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San Marcos, Texas

THERAPIST (LICENSED)

CounselorIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Full-Time
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
Includes weekends
Posted 4h ago · Verified live

Job Description

Responsibilities

San Marcos Treatment Center, a 212-bed, seclusion free, psychiatric residential treatment facility located between Austin and San Antonio in the heart of Central Texas! San Marcos spreads across 65-acres with an abundance of trees and wildlife. We have 13 unique living units separated by gender, age, and development levels with two swimming pools, two gymnasiums, sports court, playing fields, ropes course, canteen, social area, and a healing trail. We provide 24-hour psychiatric care to girls and boys ages 6 to 17 with customized therapeutic approaches and intensive behavioral programs teach young patients to moderate their behavior, manage emotions and improve social functioning.

We are looking for a licensed therapist to primarily work with our 6-10 age groups.

If you would like to learn more about this position, please visit our website at: www.sanmarcostc.com

As a member of the clinical team, this position functions as a member of an interdisciplinary team within the organization/program, documents services in the clinical record, engages in inter-organizational care, coordination, and documents service outcomes. Responsible and accountable for providing direct behavioral healthcare services to children adolescents with mental illness in residential treatment programs, including assessments, diagnosis, treatment planning, individual, group, and family therapy, case management activities, patient and family education, and discharge and aftercare planning.

Join a clinical team of highly motivated professionals who are growing, learning and presenting evidence based practices at national conferences and sharing the following areas of expertise

  • Play therapy
  • Garden based therapy
  • Ropes
  • Nurtured Heart
  • DBT
  • Smart Recovery
  • Screamfree Parenting
  • Trauma Focused Yoga

Qualifications

Requirements

  • TX LPC, LPC-Associate, LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, or LMFT-Associate
  • Ability to provide effective short term individual, group and family therapy services

Exceptional computer skills, proficiency in MS Word and capacity to produce polished desktop clinical documents utilizing computer templates and formats with attention to detail

Exceptional organizational, prioritization and time management skills

Ability to establish and maintain customer-oriented services and behavior resulting in positive satisfaction. Function in a manner consistent with Service Excellence standards as applied to both external and internal customers

  • Flexibility regarding schedule and availability for evening and weekend family therapy
  • RPT strongly encouraged

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

At UHS and all its subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skillset and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. Additionally, recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. If you are suspicious of a job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, let us know by contacting our Compliance Hotline at: https://uhs.alertline.com or 1-800-852- 3449.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Individual therapyGroup therapyTrauma focused therapyClinical documentationAssessmentOrganizational skills

Counselor Career Context

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

Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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  • Includes weekends