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Virtual Intensive Outpatient Therapist

CounselorIncludes callNo weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Job Description

Responsibilities

IOP Therapist

Virtual Program (Evenings)

At Peachford Hospital, our mission is to offer compassionate, safe, effective behavioral healthcare treatment. We use solution-focused strategies and diligently strive for a safe and positive environment for patients, families, and employees. We never forget that we provide care and comfort to people in need.

Peachford is looking for a dynamic IOP Therapist to join our Outpatient Team to lead our Evening Virtual IOP Program. The IOP Therapist is responsible for providing mental health and substance abuse group counseling to people of diverse roles, background, cultures, and socio-economic classes in the outpatient setting.

This role requires the ability to effectively work with those who are in crisis and/or are resistant or negative toward organizational therapy. Responsibilities include performing various types of assessments to include admissions, psycho-social, suicidality, depression, and anxiety.

The clinical focus will be mental health and substance abuse treatment and includes co-occurring mental health disorders.

Position Schedule: Monday - Friday 5:00 pm - 9:00 p. m.

Qualifications

Education/Training

Master’s degree in a license-eligible field (e. g. Counseling, Social Work, Psychology) required

LCSW or LPC strongly preferred

Experience

  • Two years experience providing group and/or individual therapy
  • Prefer experience in providing therapy for substance use and mental health disorders

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

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Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Mental Health AssessmentCrisis InterventionPsychosocial AssessmentSuicidality AssessmentDepression ScreeningAnxiety ScreeningClinical Documentation

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Virtual Intensive Outpatient Therapist at UHS a 6.7 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,964 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, remote work flexibility.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 50% are remote, 28% have no call, 62% require no weekends — this position is remote.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 2.6% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

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  • No weekends
  • Remote
  • Includes call