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Evidence Based Associates
San Diego, California

Community-Based Therapist

CounselorIncludes callFull-Time

Listed compensation

$36-$37/hr

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Job Description

Community-Based Program Therapist (MST)

Job Summary

Recommend and assist with access to medical, educational, social, vocational, housing, and more to support program goals. Initiate referrals to the next level of care, and coordinate with physical health providers to ensure whole-person care, and advocate in the best interest of clients.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodation may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

  • Provide assessments, mental health evaluations, family-individual-group therapy, plan development, case consultation, crisis intervention, discharge placement, and assist clients in meeting basic needs and symptom management.
  • Complete accurate and timely documentation, meet minimum billable requirements for direct client services.
  • Facilitate placement including pre-placement visits, and transportation as needed.
  • Shift coverage including part of the on-call team.
  • Provide field-based services as required by program and client need.
  • Maintain confidentiality of client’s care.
  • Participate in scheduled program meetings.
  • Other relevant duties as assigned.
  • Conduct MST assessment including review of referral information, identifying, and engaging key participants, identifying systemic strengths and weaknesses, and developing an analysis of the fit of problem behaviors within the ecological context.
  • Engage primary caregiver and other key participants in active change-oriented treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to engagement.
  • Implement a problem conceptualization, treatment planning, intervention implementation, outcomes review and strategy revision procedure using the MST Analytic Process.
  • Maintain clear and concise documentation of treatment efforts that promote peer and supervisory review and feedback, and that demonstrate compliance with the nine MST Principles and the MST Analytic Process.
  • Ability to engage and collaborate with all relevant systems and key participants within each system, to maintain alignment throughout MST treatment.
  • Provide direct clinical treatment using methods compatible with MST principles and practices.
  • Participate in all MST training, supervision, consultation, and MST Therapist development activities.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree and CA BBS registration or license (MFT, LCSW, LPCC) required.
  • Valid CA driver’s license and current auto insurance per contract requirements required.
  • Experience providing mental health and/or substance use disorder services preferred.
  • Cultural competency understanding required.
  • Bilingual preferred.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office and EHR software preferred.

COMPENSATION: $36.00 To $37.00 Hourly

Benefits

  • Clinical Supervisor at No COST!
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance options through Anthem
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) eligible medical plan options
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care FSAs)
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
  • Employer-paid Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) coverage
  • Long-Term Disability coverage and voluntary Short-Term Disability options
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available at no cost to employees
  • Position may be eligible for HCAI loan repayment programs
  • Voluntary supplemental benefits, including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity coverage
  • Employee Referral Bonus Program
  • Generous Paid Time Off and paid holidays
  • Ongoing training, professional development, and opportunities for career growth

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Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Mental health assessmentFamily therapyIndividual therapyCase managementMultisystemic therapyClinical documentationDischarge planningCollaborationAdvocacy

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 54% are remote, 30% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$76k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $69k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
28%
Loan repayment
16% this job
PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 2.4
Better work-life than 10% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 8,002 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in San Diego

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.01M
Typical market rent
$3,036/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
111.9
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Evidence Based Associates

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Washington, District of Columbia
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

Clinical Supervisor at No Cost
Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance through Anthem
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Employer-paid Life Insurance and AD&D
Long-Term Disability
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)