Program Therapist
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Job Description
- Patient Population: Adolescent IOP
- Location: Onsite- Colquitt, GA
- Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-4:30pm
The Program Therapist provides therapeutic services for patients utilizing group, individual, and family therapy sessions to adolescents in an intensive outpatient environment. They work within a small, interdisciplinary team with a focus on quality patient care and provision of services ordered by a physician. The Licensed Therapist documents all completed services in compliance with provided standards and regulations and is thorough with details and organization.
- 3 Cs:
- Care – Provide the best possible patient care
- Compliance – Ensure the program operates within all regulations
- Community – Become a wonderful addition to your local community
A. Care: All employees are expected to provide the best possible patient care.
- Ensure accurate completion of the psychosocial assessment on each patient.
- Ensure accurate completion of group psychotherapy notes for each patient.
- Ensure accurate completion of treatment plans.
- Demonstrate understanding of mental health assessment of child/adolescent population.
- Demonstrate an understanding of adolescent counseling treatment, group therapy, and evidenced based practices.
- Provide understanding of adolescent case management.
- Ensure appropriate discharge plan is in place for each patient.
- B. Compliance: Ensure the program operates within all regulations
- Participate in outcome studies timelines, understanding of administration of the tests and when they are to be reported.
- Participate in treatment team meetings with medical director.
- Complete all notes in prescribed timeline.
- Comply with all regulations.
C. Community: Become a wonderful addition to your local community.
- Demonstrate understanding of community education definitions and activities.
- Participate in customer service training as it relates to community integration.
- Present the IOP program to the community as directed by Administrator.
- Participate in cohesive team environment to ensure program success
Requirements
Education: master’s degree in social work from an accredited graduate school of social work or master’s degree in other counseling related field.
Licensure
License in Social Work or Counseling as recognized by state. May include LCSW, LPC, LMFT, etc.
Certification: Must meet any applicable state certification standards. CPR/BLS certification may be required based on site staffing needs, as at least one staff member onsite must maintain current CPR/BLS certification
Experience: Two to three years of clinical experience with adolescent population preferred.
Key Responsibilities
Provide group, individual, and family therapy to adolescents in an intensive outpatient program, and complete psychosocial assessments, treatment plans, therapy notes, and discharge plans. Participate in treatment team meetings and outcome studies, meet documentation and regulatory requirements, and support community education and program integration.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Program Therapist at Psychiatric Medical Care a 6.4 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 7,961 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 44% have no call, 62% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Georgia is 96.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.8% of Georgia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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