Behavioral Health Therapist
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- Full-Time
- Call expectations
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- Weekends
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Job Description
Behavioral Health Therapist
(Excellent Full Benefits, Competitive Compensation/Bonus Package, Relocation Assistance and more!)
Position Responsibilities
- Conducts therapy assessments and group and individual therapy with inpatient psychiatric adult, child, and adolescent patients.
- Completes documentation accurately, competently, and within specified time frames.
- Cross train as appropriate to credentials, licensure, scope of practice and department need.
- Completes assessments to determine patient strengths and needs. Completes charges daily.
- Active and competent participation in various team meetings, remaining patient focused. Delegates tasks to the Mental Health Technicians as necessary.
- Completes daily patient therapy schedule in a timely and competent manner.
- Consistently meets established department productivity expectations.
- Works in Outpatient Behavioral Health providing group therapy, as needed
- Conducts group therapies with a broad range of psychiatric diagnoses, ages, and developmental functioning
- Participate in multi-disciplinary medical model treatment team.
- Therapists to provide behavioral health/ substance use disorder groups and individual therapies in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
- Workplace safety with onsite Public Safety along with our Real Time Locating System (RTLS).
- Full continuum of mental health services provided.
- License, registration, and/or certification appropriate to the field. Minimum bachelors degree in mental health field such as; art, recreational, counseling (P. C., P. C. C.), Social Work (LSW, LISW) or music therapy (MTA).
- Skills necessary to provide mental health care based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria appropriate for the age group served.
- Must have excellent written and verbal skills to facilitate working with various multidisciplinary team members.
Key Responsibilities
The therapist will conduct individual and group therapy sessions for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric patients across various age groups. They are responsible for completing accurate clinical documentation, participating in multidisciplinary treatment teams, and managing patient care plans.
Requirements
Candidates must hold at least a bachelor's degree in a mental health field such as counseling, social work, art therapy, or music therapy. Appropriate licensure, registration, or certification in the field is required along with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
Key Skills
Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 34% are remote, 18% have no call, 64% require no weekends.
Mental Health Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Ohio is 92.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.3% of Ohio clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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