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Springfield, Missouri

Counselor Psychological Services

CounselorIncludes weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Facility

CoxHealth South: 3801 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807

Department: 1114 Psychological Services SGF

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Hours: M-F 8:30 to 5:00

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

  • Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.
  • Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group.
  • Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.
  • Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)
  • For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Job Description

Licensed, or license-eligible clinician with experience providing clinical diagnostic and treatment services which can include individual, group, family, and health and behavior interventions. The clinician will conduct a variety of psychosocial assessments and provide care for patients through therapeutic use of self and/or the patient care/problem solving process to assist the patient and family to achieve basic healthcare goals. The clinician is a member of an interdisciplinary team that is responsible for working collaboratively with providers, nurses, leadership and other team members to ensure development and implementation of appropriate standards. May be asked to provide clinical coverage in other areas of the hospital, consistent with training and experience guidelines and needs to have flexibility in traveling between two hospitals 30 minutes apart. As need is derived by the department, the clinician may be asked to provide program consultation, staff education, and/or supervision and training. Education: Required: Masters Degree in a related field of counseling services Experience: Preferred: 1-2 yrs. experience with wide variety of patient populations Skills: Ability to work within scope of practice to help patient achieve highest level of quality possible for psychological well-being Knowledge of community resources to help meet patient needs Ability to work independently & collaboratively in teams Licensure/Certification/Registration:

  • Required: Current Licensure as a Social Worker [LCSW or LMSW], Licensed Professional Counselor [LPC], Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Psychologist [PhD or PsyD] or application for provisional license with completed degree requirements of the previous. Provisional license must be obtained within 120 days of employment.

Key Responsibilities

The clinician will provide clinical diagnostic and treatment services, including individual, group, and family interventions. They will also conduct psychosocial assessments and collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to ensure high-quality patient care.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master's degree in a related counseling field and possess current licensure as an LCSW, LMSW, LPC, LMFT, PhD, or PsyD. Experience with a wide variety of patient populations is preferred.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Clinical diagnostic servicesIndividual therapyGroup therapyFamily therapyInterdisciplinary collaborationClinical supervision

Clinical Psychology — Counselor Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Clinical Psychology listings this role was benchmarked against, 40% are remote, 32% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Clinical Psychology pay on WeekdayDoc is up 11.6% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Counselor Psychological Services at CoxHealth a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Counseling — ranked against 13,631 active Counseling listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no night shifts.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks26 jobs

401k / retirement match
85% this job
CME allowance
35%
Sign-on bonus
31%
Loan repayment
23%
PSLF eligible
19%

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Work-life snapshot

median 7.2this job 6.4
Better work-life than 40% of Clinical Psychology (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 352 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No nights
  • Includes weekends

Living in Springfield

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$238k
Typical market rent
$1,200/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
88.6
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Springfield, MO metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About CoxHealth

Hospitals and Health Care
Springfield, MO
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance
Retirement with Employer Match
Paid Time Off