342k
Typical market rent
$1,648/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
97.9
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 · Richmond, VA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About EMS

Mental Health Care
Richmond, Virginia
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive hourly wage
Health insurance for full-time team members
Accrued PTO
Flexible schedules
Incentives for client referrals
Incentives for referring skilled team members
Tenured tier system rewards longevity
Supervision toward licensure provided