Child and Family Therapist
Compensation
Pay not disclosed
- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- No weekends
Job description
Join Alleghany Highlands Community Services as a Child and Family Therapist – M-F Days, $5K Sign-On in Covington, Virginia, United States. Do you have a Master's degree in Counseling or Social Work? Are you interested in counseling children and adolescents?
Benefits & Compensation
- Signing bonus: $5,000.
- Licensure supervision available
- 80% of employee-only health plan covered
- Virginia Retirement System (VRS)
- Life Insurance
- Health/Dental Insurance
- Paid Holidays
- PTO (earn 2 days per month)
Work Schedule
- Full-Time position.
- No weekends required.
- Day shift only - no nights.
This position offers weekends off, day shifts only, a signing bonus. Work with Alleghany Highlands Community Services in Covington, Virginia, United States.
Key Responsibilities
Provide daily outpatient mental health and substance use therapy sessions for children, adolescents, and families. Develop treatment plans, conduct assessments, and participate in multidisciplinary treatment team meetings.
Requirements
Requires a Master's degree in a human services field eligible for professional licensure in Virginia as an LPC or LCSW. Candidates must possess or be eligible to pursue Virginia state licensure and have a valid driver's license.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Child and Family Therapist at Alleghany Highlands Community Services 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, no night shifts.
Counselor Career Context
In Virginia, the Mental Health Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$79k (282 salary observations; 501 listings), vs ~$75k nationally (9,269 salary observations; 18,605 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 30% have no call, 62% require no weekends.
Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
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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- No weekends
- No nights