Action-Oriented Psychotherapist

HYBRID, INCLUDING IN-PERSON WORK AT OUR NEW BERKELEY OFFICE.

PART-TIME TO START WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF EXPANDING TO FULL-TIME WITH BENEFITS.

Help shy singles, disconnected couples, and anxious introverts build meaningful relationships PLUS enjoy the benefits of private practice without the hassle of running a business!

Thriving group practice seeks an action-oriented clinician with a little quirk and lots of integrity. Must love cats or dogs, attachment theory, and helping shy humans find love.

Apply at relationshipcenter.com/application

The Relationship Center seeks an enthusiastic, reliable, and clinically savvy psychotherapist to join our team.

We are an irreverent yet professional team of six women, two men, one nonbinary person, and one mini golden doodle passionate about helping shy introverts build meaningful relationships.

One of our specialties is helping couples on the brink of breaking up rediscover what made them fall in love in the first place. Our sub-specialty couples services include queer couples therapy, premarital counseling, and neurodiverse couples therapy.

Aside from our couples services, we’re best known for our specialty clinic, Bay Area Dating Coach, where we help singles build the confidence and skills needed to find love. In addition to dating coaching and therapy, we provide innovative services such as mock dates and online dating help.

At our second specialty clinic, the Social Anxiety Support Center, we help shy introverts overcome anxiety so that they can finally enjoy the companionship they crave.

Our clinics emphasize experiential approaches such as role-playing, drama therapy, coaching, CBT/DBT, fieldwork, and EMDR.

Thanks to the Bay Area’s hearty supply of growth-oriented couples, anxious singles, and highly sensitive introverts, our practice has grown steadily since its establishment in 2016. We anticipate continued growth in the years to come, especially as people navigate socializing, dating, and partnership post-pandemic.

Which is where you come in!

GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS

Since this is possibly the gazillionth job posting you’ve looked at today, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty, shall we?

While we generally subscribe to savoring the good, we’re gonna start with the bad news so that we don’t waste your time :)

THE BAD(ISH) NEWS

• You’ll need another part-time job (or a trust fund), at least to start. This position is part-time to begin, and your caseload (and thus pay) will build and vary over time. Many of our teammates have “day jobs” and find the variety provided by multiple workplaces invigorating. As our clients and business thrive on consistency, we seek a team member who can remain dependable and engaged while working multiple jobs. If, after working up to your minimum caseload, you determine that you’d love to work with us full-time, we may offer you a full-time position with benefits, including health and dental insurance and two weeks of paid time off (in addition to the existing PT benefits: a Simple IRA with a 3% match, a continuing education stipend, sick pay, and up to 6 weeks of unpaid time off).
• Team time is mainly remote and asynchronous. Your connections with fellow team members will primarily occur over platforms like Slack and Zoom. We have optional, casual in-person gatherings about once a quarter and monthly in-person consultation groups for our licensed clinicians; however, you should be prepared to build connections via online platforms.
• Along those lines, we love technology! You’re an excellent fit for us if learning and utilizing online platforms (e.g., SimplePractice, Slack, Spruce, etc.) excites you. Oh, and we’re paperless! If technology is your Achilles heel, we’re not the right place for you.
• You are going to have uncomfortable conversations with clients. To help our clients achieve their goals, we gently challenge them to explore topics they otherwise might avoid. Think sex, body image, identity, trauma, societal isms, etc. In addition to openly discussing these and other taboo topics, you’ll need to regularly check in with clients about the therapeutic relationship and container, including and especially erotic transference, money, and container-related reenactments (e.g., canceling or arriving late to sessions as an expression of anxiety-based avoidance). If that’s your jam and a challenge excites you, read on!

THE GOOD NEWS

• We offer benefits: Part-time benefits include a SIMPLE IRA with a 3% match, a continuing education stipend, sick pay, and up to 6 weeks of unpaid time off per year. Full-time benefits are available with a caseload of at least 20 weekly session slots and include all of the aforementioned plus health insurance, dental insurance, and two weeks of paid time off.
• You don’t have to see a bazillion clients. You’ll offer a minimum of 10 weekly slots. If you work up to a full-time, benefited position, you’ll offer at least 20 weekly slots. You’re welcome to work more than the minimum required for either part-time or full-time. Our clinicians say they love that we don’t require them to see 3,000 weekly clients (which is expected at mega behavioral health conglomerates, but we won’t name names). We, like you, are highly sensitive and value people-centered workplaces that support clinician and client well-being in tandem.
• You’ll have a nice balance of team-ness and independence. Our clinicians say this position is “the best combination of being a solo practitioner with all the support and collegiality of a team.”
• We’re anything but boring. If variety is the spice of life, this position is delicious! You will enjoy offering various services, including dating coaching (training provided), therapy, fieldwork, online dating help, and mock dates. Our clients hold many identities, so you’ll also benefit from working with people from all walks of life.
• We’ll take care of running the business so that you can focus on your clients. No need to fuss with marketing, admin, etc., or deal with the stress of running your own business!
• We love drama therapy and other experiential approaches. You're our people if you’re trained in a niche, action-oriented approach! Our clients respond well to solution-focused, creative, experiential methods, and we’re always eager to add team members who can diversify our offerings.
• We help shy singles find and keep love! Need we say more?
• We help anxious introverts build courageously authentic lives! Need we say more?
• Our culture is fun, friendly, professional, supportive, casual, open, non-judgmental, boundaried, respectful, irreverent, grounded, and silly.
• Your supervisor will super care about you. Team members feel “very supported, cared for, and seen” by our executive team. Your supervisor will play to your strengths and walk the talk of secure attachment by striving to be understanding, flexible, and highly responsive.
• Our team is pretty rad. We celebrate one another’s successes and lend a hand professionally and personally where needed. Our clinical team has 100 years of cumulative experience in the field, so you’ll have lots of wisdom to tap into when your clinical work gets sticky. Plus, we genuinely like one another!

