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Outpatient Therapist, Adult Evening Program

CounselorPart-Time

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Job Description

Title: Outpatient Therapist, Adult Evening Program

Job Type: Part time

Schedule: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 1- 9 pm

Your experience matters!

At Westpark Springs, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person.

Westpark Springs is a mental health and addiction treatment center located at 6902 S Peek Road in Richmond, Texas. It offers both inpatient and outpatient services for adults, adolescents, and children dealing with psychiatric, substance use, or co-occurring disorders.

Here Are Some Key Highlights

  • Comprehensive Programs: Includes inpatient psychiatric care, detox services, and outpatient options like Partial Hospitalization (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP).
  • Specialized Youth Services: Offers tailored treatment for children and teens aged 12–18, with academic support and family involvement to ease reintegration into school and daily life.
  • Dual Diagnosis Expertise: Focuses on treating individuals with both mental health and substance use disorders through evidence-based therapies.
  • Supportive Services: Provides case management, group and family therapy, medication management, and discharge planning to ensure continuity of care.
  • 24/7 Availability: Open around the clock for assessments and admissions, with a multidisciplinary team ready to respond to urgent mental health needs.

As a Therapist joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

How You’ll Contribute

Responsible for providing psychotherapy and counseling therapies including group, individual and family therapy for patients suffering from psychiatric and substance abuse issues. Ensures accurate and timely patient documentation.

Job Responsibilities

Conducts individual and group therapy sessions to educate patients regarding psychological, emotional, or substance abuse problems.

  • Displays active involvement in treatment planning process.
  • Provides family session counseling to all patients to ensure appropriate communication and involvement of family members and support groups.
  • Actively communicates with clients, families, and outside referral sources.
  • Demonstrates proactive communication with those involved with the patient’s treatment.

Works well with the interdisciplinary team including physicians, utilization review and nursing staff members. Demonstrates active communication with team members.

  • Effectively communicates to UR on treatment and LOS issues.
  • Completes appropriate paperwork for clients in a timely, accurate and complete manner.

Demonstrates appropriate crisis intervention and de-escalation skills. Acts as member of team with crisis situation occurs, assisting others to ensure patient safety.

Completes accurate assessments of patients utilizing clinical skills. Assists care coordination department as requested.

Completes all documentation thoroughly, timely, and in accordance with hospital standards.

Displays a thorough knowledge of confidentiality. Completes releases appropriately. Demonstrates knowledge of HIPAA regulations and abides by those standards.

Demonstrates a working knowledge of all clinical regulations, including TJC, Medicaid, and state and federal laws.

Displays active involvement in the discharge, transition, and after-care planning treatment processes Other duties as assigned

Qualifications and Requirements

  • Education: Master’s degree in social work or counseling or relevant state licensure required.
  • Experience: Prior experience with psychiatric and chemical dependency patients.
  • License: Current unencumbered clinical license per state of practice guidelines.

Additional Requirements: CPR and CPI certified within 30 days of employment. May be required to work flexible hours.

About Us

Westpark Springs is located in Richmond, TX, and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone—your experience matters.

EEOC Statement

“Westpark Springs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Westpark Springs is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.”

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier.

Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.

We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.

Key Responsibilities

The therapist is responsible for conducting individual, group, and family therapy sessions for patients with psychiatric and substance abuse issues. They must also maintain accurate patient documentation and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to ensure effective treatment and discharge planning.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master's degree in social work or counseling and possess a current, unencumbered clinical license. Prior experience working with psychiatric and chemical dependency patients is required.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Individual therapyHIPAA complianceSubstance abuse counselingClinical assessmentInterdisciplinary collaboration

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 26% are remote, 24% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 4.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 1.9
Below most Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,911 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Richmond

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$302k
Typical market rent
$1,798/mo
Residents’ average commute
29 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

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