Mental Health Therapist

Overview

Pay: $65,000.00 - $85,000.00

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Flexible 

Are you a purpose-driven clinician passionate about guiding adolescents through meaningful transformation? Sunrise Residential Treatment Center is seeking a compassionate, skilled Mental Health Therapist to join our dynamic, trauma-informed team.

At Sunrise, we blend clinical excellence with heart. Set against the serene backdrop of southern Utah, our campus offers a safe, home-like environment where girls ages 12–17 can heal, grow, and thrive. We specialize in relational, experiential, and evidence-based care that addresses trauma, emotional regulation, and family systems.

Responsibilities

• Manageable Caseloads: Work with no more than 8 clients, allowing for deeper therapeutic relationships and personalized care.
• Evidence-Based Practice: Apply proven modalities like DBT, TF-CBT, ACT, Smart Recovery, and Seeking Safety to support client progress.
• Client-Centered Care: Tailor individual, group, and family therapy to meet each client’s unique needs and goals.
• Collaborative Approach: Partner with a multidisciplinary team—including psychiatrists and physicians—for holistic treatment.
• Culturally Competent: Provide inclusive care with sensitivity to diverse backgrounds and cultural dynamics.
• Clinical Excellence: Maintain compliance through timely documentation, outcome tracking, and adherence to treatment plans.
• Transformational Impact: Guide students through program completion and discharge, fostering healing and generational change.

Qualifications

• Educational Requirement: Master’s degree in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, or a related behavioral science field.
• Licensure: Preferred—fully licensed (LCSW, LMFT, LCMHC); accepted—associate licensure (CSW, AMFT, ACMHC).
• Therapeutic Expertise: Passion for facilitating growth through individual, family, and group therapy using a collaborative, team-based approach.
• Clinical Experience: Preferred—2+ years of therapy experience and 1+ year in a residential setting using relational and experiential modalities.
• Treatment Planning: Skilled in developing, implementing, and adjusting treatment plans tailored to client needs.
• Credentialing Ready: Must have or be willing to establish a CAQH profile and obtain an NPI number.
• Compliance: Must pass a state background check and adhere to clinical and ethical standards.

Benefits

• Access to professional growth using our leading edge strategies and trainings with our exceptional leaders
• Comprehensive Benefit Program that includes medical insurance with a generous company contribution towards a high deductible plan, dental insurance, vision insurance, voluntary life and AD&D insurance, long-term disability, 401K with company matching, and paid paternal leave.
• Company Paid Holidays plus a PTO accrual schedule.
• Opportunity to foster relationships with adolescents and their families, create joy in their lives, and heal generations.
• Join a team of nationally recognized industry leaders who provide you with a framework of training, support, and long-term advancement opportunities.
• Embark and team members embrace the core values of empathy, trusting relationships, service, growth, and results.
• Possible relocation assistance available. 

Sunrise is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Sunrise is committed to enriching the therapeutic and healing experience it offers through the diversity of its employees and community. Sunrise seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse staff who will contribute to the organization’s excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society. #L1-TL1