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Dallas, Texas

Texas Community Based Mental Health Clinician Counselor QMHP

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$19-$22/hr

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Posted 6mo ago

Job Description

Community Based Clinician

EMS is seeking a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) to provide Skills Training & Development in the Dallas, Texas, area. EMS has been in business since 2005 and is expanding to Texas. Now is your opportunity to join us in this venture! We pride ourselves in being a "boutique" style agency.

While you may find other agencies that provide community baser services, 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!

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

In addition to a competitive hourly wage ($19-$22/hr), we offer health insurance to full-time team members, accrued PTO, flexible schedules, retirement planning with employer contribution, incentives for client referrals, and incentives for referring skilled team members.

If you are QMHP with experience with children and/or adults, we 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

The clinician will provide mental health counseling, skills training, and case management to adults and children within the community. Responsibilities include conducting home visits, managing client appointments, and maintaining detailed clinical documentation.

Requirements

Candidates must be a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) with experience working with children and/or adults. The role requires the ability to travel to client locations and manage administrative reporting tasks.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Crisis interventionClient advocacyCommunity resource linking

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Texas Community Based Mental Health Clinician Counselor QMHP at EMS 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 7,961 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include flexible scheduling.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 32% have no call, 58% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$43k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $44k in an average-cost state. 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states. At the posted ~$43k midpoint, that is roughly $2k–$3k a year versus a typical 4–7% state rate.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks28 jobs · 25 employers

401k / retirement match
89% this job
Sign-on bonus
32%
CME allowance
25%
Loan repayment
18%
PSLF eligible
11%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 7.2
Better work-life than 80% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,961 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Dallas

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$286k
Typical market rent
$1,591/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
103.1
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX 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

Health Insurance
Accrued PTO
Flexible Schedules
Retirement Planning with Employer Contribution
Incentives for Client Referrals
Incentives for Referring Team Members