About Within Health Provider Services

Within Health has a revolutionary approach to the virtual treatment of eating disorders. We provide clinically continuous care, in the comfort of the clients own home.  We provide excellent care 100% virtually and are a 24/7 company to ensure the care for our clients is superior than others.

MUST BE LICENSED IN MICHIGAN

About the role

The Primary Therapist is a minimum of a Master’s Level Clinician responsible for the individual and family therapy of specific clients, and group therapy for a group of clients.  The therapist specializes in working with clients with eating disorders, is mature, flexible, and innovative, and brings a loving, positive attitude to our expert Clinical Team.  The Primary Therapist works well with other departments to create a treatment plan for clients.

What you'll do

• Establishes positive, trusting rapport with clients.
• Diagnoses and treats mental health disorders.
• Creates and updates individualized treatment plans according to patient needs and circumstances.
• Meets with patients regularly to provide services and treatment, and to adjust treatment plans as necessary.
• Coordinates and arranges for services needed for each individual client.
• Conducts ongoing assessments of patient progress.
• Conducts group therapy sessions according to program schedule.
• Involves and advises family members when appropriate.
• Refers patients to outside specialists or agencies when necessary.
• Maintains thorough records of patient meetings and progress.
• Follows all safety protocols and maintains client confidentiality.
• Communicates regularly with outpatient providers to ensure continuity of care.
• Attends weekly staff meetings to consult on individual cases.
• Attends weekly treatment team meetings to consult with clients about individual progress.
• Creates weekly individualized therapeutic and experiential opportunities for clients and communicates them to patients.
• Conduct concurrent insurance reviews for individual clients.
• Engage in ongoing advocacy work for mental health parity.
• Engage in community based speaking opportunities to increase eating disorder awareness.
• Other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in psychology, social work or related field.  Must be fully licensed and can work without supervision.
• Must have active, unrestrictive, full licensed in Michigan
• Able to get licensure in other states when asked.
• Strong communicator, both verbally and in writing.
• Experience treating clients with Eating Disorders.
• Ability to demonstrate understanding of a variety of models and theories of eating disorders, trauma, mental illness, and related issues.
• Knowledge of philosophies, practices, policies and outcomes of models of treatment, recovery, relapse prevention, and continuing care for dually diagnosed populations.
• Understanding of diagnostic criteria for co-occurring conditions and ability to conceptualize modalities and placement criteria within the continuum of care.
• Understanding of diverse cultures and gender specific issues and ability to incorporate needs of gender and culturally diverse groups into practice settings.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to prioritize workload and work independently.

Physical and Environmental Requirements:

• Employees are required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a computer or similar, and should possess visual acuity.
• This position answers and places telephone calls as well as video conferences and must be able to converse.  
• Must be able to converse with colleagues via telephone and computer programs.
• Must be able to operate a computer and navigate applications within a smart-phone, iPhone, MacBook computer and/or tablet.
• Able to sit for the majority of shifts.
• Must have reliable internet connection.
• This is a work-from-home position.  Work should be performed in a private, quiet space with minimal background noise.
• Ability to prioritize workload and work independently.