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Fairview Health Services
Bloomington, Minnesota

Outpatient Clinic Therapist Masters Pro Fee Services

CounselorFull-Time

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Job Description

Join our team in driving a healthier future. Fairview is an award-winning nonprofit health care system with more than 35,000 employees. We are committed to high value health, superior outcomes, and an exceptional experience at a lower cost of care. Based in Minneapolis with clinics, hospitals, and facilities located throughout the state, we deliver care for people at all stages of life, and we serve patients who come to us from a variety of backgrounds.

Passionate, innovative employees are essential to our future as we seek to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives. Innovations in care delivery include trauma-informed and integrative care, HUB sites where patients can access co-located and integrated behavioral health care, EmPATH (Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment, and Healing) units, and Recovery Services.

Job Summary

Provide individual, couples, family and group therapy services utilizing a structured brief therapy approach consistent with managed care environment. Maintain appropriate and timely treatment and documentation. Responsive to requirements of managed care and payer sources for quality assurance and customer satisfaction

Location: Fairview Oxboro Clinic - Bloomington

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, 40 hours/week

Primarily daytime hours with 3 hours required outside of 8a-4p

Responsibilities

  • Conducts diagnostic evaluation and documents assessment in medical record.
  • Conducts diagnostic evaluation and confers diagnosis as appropriate.
  • Develops an individualized treatment plan of care.
  • Collaborates with patient, family, and other colleagues to develop a treatment plan of care.

Develops an individualized plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, condition, and other relevant needs.

Maintains required, appropriate, and timely communication and correspondence with treatment authorization and payer sources in a manner which promotes efficient and effective delivery of clinical services.

  • Demonstrates clinical competence in conducting individual, couples, family, and group therapy.
  • Provides individual therapy (possibly couples, family and group therapy as well).
  • Utilizes a brief, structured therapy approach maintaining a target productivity level.
  • Develops and maintains positive and collaborative relationships.
  • Promotes open and effective lines of communication with all active and potential customers.
  • Demonstrates a positive approach in the development, promotion and implementation of customer service and clinical quality improvement initiatives.
  • Interacts in a positive and facilitative manner with all internal and external customers.

Meets or exceeds Fairview, Fairview-University Medical Center, department, managed care and payer-related quality assurance and customer satisfaction standards.

Complies with Fairview Behavioral Services and Counseling policies and standards for inclusion of required documentation.

  • Completes required processes for client registration.
  • Initiates and maintains in a timely manner required processes for treatment authorization and billing.
  • Completes in a timely and accurate manner required processes for discharge including billing, clinical and medical records requirements.
  • Maintains technical and practical knowledge essential to job functions.
  • Accesses educational resources and attends internal and external educational offerings relevant to development and maintenance of clinical skill base.
  • Conducts supervision for graduate level students and trainees (optional)

Required Qualifications

  • M.A./M.S. in psychology or social work
  • One of the following licenses
  • Licensed Psychologist
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
  • Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
  • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker

Preferred Qualifications

2 years experience in outpatient setting working with managed care utilizing a structured brief therapy approach

Ability to provide supervision to post-graduate trainees

Benefit Overview

Fairview offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, dental, visionplans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, PTO and Sick and Safe Time, CME, tuition reimbursement, retirement, and more! Please follow this link for additional information:fairview.org

Compensation Disclaimer

The actual rate of pay offered within this range may depend on several factors, such as FTE, skills, knowledge, relevant education, experience, and market conditions. Additionally, our organization values pay equity and considers the internal equity of our team when making any offer. Positions with the same min/max are flat rate jobs based on 40 hours/week. Compensation plans based on productioncan allow for higher pay than the range posted.

EEO Statement

EEO/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Master's degree in psychology or social work and possess a valid license as a Psychologist, LMFT, LPCC, or LICSW. Two years of experience in an outpatient setting working with managed care is preferred.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Couples therapyFamily therapyTreatment planningClinical documentationCrisis interventionPatient careClinical supervisionMedical records management

Counselor Career Context

In Minnesota, the Mental Health Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$80k (147 salary observations; 372 listings), vs ~$75k nationally (4,965 salary observations; 20,875 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 42% are remote, 20% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
86% this job
Sign-on bonus
36%
CME allowance
36% this job
Loan repayment
31%
PSLF eligible
17%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 5.1
Better work-life than 40% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 8,062 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Bloomington

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$367k
Typical market rent
$1,693/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.8
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Fairview Health Services

Hospitals and Health Care
Minneapolis, MN
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Short-Term Disability
Long-Term Disability
PTO
Sick and Safe Time