Licensed Therapist (LCSW, LMFT, LPC, or Psychologist)

Position Overview: Licensed Mental Health Therapist will provide outpatient individual psychotherapy to clients of Small Victories Wellness Services, PLLC. Psychotherapy services may include treatment of adults, adolescents, children, couples and families

About Small Victories Wellness Services: Small Victories Wellness is a group psychotherapy practice that provides mental health treatment and support to clients throughout the states of Connecticut and Missouri. We believe in creating an affirming and supportive culture for our clients and employees. Our mission is to provide compassionate, affirming, and high-quality mental health care to clients throughout the state. We strive to do our part in making wellness accessible and inclusive. We are a warm, dynamic, and collaborative team who values building community internally while also helping improve the health and wellness of the communities we serve.

Our Values: Small Victories Wellness looks to our values that guide who we are as a team and how we present to our communities. We are very intentional in only hiring staff that are in alignment with our team values which are courage, inclusion, excellence, and community. These values inform our decisions practice-wide and shape our work culture.

Courage: We understand that courage is vulnerability. We are committed to doing brave work with our clients and each other that sometimes involves hard things, tough conversations, falling, getting back up, and starting again. We get that it takes courage to be creative and solve problems. We work together to make sure our team culture stays conducive to innovation and change. We create space for authenticity including our individual strengths, imperfections, and boundaries.

Inclusion: We are committed to inclusivity, equity, diversity, and belonging. We are dedicated to increasing access to quality mental health services. Social justice is threaded into our organizational culture. We are committed to tackling issues of privilege and bias in ourselves and our work. We actively educate ourselves and do our part to dismantle poverty, racism, sexism, ableism, sizeism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and other system forms of oppression.

Excellence: We take pride in providing quality care to the clients that we serve. We are committed to being thorough, conscientious, and creative. We strive to stay curious about the therapeutic process, open to feedback, and committed to lifelong learning. We push ourselves and each other to stand firm in our integrity by choosing what is right over what is fast, fun, or easy.

Community: We are committed to teamwork in the spirit of generosity and compassion for ourselves, each other, and the clients we serve. As a staff, we know that we are better together and that we are all better when we are each better. We acknowledge and honor each other’s unique strengths and expertise. We are committed to being an active member of our community-at-large. We strive to build connections and to be well informed of local resources.

Minimum Qualification Requirements: 

• Master’s Degree or Doctoral Degree in counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy, etc.

• Must hold a current, independent professional clinical license in CT or MO (Psychologist, LPC, LMFT, or LCSW. LPC-A, LMSW and pre-licensed Psychologists welcome to apply)

• Commitment to maintaining a caseload of 25 clients per week (55 minute sessions)

Other Qualification Preferences:

• Prior experience providing individual psychotherapy

• Have at least one niche market for counseling services (i.e., children, teens, trauma, anxiety, grief, anger management, etc.).

• Current approval as an in-network provider with insurance companies.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform telehealth and in-person clinical counseling services to clients of Small Victories Wellness Services as scheduled, and in accordance with company policies. 

• Regular and reliable attendance and timely arrival to work is required.

• Be properly licensed and abide by all laws, rules, regulations, and codes of ethics that are binding upon or applicable to the services performed for Small Victories Wellness Services.

• Respond to clients requests for service or calls within 24 hours whether such requests are made in person, by phone, voicemail, etc. or through the Small Victories Wellness Services website.  Respond to such requests by meeting, evaluating, and providing services to such clients.  

• Communicate with a clients’ treatment team (i.e., PCP, psychiatrist, school, etc.) as necessary.

• Timely complete written records for each patient including, but not limited to: intake notes, progress notes, treatment plans, termination notes, contract notes, and other forms or documents which may be needed or required from time-to-time by Small Victories Wellness Services or third parties in conjunction with the treatment of the patient within a timely fashion (by Friday of each week).  Keep client files accurate and up to date.

• Attend mandatory staff meetings and training as directed by Small Victories Wellness Services.

• Conduct and regulate counseling services in a professional manner in accordance with practice values and in a way that upholds and improves the reputation of Small Victories Wellness Services.  Be respectful of and cooperative and collaborative with co-workers.

• Engage in various networking and marketing efforts when requested.

• Committed to being engaged with and actively building community among co-workers.

Full-Time Employee Benefits:

• Medical Insurance

• Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance

• Other Supplemental Insurance Options

• 401k

• Paid Time Off

• Unpaid Time Off

• 10 Paid Holidays

• Professional Development Reimbursement

• Quarterly Staff Trainings

• Staff Referral Bonus

How to Apply: Email your resume to leslie.murphy@smallvictorieswellness.com. You’ll be asked then be to answer a series of screening questions. Applicants without thoughtful and thorough responses will not be invited to interview.