Bilingual Family Mental Health Specialist

Who is Ascend?

At Ascend, our Vision is To Transform Lives, and our Mission is Building Strong Foundations.

Ascend Behavior Partners is not your typical ABA provider.  We are a mission-driven team offering diagnostic evaluations, play-based natural environment Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), and wrap-around mental health support to families in Arizona and Colorado.  Our typical clients are young children with autism ages 1-6 years old and their families.  Our interdisciplinary model is built on the belief that the best outcomes happen when we care for the whole family - not just the child.  That’s why our care teams work collaboratively to support families from the moment of diagnosis through treatment and beyond.

Overview of the Family Mental Health Specialist Role:

Are you passionate about supporting children and their families?  Do you enjoy building long-term relationships with clients?  Do you value being a trusted voice on a team that values your expertise in mental and emotional health?

As a licensed mental health clinician, the Family Mental Health Specialist plays a vital role on each child’s care team. You provide individual and family counseling to parents, siblings, and caregivers of children with autism, and consult with providers to strengthen the family support system.

The Family Mental Health Specialist plays a critical role on each child’s care team.  As a licensed mental health clinician, you provide individual and family counseling to parents, siblings, and caregivers of children with autism.  You also serve as a clinical consultant to our providers - offering guidance that strengthens the support system surrounding each child.

At Ascend, we take a family systems approach to care. That means helping parents feel empowered, reducing stressors in the home, and building the resilience needed to help each child thrive.  This position is 100% remote.

Essential Job Duties:

• Provide individual, couples, family, and group counseling services to family members raising a child on the autism spectrum, which may include child, adolescent, and adult sessions

• Collaborate with a team of Psychologists and Board Certified Behavior Analysts to support clients and their families through their duration of ABA treatment at Ascend

• Support families who are onboarding with Ascend and seeking diagnostic testing or ABA therapy services through providing psychoeducation about autism spectrum disorder, navigating the grief cycle, and addressing mental health needs within the family system

• Conduct screenings and assessments based on client and family needs

• Work with the clinical team to provide treatment recommendations, family psychoeducation, and direct therapeutic interventions during onboarding, direct treatment, and discharge planning

• Support families through ABA treatment program and obtaining community resources, assessing care and addressing the needs of the entire family system

• Conduct parent and community support groups within the Ascend community based on client and family needs

• Fulfill timely session notes and client records

• Participate and lead staff interdisciplinary trainings as needed, community education and work with referral sources on an as-needed basis

• Leverage your unique clinical experience to assist Ascend in the innovative design and development of family support programs 

Do you check these boxes?

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Professional Counselor, or LMFT  in the state of Colorado and Arizona, or willing and able to get licensure in those states

• Bilingual (Spanish speaking) strongly preferred

• Minimum 2 years clinical experience practicing post-clinical licensure

• Must be proficient in client record-keeping, treatment planning

• Contracted or eligible to contract with a network of insurance payors

• Experience utilizing ACT and other relevant interventions

• Location in Arizona or Colorado preferred, or remote 

• Familiarity or experience working with neurodiversity and families is strongly preferred

• Resilience and ability to remain calm under pressure and job-related stress such as client complaints, feedback conversations with staff, or short term deadlines

• Ability to learn new concepts quickly and willingness to self-direct continuous learning

• Exhibit servant leadership with a positive and compassionate attitude

• Ability to utilize critical and independent thinking to identify and solve problems

• Ability to work efficiently from your home office

• Demonstrated proficiency with technology (e.g., EMR, CRM software, practice management, Google Suite, etc.)