General requirements for the position:

• Apply on our customized application, not here.
• Minimum of 18 sessions per week as they become available - this position starts part-time as we grow your personalized caseload from scratch and will grow into full-time with benefits. We won't have a caseload pre-filled to hand over to you on day one, but do have regular incoming inquiries and referrals.
• Full licensure - LMFT, LCSW, LPC/MHSP, etc. - we try to keep a balanced ratio between fully licensed and associate/pre-licensed clinicians and can only accommodate a licensed clinician in this round of hiring.
• Formal post-masters experiential mind/body-based trauma training - we need you to have at least one formal trauma training completed by the time you start (or begun very soon after, at the latest). This could be IFS Level 1 or higher, EMDR, NARM, EFT/EFIT, Somatic Experiencing Beginning Level or higher, Brainspotting Phase 1 (preferably Phase 2) or higher, etc. **Introductory NICABM, PESI, etc. trainings would not be sufficient; training should be the full experiential trainings of at least the first full level offered by the model's own organization.**
• Active participation in your own growth/support and personal experience with the modalities you use. It's easy for resentment and our internalized ableism to sneak in when we don't stay active in our own work, and we believe it's not right to ask a client to feel or try things in front of us that we have been unwilling to sit with in support for ourselves. Our team's ability to hold safer space hinges on 1) deeply understanding the limitations and power of the interventions you use and conversations you invite each client into, and 2) being able to personally vouch for *and* acknowledge the pitfalls of any model or intervention you're offering them.
• Work with adults and adolescents - we do not see children. We love them but our commitment is to creating an ultra-gentle sensory haven for folks with frazzled nerves and overwhelm.
• In-person at our office. 1) We have a high demand for in-person sessions and can't fill a virtual caseload and 2) and the sensory and executive function accommodations we have in place in our office are an important part of supporting our clients (and clinicians).
• Interest in helping to supervise interns is a huge plus. To supervise interns, you will need to be on site during their sessions and provide one hour of supervision each week. You don't need to be an official MFT or LPC supervisor, or waiting on-call to help them, just fully licensed and on site at The Hope Preserve (Brentwood office) while interns are in session.