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Adolescent Wellness Academy
Mooresville, North Carolina

Primary Therapist – Adolescent Mental Health | Launch AWA North Carolina!

Counselor / TherapistNo weekendsFull-Time

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Job Description

  • Primary Therapist – Adolescent Mental Health | Launch AWA North Carolina!
  • Mooresville, NC | On-Site | Full-Time | Monday–Friday, 11-7 PM | Opening January 2027
  • Help build something meaningful from day one!

Adolescent Wellness Academy (AWA) is opening our first North Carolina clinic, and we're hiring Primary Therapists to join our founding clinical team!

AWA provides Joint Commission-accredited PHP and IOP mental health care for teens ages 13–17 and their families. We're looking for compassionate, driven therapists who want to make a difference, grow with a new program, and help shape the future of adolescent mental health care in NC.

What You'll Do

  • Provide individual, family, and group therapy for adolescents.
  • Complete assessments, diagnoses, and individualized treatment plans.
  • Support teens navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and behavioral challenges.
  • Engage families and collaborate with a multidisciplinary clinical team.
  • Support crisis intervention, safety planning, and discharge coordination.
  • Maintain accurate, timely clinical documentation.
  • Help shape our new clinic's culture, programs, and clinical experience!

What You Bring

  • Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work, or Marriage and Family Therapy.
  • Active NC LCMHCA, LCMHC, LCSWA, LCSW, LMFTA, or LMFT credential.
  • 2+ years of adolescent mental health or PHP/IOP experience preferred.
  • Strong group facilitation, clinical judgment, and family engagement skills.
  • Excitement for a growing program and collaborative team environment.
  • Bilingual English/Spanish or Portuguese a plus, not required.
  • Availability on-site, Monday–Friday, 12–8 PM.

Why AWA?

Join a founding team where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work makes a real difference for teens and families.

North Carolina, we're building our village! Ready to grow with us? Apply today!

Learn More: Adolescent Wellness Academy

Key Responsibilities

Provide individual, family, and group therapy for adolescents while managing assessments, diagnoses, and individualized treatment plans. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to support crisis intervention, safety planning, and clinical documentation.

Requirements

Requires a Master's degree in Counseling, Social Work, or Marriage and Family Therapy along with an active NC clinical credential. Candidates should have at least 2 years of experience in adolescent mental health or PHP/IOP settings.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Individual therapyTreatment planningClinical diagnosis

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Primary Therapist – Adolescent Mental Health | Launch AWA North Carolina! at Adolescent Wellness Academy a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Mental Health Therapy counselor listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 54% are remote, 20% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Mental Health Therapy by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedMental Health Therapy median $66k (middle half $62k–$75k)16 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingNorth Carolina index 94.3US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in North Carolina280 active7,926 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 54% remote · 20% no call · 66% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedNorth Carolina Counselor listings: 15% state a sign-on bonus (median $4k) · 14% offer loan repayment497 active listings, Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
93%
CME allowance
21%
Sign-on bonus
19%
Loan repayment
17%
PSLF eligible
10%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 6.0
Better work-life than 50% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,907 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • On-site

Living in Mooresville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$392k
Typical market rent
$1,675/mo
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
97.3
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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