Behavioral Health Therapist III -Adult & School-Aged
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.
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
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.
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | $55k–$73k | Mental Health Therapy median $55k (middle half $51k–$63k)12 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$69k in purchasing power | Ohio index 92.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Mental Health Therapy listings in Ohio | 395 active | 7,943 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 36% remote · 28% no call · 66% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | $50k loan repayment | Ohio Counselor listings: 22% state a sign-on bonus (median $3k) · 17% offer loan repayment604 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| New Mental Health Therapy listings | 2,619 in the last 30 days | 1,577 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 pay | Top Employers work-life index |
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