Behavioral Health Therapist III -Adult & School-Aged
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This posting does not state an hourly rate. Open mental health therapist jobs in Ohio post a median of $32.25 an hour, the middle half $27.75–$53.25, across 19 jobs that state their pay. Mental health therapists employed in Ohio earn a median of $28.06 an hour (source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (May 2025) (source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics).
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About the job
Job Summary The Mental Health Therapist-Adult/School-Age Spilt Caseload participates in the clinical team by providing in office and telehealth counseling to adults, children and adolescents. This clinician will serve a caseload of approximately 80% adults, and 20% youth population. The successful candidate maintains a therapeutic relationship with their clients on their caseload and collaborates effectively with treatment team to best serve client’s holistic needs.
Qualifications
- Education: Master’s degree in social work, Counseling, or Marriage and Family Therapy
- Licensure: Requires a social work or counselor license recognized by the state of Ohio – i.e. LSW, LPC, MFT, LISW, LPCC or IMFT.
- Experience with a severe and persistent mentally ill population preferred
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Complete diagnostic assessments
- Providing mental health counseling using evidence based and trauma informed approaches of care to adults, children and adolescents
- Participate in coordination of care with a multi-disciplinary treatment team to ensure client’s whole health needs are met
- Responsible for the timely completion of clinical documentation in accordance with applicable licensing and accreditation regulations and standards.
- Meet productivity standards
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- Free CEU Trainings
- Supervision provided for license advancement
- Flexible Schedules
- 5% employer contribution to 401k
- Access to HRSA loan forgiveness program for up to 50K in student loan forgiveness
Core Competencies
- Interpersonal Skills & Communication: demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
- Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well, ability to resolve conflicts.
- Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
- Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement
- Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products
From The Centers's job posting, checked 9 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.
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