Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Job Details:

Job Location:

Quinault Wellness Center - Aberdeen, WA, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: Graduate Degree, Salary Range: $78707.00 - $105000.00, Travel Percentage:
None, Job Shift: Day, Job Category:
Health Care, Make a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals working toward recovery at Quinault Wellness Center, where compassionate behavioral healthcare, substance use disorder treatment, and community connection come together.

We are seeking a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, or qualified Licensed Social Worker to join our integrated behavioral health team. This position provides direct clinical services to individuals diagnosed with Substance Use Disorder (SUD), including people experiencing co-occurring mental health conditions, trauma, and other behavioral or psychosocial challenges.

You will have the opportunity to build genuine therapeutic relationships and support patients through assessment, counseling, treatment planning, crisis intervention, recovery support, and care coordination. Working alongside SUD Professionals, medical providers, nurses, and other members of a multidisciplinary team, you will help patients engage in treatment, strengthen coping and recovery skills, and work toward their individual goals.

• Conduct comprehensive behavioral health intake assessments, clinical interviews, and diagnostic evaluations, with particular focus on individuals diagnosed with SUD and co-occurring mental health conditions.
• Assess mental health symptoms, substance use history, psychosocial functioning, trauma-related concerns, family and environmental factors, and barriers that may affect treatment and recovery.
• Develop, implement, and regularly review individualized, recovery-oriented treatment plans.
• Provide individual, family, and group counseling using evidence-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approaches.
• Incorporate recovery skills, emotional regulation, coping strategies, relapse prevention, healthy relationships, trauma recovery, and behavioral strategies into treatment.
• Provide psychoeducation to patients and, when appropriate and authorized, families regarding mental health, substance use disorders, treatment options, recovery strategies, and available resources.
• Monitor patient progress and adjust treatment approaches based on clinical findings and changing patient needs.
• Support patient engagement, treatment retention, continuity of care, and sustained recovery.
• Collaborate with SUD Professionals, medical providers, nursing staff, and other members of the multidisciplinary team to integrate behavioral health services into the patient's overall SUD treatment plan.
• Coordinate behavioral health services with OTP and MAT treatment, including services involving methadone, buprenorphine, and other medications for the treatment of SUD, as applicable.
• Participate in multidisciplinary case consultations and treatment planning discussions.
• Connect patients with behavioral health services, psychiatric care, social services, recovery resources, community programs, and other appropriate providers.
• Support patients during transitions between treatment services and levels of care.
• Conduct behavioral health risk assessments and respond appropriately to suicide risk, self-harm, harm to others, acute psychiatric symptoms, and other safety concerns.
• Provide crisis intervention, de-escalation, clinical support, and appropriate triage in accordance with organizational procedures.
• Develop individualized crisis and safety plans when clinically indicated.
• Coordinate emergency referrals, crisis services, or higher levels of care when necessary.
• Complete accurate and timely clinical documentation, including assessments, diagnostic evaluations, treatment plans, progress notes, crisis plans, and discharge or transition documentation.
• Maintain documentation that supports patient care, medical necessity, treatment goals, clinical decision-making, and applicable billing requirements.
• Maintain compliance with professional standards, HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, applicable regulations, and organizational policies.
• Participate in clinical record reviews, quality assurance, and continuous quality improvement activities.
• Build trusting, therapeutic relationships that promote patient engagement and continuity of care.
• Provide respectful, nonjudgmental, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed services that recognize each patient's individual experiences, strengths, and…