Clinician

Anxiety Institute is recruiting a staff clinician for our outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment programs in McLean, VA.

Anxiety Institute offers advanced, evidence-based treatment for anxiety and related disorders for children and young adults between the ages of 12-25 years old. Reporting to the Clinical Director, this is an exempt, full-time position.

The clinician will join our multidisciplinary clinical team who value measurement-based care delivered by genuine, compassionate, and empathetic clinicians. We look for personable, collaborative, and dedicated team players who are willing to grow with the company and welcome the challenge of complex cases.

Anxiety Institute is an innovative behavioral health company founded to help adolescents and young adults recover from debilitating anxiety, OCD, and associated disorders. The company is advancing a clinical approach that utilizes exposure therapy in an intensive outpatient setting and achieves significant clinical outcomes.

The Anxiety Institute intensive treatment model, comprised of 10 hours of individual care each week, is unique among anxiety treatment centers and is complemented by 10 hours of wellness and group therapy.

Anxiety Institute trains all of its therapists in a state-of-the-art Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP) model, which utilizes evidence-based cognitive science and learning theory across a 20-hour/week intensive treatment program. In addition to Exposure Response Prevention therapy, all Anxiety Institute therapists are intensively trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Training includes:

• 40+ hour formal training program
• Up to 4 weeks of shadowing treatment prior to taking clinical cases
• Graduated application of ERP in cases, starting with ERP behavioral coaching and graduating to a lead clinician position
• Supervision including 2-3 weekly sessions to collaborate with peers and meet with direct manager
• 10+ hours/year key topic training provided to all clinicians

Anxiety Institute currently has operations in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Virginia.

Our competitive compensation and benefits include health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and dental insurance. To preserve our team’s mental health, we have a policy of “unlimited” paid time off (“PTO”) with approval from an employee’s supervisor (to be managed prudently and professionally) plus company-wide paid vacation during Christmas through New Year’s.

The clinician will be responsible for providing evidence-based treatment to individuals, groups, and families for anxiety and related disorders. This position is responsible for providing up to 5 hours of direct client treatment per day, developing treatment plans, collaborating with peers, and interfacing and coaching families to facilitate recovery for our clients.

The successful candidate will have extensive training in CBT, have an affinity for working with adolescents and young adults, be licensed (or license eligible) in Virginia exhibit a track-record of clinical success, and thrive working with a team of dedicated professionals.

• Provide up to 25 hours a week of direct client treatment for anxiety and related disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and trauma related disorders.
• Provide comprehensive diagnostic evaluations and evidence-based treatment to children, adolescents, and young adults with anxiety disorders, including patients with comorbid mood disorders.
• Conduct family-based interventions with parents/caregivers and implement strategies for fearful and resistant clients and parents related to attendance, commitment, and completion of treatment.
• Collaborate with our board-certified…