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Nexus Family Healing
Mendota Heights, Minnesota · Hybrid

Community-Based Therapist Lead

CounselorNo weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

$75k-$82k

The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Job Description

Nexus Family Healing is excited to add a hybrid-remote Lead Therapist for our Youth ACT Program based out of Mendota Heights, MN!

Youth ACT is an intensive, comprehensive and community-based rehabilitative mental health service. Services are provided in the home, school, or community using a multidisciplinary team. Individualized services help stabilize youth, ages 14-21, to decrease hospitalizations and out of home placements. Services are provided in the home, with Youth ACT providing 3-5 sessions per week.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

Location, Schedule and Pay

  • Full-time, 40 hours per week
  • Schedule: flexible Monday-Friday
  • $75-82k per year, dependent on licensure and experience
  • Hybrid-remote in Mendota Heights, MN
  • This is a hybrid position requiring frequent in person, remote, and travel between sites

Nexus’ Comprehensive Benefits Include

  • Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
  • Multiple options for health insurance coverage
  • No-cost life insurance
  • Short/long-term disability insurance
  • 401k match
  • NEW – Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
  • NEW – Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
  • NEW – Carrot Fertility Benefit
  • Tuition assistance and training opportunities
  • Advancement pathways and internal promotion
  • And much more!

Position Summary

The Therapist Lead will provide collaborative and supportive leadership, mentorship, and guidance to all therapists while building and maintaining clinical excellence.

This role will communicate and integrate the greater therapeutic goals and objectives of Nexus Family Healing into the agency’s daily clinical and operational work with clients, while serving as a therapeutic subject matter expert.

The Therapist Lead will assist in directing the daily workflow of therapists and overseeing the planning and execution of service delivery.

Primary Responsibilities

Provide leadership, mentorship, and clinical support to therapists and therapy interns.

Facilitate clinical case consultations, risk management discussions, and problem-solving to support quality client care.

Serve as a liaison between therapists and clinical leadership, ensuring clear communication of policies, initiatives, and best practices.

Support therapist onboarding, training, licensure development, and ongoing professional growth.

Deliver and coordinate training on clinical practices, documentation standards, compliance requirements, and therapeutic techniques.

Provide oversight and guidance on assessments, treatment planning, service delivery, and clinical documentation.

Ensure high-quality therapeutic services, appropriate staffing support, and adherence to regulatory and organizational standards.

Serve as a clinical subject matter expert, promoting trauma-informed care and representing the organization through community outreach, education, and professional presentations.

Collaborate with leadership to enhance clinical programs, improve outcomes, and support continuous quality improvement.

Requirements

  • Required Education and Licensure:
  • Master’s degree in one of the behavioral sciences, human services, social work, marriage & family therapy, psychology, counseling, or clinically related fields.
  • Fully licensed in Minnesota as an LICSW, LMFT, or LPCC

And/or currently holds a provisional/intermediary license for a specific track (i. e. LGSW, LAMFT or LPC)

  • Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements
  • Must successfully pass a DHS background check
  • Minimum of 4 years adolescent counseling and/or clinical experience required
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience as a staff Therapist

Preferred Education and Experience

  • LADC preferred
  • Related residential or human services experience working with youth and families

At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions are focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.

ICARE Values & Behavioral Competencies

  • Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches.
  • Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy care, and concern.
  • Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly.
  • Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate.
  • Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards.

APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!

Key Responsibilities

The Therapist Lead provides clinical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to a team of therapists to ensure high-quality, trauma-informed care. They also serve as a subject matter expert, overseeing daily clinical workflows, case consultations, and adherence to regulatory standards.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Case consultationStaff supervisionCompliance management

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Community-Based Therapist Lead at Nexus Family Healing a 6.5 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 8,033 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, remote work flexibility.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 32% have no call, 72% require no weekends — this position is remote.

The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$79k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $80k in an average-cost state. 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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  • No weekends
  • Hybrid
  • Remote
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About Nexus Family Healing

Mental Health Care
Plymouth, MN
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in first year
Multiple health insurance options
No-cost life insurance
Short/long-term disability insurance
401k match
Talkspace Therapy Benefit
Hinge Health Benefit
Carrot Fertility Benefit