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Georgia Hope
Dalton, Georgia

Family Centered Treatment Therapist

Counselor / TherapistIncludes callFull-Time

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Job Description

Some careers are just jobs. This one is different. At Georgia HOPE, the work you do every day creates meaningful change for children, families, and individuals who need it most.

We're a Georgia-based behavioral health provider on a mission to instill hope, empower lives, and strengthen communities. Our team specializes in supporting individuals facing emotional and behavioral challenges—often those who have experienced trauma, instability, or significant life stressors.

We deliver services directly in the homes, schools, and communities where our clients live and grow, because real progress happens when care is personalized, strengths-focused, and meets people where they are.

As part of the Health Connect America family—a COA-accredited organization serving children, families, and adults across nine states—you'll have the resources, support, and professional development of a larger organization, paired with the close-knit, mission-focused culture that defines our work.

If you’re looking for a career where your impact is visible, your growth is supported, and your work truly matters, you’ll find it here.

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Responsibilities

If you're someone who believes meaningful change happens through working directly with families in their real-world environments and strengthening the system around a child—not just the individual—this role was built for you.

As a Family Centered Treatment (FCT) Therapist at Georgia HOPE, you’ll provide intensive, in-home clinical services that support children, adolescents, and families through structured, model-driven intervention focused on lasting behavioral and relational change.

What You’ll Do

As an FCT Therapist, you’ll deliver structured, in-home family therapy using the Family Centered Treatment model with a strong emphasis on fidelity, engagement, and outcomes. Day to day, you can expect to:

  • Provide Family Centered Treatment (FCT) services in alignment with model fidelity requirements and clinical service definitions
  • Deliver in-home and community-based therapy to children, adolescents, and families using a structured, phase-based treatment model
  • Develop, implement, and adjust service plans in collaboration with treatment teams, families, and other involved systems
  • Facilitate family engagement, goal setting, psychoeducation, and skill-building aligned with identified treatment needs
  • Coordinate care with schools, medical providers, child welfare, juvenile justice, and natural supports to ensure integrated service delivery
  • Maintain accurate, timely documentation, complete all required FCT forms, and support discharge planning and aftercare coordination

What to Expect

This is a highly flexible, community-based role that requires working directly in clients’ homes and other natural environments, often outside traditional business hours. You will carry a caseload that requires regular engagement, including 24/7 on-call availability to support assigned families as needed.

Success in this role requires adaptability, strong clinical presence in dynamic home settings, and comfort working intensively with family systems. You’ll complete required FCT certification within your first year and participate in ongoing training and fidelity monitoring as part of the model requirements.

What is Family Centered Treatment? Learn More!

Qualifications

We welcome candidates who bring a genuine commitment to children and families and meet the following qualifications:

  • Minimum of a Master's Degree in Social Work, Counseling, or related field is required.
  • Two years’ experience working with youth or families.
  • Current Family Centered Treatment Certification is preferred.

Be Well with Us

  • We know that people who take care of others need to be taken care of too. That's why Health Connect America offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your whole self — professionally and personally:
  • Flexible scheduling and a culture that recognizes the importance of work/life balance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including 8 mental health counseling sessions annually — because your well-being matters
  • Paid time off and paid holidays
  • Medical, dental, vision, and voluntary insurance options
  • Health Savings Account with company contribution
  • Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Account
  • Access to a Health Navigator
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Benefits Hub and Tickets at Work — exclusive savings and perks for everyday life

Ready to Make a Difference?

Join a team where your contributions truly matter. Apply now to be part of our community at Georgia HOPE, part of Health Connect America.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a comprehensive background investigation.

Health Connect America and its companies are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. For more information, please review our Equal Employment Opportunity Posters.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Clinical therapyCrisis interventionCase managementTreatment planningTrauma-informed careCare coordinationIntervention strategiesClinical assessmentCommunication

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 50% are remote, 28% have no call, 80% 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 $74k (middle half $62k–$93k)13 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingGeorgia index 96.3US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in Georgia190 active7,860 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 50% remote · 28% no call · 80% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedGeorgia Counselor listings: 7% state a sign-on bonus · 16% offer loan repayment327 active listings, Nov 2026
New Mental Health Therapy listings2,536 in the last 30 days1,455 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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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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Benefits & Perks

Flexible scheduling
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with 8 counseling sessions
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Medical, dental, vision insurance
Health Savings Account with company contribution
Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Account
401(k) Retirement Plan

Living in Dalton

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$250k
Typical market rent
$1,451/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
89.8
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Dalton, GA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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