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Newport Healthcare
Monticello, Minnesota

Primary Therapist

CounselorNo weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

from $77,000

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
No weekends
Posted 49m ago · Verified live

Job Description

What You’ll Do

As a Primary Therapist, you’ll be at the heart of our clinical team, conducting assessments, crafting personalized treatment plans, and facilitating engaging individual, family, and group therapies.

Hours for this role are Monday - Friday, days

Essential Duties

Family Communication Champion: Be the go-to clinical contact for families, ensuring proactive and open communication that fosters trust and collaboration.

Therapy Facilitator Extraordinaire: Lead dynamic individual, family, and group therapy sessions using Newport Healthcare’s innovative clinical model and Attachment-Based Family Therapy techniques.

Crisis Management Specialist: Conduct risk or crisis assessments and provide timely interventions and management as needed, ensuring our clients feel supported and safe.

Team Player: Join weekly treatment team meetings, staff meetings, and clinical supervision sessions to share insights and collaborate with your colleagues.

What Makes You a Great Fit

Master’s Degree in counseling, psychology, social work, or related field or enrollment in Doctorate program from an accredited or state approved graduate school required.

MN License in Marriage Family Therapy, Counseling, Social Work, or Clinical Psychologist.

Non-licensed candidates will be considered for a non-exempt role and require a Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a closely related therapeutic field is required. If your degree is in a closely related field and you are pursuing an LPCC, you must demonstrate that your education meets the coursework requirements of the license, either through your own comparison or an unofficial review with the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy.

Experience with individual, family, and/or group therapy with young adults/adolescents

Experience with mental health, substance abuse, eating disorders, or trauma-informed treatment preferred.

Compensation for a licensed therapist ranges from $77,000 - $100,000 depending on education, licensure and experience. Non-licensed therapist compensation ranges from $37-44 an hour.

Key Responsibilities

The Primary Therapist conducts clinical assessments, develops personalized treatment plans, and facilitates individual, family, and group therapy sessions. They also serve as a key point of contact for families and provide crisis intervention to ensure client safety.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master's degree in counseling, psychology, social work, or a related field and possess a valid Minnesota license in Marriage and Family Therapy, Counseling, or Social Work. Experience working with young adults or adolescents in mental health or substance abuse settings is preferred.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Clinical assessmentTreatment planningIndividual therapyRisk assessmentClinical documentationMental health counselingSubstance abuse treatmentTrauma-informed care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Primary Therapist at Newport Healthcare a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Mental Health Therapy counselor listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Counselor Career Context

Newport Healthcare ranks #9 of 28 employers hiring Counselor on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% are remote, 38% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 6.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$89k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $90k in an average-cost state. 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

6.4/ 10
Listing-based score
  • No weekends

Living in Monticello

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$324k
Typical market rent
$1,645/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.8
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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