Clinicians Seeking Work at the Child and Family Art Therapy Center
Now Recruiting Therapists Who Love Childhood, Child Therapy, & Creative Approaches
Would you like to:
decrease the stress and exhaustion of agency-based treatment?
work in a treatment setting that values art therapy and supports art and play therapists?
join a community of like-minded therapists who want to provide world-class therapy?
carry a smaller caseload and have the potential to make as much or more?
decrease documentation and paperwork by a significant degree?
treat clients in spacious, well stocked treatment rooms with all the art/play therapy materials you could want?
Then consider working with us at the Child and Family Art Therapy Center!
As our therapists’ schedules fill, we find ourselves with ‘overflow referrals’ who need to be seen, and this is when we recruit and hire new therapists. We love to always have a qualified therapist proactively pre-interviewed and ready to begin seeing clients. We invite you to apply for employment at our center.
Learn more about 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 have experience in art therapy, play therapy, and/or group therapy. Parent/family therapy experience is a major plus.
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 social skills group therapy program supporting neurodivergent 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:
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
Overview of Private Practice Duties
• Providing individual therapy
• 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 group art therapy supervision meetings, 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.
Interested in joining our team?
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 creative child-adolescent and family 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 by clicking the button below.