Clinicians Seeking Work at CFATC
Constantly Recruiting Therapists Who Love
Childhood, Child Therapy, & Creative Approaches
We have always grown by responding to community need. As our clinicians’ schedules fill, we find ourselves with ‘overflow referrals’ with no available clinical appointment times. This signals our need to recruit and contract with a new therapist. We love to always have a qualified therapist proactively pre-interviewed and ‘waiting in the wings’. That way, the moment our therapists no longer have space, a new therapist picks up the new referrals to ensure the community is taken care of.
The Profile of Therapists who Thrive at the Child and Family Art Therapy Center:
Anyone who sees clients at our centers must have a passion for children and childhood. You must provide family therapy or creative therapies such as art therapy, play therapy, music therapy, or dance-movement therapy.
We seek a therapist who provides excellent treatment for a wide range of child, adolescent, and family challenges, including trauma. We seek a lifelong learner who will enjoy adding CFATC's advanced child-adolescent outpatient therapy approaches to their repertoire. CFATC teaches strategies to involve caregivers in every session, as well as methods to facilitate a group social skills art therapy program supporting neurodiverse children with autism, ADHD, and learning differences.
The successful candidate is a clinically minded, organized self-starter with the ability to work both independently and in a team, manage an outpatient therapy caseload, and communicate well BOTH with children and parents/caregivers. Therapists who succeed at CFATC love children and childhood, and possess a warm, reassuring personality, a sense of humor, great organizational ability, a diligent work ethic, and a healthy balance of empathy, flexibility, and boundaries.
Required credentials include:
If you are an art therapist, you must have a master's degree in art therapy (ATR-BC credentials preferred) AND you must possesses the Pennsylvania LPC **
If you are a professional counselor, clinical social worker, psychologist, or related mental health profession, you must possess a PA license in your treatment modality. **
At least 2 years of your post-graduate clinical experience must be with children, adolescents and/or families **
Experience in both Individual and group therapy preferred
Experience includes treatment of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (Autism/Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, and learning disabilities) a plus
* Required; applicants without these requirements need not apply
Private practice activities at CFATC:
• Providing individual therapy
• Learning and facilitating Art of Friendship social skills groups
• Managing & scheduling a private practice caseload using and EHR (online practice management software)
• Completing routine documentation independently
• Charging and collecting fees
• Attending CFATC group art therapy consultation as needed
Work hours are flexible, although most outpatient therapy with children occurs after-school, evenings, or weekends. There may be opportunities to pick up adult art therapy clients, as well, but those referrals cannot be guaranteed at this time.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI)
We are intentional in recruiting diverse therapists and clients, and YOU are invited to apply. CFATC does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. Please read our DEI statement below.
Interested in becoming an Independent Contractor at CFATC?
This position offers multifaceted growth opportunities, including the enhancement of your professional identity, business skills, self-determination, autonomy, financial security, and the opportunity to join a loving, diverse, and supportive community of fellow art therapists. Please thoroughly read the section above regarding Required Credentials. If you have not yet earned the minimum required experience and credentials, please wait to apply until you have achieved them.
If you are interested in exploring this opportunity in greater detail, please submit a cover letter and resume to Mike Fogel MA, ATR-BC, LPC, director of the Child and Family Art Therapy Center.