Clinical Trainee​/Mental Health Professional: Buffalo

CLINICAL TRAINEE/MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL: BUFFALO

Central Minnesota Mental Health Center (CMMHC) invites you to apply for the Clinical Trainee/Mental Health Professional role at our Buffalo location.

Central Minnesota Mental Health Center (CMMHC) has a rewarding opportunity to serve as a Clinical Trainee or Therapist within the Outpatient Mental Health (OPMH) Team in our Buffalo location. The provider will work in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team and staff, referring to other programs as needed. Therapy sessions may be one‑to‑one, in groups, or involving family members.

Clinical Trainee or Therapist within Outpatient Mental Health Program, providing comprehensive support for individuals, couples, families, and groups of all ages facing challenges such as sadness, stress, anxiety, trauma, or life changes.

Our Outpatient Mental Health Program offers comprehensive mental health support for individuals, couples, families, and groups of all ages navigating challenges such as sadness, stress, anxiety, trauma, or difficulty adjusting to life changes. This therapy‑based program is designed to support both short‑term life challenges and long‑standing mental health concerns. Our services empower clients by providing tools, coping strategies, and insights to enhance emotional well‑being and improve functioning in relationships, work, school, family life, and overall self‑care.

For more than 60 years, CMMHC has provided comprehensive mental and chemical health services to residents of Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright Counties. Our employees are our greatest asset. We are looking for compassionate people who want to make a difference in the lives of individuals and families struggling with mental and chemical health issues. We offer a great place to work, a collaborative team environment, and resources to support your personal and professional development.

• Instruct, assist, and support clients in areas such as interpersonal communication skills, community resource utilization and integration skills, crisis assistance, relapse prevention skills, health care directives, budgeting and shopping skills, healthy lifestyle skills and practices, cooking and nutrition skills, transportation skills, mental illness symptom management skills, household management skills, employment‑related skills, and integration into community living.
• Under the supervision of the Team Leader, provide evidence‑based individual, group, and family therapy interventions.
• Make changes in the treatment plan to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status/symptoms or behavior that may put the recipient at risk.
• Provide medication monitoring and education regarding health maintenance to encourage a healthy lifestyle, including assisting in maintaining a consistent medication regimen, delivering medication, discussing purposes and benefits of medications, and reporting any complaints or distress about medications.
• Work collaboratively with a variety of community providers, employers, landlords, and families.
• Maintain current knowledge of the mental health service system and the ability to locate information and resources for a variety of client needs within the mental health, medical, housing and social services system.
• Participate in daily, mandatory team meetings as well as all designated team activities.
• Follow all current mandated reporter guidelines.

• Master’s Degree in Psychology, Social Work, or Marriage and Family Therapy
• Working towards licensure as an LP, LPCC, LICSW or LMFT
• Clearance from DHS and sexual exploitation screening
• Valid Driver’s License and acceptable driving record

• Master’s or Doctoral Degree in Psychology, Social Work, or Marriage and Family Therapy
• Licensed as an LP, LICSW, LMFT or LPCC
• Clearance from DHS and sexual exploitation screening
• Valid Driver’s License and acceptable driving record

• Two years’ experience in outpatient therapy
• Medicare Eligible Provider
• SPMI, ARMS, ACT Team, TCM or…