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A full time early childhood & school-aged psychotherapist will be upholding the mission, values, vision and culture of MPG; working with dedication to community, dignity and empowerment of our clients and clinicians. Because we understand the human struggle takes many forms - relational, sexual, emotional, educational, economic, cultural, racial, political and many more - we’re passionate about supporting the whole person’s innate capacity to heal.

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about working with children and families and who have a range of experience. We train our clinicians to actualize their potential and seek applicants  who are willing to grow and learn. This position allows for opportunities to work with adults and caregivers, but is primarily a focused caseload of children and families.

This is an in-person position complete with fully furnished play rooms. 

Responsibilities/Opportunities 

• Maintaining a weekly caseload of 25-30 clients

• Consultation, treatment planning and implementation, therapeutic interventions for ages 0-12. Opportunities to specialize in ages 0-4 and/or ages 5 and up. 

• Individual and family psychotherapy

• Coordinate and collaborate with multidisciplinary professionals to support child’s healing and growth processes 

• Engagement with community partnerships that work with harm reduction and recovery, unhoused families, and infant-parent attachment 

• Weekly individual and group supervision

• Supported opportunities to earn a Registered Play Therapist credential

• When at a full time caseload, compensation for three year Somatic Experiencing training, and a 150 hour self-paced training in Child Centered Play Therapy with neurorelational emphasis

• Participation in periodic anti-oppression trainings

Qualifications

• LMSW, LCSW, MHC-LP, LMHC, or LMFT, licensed in the state of NY

• Experience and/or training in child development, attachment, and interpersonal neurobiology 

• Strong observation skills

• Some experience with directive and/or nondirective play therapy 

• Personal and professional commitment to social justice and equity practices, an applicable understanding of intersectionality in the clinical space 

• Cultural humility, gender- and neuro-affirming

• Strong commitment to learning and participating in further training

Preference given to clinicians with…

• Training in trauma processing work

• Experience with treatment planning and implementation of therapeutic interventions with children ages 0-12

• Experience working with legal involvement (custody, CPS)

• Familiarity with collaborating with schools

• Experience with dyadic therapy, parent-child psychotherapy, and early childhood mental health consultation  

• Training and/or experience in infant mental health 

• Comfort and proficiency working with nontraditional family structures 

Maverick Psychotherapy Group values a diverse workforce and strongly encourages BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ identified people, immigrants, people of marginalized genders, women, people with disabilities, and formerly incarcerated people to apply. Maverick is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.