Confidential Employer logo
Confidential Employer
Cleveland, Ohio

Behavioral Health Therapist III -Adult & School-Aged

Counselor / TherapistFull-Time

Listed compensation

$55k-$73k

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, weekend coverage and time off.

Posted 11m ago · Verified live

Job Description

Job Summary The Mental Health Therapist-Adult/School-Age Spilt Caseload participates in the clinical team by providing in office and telehealth counseling to adults, children and adolescents. This clinician will serve a caseload of approximately 80% adults, and 20% youth population. The successful candidate maintains a therapeutic relationship with their clients on their caseload and collaborates effectively with treatment team to best serve client’s holistic needs.

Qualifications

  • Education: Master’s degree in social work, Counseling, or Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Licensure: Requires a social work or counselor license recognized by the state of Ohio – i. e. LSW, LPC, MFT, LISW, LPCC or IMFT.
  • Experience with a severe and persistent mentally ill population preferred

Job Duties and Responsibilities

  • Complete diagnostic assessments
  • Providing mental health counseling using evidence based and trauma informed approaches of care to adults, children and adolescents
  • Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team to ensure client’s whole health needs are met
  • Responsible for the timely completion of clinical documentation in accordance with applicable licensing and accreditation regulations and standards.
  • Meet productivity standards
  • Other duties as assigned

Benefits

  • Free CEU Trainings
  • Supervision provided for license advancement
  • Flexible Schedules
  • 5% employer contribution to 401k
  • Access to HRSA loan forgiveness program for up to 50K in student loan forgiveness

Core Competencies

  • Interpersonal Skills & Communication: demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
  • Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well, ability to resolve conflicts.
  • Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
  • Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement
  • Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products

The Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Key Responsibilities

The therapist will provide in-office and telehealth counseling to a split caseload of adults and youth while collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. They are responsible for completing diagnostic assessments and maintaining timely clinical documentation in accordance with regulatory standards.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Trauma informed careEvidence based practiceCrisis interventionConflict resolution

Counselor Career Context

Confidential Employer ranks #7 of 15 employers hiring Counselor on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 28% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$55k–$73kMental Health Therapy median $55k (middle half $51k–$63k)12 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$69k in purchasing powerOhio index 92.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in Ohio395 active7,943 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 36% remote · 28% no call · 66% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repayment$50k loan repaymentOhio Counselor listings: 22% state a sign-on bonus (median $3k) · 17% offer loan repayment604 active listings, Nov 2026
New Mental Health Therapy listings2,619 in the last 30 days1,577 the 30 days before (+66%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Mental Health Therapy pay trend−2.0% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Confidential Employer#7 of 15 for payTop Employers work-life index
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, Top Employers work-life index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top Counselor Jobs

33 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

33 jobs · 25 employers
17
<$70k
9
$70k-85k
2
$85k-100k
5
$100k-115k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

23 jobs
401k / retirement match
91% this job
Sign-on bonus
52%
CME allowance
48% this job
Loan repayment
26% this job
PSLF eligible
4% this job

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC, LMFT, LCSW)

LifeStance Health · Brookfield, Wisconsin

$82k-$109k
#2

Licensed Counselor

Quinault Community Health & Quinault Wellness Cent · Aberdeen, Washington

$79k-$105k
#3

EMDR Therapist

$80k-$101k
#4

Military and Family Life Counselor - Adults or Children

$60k-$100k
+ 31 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 2.8
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,895 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Confidential Employer logo

About Confidential Employer

Non-profit Organizations
Cleveland, OH
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Free CEU Trainings
Supervision provided for license advancement
Flexible Schedules
5% employer contribution to 401k
HRSA loan forgiveness up to $50K

Living in Cleveland

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$124k≈ 2.2× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,359/mo≈ 30% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
23 min
State income tax
Up to 4%
Sources & methodology

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

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