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CONTRACT THERAPIST - Licensed

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Compensation

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Posted 5mo ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

Foundations San Francisco's Intensive Outpatient (IOP) and Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) offers comprehensive, integrated outpatient treatment with flexible daytime and evening programs to address addiction and mental health issues in a supportive atmosphere.

The Contract Therapist will work with addiction, mental health issues, and co-occurring diagnoses and within a dynamic treatment team.

The program offers an integrative and holistic approach with group/individual/family therapy, massage therapy, and medication management that can be an exciting opportunity to learn and implement various client centered therapeutic modalities to best work with individuals in recovery.

Our clinicians are passionate and dedicated about offering compassionate care and their work reflects this.

This is a contracted position.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

  • Master’s or doctorate degree in counseling, psychology, social work, or related field
  • Licensed in the state of California
  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in mental health and/or substance abuse field needed

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $13.4 billion in 2022.

During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 94,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries.

Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. uhs.com.

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Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Addiction counselingMental health therapyCo-occurring disorders treatmentGroup therapyIndividual therapyClient-centered therapySubstance abuse counselingCrisis interventionTreatment planningClinical documentationHolistic therapy

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 52% are remote, 36% have no call, 58% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top contract/1099 Counselor Jobs

50 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution50 jobs · 40 employers

12
<$85k
16
$85k-100k
10
$100k-115k
12
$115k-130k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks41 jobs · 40 employers

401k / retirement match
90%
Sign-on bonus
41%
CME allowance
41%
Loan repayment
22%
PSLF eligible
12%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

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

  • Includes call

Living in San Francisco

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.74M
Typical market rent
$4,682/mo
Residents’ average commute
30 min
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

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

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