Join Our Team

Thank you for your interest in being a therapist at Oregon City Counseling. We are always on the lookout for amazing clinicians to join our team (PCA/LPCs and CSWA/LCSWs). We also are always interested in meeting students who might like to do their practicums and/or internships with us.

What we offer:

  • A highly competitive compensation package tailored to your needs, providing the right balance of wages, benefits, client caseload, and paid time off (over 6 weeks a year!).

    • Typical starting salary of $60,000 - $80,000/ year depending on experience and licensure. 

    • Medical and dental benefits 100% covered for Kaiser plan. 

    • 5% 401(k) match.

    • Yearly COLA salary increases

  • Supervision towards licensure and training with a focus on helping you become an exceptional cognitive behavioral therapist

  • Training and supervision in additional empirically evidenced therapies as your CBT skills are honed

  • You set your own schedule

  • You determine the client population(s) with whom to work

  • You choose how much to work in-person versus remotely (with some in-person work required)

  • An egalitarian, collaborative, professional environment free from bureaucracy, needless hassles, and a minimum of paperwork

What we require:

  • Master of Counseling, Social Work, or similar, with ability to work towards licensure. You MUST possess a PCA, LPC, CSWA, or LCSW prior to beginning employment. Please indicate such in your cover letter or your application will be dismissed. 

  • A strong set of Rogerian counseling skills.

  • A strong interest in becoming an extraordinary cognitive behavioral therapist.

  • A strong interest in therapy based on empathy, empirical evidence, and outcomes.

How to Apply:

We think it is critical that people who join our team are a good fit for our practice and our practice is a good fit for them. Before sending me an email, inquiring about a position, please read the following and carefully consider whether this is the best fit for who you are as a person and as a clinician. If, after reading this, you believe Oregon City Counseling and you are a potential good fit, send me an email, telling me why you think so and attach your resume. 

Things to know about Oregon City Counseling:

  • We are a science-based practice. We primarily use CBT and/or ACT as our foundation for therapy as they have the most robust evidence of effective outcomes for the most clients. 

  • These foundational therapies are further based on a solid foundation of Motivational Interviewing as the way to approach any therapeutic modality due to the high level of evidence for its efficacy. 

  • We are amazing therapists who put an extremely high value on always becoming more amazing!

  • Therefore new clinicians / student interns are expected to do the following activities:

    • Read a chapter a week from Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basic and Beyond by Judith Beck and then review and role play the skills from that chapter with your clinical supervisor each week. (All books and training materials are provided by Oregon City Counseling.) 

    • Or–if you prefer, read a chapter a week from ACT Made Simple by Russ Harris and then review and role play the skills from that chapter with your clinical supervisor each week.

    • When you have finished reading your book, you will then either read it again or move onto another therapy book. I recommend learning CBT and/or ACT deeply before moving to other forms of therapy. But you will have some freedom to pick your next book, so long as it is an evidence-based therapy. We use this list as our reference for that: https://div12.org/treatments/ 

    • Regularly record sessions and share at least one every other month with your clinical supervisor to be scored by them and then reviewed during your clinical supervision. 

    • Attend an every-other-week group supervision for 10 sessions to learn Motivational Interviewing. For each session this may include: reading 2-3 chapters from Motivational Interviewing by Miller and Rollnick, watching video examples of these skills, recording your sessions to be reviewed for these skills, and doing role plays of the skills during the group supervision. 

    • Sequential to the MI group supervision, there is also a 10-session, every-other-week, group supervision to learn the basics of behaviorism and communication skills with similar expectations. 

Something else to consider: To be a good fit for Oregon City Counseling, you will value equity and working towards eliminating all forms of oppression.  

If everything above leads you to feel excited about working at Oregon City Counseling, please email me at sladebwolf@gmail.com and tell me why. If any of it gives you pause, then we are probably not the right fit for each other and I wish you well in your search for a better fit for you to be a therapist.