Community Based Therapist - MST

Do you want to make a difference in a child's life? Do you want to know that your job has meaning and that you will be making a lasting impact? Do you have a passion for working with children and families? If so, then look no further!!

Pathway of Baldwin County is looking for compassionate, dedicated people in Mobile and Baldwin County who want to empower youth and families by creating strength-based behavior change that will be sustained long after treatment ends!

Therapist will receive training in the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) model as you begin working with families, youth, their communities, and other key members of their ecology to implement MST as designed. Extensive research has proven the effectiveness of MST. MST therapists do whatever it takes, via close collaboration with all involved, to address the needs of juveniles with serious criminal offenses and, in some cases, substance abuse.

You will empower families to address challenging and/or problematic behavior and to help youth aged 12 - 18 make life-transforming changes. Treatment progress is made through intensive interventions such as skill building, changing unhelpful family interactions, and increasing social support, to name a few.

• Provide direct clinical treatment using the MST treatment model and principles. Some principles include leveraging strengths and focusing on the positive, understanding sequences of behavior, and increasing mature behavior.
• Conduct a thorough assessment of the client and family.
• Continuously work to engage the primary caregiver, family members, supports, and community agency staff, i.e. school, probation, child welfare, in change-oriented treatment.
• Dedicate time to weekly case planning and evaluation of case progress, with ongoing support from your supervisor and team members.
• Receive regular training, professional development, supervision, and consultation activities designed to help you acquire extensive clinical skills within the MST treatment model.
• Assure, along with fellow clinicians, that clients have access to 24 hours/day, 7 days/week support as needed.

• Master’s degree in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related subject area required
• Must possess a valid driver’s license and have reliable transportation to travel to client’s homes and possibly transport multiple clients at once.

• Professional licensure in clinical or counseling Psychology, Social Work, or a related field preferred but not required.
• Direct use of pragmatic (i.e., structural, strategic, and functional) family therapies
• Individual therapy with children and adults using cognitive-behavioral techniques
• Couples therapy using behaviorally-based approaches
• Implementation of interventions within or between systems in the youth’s natural ecology that affect or influence the behavior of youth (i.e., family, peer, school, and neighborhood)
• Collaboration and partnership with community agencies
• Previous work providing in-home or community-based therapy services

• Health/Dental benefit plans
• Supplemental benefit plans
• 401K
• Paid Holidays
• Personal Time Off
• Professional development assistance
• Supervision for Licensure available after one year of employment!
• Mileage reimbursement