Professional Opportunities

If you are interested in joining our team, please apply!

We are a lively group of neurodivergent enthusiasts!

We would love to meet, hear your story, and tell you ours to determine how we can best serve our community together.

Thrive Emerge is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer.

THERAPIST PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITY

POSITION OVERVIEW

Thrive Emerge -- a unique treatment setting serving the needs of high-functioning, neurodivergent (ASD, ADHD) teens and young adults struggling with the transition to independence -- is seeking a psychotherapist (PhD, PsyD, LCPC, LCSW) to become a part of our multidisciplinary clinical team and to help manage a vibrant treatment program.

The successful candidate will possess the following skills and experience:

• Knowledge of and clinical experience with neurodivergent populations

• Ease with a neurodiversity approach that validates the unique worldview of each individual and focuses on strength building rather than “fixing what is broken”

• Diagnostic and treatment planning skills

• Training and clinical experience with DBT, CBT and depth therapy.

• Experience working on a multi-disciplinary treatment team where treatment planning and decision-making is shared among all clinical staff.

• The professional (minimum of 5 years in clinical practice) and personal maturity to work with a complex population.

The successful candidate will enjoy:

Working with a lively clinical team of neurodivergent enthusiasts each with a combination of personal, parenting and professional experience in neurodivergence Working in a non-traditional outpatient setting -- a peer-based approach that combines work in an outdoor setting with brief mental health and life skills interventions

• Providing “real time” therapy to help quickly resolve challenges and setbacks

• Using humor and playfulness with patients as a foundation for connection and healing, while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries

• Utilizing creative, out-of-the-box and sometimes on-the-spot problem solving

• A fast-paced clinical environment where the “group think” of a coordinated team effectively meets the rapidly changing needs of this population

• A family-focused approach that engages with and guides parents, as well as the teen and young adult patients.

JOB SPECIFICS

1. Job Type: Part-time

2. This is primarily a therapist position. Job responsibilities will include:

• Providing psychotherapy services including:

▪ 1.5-3 hours weekly of on-site care at The Village in Catonsville

▪ remote sessions by zoom

• Attending clinical team meetings three hours weekly by zoom. Clinical meetings are paid at 1/2 the hourly clinical rate.

• Actively engaging in team text threads for frequent, real time communications regarding patient setbacks and progress

• Actively engaging with the treatment team, patients and parents to manage clinical emergencies

3. Compensation will be set commensurate with training, licensure and experience.

4. Required clinical experience:

• 5 years in a clinical role delivering psychotherapy services

• 1 year working in a clinical role with clients with Autism or ADHD

5. Depending on experience, there is potential for growth into a leadership position.

6. Expected clinical hours:

• Thrive will ensure an initial compensation for 5 hours of clinical work weekly

• Thrive will actively refer clients to rapidly build the caseload.

• A weekly caseload of 15 hours is a minimum expectable target.

• The clinician can build as large a caseload as they see fit.

7. Benefits:

• Flexible schedule – the clinician chooses their hours

• Turn-key operation for the clinician: all issues pertaining to scheduling, billing, reception, customer service, the electronic medical record system and IT are managed by Thrive’s central administrative department.

• Supervision with highly experienced senior clinicians with expertise in neurodivergence.

• Professional development assistance for CE credits for the clinician to build an expertise in neurodivergence

8. Schedule:

• Typically Monday to Friday

• Most clinicians choose to work daytime hours

• Weekend and evening hours are options as well

9. License/Certification:

• Required: Active clinical licensure in Maryland

• Required: Active board certification by a national professional board

10. Hybrid work location:

• Remote by Zoom for most therapy sessions

• 1.5-3 hours weekly in Catonsville, MD 21228