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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Family Functional Therapist

Counselor / TherapistIncludes weekendsFull-Time

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Job Description

About Start Corporation

Start Corporation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1984. Our Mission is to promote opportunities, which enhance the self-sufficiency of people to empower them to live and function independently.

Job Description

Are you passionate about working with families to help them create more meaningful connections and communication? As a Mental Health Therapist in the Functional Family Therapy program, you will meet with parents and their children in their homes to provide therapeutic interventions intended to facilitate positive growth and development.

Minimum Requirements

  • Bachelor Degree in social services (Social Work, Psychology, Sociology etc.)
  • At least 2 years’ experience in social services

Core Competencies

  • Effectively demonstrate the understanding and practice of Evidence Based Models.
  • Communicate respectfully and effectively and establishes professional relationships.
  • Promotes recovery, independence, and personal choice for participants.
  • Assists participants in identifying strengths, needs, and realistic goals to develop a service plan.
  • Accurately identifies risk and responds appropriately.
  • Demonstrates advanced knowledge of behavioral health symptoms, interventions, and impact.
  • Maintains professional boundaries and operates within agency /ethical guidelines.
  • Knowledge of agency and community resources and referral processes.

Job Duties / Skills Required

  • Ensure service delivery is consistent with Evidence Based Model.
  • Schedule and maintain a flexible workweek to meet the needs of client families, therapists and other job responsibilities.
  • Participate in weekly consultation and supervision.
  • Provide services while maintaining fidelity to Evidence Based Model.
  • Meet guidelines for submission of notes into the EHR.
  • Commitment to the Evidence Based Model.
  • Data entry into agencies EHR and Evidence Based Model’s systems.
  • Ability to work with diverse individuals/populations.
  • Ability to exercise discretion and maintain client and employee confidentiality.
  • Requires working flexible hours, including evenings, weekends and holidays.
  • Work is performed in an office environment, the community and client homes.
  • Requires extensive travel to client homes and throughout the community.
  • Involves exposure to tobacco smoke, domestic animals, household pests, and other conditions common to domestic environments.
  • Provide at least 60 units of billable services per week (FFT).

Benefits include: Medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; paid time off; 13 paid holidays per year for regular full-time employees; and a 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching.

Key Responsibilities

Provide therapeutic interventions to families in their homes to facilitate positive growth and development. Maintain fidelity to evidence-based models while managing documentation and data entry in the electronic health record.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor degree in social services and at least 2 years of experience in the field. Candidates must be able to work a flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Case managementCrisis interventionClient confidentialityService planningRisk assessment

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 60% are remote, 26% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Louisiana is 88.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.8% of Louisiana 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 $75k (middle half $66k–$86k)322 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingLouisiana index 88.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Mental Health Therapy listings in Louisiana46 active7,975 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 60% remote · 26% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedLouisiana Counselor listings: 4% state a sign-on bonus · 5% offer loan repayment105 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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Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Loan repayment
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Sign-on bonus
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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 2.8
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 7,942 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends
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About Start

Mental Health Care
Houma, Louisiana
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Disability and life insurance
Paid time off
13 paid holidays per year
403(b) retirement plan with employer matching

Living in Baton Rouge

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$237k
Typical market rent
$1,301/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
90.8
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Baton Rouge, LA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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