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Riverwood Center
Benton Harbor, Michigan

Outpatient Therapist

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$60k-$76k

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Job Description

At Riverwood Center we have a team of caring and committed professionals providing a wide array of personalized services to individuals with behavioral health, intellectual & developmental disabilities and substance use disorders.

Riverwood Center is located in beautiful Southwest Michigan with staff at seven sites across Berrien County.

We are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and a member of Southwest Michigan Behavioral Health, Michigan Association of Community Mental Health Boards, and the National Council for Behavioral Health.

Benefits

  • Fourteen (14) Holidays
  • Twenty (20) PTO Days
  • Defined Benefit Pension
  • Outstanding Health, Vision & Dental Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending
  • Strong Work/Life Balance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Generous Continuing Education
  • YMCA 360
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Full administrative support

Responsibilities

  • Provides individual, group, and family therapy
  • Performs assessments and completes treatment plans
  • Completes brief assessment and crisis intervention strategies
  • Demonstrates a working knowledge of population specific diagnosis and displays the ability to gather, interpret data, and provide treatment in a manner that is consistent with treatment standards and best practice guidelines

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in an appropriate mental health discipline and licensed as a LLMSW, LMSW, TLLP, LLP,

LLPC or LPC.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Individual therapyGroup therapyIntellectual disabilitiesData interpretationClinical documentation

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 30% have no call, 80% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$68k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $71k in an average-cost state. 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks24 jobs · 20 employers

401k / retirement match
96% this job
CME allowance
29% this job
Sign-on bonus
21%
Loan repayment
21%
PSLF eligible
17%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 4.8
Better work-life than 40% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 8,095 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Benton Harbor

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$219k≈ 3.6× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,051/mo≈ 21% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.4
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Niles, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Riverwood Center

Mental Health Care
Benton Harbor, Michigan
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Fourteen (14) Holidays
Twenty (20) PTO Days
Defined Benefit Pension
Outstanding Health, Vision & Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending
Strong Work/Life Balance