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Pathways For Change
Emmaus, Pennsylvania

Full Time, W2 Licensed Mental Health Therapist, LPC, LCSW, LMFT

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Job Description

Love Working with KIDS?

You Should Love Where You Work, Too.

Pathways For Change Children's Counseling Center is growing, and we are looking for exceptional LPC's, LCSW's, and LMFT's & LAPC's who want more than just another therapy job.

We are a thriving, 20 years established children's counseling practice in Emmaus PA built around one simple belief:

We Build Experts

If you want to become exceptional at treating children, adolescents and families, we will invest in helping you get there.

  • Imagine coming to work where...
  • Your caseload is built for you
  • You have all the strong administrative and billing support you need
  • You are not expected to spend your evenings hunting for referrals
  • You work alongside clinicians who genuinely love this work
  • Specialized training and professional development are encouraged and supported
  • Your office is designed for working with children, not a generic room with two chairs and a desk
  • You can focus your energy where it belongs: doing excellent clinical work.
  • We are looking for clinicians who...

Are independently licensed in Pennsylvania as an LPC, LMFT, LCSW, and genuinely enjoy working with children, adolescents, and their families, or, LAPC's who are looking for sensational, supervision all the way through to licensure. We will supervise, guide, shape, and train you to become one of the best pediatric therapists in the industry.

Our greatest client demand occurs after school, so clinicians must be comfortable providing substantial afternoon and evening availability. Your mornings and early afternoons are all yours.

We are looking for therapists who are curious, motivated, dependable, and excited about continuing to grow clinically.

What We Offer

  • Competitive W2 Employee Compensation
  • Health Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Strong, Established, Consistent Referral Flow
  • Specialized Training and Professional Development including paid expenses to travel to specific trainings.
  • Clinical Consultation and Support
  • Administrative and Billing Support
  • Beautiful, Child-Centered Therapy Spaces
  • An Established Practice With Over 20 Years of Roots in the Community

You became a therapist to help your clients.

You shouldn't have to become a marketer, biller, and business owner just to build a successful clinical career.

Come do the work you love

We will help build the rest

Pathways for Change

  • Children's Counseling Center
  • We Build Experts

Apply today to start a conversation. We would love to meet you.

Key Responsibilities

Provide high-quality clinical therapy to children, adolescents, and their families in an established counseling center. Manage caseloads effectively while utilizing provided administrative and billing support to focus on clinical excellence.

Requirements

Must be independently licensed in Pennsylvania as an LPC, LMFT, or LCSW, or be an LAPC seeking supervision. Candidates must demonstrate a genuine interest in pediatric therapy and be available for afternoon and evening hours.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical CounselingFamily TherapyAdolescent TherapyMental Health AssessmentTreatment PlanningCrisis InterventionCase ManagementDocumentationTherapeutic Techniques

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Full Time, W2 Licensed Mental Health Therapist, LPC, LCSW, LMFT at Pathways For Change a 6.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Social Work — ranked against 6,407 active Social Work listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no night shifts.

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Social Work listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% are remote, 34% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Social Work by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.2 / 10 · above average in social workranked against 6,407 Social Work listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Cost of livingPennsylvania index 97.6US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Social Work listings in Pennsylvania206 active6,475 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 46% remote · 34% no call · 74% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedPennsylvania Social Worker listings: 6% state a sign-on bonus · 10% offer loan repayment236 active listings, Nov 2026
New Social Work listings2,525 in the last 30 days1,439 the 30 days before (+75%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (6,407 Social Work listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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About Pathways For Change

Non-profit Organizations
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance
Paid Time Off
Specialized Training and Professional Development
Clinical Consultation and Support
Administrative and Billing Support

Living in Emmaus

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$358k
Typical market rent
$1,898/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
100.0
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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