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Lead Therapist

CounselorFull-Time

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, located in New Kent, Virginia, provides comprehensive medical, behavioral, rehabilitative, and educational services for children and adolescents ages 2 through 22 who are challenged by co-occurring medical and behavioral diagnoses.

Cumberland Hospital is one of the few specialty children’s hospitals providing dual treatment protocols for both medical and mental health issues. Cumberland includes a 62 bed Hospital Program, a 16 bed Inpatient Acute Program, and 30 bed Residential Treatment Program.

Our goal is to stabilize medical problems and help children develop positive behavioral coping strategies using an interdisciplinary approach.

We are seeking a dedicated Lead Therapist to supervise and coordinate day-to-day activities of the psychotherapists, and psychotherapy services hospital wide. To ensure that therapy services, documentation and assessments are conducted per medical order, policy and in best practice guidelines. To provide clinical services as needed for the department.

Qualifications

Duties

Coordinates the functioning of day-to-day activities of psychotherapists.

Provides supervision and oversight to psychotherapists as needed and per licensure and state requirements, best practices and hospital policy.

Provides individual, family and group therapy– which meets patient and family needs using current clinical, ethical, and community standards.

  • Conducts assessments and evaluations.
  • Participates in hospital-wide performance improvement activities, patient care meetings, behavior committee, subcommittees, marketing activities, and special developmental projects and activities as assigned.
  • Fulfills responsibilities to the hospital in adherence to philosophy and general policy.
  • Establish, manage and monitor safety standards, processes, communications, training and systems for employees.
  • Education: Minimum of aMaster’s Degree

Licensure/ Certification: Licensed LCP, LPC or LCSW. Maintain current CPI (bi-annually), CPR (BLS Provider annually) First Aid (two years) Certifications. In order to operate Cumberland’s vehicles, a current Virginia driver’s license with a good driving record (minimum of +1 points) is required.

Experience: At least five years recent experience with appropriate populations.

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Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Clinical supervisionIndividual therapyFamily therapyClinical assessmentSafety managementCrisis interventionBehavioral healthTreatment planningStaff coordinationInterdisciplinary collaboration

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 42% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Virginia is 101.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution43 jobs · 37 employers

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<$70k
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$115k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks37 jobs

401k / retirement match
92%
CME allowance
43%
Loan repayment
27%
Sign-on bonus
24%
PSLF eligible
14%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% 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 New Kent

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$419k
Residents’ average commute
32 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
97.9
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (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.