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Evolve Treatment Centers
San Diego, California

Outpatient Primary Therapist Part Time

CounselorNo callNo nightsPart-Time

Listed compensation

$35-$38/hr

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Job Description

Outpatient Primary Therapist Part Time

  • Non-exempt, part time, 20 hours per week
  • Monday 10:30am-6pm
  • Tuesday 12:30pm-7pm
  • Thursday 11:30am-7pm

At Evolve Treatment Centers, you’ll have the opportunity to bring your clinical skills to a team that genuinely cares—working in a supportive, collaborative environment where growth (yours and your clients’) is the priority.

Essential Functions

  • Act as the point-person for each assigned client and their family during treatment
  • Provide individual and family therapy to each client at a weekly frequency commensurate with the current level of care, up to 12 cumulative session hours weekly.
  • Orient new clients and their caregivers to treatment and the program structure.
  • Facilitate Biopsychosocial Assessments and Risk Assessments for clients upon intake.
  • Create comprehensive treatment plans for clients, monitor progress and adjust, as needed.

Complete all clinical documentation (Initial and Master Treatment Plans, Treatment Plan Reviews, Progress Notes, Discharge Summaries, etc.) within required timelines and in line with Evolve, licensing, and accreditation standards.

Communicate medical necessity for clients to the Utilization Review team to ensure adequate insurance coverage is obtained.

Support clients and their families with discharge preparation, including after-care planning and Home Contract creation.

Coordinate with Clinical Program Director and select clinically appropriate step-down and discharge dates for clients.

Assess client belongings for clinical and safety-related appropriateness in a timely manner

Identify clinically appropriate interventions for clients and communicate them to the Treatment Team, as needed.

Assess client risk throughout treatment and update behavioral interventions and safety plans, as needed per the Outpatient Risk Assessment Policy and Procedure.

Provide clinical updates on clients during Treatment Team and weekly psychiatry meetings to ensure team coordination regarding client care.

  • Attend all trainings as assigned by Clinical Program Director.
  • Fulfill mandated reporting requirements as needed and with guidance from the Clinical Program Director.
  • Interpret Outcomes Program data and integrate it into differential diagnosis and treatment planning.
  • Other duties, as assigned by the Clinical Program Director

Qualifications

Licensed or Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, Professional Clinical Counselor, or Clinical Social Worker in California

  • Must possess a valid California Drivers license.
  • Must be able to pass a LiveScan background check and clear federal and state criminal background checks, and child abuse indexes.
  • Payrate: $35-38/hour

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Key Responsibilities

The therapist will provide individual and family therapy while managing client treatment plans and clinical documentation. They will also coordinate with the treatment team and facilitate intake assessments to ensure high-quality care.

Key Skills

Individual therapyDischarge planningCrisis interventionCase management

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Outpatient Primary Therapist Part Time at Evolve Treatment Centers a 6.9 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,961 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no night shifts.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 22% are remote, 48% have no call, 78% 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).

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401k / retirement match
77%
CME allowance
40%
Loan repayment
23%
Sign-on bonus
14%
PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

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Better work-life than 70% 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 call
  • No nights

Living in San Diego

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.01M
Typical market rent
$3,036/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
111.9
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.

BEA 2024 · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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