Residential Therapist

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Calling all LCSW, LPC, LMHP or licensed eligible professionals! Would you like to work for a non‑profit organization where your contributions make a major impact on the lives of the children and families that we serve? Join a family of experienced mental health professionals and counselors dedicated to providing kids, and each other, the kindness, respect, and encouragement they need to succeed.

If you want to work for a Top Workplace USA and a Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace organization where your decisions can impact youth and families of Central Virginia, then Elk Hill Farm, Inc. is the place for you!

• Is honored as a 2025 Top Workplace USA and 2025 Richmond Times-Dispatch Top Workplace
• Is a Top Workplace Meaningfulness Award recipient
• Has talented, hardworking employees
• Advocates for mental health issues
• Offers competitive benefits, pay, and pet insurance for full-time staff
• Provides a generous time‑off and holiday package
• Offers a 401(k) plan with a 5% employer match for full‑time staff
• Provides tuition assistance
• Elk Hill is celebrating 50+ years of supporting youth and families across the Commonwealth of Virginia! Stability. Adaptability. Longevity.

Provide individual, group, and family therapy as a Residential Therapist for designated youth in Elk Hill’s residential programs.

• Provide and document weekly individual therapy for residents;
  Provide and document weekly group psychotherapy for residents.
• Provide and document family therapy sessions, as required.
• Conduct initial assessments and re‑assessments of clients as directed/assigned.
• Help facilitate and participate in service planning meetings for each residential youth. Conduct and construct service plans, in collaboration with the case manager, for each youth in residential services.
• Receive documented routine clinical and administrative supervision regarding services from the Residential Clinical Director (LMHP).
• Help obtain and maintain all applicable documentation required by licensing and/or Medicaid in the provision of services.
• Provide documentation for the Residential Director, Program Director, or Residential Case Manager at agency FAPT and FPM meetings and/or be present virtually when a client’s case is being reviewed.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to the needs of clients, flexibility, in a non‑threatening manner, respect for clients’ autonomy, confidentiality, socio‑cultural values, personal goals, lifestyle choices, and family interactions, and appropriate professional boundaries and ethics.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with referring agencies, social workers, court service personnel, parents, other licensed mental health professionals and all other persons involved in the resident’s services.
• Provide trainings to our staff, as needed, to help serve our youth, families, and community.
• Attend staff meetings on a weekly basis to help staff each youth but also to help staff understand various intervention strategies to promote youth’s progress.
• Work cooperatively with all Elk Hill staff to improve the quality of the whole organization.
• Serve on‑call for those on their caseload that may need additional support and/or in crisis and requesting to speak to their residential therapist or provide additional support to the current staff mediating a situation.
• For LMHP‑E clinicians:
  Provide all documentation required by Department of Health…