Mental Health Clinician - Veterans Program

Job Opportunity:

Easter Seals of Greater Houston is currently seeking an experienced Mental Health Clinician who will work with youth, adults, and families. The mission of the Easter Seals Service Members, Veterans and Military-Connected Family Program is to assist military-connected families with building the lives they want. Our staff wants to help meet the needs of people who are serving or have served in the military and their families. We aim to foster stability, wellness, and growth with our services.

Job Title: Mental Health Clinician

Position Type: Regular full-time (40 hours per week), in-person, including some evening and weekend work.

Location: Houston, TX with responsibilities at the main office and satellite locations.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide individual, couple, family, and/or group therapy
• Collaborate with community stakeholders
• Provide onsite support at satellite locations
• Engage with clients using tele-mental health or in-office visits.
• Use assessment measures as part of clinical work.
• Expertly apply all psychotherapeutic modalities, with specific emphasis on trauma related work, adapting to each client's unique needs.
• Well-practiced in various psychotherapeutic modalities with a strong emphasis on effective treatment for trauma
• Provide other clinical interventions as appropriate to client needs (i.e., case management, care coordination, skills training)
• Attend clinical team meetings, staff meetings, and as the need arises community-based meetings.
• Complete required documentation for reporting in a timely manner.
• Conduct work in a collaborative manner, reaching out to and intra- and inter-agency teams.
• Support the overall mission of the agency and assume additional duties as they are assigned.

Essential Qualifications:

• Fully licensed to independently practice therapy: LMFT, LPC, LCSW, PsyD, PhD
• 3-5 years' minimum prior experience in a clinical setting
• Master's degree or higher in Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy or closely related course of study from an accredited institution

Knowledge/ Skills:

• Knowledge of and ability to apply crisis intervention techniques.
• Strong diagnostic skills, the ability to incorporate patient history, symptoms, environmental and related issues to formulate proper treatment.
• Effective time management and organizational skills.
• Must be able to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with children and adults, facilitating groups, and providing individual, couples, and family therapy.
• Willingness to pursue educational activities to supplement experience is desired.

Nationally, Easter Seals is the leading non-profit provider of services for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, other special needs, and disabled veterans. For more than 68 years, Easter Seals Greater Houston has been offering help, hope and answers to people of all ages with disabilities and their families.Through therapy, training, education and support services, Easter Seals creates life-changing solutions so that people with disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our community. Founded in Houston in 1947, Easter Seals Greater Houston provides a variety of needed services to individuals of all ages with all types of disabilities and their families in the five counties surrounding the Houston area. They are the only organization in the greater Houston area providing comprehensive services to individuals with all types of disabilities and their families. Originally called the Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center, the organization was started to provide services to individuals with disabilities living in Houston and Harris County. The Center served as a school and as a therapeutic service center over the years, and was briefly called the Children's Center for Developmental Therapy. In 1989, the organization changed its name once again and greatly expanded and reorganized it's services to meet the needs of its clientele. Today as Easter Seals Greater Houston, the organization provides multiple outstanding service programs (Adult Program, Camps & Case Management, BridgingApps, Social Motion Skills, The Caroline School, ECI Infant Program, Housing Initiative, High School / High Tech, Respite Services, Toy / Tech, the Assistive Technology Lab, Transition Services, and Veterans Services) to children and adults with all types of disabilities and their families.