Bilingual Mental Health Therapist II - License Preferred

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$65k-$72k

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Job Description

WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Our Guiding Principles

Person Centered. We honor people’s identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.

Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.

Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.

Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.

Position Summary

The position provides outpatient therapy across the lifespan to children, youth, adults, couples, and families. These services are uniquely tailored to the needs of each individual or family being served.

This position provides a wide range of interventions that include (but are not limited to): diagnostic mental health assessments; individual, family, play, couples, and group psychotherapy; connection to case management support and psychiatric services; crisis intervention; coordination and ongoing communication with appropriate collaterals.

The individuals and families we work with present with a broad range of bio-psycho-social and mental health needs including trauma, depression, anxiety, attachment, family dynamics, and substance use, among others.

This position is also responsible for maintaining compliance with documentation standards for all work performed.

About El Centro

El Centro is a multicultural group of providers and supportive staff who offer Spanish/English bilingual integrated outpatient services across the lifespan, ages 5 years and up.

We bring a trauma-informed, strengths-based, relational, and culturally responsive lens to our work with families from Latino/a/x, Hispanic, and Chicano/a/x communities.

Common themes we explore are migration and immigration, acculturation, grief and loss, intergenerational trauma, interpersonal violence, navigating systemic and structural barriers, and experiences of environmental stressors.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Mental Health Therapist II (Master's Level) - $31.25/hour - $65,000/year
  • LPC/LMFT/LCSW: $34.78/hour - $72,342.40/year
  • LAC Differential - $1.00
  • Language Differential - $1-$2.50/hour for bilingual proficiency in Spanish or ASL
  • For complete overview of our robust Benefits: wellpower.org

The posted range represents the full hiring range. Offers will not exceed this range, the majority of candidates are placed near the midpoint based on experience and qualifications.

Responsibilities & Duties

Provide diagnostic mental health assessments as well as individual, family, play, couple, and/or group psychotherapy along with crisis intervention and case management support to assigned individual/ family.

  • Develop treatment plans; monitor treatment progress and follow-up as clinically indicated.
  • Facilitate the individual and/or family’s growth and development with an emphasis on strengths, culture, resiliency, and wellbeing.
  • Collaborate with internal and external partners to support the growth and development of those we serve.
  • Facilitate the coordination of services for individuals/ families with supplemental needs in psychiatric, case management, and medical domains.
  • Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation consistent with WellPower standards.
  • Participate in team/department meetings, trainings, and supervisory sessions as required.
  • Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or other human services field required.
  • Licensed or within 6 months of licensure preferred
  • 1 to 2 years of experience in mental health or human services preferred.
  • Bilingual English & Spanish required.

Typical Physical & Mental Demands

Ability to sit, stand, bend and reach, drive, operate standard office equipment such as phone, computer, facsimile, copier/printer, and other business machines. Occasional lifting up to 40 lbs.

Ability to give, receive and analyze information, formulate work plans, prepare written materials and articulate goals and action plans. Must understand people from different backgrounds and be able to communicate effectively with them.

Working Conditions: 40 hours per week - The team currently works a hybrid schedule with most full-time team members working at least 3 days per week in person. In-person work is based out of WellPower’s Dahlia Campus for Health and Wellbeing location, 3401 Eudora St, Denver, CO 80207 and office-based co-locations at community partner sites.

Learn More About WellPower

WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range.

WellPower is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

  • For a complete overview of our robust benefits, visit: wellpower.org
  • Terapeuta de Salud Mental Bilingüe II - Licencia preferida

Descripción del puesto: Este puesto se encuentra dentro del Departamento clínico y comunitario de WellPower y es miembro del equipo de El Centro.

Servimos a personas a lo largo de su vida, trabajando a través de un enfoque informado sobre el trauma, basada en fortalezas, relacional, culturalmente sintonizado y sensible ante la comunidad. El puesto brinda terapia ambulatoria a lo largo de la vida de los niños, jóvenes, adultos, parejas y familias.

Estos servicios se adaptan de manera única a las necesidades de cada persona o familia a la que servimos.

Este puesto ofrece una amplia gama de intervenciones que incluyen (pero no se limitan a): evaluaciones diagnósticas de salud mental; psicoterapia individual, familiar, de juego, de pareja y de grupo; conexión con el apoyo a la gestión de casos y los servicios psiquiátricos; intervención en crisis; coordinación y comunicación continua con las garantías adecuadas.

