Mental Health Counselors Job Opening

SeedLinks Behavior Management is seeking dedicated Mental Health Counselors to serve the clients in our Shreveport Location.

Specific roles of the Mental Health Professionals include:

• Mental Health Counseling and psychosocial skills training to individuals & Families.
• Providing direct therapeutic counseling services to clients.
• Collaborating with our social services team to deliver the best possible comprehensive care.
• Establishing and maintaining empowering, trusting relationships with youth, adults and their families through individual, family, and group counseling, and skills training activities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Counselors will be responsible for providing individual, family, and/or group counseling to children, adolescents and adults.
• Completing required documentation and reports including session notes, treatment plans, client outcome questionnaires, and discharge summaries.
• Conducting intake assessments as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in social work, counseling or psychology from an accredited college or university. Experience providing therapeutic services to children and families preferred. As a Mental Health Therapist you will apply your experience to address and care for the needs of our clients.

Specific duties:

• Evaluating clients' physical or mental condition, based on review of client information
• Maintaining confidentiality of records relating to clients' treatment
• Assessing patients for risk of suicide attempts
• Encouraging clients to express their feelings and discuss what is happening in their lives, helping them to develop insight into themselves or their relationships
• Collecting information about clients through interviews, observation, or tests
• Counseling clients, individually or in group sessions, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes
• Guiding clients in the development of skills or strategies for dealing with their problems Developing and implementing treatment plans
• Coordinating with collateral contacts such as primary care physician, school, employment, courts, etc.

Please submit resumes with hours of availability to: [email protected]