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Children's Hope Alliance
Raleigh, North Carolina

ACTT Team Therapist

Counselor / TherapistIncludes callFull-Time

Listed compensation

$54k-$65k

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Job Description

Sign-On Bonus Available

We are pleased to offer a $2,000 sign-on bonus to qualified candidates who join our team. This incentive reflects our commitment to attracting top talent and supporting a successful transition into your new role. Apply today to take advantage of this opportunity.

Make an Impact in Children’s Lives

Do your best clinical work where it matters most — in the community, alongside children and families. Children’s Hope Alliance is expanding our Child ACTT (Assertive Community Treatment Team) to deliver trauma-informed, whole-person care that strengthens children, families, and communities.

Why Clinicians Choose Child ACTT

  • Team-based model with strong clinical support
  • Meaningful, community-based work (homes, schools, and community settings)
  • Licensure support for associate-level clinicians
  • Mission-driven culture focused on Hope, Health, and Healing for Generations
  • If you’re a licensed or associate-level therapist looking to make a direct impact, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide individual, family, and group therapy
  • Complete clinical assessments, treatment plans, and crisis plans
  • Participate in daily/weekly team staffing and case reviews
  • Deliver crisis intervention and stabilization services
  • Coordinate care with families, providers, and community partners
  • Maintain accurate, timely documentation in EHR
  • Participate in shared 24/7 on-call rotation

Required

  • Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, MFT, or related field
  • Active NC license or associate-level license
  • LCSW | LCSW-A | LCMHC | LCMHC-A | LMFT | LMFT-A | LCAS | LCAS-A
  • 1+ year of behavioral health experience (children/adolescents preferred)
  • Valid NC driver’s license and reliable transportation

Additional Requirements

  • Must pass background, drug, and driving checks
  • Must meet documentation and compliance standards

Preferred

Experience with Severe Emotional/behavioral Disorders

Experience in community-based or intensive service models (ACTT, IIH, MST, TFC, etc.)

Equal Opportunity Employer

Children’s Hope Alliance is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.

Requirements

Education and Experience Requirements

The position requires a Master Degree in a Human Service or related field plus one year of experience with a similar population. The position also requires a valid NC licensure LCSW, LMFT or LCMHC and LCAS. Associate level licensed professionals may be considered for this position.

  • Requires knowledge and the ability to practically implement mental health regulations and clinical services.
  • Requires effective communication, decision making, analytical, interpersonal, leadership and professionalism skills and abilities.
  • Must have basic computer and math skills.
  • Must have a valid North Carolina’s Driver’s License.
  • Must submit to and pass pre-employment drug screening, criminal, HCPR and driving checks.
  • Must submit insurance and registration documentation if utilizing personal car for work related transports.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands or arms, stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. Specifics vision abilities required by this position include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Physical functions which are considered essential to the satisfactory performance of the job include the following: public speaking, reading, typing, writing, using the telephone, driving. Duties may be performed indoors, outdoors, or in varying home environments.

Acknowledgement

I have read the above job description and understand the position requirements and job responsibilities. I have had the opportunity to ask questions and seek clarification regarding the expectations. I understand that nothing in this or any other document is a contract for employment and that all employees are employed at-will.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Individual TherapyFamily TherapyClinical AssessmentTreatment PlanningCrisis PlanningCrisis StabilizationCare CoordinationClinical DocumentationTrauma-Informed CareTeam Collaboration

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 40% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Mental Health Therapy by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$54k–$65kMental Health Therapy median $59k (middle half $54k–$60k)11 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$63k in purchasing powerNorth Carolina index 94.3 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in North Carolina278 active7,953 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 36% remote · 40% no call · 62% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repayment$2k sign-onNorth Carolina Counselor listings: 13% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 15% offer loan repayment488 active listings, Nov 2026
New Mental Health Therapy listings2,463 in the last 30 days1,576 the 30 days before (+56%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Mental Health Therapy pay trend−3.7% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, 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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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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CME allowance
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 1.4
Below most Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,933 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Children's Hope Alliance

Mental Health Care
Barium Springs, NC
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Salary $54,400-$64,600
$2,000 sign-on bonus
Licensure support for associate-level clinicians
Team-based model with strong clinical support
Mission-driven culture

Living in Raleigh

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$369k≈ 6.8× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,572/mo≈ 35% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
23 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
98.2
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Raleigh-Cary, NC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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