Mental Health Therapist

The Mental Health Therapist provides outpatient mental health treatment to adults, many of whom are experiencing co-occurring substance use, trauma, relationship, legal, family, and life-stability concerns. Illumination Recovery serves a diverse community population and emphasizes practical, client-centered treatment that helps clients improve functioning, stability, relationships, and long-term recovery.

Therapists have substantial clinical autonomy and may utilize evidence-based and clinically appropriate approaches including CBT, DBT-informed interventions, motivational interviewing, solution-focused therapy, trauma-informed care, psychodynamic approaches, and other modalities within their scope of competence.

This position includes assessment, treatment planning, individual psychotherapy, crisis intervention, care coordination, and timely clinical documentation. Depending on experience and interest, opportunities may also be available to provide couples, family, or group services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments and identify client strengths, needs, diagnoses, risks, and treatment goals
• Develop individualized, measurable treatment plans in collaboration with clients
• Provide individual psychotherapy for adults with a variety of mental health and co-occurring substance use concerns
• Provide couples, family, or group therapy when appropriate and within the clinician's area of competence
• Utilize evidence-based and clinically appropriate therapeutic interventions based on the needs of each client
• Assess and respond to behavioral health crises, including safety assessment, stabilization, safety planning, and coordination with higher levels of care when necessary
• Monitor client progress and adjust treatment interventions and treatment plans as clinically indicated
• Complete accurate, timely, and clinically meaningful documentation
• Coordinate care with other behavioral health providers, medical professionals, case managers, substance use counselors, and community resources
• Collaborate with probation/parole, child and family services, attorneys, courts, and other community systems when appropriate, clinically necessary, and authorized by the client
• Make referrals for additional services or higher levels of care when indicated
• Participate in clinical consultation and interdisciplinary coordination with Illumination Recovery's mental health, substance use disorder, and case management team
• Maintain professional boundaries and comply with ethical, licensing, confidentiality, and documentation requirements
• Participate occasionally in community outreach, education, or collaborative community activities

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, or another discipline meeting Montana requirements for behavioral health licensure
• Current Montana behavioral health license or candidate license appropriate to the clinician's discipline
• Ability to provide psychotherapy within the scope of the clinician's license and training
• Ability to complete clinical documentation accurately and within required timeframes
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with an interdisciplinary treatment team
• Strong professional communication, judgment, and interpersonal skills

Licenses Considered

Applicants holding any of the following Montana credentials are encouraged to apply:

• LCSW
• SWLC
• LCPC
• PCLC
• LMFT
• MFLC

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing outpatient mental health treatment
• Experience working with clients affected by substance use disorders or co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions
• Experience with trauma-informed care, CBT, DBT-informed interventions, motivational interviewing, or solution-focused therapy
• Experience conducting mental health assessments and developing individualized treatment plans
• Experience with crisis assessment and intervention
• Familiarity with community-based behavioral health services and care coordination
• Experience working with justice-involved clients, child welfare systems, or other community agencies is helpful but not required
• Strong clinical documentation and treatment-planning skills
• Commitment to ethical, culturally responsive, and client-centered practice

About the Position

Illumination Recovery is a locally owned outpatient behavioral health practice in Great Falls providing integrated mental health, substance use disorder, and case management services.

We are a small clinical team and value clinicians who are dependable, collaborative, clinically thoughtful, and capable of working with a high degree of professional independence. We strive to keep administrative barriers reasonable so clinicians can focus on meaningful client care while still maintaining the documentation and coordination standards required in behavioral health practice.

This position is particularly well suited for a clinician who enjoys variety. Clients may present with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, substance use, adjustment concerns, family-system issues, legal involvement, or multiple overlapping needs. Rather than restricting clinicians to a narrow population or treatment model, we encourage individualized treatment based on clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, and the needs of the client.

Pay: $25.00 per hour

Expected hours: 35.0 – 45.0 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

Work Location: In person

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