Fully Licensed Therapist (LPC, LCSW, LMFT)
Listed compensation
$50-$70/hr
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Job Description
Georgia Families in Transition is looking for individuals to join our community-based mental health team!
The Therapist position is focused on providing individual/family mental health counseling using evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches of care for children, adolescents, and adults in the clients county location. GFIT strives toward a company culture based in collaboration, teamwork, honesty, and promotion of self-care and is looking for members of our mental health team who share this vision.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Providing individual/family mental health counseling using evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches of care.
- Timely documentation submission
- Commitment to providing consistent, ongoing services to clients
- Provide crisis intervention as necessary to enhance and restore functioning
- Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team
- Meet or exceed agency required productivity and documentation standards
- For this role, services are either provided in person or via Telehealth, depending on the client’s authorization and clinical needs. For clients seen in-home, case assignments are organized by county location, typically within an hour or less of travel.
- Other duties as assigned
Core Competencies
- Interpersonal Skills & Communication: Demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy-forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with others to understand their concerns and seeks out ways to improve the workplace. Able to use storytelling to advance concepts or ideas.
- Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well, ability to resolve conflicts.
- Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes, and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends and problems.
- Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goals, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement.
- Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias and cultural intelligence; demonstrates respect for divergent viewpoints; awareness of and sensitivity to cultural diversity, contributing to an equitable, inclusive, and cooperative environment.
- Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change with optimism, readily accepts new technology and uses it to improve efficiency and quality of work.
Requirements
- Must hold an active LPC, LCSW, or LMFT license in the State of Georgia (required)
- Minimum of a Master’s degree in psychology, social work, or a related human services discipline
- Preferred Certification: While not a requirement, possessing a CADC (Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor) credential is considered a strong plus. This certification demonstrates advanced knowledge and competency in substance use disorder treatment and will be highly valued in this role.
- Therapists will primarily be assigned to private insurance and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) clients and should be willing to become credentialed with insurance panels as needed. Candidates must also be prepared to provide the required information and documentation to complete their CAQH profiles to facilitate credentialing and billing processes.
- Must be able to pass DBHDD background check (required prior to providing any services to clients)
- Completion of state-mandated training within the first 30 days of hire: CPR/First Aid, CPI, CSSRS, Relias
- Knowledge of Medicaid/CMO compliance requirements preferred
- Demonstrable knowledge of DSM-5 diagnostic criteria
- Willingness to learn new documentation and clinical skills
- Receptivity to feedback and constructive criticism
- Prompt communication, collaborative personality, and passion for mental health and human services
- Bilingual skills advantageous
Additional Information
- Job Type: Full-time contractual position
- Pay rate: $70 per service hour for Private Insurance Clients and $50-$60 per service hour for CMO Clients
- Location Requirement: Must reside in or have reliable transportation to provide in-person services within Atlanta/Metro Atlanta County, GA
- Flexible for both in person and telehealth
- Schedule Requirements: Must be flexible to work afterschool hours and weekends in order to accommodate the needs of the clients served. With availability to provide services during morning, afternoon, and/or evening hours.
Key Responsibilities
The therapist will provide individual and family mental health counseling utilizing evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches for children, adolescents, and adults at the client's county location. Key duties include timely documentation submission, providing crisis intervention when necessary, and participating in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Fully Licensed Therapist (LPC, LCSW, LMFT) at Georgia Families in Transition 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 remote work flexibility.
Counselor Career Context
In Georgia, the Mental Health Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$75k (40 salary observations; 136 listings), vs ~$75k nationally (2,258 salary observations; 7,025 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 76% are remote, 16% have no call, 68% require no weekends — this position is remote.
Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is down 2.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Georgia is 96.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$125k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $130k in an average-cost state. 59.8% of Georgia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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