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Bellewood & Brooklawn
Louisville, Kentucky

Youth Residential Clinical Therapist

CounselorIncludes callFull-Time

Listed compensation

$53K–$66K

The week · per this posting

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Description

The Clinical Therapist’s primary duties will include the provision of individual, family, and group therapy to youth in residential treatment and their families or caregivers.

Youth served are generally between the ages of 8 and 17, healing from a variety of experiences, including trauma, depression, anxiety, ineffective coping, and family relationship challenges. Typical caseload is 9-13 youth.

The clinical therapist will also provide psychosocial assessments, ongoing risk assessment, participate in treatment team meetings, advise on precautions for increased safety issues, and contribute to the on-call rotation to handle situations that occur outside regular business hours.

Documentation for services will be completed in an electronic health record. Regular communication, written and verbal, with outside partners, such as the Department for Community Based Services, family and juvenile court, the school system, Court Designated Workers, and others is expected.

Pay

  • Minimum $52,500
  • Independent Clinical Practitioners Minimum $65,625

Requirements

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education

The Therapist must have at least a master's degree in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Art Therapy, or a related field and at least three years of clinical experience working with children or adolescents.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

The Therapist must qualify for CSW, LCSW, LPCA, LPCC, MFT, LMFT, PsyD, T.L.P.A., LPA.

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical Therapist provides individual, family, and group therapy to youth in a residential setting while conducting psychosocial and risk assessments. They also participate in treatment team meetings and maintain regular communication with external partners like schools and juvenile courts.

Qualifications

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

Key Skills

Individual therapyFamily therapyPsychosocial assessmentCrisis interventionTreatment planningElectronic health recordsCase managementTrauma-informed careClinical documentationInterdisciplinary collaboration

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Youth Residential Clinical Therapist at Bellewood & Brooklawn a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 7,885 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 52% are remote, 30% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Kentucky is 90.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$59k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $65k in an average-cost state. 61.6% of Kentucky clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks31 jobs · 18 employers

401k / retirement match
97%
CME allowance
48%
Sign-on bonus
32%
Loan repayment
16%
PSLF eligible
6%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.3this job 7.2
Better work-life than 80% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,885 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Louisville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$277k≈ 5.3× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,353/mo≈ 31% of gross pay
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.1
State income tax
Up to 4.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Bellewood & Brooklawn

Mental Health Care
Louisville, KY
51-200 employees