Children & Youth Mental Health Program Therapist (Full-Time)

Location: St. Louis, MO

Applications requesting a part-time position will be considered and evaluated based on applicant’s experience, education, and skills. 

Reports to: Children & Youth Mental Health Program Coordinator 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide in-school trauma-informed individual and group mental health therapy to immigrant, foreign-born, and refugee children utilizing somatic-based, EMDR, and ITCT interventions. 
• Conduct assessments and formulate appropriate treatment plans for clients aged Preschool through 19.
• Coordinate with various elementary, middle, and high school faculty and staff to deliver services. This includes working with school staff to schedule individual sessions and determine appropriate space for sessions.
• Provide trauma-informed training and individual coaching for teachers upon request. 
• Provide caregiver support through trauma-informed psycho-education sessions and coaching.
• Coordinate with interpretation services to provide appropriate language access.
• Other administrative tasks assigned by Program Coordinator 

Requirements:

• Master’s degree or higher in Clinical Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, or related mental health degree
• Missouri LCSW, LPC, other mental health license or provisionally licensed
• Reliable vehicle and driver’s license

Competencies/Skills

• Empathy 
• Cultural sensitivity and curiosity 
• Social and communication skills 
• Holding appropriate boundaries 
• Complex problem solving 
• Familiarity with evidenced-based treatments for trauma in children 
• Time management 
• Familiarity with using Microsoft 365 applications (ex. Excel, Word, Outlook) and electronic case record systems 
• Willingness to provide services via telehealth on an as-needed basis

 Preferred:

• Bilingual/Second language proficiency (Spanish, Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Swahili, and Somali are given special consideration) 
• Lived experience or cultural immersion experience 
• Direct clinical experience with refugee or immigrant populations 

Benefits:

• Schedule flexibility 
• Earned Paid Time Off 
• Competitive Compensation 
• Paid EMDR basic training and monthly consultation with an expert EMDR consultant 
• Paid time to complete training in Integrative Treatment of Complex Trauma (ITCT, an evidence-based treatment) and to attend monthly consultation groups (training and consultation are also at no cost) 
• Access to free Clinical Supervision (for LMSW’s and PLPC’s seeking licensure) 
• Be part of a close-knit team of excellent and compassionate mental health providers 
• Strong agency benefits package (paid time off, health insurance, short-term disability, dental, vision, elective coverages) 

Monarch Immigrant Services is an established and growing St. Louis-based non-profit with the mission of ensuring equal access to health, mental health, and social services for all, regardless of national origin or language ability, through advocacy, education, and direct multilingual services. 

In 2014, agency therapists began serving refugee and immigrant children in St. Louis through the primarily school-based Project Safe Space: Trauma-Focused Mental Health Services for Refugee and Immigrant Children. Now known as Children & Youth Mental Health (CYMH), this innovative program continues to expand and currently provides services that include a comprehensive assessment with parental component, somatic-based interventions, and trauma reprocessing interventions for children in the many St. Louis area school districts as well as in select charter and parochial schools. All CYMH clinicians are trained in EMDR and ITCT and receive ongoing clinical consultation. 

Monarch Immigrant Service provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Bilingual International complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

Monarch Immigrant Service expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.