Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)

JOB SUMMARY

The Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) provides mental health and substance abuse counseling services to adults and families in a detox and recovery clinic. The ideal candidate is compassionate, skilled, and motivated, with experience in behavioral health, ASAM criteria, co-occurring disorders, crisis intervention, group facilitation, and individualized treatment planning. This role conducts assessments, facilitates therapy sessions, coordinates care, and supports clients on their path to recovery and wellness.

DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, substance use screenings, risk assessments, and level-of-care reviews using ASAM criteria as applicable to the program setting.
• Develop, implement, and update individualized treatment plans, relapse-prevention plans, recovery goals, discharge plans, and continuing-care recommendations.
• Provide individual, group, and family counseling or therapy for adults and families experiencing substance use disorders, mental health conditions, and co-occurring disorders within the provider's scope of practice.
• Facilitate psychoeducational, process, coping-skills, relapse-prevention, trauma-informed, life-skills, and recovery-oriented groups, including groups informed by 12 Step principles and other recovery support models.
• Monitor client progress, clinical presentation, withdrawal-related needs, safety concerns, treatment engagement, and response to interventions; adjust interventions as clinically appropriate.
• Provide crisis intervention, safety planning, de-escalation, relapse-prevention support, and referral or escalation to emergency or higher levels of care when indicated.
• Collaborate with psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, case managers, peer support staff, medical providers, families, courts, referral sources, and community resources to coordinate care.
• Educate clients and families on addiction, mental health, co-occurring disorders, coping strategies, medication adherence as applicable, recovery resources, and aftercare planning.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and timely documentation in the electronic health record in accordance with agency policy, Georgia requirements, payer standards, accreditation standards, HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2 as applicable, and professional ethics.
• Participate in clinical supervision, case consultation, treatment team meetings, staff meetings, utilization-review support, quality-improvement activities, and ongoing professional development.

OTHER FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in Counseling, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or a related behavioral health field meeting Georgia professional counseling licensure requirements.
• Active Georgia LPC license in good standing; associate-level license may be considered only when consistent with job classification, supervision, payer, and facility requirements.
• Experience working with mental health, substance use, and/or co-occurring disorder populations preferred.
• Knowledge of ASAM criteria, DSM-informed assessment, crisis intervention, treatment planning, discharge planning, and ethical clinical documentation.
• Ability to provide individual, group, and family therapy within Georgia LPC scope of practice and agency policy.

COMPETENCIES

• Experience treating co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
• Knowledge of evidence-based practices such as CBT, DBT skills, Motivational Interviewing, trauma-informed care, relapse-prevention counseling, and 12 Step/recovery-support approaches.
• Familiarity with electronic health record documentation systems and multidisciplinary treatment-team workflows.
• Strong communication, organizational, interpersonal, documentation, and clinical judgment skills.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in inpatient detox, residential treatment, partial hospitalization programs (PHP), intensive outpatient programs (IOP), outpatient behavioral health, crisis stabilization, or community mental health.

SCHEDULE

• Monday-Friday, including weekends as needed. Evening hours may be required based on client and program needs.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This position operates within a detox and recovery clinic serving adults and families. The LPC provides professional counseling and psychotherapy services within Georgia licensure scope, agency policies, payer requirements, and applicable supervision or consultation standards.

SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND COMPLIANCE

The employee must maintain confidentiality and ethical standards in compliance with HIPAA, applicable substance use confidentiality protections, professional licensing or certification rules, agency policy, state and federal standards, and all required clinical supervision or consultation procedures.

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