Las personas y familias con las que trabajamos presentan una amplia gama de necesidades biopsicosociales y de salud mental, como trauma, depresión, ansiedad, apego, dinámica familiar y consumo de sustancias, entre otras.

Este puesto también es responsable de mantener el cumplimiento de los estándares de documentación para todo el trabajo realizado.

ACERCA DEL CENTRO: El Centro está formado por un grupo multicultural de proveedores y personal de apoyo que ofrece servicios integrados y bilingües español/inglés a lo largo de toda la vida (a partir de los 5 años).

Utilizamos una perspectiva basada en el trauma, las fortalezas, las relaciones y la sensibilidad cultural en nuestro trabajo con personas de las comunidades latinas, hispanas y chicanas.

Los temas habituales que exploramos durante nuestro trabajo incluyen la migración y la inmigración, la aculturación, el duelo y la pérdida, el trauma intergeneracional, la violencia y los daños interpersonales, y cómo abordar las barreras sistémicas y estructurales y experiencias de estresores ambientales.

Escala Salarial Y Beneficios

  • Terapeuta de Salud Mental II (Maestría) - $31.25/hora
  • LPC/LMFT - $34.78/hr - $36.28/hr
  • Diferencial de idioma - $1/hora - $2.50/hora

Funciones Y Responsabilidades

Proporcionar evaluaciones diagnósticas de salud mental, así como de psicoterapia individual, familiar, de juego, de pareja y/o de grupo, junto con intervención de crisis y apoyo para la gestión de casos a la persona/familia asignada.

Desarrollar planes de tratamiento; Monitorear el avance del tratamiento y el seguimiento según se indique clínicamente.

Facilitar el crecimiento y desarrollo del individuo y/o la familia con énfasis en las fortalezas, la cultura, la resiliencia y el bienestar.

Colaborar con socios internos y externos para apoyar el crecimiento y el desarrollo de las personas a quienes servimos.

Facilitar la coordinación de servicios para individuos/familias con necesidades suplementarias en los dominios de psiquiatría, de gestión de casos y médico.

  • Mantener una documentación clínica precisa y oportuna de acuerdo con los estándares de WellPower.
  • Participar en reuniones de equipo/departamento, capacitaciones y sesiones de supervisión según sea necesario.
  • Mantener un ambiente de bienestar informado sobre el trauma.
  • Realizar otras tareas que se le asignen.

EducaciÓN Y Experiencia

  • Se requiere una maestría en psicología, trabajo social, consejería u otro campo de servicios humanos.
  • Se prefiere tener licencia o en proceso para obtener la licencia dentro de los 6 meses posteriores a su contratación.
  • Se prefiere de 1 a 2 años de experiencia en salud mental o servicios humanos.
  • Ser bilingüe en inglés y español.

MÁQUINAS Y EQUIPO QUE SE UTILIZARÁN: Computadoras, calculadoras, máquinas de fax, fotocopiadoras, teléfono y una variedad de otros equipos de oficina/administrativos.

Exigencias FÍSicas Y Mentales Habituales

Capacidad para sentarse, pararse, agacharse y alcanzar, conducir, operar equipos de oficina comunes como teléfonos, computadoras, máquinas de fax, fotocopiadoras/impresoras y otras máquinas de negocios. Ocasionalmente levantar hasta 40 libras. Capacidad para dar, recibir y analizar información, formular planes de trabajo, preparar mat

Key Responsibilities

The therapist provides diagnostic mental health assessments and various forms of psychotherapy to individuals, families, and groups across the lifespan. They are also responsible for developing treatment plans, coordinating care, and maintaining accurate clinical documentation.

Requirements

A Master's degree in psychology, social work, counseling, or a related human services field is required. Candidates must be bilingual in English and Spanish, with licensure or eligibility for licensure within six months preferred.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Mental health assessmentTrauma-informed careTreatment planningFamily therapyGroup therapyPlay therapyCouples therapyCultural competency

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 62% are remote, 22% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$69k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $67k in an average-cost state. 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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PSLF eligible
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 4.8
Better work-life than 40% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 8,029 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Denver

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$560k≈ 8.6× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,881/mo≈ 35% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
25 min
State income tax
Up to 4.4%
Sources & methodology

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

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About WellPower - Child and Family Services

Mental Health Care
Denver, Colorado
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Language Differential Pay
Hybrid Work Schedule
Retirement Benefits
Paid Time Off