Licensed Master’s Level Therapist

Company: Samba Recovery
Location: Greater Atlanta Region
Position Type: Clinical / Master’s Level Therapist
Reports To: Clinical Director
Setting: Detox and Recovery Clinic Serving Adults

Samba Recovery is a detox and recovery inpatient serving adults in the Greater Atlanta, Georgia area. We are committed to providing compassionate, clinically sound, recovery-focused care for individuals affected by substance use disorders, trauma, and co-occurring disorders.

We are seeking a Licensed Master's Level therapist to join our clinical team and provide substance abuse counseling, psychotherapy, assessment, treatment planning, care coordination, and recovery-support services in a multidisciplinary treatment environment.

The Licensed Master's Level Therapist will provide substance abuse counseling services to adults receiving care in a detox and recovery inpatient setting.

The ideal candidate is compassionate, skilled, and motivated, with experience in behavioral health, ASAM criteria, BPS assessments, co-occurring disorders, crisis intervention, group facilitation, and individualized treatment planning. This role conducts assessments, facilitates therapy sessions, coordinates care, and supports clients on their path to recovery and wellness.

• Conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, substance use screenings, risk assessments, and level-of-care reviews using ASAM criteria as applicable to the program setting.
• Develop, implement, and update individualized treatment plans, relapse-prevention plans, recovery goals, discharge plans, and continuing-care recommendations.
• Provide individual, group, and family counseling or therapy for adults and families experiencing substance use disorders, mental health conditions, and co-occurring disorders within the provider’s scope of practice.
• Facilitate psycho educational, process, coping-skills, relapse-prevention, trauma-informed, life-skills, and recovery-oriented groups, including groups informed by 12 Step principles and other recovery support models.
• Monitor client progress, clinical presentation, withdrawal-related needs, safety concerns, treatment engagement, and response to interventions; adjust interventions as clinically appropriate.
• Provide crisis intervention, safety planning, de-escalation, relapse-prevention support, and referral or escalation to emergency or higher levels of care when clinically indicated.
• Collaborate with psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, case managers, peer support staff, medical providers, families, courts, referral sources, and community resources to coordinate care.
• Educate clients and families on addiction, mental health, co-occurring disorders, coping strategies, medication adherence as applicable, recovery resources, and aftercare planning.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and timely documentation in the electronic health record in accordance with agency policy, Georgia requirements, payer standards, accreditation standards, HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2 as applicable, and professional ethics.
• Participate in clinical supervision, case consultation, treatment team meetings, staff meetings, utilization-review support, quality-improvement activities, and ongoing professional development.

• Master’s degree in Counseling, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related behavioral health field meeting Georgia professional counseling licensure requirements.
• Active Georgia license (i.e., LPC, LCSW, LMFT, etc.) in good standing.
• Experience working with behavioral health, substance use, and/or co-occurring disorder populations preferred.
• Knowledge of ASAM criteria, BPS assessment, crisis intervention, treatment planning, discharge planning, and ethical clinical…