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Monte Nido & Affiliates
Scottsdale, Arizona

Primary Therapist

Counselor / TherapistPer Diem

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Job Description

We save lives while providing the opportunity for people to realize their healthy selves.

  • Primary Therapist
  • Monte Nido Rosewood Scottsdale
  • Scottsdale, Arizona

At Monte Nido Rosewood, we understand the intricate medical, emotional, and psychological complications experienced by someone with an eating disorder.

Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, we treat patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorders, as well as co-occurring addictions and disorders.

Our well-established model of care, experienced multidisciplinary staff, and intimate warm setting make Monte Nido Rosewood uniquely qualified to effectively treat an eating disorder.

Monte Nido Rosewood is one of the nation’s leading eating disorder treatment programs for men, women and adolescents offering comprehensive treatment for all stages of recovery, from 24-hour inpatient monitoring to a variety of residential, transitional and outpatient programs.

We are seeking a per diem Primary Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary treatment team.

Total Rewards

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Responsibilities Include

  • Providing individual, group, and family therapy
  • Serving as liaison with families and outpatient providers
  • Interact with insurance companies for pre-certification and utilization management
  • Participating in discharge and aftercare planning
  • Therapeutic meal support, while modeling a healthy relationship with food

Provides safe, empathetic, and affirming care for each client and their unique circumstance based on the clients' intersecting identities

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in clinical counseling or related discipline, at minimum
  • State license (or license-eligible) in a counseling field (e. g., Psychologist, LMFT, LCSW, LPC)
  • Prior experience with eating disorders and higher levels of care is helpful
  • Knowledge of diversity, equity and inclusion practices

#Rosewood

Key Responsibilities

The Primary Therapist provides individual, group, and family therapy while serving as a liaison with families and outpatient providers. They also participate in discharge planning and provide therapeutic meal support within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Individual therapyGroup therapyCrisis interventionPsychological assessmentMultidisciplinary collaborationDiversity and inclusion practices

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 36% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Mental Health Therapy by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedMental Health Therapy median $86k (middle half $66k–$88k)11 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingArizona index 100.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in Arizona224 active7,901 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 44% remote · 36% no call · 64% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedArizona Counselor listings: 12% state a sign-on bonus (median $5k) · 17% offer loan repayment347 active listings, Nov 2026
New Mental Health Therapy listings2,533 in the last 30 days1,454 the 30 days before (+74%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Mental Health Therapy pay trend−3.3% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,891 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Scottsdale

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$812k
Typical market rent
$2,114/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
103.3
State income tax
Up to 2.5%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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