License Mental Health Therapist

CounselorPart-Time

Listed compensation

$75-$80/hr

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Job Description

Benefits

  • Flexible schedule
  • Part-Time Licensed Therapist – Child & Adolescent Day Treatment
  • Navigating Day Treatment Center / Family Advantage LLC
  • 1910 Dale Earnhardt Blvd.
  • Kannapolis, NC 28083
  • Pay: $75–$80 per hour
  • Job Type: Part-Time
  • Hours: Approximately 10–20 hours per week
  • Schedule: Flexible
  • Work Setting: In-Person

Join Our Growing Team

Navigating Day Treatment Center is seeking a Licensed or Associate-Licensed Mental Health Therapist to join our growing Child & Adolescent Day Treatment Program.

This is an excellent opportunity for a clinician looking for competitive pay, flexible part-time hours, a manageable starting census, and meaningful work with children and families.

Clients are referred directly to our program — you do not have to build your own caseload.

What We Offer

$75–$80 per hour

Approximately 15–20 hours per week

Flexible scheduling

Small and growing client census

No need to build your own caseload

Support from an experienced behavioral health team

Opportunity for additional hours as enrollment grows

Opportunity to help shape and grow an expanding program

What You'll Do

Provide clinical interventions to children and adolescents

Participate in treatment planning and clinical reviews

Monitor client progress and make clinical recommendations

Provide individual, family, and/or group interventions as clinically appropriate

Collaborate with the Program Director/QP and treatment team

Provide clinical consultation and support to Day Treatment staff

Participate in treatment-team and Child and Family Team meetings as needed

Assist with crisis intervention and safety planning when clinically necessary

Complete timely and accurate clinical documentation

Qualifications

Candidates must have a master's degree in an appropriate behavioral health field and hold a current North Carolina professional or associate license.

We Welcome

Lcmhc

  • LCMHCA
  • LCSW
  • LCSWA
  • LMFT
  • LMFTA
  • Licensed Psychologist
  • Other qualifying NC behavioral health professionals

Experience working with children and adolescents with mental health, behavioral, emotional, or trauma-related needs is preferred.

Knowledge of DSM-5-TR, Person-Centered Planning, trauma-informed care, Medicaid behavioral health services, and clinical documentation is a plus.

A Great Fit for the Right Clinician

This position may be especially attractive to a clinician who already works in private practice, outpatient therapy, school-based services, or another behavioral health setting and is looking for a well-compensated, flexible part-time opportunity.

If you're passionate about helping children and families and want to become part of a growing behavioral health program, we would love to meet you.

Navigating Day Treatment Center / Family Advantage LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Flexible work from home options available.

Key Responsibilities

Provide clinical interventions, treatment planning, and progress monitoring for children and adolescents in a day treatment setting. Collaborate with the treatment team and provide clinical support while maintaining accurate and timely documentation.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Individual therapyFamily therapyGroup therapyChild and adolescent therapyCollaboration

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates License Mental Health Therapist at Family Advantage D.B.A / Navigating Day Treatment 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 8,058 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 48 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 52% are remote, 17% have no call, 81% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$161k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $171k in an average-cost state. 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

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Better work-life than 60% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

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  • On-site

Living in Pleasant Hill

Residents’ average commute
24 min
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

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

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About Family Advantage D.B.A / Navigating Day Treatment

Benefits & Perks

Flexible schedule
Part-time hours
Small caseload
No need to build caseload