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Pathways For Change
Emmaus, Pennsylvania

Child & Adolsecent Therapist, LPC, LCSW, LMFT

CounselorNo weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Posted 2mo ago

Job Description

Love Working with KIDS?

  • Come become an expert at it.
  • At Pathways for Change – Children’s Counseling Center, we don’t just hire therapists.

We Build Experts.

We’re looking for exceptional Pennsylvania-licensed LPCs, LCSWs, and LMFTs who genuinely love working with children and adolescents and want to become highly skilled in the work they do.

We invest heavily in our clinicians through ongoing specialized training, continuing education, clinical consultation, and opportunities to develop a true area of expertise.

You won’t be expected to figure everything out on your own.

You’ll Have

  • Competitive compensation
  • Health benefits
  • Paid time off
  • A strong and consistent referral flow
  • Administrative and billing support
  • Experienced clinical leadership and consultation
  • Beautiful, child-centered therapy spaces
  • Significant investment in specialized and niche training
  • The schedule matters.

Our families need us most after school, so we’re looking for clinicians who can provide strong afternoon and evening availability, generally between 3:00–8:00 PM Monday through Friday.

If you love working with kids, want to keep growing clinically, and want to be part of a practice that takes your professional development seriously, we want to meet you.

  • Come work somewhere that doesn’t just fill your caseload.
  • Come build your expertise.

We Build Experts.

  • Pathways for Change – Children’s Counseling Center
  • Where Every Child Finds Their Path.

Key Responsibilities

Provide high-quality therapeutic services to children and adolescents in a specialized counseling center. Engage in ongoing clinical consultation and professional development to maintain expertise in child-centered therapy.

Requirements

Must be a Pennsylvania-licensed LPC, LCSW, or LMFT. Candidates must have a genuine passion for working with children and adolescents and be available for afternoon and evening shifts.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Child therapyAdolescent therapyMental health counselingCase management

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Child & Adolsecent Therapist, LPC, LCSW, LMFT at Pathways For Change a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,961 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 56% are remote, 18% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania 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
93%
Sign-on bonus
40%
CME allowance
31% this job
Loan repayment
17%
PSLF eligible
14%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 7.2
Better work-life than 80% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,961 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends

Living in Emmaus

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$361k
Typical market rent
$1,808/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
100.0
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Pathways For Change

Non-profit Organizations
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health benefits
Paid time off
Strong referral flow
Administrative and billing support
Experienced clinical leadership
Specialized training