Ok, so now that we have the bad/good news out of the way, let’s talk about job requirements:

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MA in Counseling Psychology or equivalent degree
• Available to see some clients in person at our office in Berkeley, CA
• California-approved psychotherapist, i.e., LMFT, AMFT, LCSW, ASW, LPCC, PsyD, etc.
• Experiential, action-oriented clinical style
• A strong interest in supporting clients to helping clients build meaningful relationships, including providing dating guidance and couples counseling
• Can manage a caseload of 10 minimum clinical hours weekly (part-time) or 20-30 weekly (full-time), plus 3-5 hours responding to client and team messages, writing notes and treatment plans, and attending training and supervision.
• Available to work at least two weekday evening (3-8 pm) slots or one weekend time slot
• Social-justice-oriented and committed to culturally competent practice, including LGBTQ and neurodiversity-affirming care.
• Comfort utilizing apps and online platforms to enhance and manage clinical work.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Extensive training in drama therapy OR experience providing role-play-based interventions
• Experience with and passion for providing:

- Dating support

- Couples counseling

- Social anxiety treatment

• Experience supporting adults struggling with:

- social and dating skill deficiencies

- disordered or insecure attachment

- dating and making friends as a neurodivergent individual (e.g., autistic, ADHD, etc.)

- LGBTQ issues

• Experience offering:

- (dating & social) coaching

- cognitive-behavioral therapy

- solution-focused counseling

- trauma-informed therapy

- other specialty approaches

• Comfort addressing erotic & eroticized (counter)transference
• Personal or professional experience navigating and optimizing online dating platforms.
• Warm, flexible, open-minded, thoughtful, independent, loving, compassionate, boundaried, enthusiastic, patient, collaborative, passionate, dedicated, creative, and playful.

In short, your job is to help your clients build meaningful relationships using all the authenticity, creativity, and passion you can muster. And enjoy solid and collaborative relationships with your teammates. Oh, and to have fun at work (who wants a job that isn’t fun?!?).

Our workplace is casual, but we expect professionalism and punctuality. We DON’T expect perfection or existing skills in dating coaching, social anxiety treatment, or couples counseling. We can teach or direct you to resources and training to improve your skills and ensure you’re confidently working within your scope of competence. We expect intelligence, energy, and a get-it-done attitude. When you have questions, you will find the answers by consulting with your supervisor or peers.

If this job excites you to the point that you would even do it for free, please apply! Not because we don’t want to pay you—we, like you, made it through the extremely expensive mill that is grad school, unpaid internships, and the California licensing process, and as a result, we take great delight in paying clinicians for their hard work. No, you should apply because we’ve found that our happiest and most successful clinicians feel called to join our team and do this work.

In addition to being impassioned, you must be a detail-oriented communicator. In fact, please take a moment now before applying to introduce yourself by email. Email hello@relationshipcenter.com with the subject line, I want to join Team Love! That’s our playful way of sorting out the people who blanket send their resume to anyone and everyone, from the folks (that’s you) who are truly interested in this position. DON’T email us your resume - submit your application using the link below.

COMPENSATION

During the initial training period, compensation is $20/hour. Compensation switches from hourly to a commission structure once you are fully trained and begin your clinical work.

Depending on experience, you will receive a percentage of collected client fees ranging from $54 to $98 per client hour.

If you see ten clients a week, you can expect to earn $28,080 - $50,960 a year, plus benefits.

If you see 25 clients a week, you can expect to earn $70,200 - $127,400 a year, plus benefits.

BENEFITS

Part-time benefits include:

• SIMPLE IRA (a retirement savings account) with a 3% match
• a continuing education stipend
• sick pay
• up to 6 weeks of unpaid time off per year

Full-time benefits are available with a caseload of at least 20 weekly session slots and include all of the above plus:

• health insurance
• dental insurance
• two weeks of paid time off (in addition to up to 6 weeks of unpaid time off per year).

Ready to help shy singles, disconnected couples, and anxious introverts build meaningful relationships? Apply today!

Apply relationshipcenter.com/application

Unsolicited resumes will NOT be accepted. Seriously, our HR advisor has commanded us to delete ALL unsolicited resumes. Deleting emails without responding goes against our secure-attachment-figure instincts, so spare us the discomfort and apply using the link above, pleaseandthankyou!

Questions? Please contact us at hello@ relationshipcenter.com

We look forward to meeting you!

Relationship Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All who fit the requirements are encouraged to apply, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, and a person's gender), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or military and veteran status of any person. Please note that submitting an application does not guarantee employment nor serve as an employment contract.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: Up to $98.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 15 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Berkeley, CA 94709

Salary : $28,080 - $50,960