Job Description

Contracted Mental Health Therapist  

Location:  Scottsdale, AZ

The Impact You’ll Make:  

As a Contracted Mental Health Therapist at Anew Treatment Center, you will play a pivotal role in transforming the lives of clients and their families by providing compassionate, evidence-based behavioral health treatment in a welcoming and committed environment where individuals thrive alongside each other. Your work will support clients in achieving mental health stability and personal growth, fostering hope, resilience, self-acceptance, confidence, and effective stress management. By contributing to a therapeutic milieu, you will create a safe and inclusive space that promotes healing and recovery—not just a job, but a place to belong. Your collaboration with the clinical team will enhance the quality of care, strengthen community outreach, and uphold the organization’s mission to deliver exceptional residential treatment services, empowering clients to learn and practice healthy coping methods and set meaningful goals for mental and personal growth. 

Why Choose This Role?

Flexible contract-based work to suit your schedule

Competitive compensation: $65,000–$85,000 annually (pro-rated based on hours)

Opportunity to work with a dynamic, supportive team

Access to professional development and clinical supervision as needed

Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality clinical treatment for each client and their family, restoring, preserving, and strengthening their mental health status.
• Manage a clinical caseload as determined by the Clinical Director, identifying stressors, teaching how to prevent triggers, and promoting healthy coping techniques.
• Provide coverage as needed to support clients’ clinical needs, including facilitating sessions in group, family, or individual formats.
• Participate in clinical meetings, training, supervision, outreach, public-speaking events, and staff meetings as assigned.
• Conduct and participate in client assessments at admission and reassessments as required, diagnosing mental health conditions where applicable using psychotherapy techniques.
• Maintain timely and accurate clinical documentation, including progress reports, notes, admission and discharge summaries, treatment plan updates, and support for auxiliary staff with documentation needs.
• Attend weekly individual supervision as directed by licensure status or Clinical Director.
• Maintain an active presence in the therapeutic milieu, proactively addressing emergent issues and dynamics to support the day-to-day clinical program, while modeling healthy habits that encourage a lifestyle conducive to mental wellness.
• Fully understand and adhere to Anew policies and procedures, professional ethics, including appropriate boundaries and patient confidentiality; ensure compliance with company and HIPAA policies.
• Model appropriate interpersonal relationships, emotional regulation, and boundaries, tackling conditions such as anxiety, depression, trauma from abuse, relationship issues, and suicidal ideation through tailored interventions.
• Demonstrate awareness and respect for cultural, lifestyle, age, gender, and sexual orientation diversities of clients and staff; apply knowledge of age, gender, and multicultural counseling skills. 

Qualifications:

• Associate license or license-eligible PhD, PsyD, LPC, LMFT, or LCSW.
• Maintain specific, required, current, and active licensure, registration, or certification in good standing.
• Valid driver’s license in good standing and auto insurance.
• Successfully complete drug screen and comprehensive background check. 

Key Qualities/Success in This Role Requires:

• Empathy and Emotional Intelligence  
• Strong Communication Skills
• Cultural Competence  
• Resilience and Adaptability  
• Ethical Integrity  
• Team Collaboration  

Additional Information:  

We provide a unique residential treatment setting and offer professional development growth opportunities. 

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