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Savio House
Denver, Colorado

Community Based Family Therapist

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$49K–$62K

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Posted 3mo ago

Job Description

Ready to be an agent of change for families in this community? Join Savio House!

Utilizing evidence-based models, Savio works together to provide clinical therapeutic support to keep at risk children and adolescence out of the system and in their homes.

At Savio, you will grow your skills as a clinician and increase your ability to support youth and their families with:

  • Comprehensive training and support to deliver an evidence-based model with high fidelity
  • Clinical supervision hours and other professional development
  • Weekly case consultations with supervisor, team, and expert consultant

Salary

  • Starting without Masters: $48,660 (Bilingual $53,660)
  • Starting with masters/candidacy (LPCC, SWC, MFTC): $58,660 (Bilingual $63,660)
  • Starting Licensed (LCSW, LPC, LMFT): $61,660 (Bilingual $66,660)

** Supervision towards professional licenses provided in this role

Have an impact through one of the teams Savio has to offer:

Multisystemic Therapy Team (Models: Multisystemic Therapy)

Locations: Denver/Denver Metro Area, Northern Colorado, Colorado Springs and surrounding areas, Eastern Plains of Colorado, Western Slope of Colorado.

  • Primarily engaging caregivers & other key participants in active, change-orientated treatment by identifying and overcoming barriers to progress
  • Cultivating growth in the whole family unit to empower families to solve their own problems
  • Collaborating with families and allowing them to take the lead in setting treatment goals
  • Keeping youth in their homes, minimizing safety risks and further legal charges.
  • The MST treatment model is an ecological therapeutic intervention for youth aged 12-17 who exhibit high risk behaviors, including substance use, runaway, and truancy.
  • MST therapists work with families, youth and other key members of their ecology to empower families to address challenging behavior and make long term change.
  • Maintain small caseload of 4-6 families

Quarterly MST training to maintain and grow competency

To learn more about MST, check out the website: MST Services | Multisystemic Therapy for Juveniles

Family Wellness and Trauma Specialist Teams (Models: TF-CBT, TST)

Locations: Denver, Fort Collins, Boulder, Greeley, Colorado Springs, Castlerock.

  • Engage? caregivers who are facing challenging and complex issues that are impacting their children’s well-being and safety
  • Focused on improving child safety and/or helping children heal from the impact of trauma.
  • Provide two generation trauma treatment with evidence-based practices

To learn more about the models, check out the websites: TF-CBT Certification Program - Official Website (tfcbt.org)

Child First Developmental Team (Model: CPP)

Locations: Denver, Colorado Springs

  • Help caregivers understand typical developmental challenges and expectations;
  • Increase caregivers’ ability to reflect on the meaning and feelings motivating a child’s behavior;
  • Supporting caregivers’ problem solving
  • Helping caregivers understand the psychodynamic relationship between parental feelings, history, and the caregiver response to the child. The Clinician also provides consultation to teachers in early care and education settings, as needed.

To learn more about the models, check out the websites: Child First | HOME – Child-Parent Psychotherapy (childparentpsychotherapy.com)

Sexual Abuse Intervention Team (Models: TF-CBT, EMDR)

Locations: Denver area

  • Have a strengths-based and trauma-informed perspective of adolescents who have committed sexual offenses and victims of sexual offenses
  • Have a passion for engaging youth ages 5-18 and their families who need to heal from past traumas

To learn more about models, check out the website TF-CBT Certification Program - Official Website (tfcbt.org)

Family Functional Therapy Team (Models: FFT, FFT-G)

Locations: Denver, western slope, eastern plains

  • Working with adolescents and their family system who are struggling with problem behaviors
  • Meeting with the whole family 100% of the time and lead to healing through creating communication, safety, and hope within the family unit to overcome their problems

To learn more about FFT, check out the website: FFT | Evidence-Based Interventions and Family Counseling (fftllc.com)

To Belong at Savio You Need To

  • Be Flexible and self-motivated.
  • Be comfortable with community-based therapy and a non-traditional work schedule
  • Have a passion for engaging with the population the program you join is working with
  • New grads welcome!

Grow with Savio Through

  • Comprehensive training and support deliver the evidence-based model program to fidelity
  • Clinical supervision hours and other professional development
  • Weekly case consultations with both supervisor and team
  • Continued professional development and training and career planning
  • Complete benefits package including, medical, dental, 403b retirement savings, and more.
  • Access to a fleet of company insured vehicles (Denver, Colorado Springs)

Requirements

  • Minimum Qualifications:
  • MSW or other Masters in related counseling, psychology or related field (Bachelors with extensive experience considered on a case by case basis)
  • DORA registration as licensed or candidate for LPC (LPCC), LCSW (SWC), LMFT (LMFTC), or NLC licensure

Key Responsibilities

Provide clinical therapeutic support to at-risk children and families using evidence-based models to prevent system involvement. Responsibilities include managing small caseloads, conducting community-based therapy, and collaborating with caregivers and educators.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Clinical TherapyEvidence-Based PracticeTrauma-Informed CareCase ConsultationCrisis InterventionPsychodynamic Relationship AnalysisTreatment Planning

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Community Based Family Therapist at Savio House 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 7,956 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 62% are remote, 30% have no call, 58% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$55k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $54k in an average-cost state. 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Living in Denver

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$560k≈ 11.5× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,881/mo≈ 46% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
25 min
State income tax
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About Savio House

Mental Health Care
Denver, CO
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical
Dental
403b retirement savings
Clinical supervision
Company vehicles
Training