Licensed Mental Health Clinician (LPC, LMFT, or LCSW)

JOIN A MISSION-DRIVEN PRACTICE THAT SAVES LIVES

For more than 30 years, Light Counseling has served over 60,000 individuals, couples, and families across Virginia and 8 additional states. We provide professional, confidential, distinctly Christian counseling grounded in clinical excellence and God’s truth.

Our mission is simple: bring hope to the hopeless and healing to the hurting.

We are growing and seeking a Licensed Mental Health Clinician to serve the Colonial Heights and Tri-Cities community.

If you are a fully licensed clinician who wants to build a meaningful caseload, work in a collaborative environment, and integrate faith and clinical skill, we would love to connect with you.

WHY CLINICIANS CHOOSE LIGHT COUNSELING

• Established referral base and strong community reputation
• Administrative support so you can focus on clinical work
• Collaborative team culture with weekly clinician meetings
• Opportunity to serve individuals, couples, families, and children
• Meaningful integration of faith and evidence-based practice
• Opportunity to supervise interns or residents if desired

This role offers the opportunity to build a meaningful caseload, serve a diverse client population, and work alongside a collaborative team of clinicians and administrative professionals who value both clinical excellence and personal well-being.

We recognize that strong clinicians thrive in supportive environments. Our team is committed to providing the structure, administrative support, and community needed for you to focus on what you do best: caring for clients.

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE

Employment with Light Counseling is confidential and adheres to federal and state privacy laws and practices (i.e., HIPAA). Employees are expected to work independently have flexibility, initiative, maturity, and decision-making within the framework of Light Counseling’s policy, procedures, and employee handbook. 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides client counseling services to a varied population of children, adolescents, adults, families, couples, and groups
• Delivers case management services
• Follows all policies, procedures, and the employee handbook regarding service and documentation
• Participates in educational programs, in-service meetings, weekly clinician meetings, workshops to enhance professional development and comradery, and maintain currency of methodology and techniques
• Takes initiative to link clients to other services
• Will work with community groups around unmet and special needs and will carry a special community assignment relevant to Light Counseling's mission
• Prepares reports and forms necessary to satisfy the agency’s needs for accountability (i.e. recording, statistics, etc.).
• May be assigned to instruct and direct graduate student interns and residents
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES

• Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
• Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental health problems.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Ability to practice active listening skills to best react and understand how new information can impact current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Ability to use appropriate training, instructional methods, and techniques/procedures based upon the situation and current qualifications.
• Ability to effectively communicate via written and verbal communication.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Requires a Master’s degree in Counseling or Social Work or related field or education equivalent to a Master’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• An active and in-good-standing LMHC, LMFT, or LCSW license in the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Current and up-to-date CAQH profile
• Current Professional Liability Insurance
• Complete all required background checks

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Interest in working with diverse populations across cultural, socioeconomic, and family backgrounds
• Experience with Eating Disorders, Play Therapy, Couples/Marriage Counseling, and/or Child Populations
• Experience working with trauma-related disorders using advanced therapy modalities (e.g., EMDR, TF-CBT).
• CBT and/or DBT training and/or certification
• Interest in serving the Tri-Cities community and surrounding areas

BENEFITS

• Competitive Pay as a W2 Employee (aka we pay half of your payroll taxes which increases your pay by 8%)
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans*
• Retirement Plan with Employer Match*
• Insurance Paneling/Credentialing
• Continuing Education*
• Monthly In-House Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
• Work Laptop Provided
• Admin Support: Billing, Scheduling, Customer Service, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Referral Mgmt., Human Resources
• FREE Membership with the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)
• FREE Admission to AACC Conferences
  

* Employee must be full-time in order to be eligible for these benefits