Clinician at Anxiety Institute

Staff Clinician

Anxiety Institute is recruiting an early-career clinical professional for our outpatient and intensive outpatient treatment programs in Greenwich, CT.

Anxiety Institute offers advanced, evidence-based treatment for anxiety and related disorders for children and young adults between the ages of 12-25 years old. Reporting to the Clinical Supervisor, this is an exempt, full-time position.

The clinician will join our multidisciplinary clinical team who value measurement-based care delivered by genuine, compassionate, and empathetic clinicians. We look for personable, collaborative, and dedicated team players who are willing to grow with the company and welcome the challenge of complex cases.

Our Work at Anxiety Institute

Anxiety Institute is an innovative behavioral health company founded to help adolescents and young adults recover from debilitating anxiety, OCD, and associated disorders. The company is advancing a clinical approach that utilizes exposure therapy in an intensive outpatient setting and achieves significant clinical outcomes.

The Anxiety Institute intensive treatment model, comprised of 10 hours of individual care each week, is unique among anxiety treatment centers and is complemented by 10 hours of wellness and group therapy.

Specialized Training

Anxiety Institute trains all of its therapists in a state-of-the-art Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP) model, which utilizes evidence-based cognitive science and learning theory across a 20-hour/week intensive treatment program. In addition to Exposure Response Prevention therapy, all Anxiety Institute therapists are intensively trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Training includes:

• 40+ hour formal training program
• Up to 4 weeks of shadowing treatment prior to taking clinical cases
• Graduated application of ERP in cases, starting with ERP behavioral coaching and graduating to a lead clinician position
• Supervision including 2-3 weekly sessions to collaborate with peers and meet with direct manager
• 10+ hours/year key topic training provided to all clinicians

Anxiety Institute currently has operations in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Virginia.

Benefits

Our competitive compensation and benefits include health, life, disability, and dental insurance with the Anxiety Institute covering 80% of individual employee costs. 401(k) matching after the third month of employment. To preserve our team’s mental health, we have a policy of “unlimited” paid time off (“PTO”) plus company-wide paid vacation during most federal holidays and the time between Christmas through New Year’s Day.

Position Summary

The clinician will be responsible for providing evidence-based treatment to individuals, groups, and families for anxiety and related disorders. This position is responsible for providing up to 5 hours of direct client treatment per day, developing treatment plans, collaborating with peers, and interfacing and coaching families to facilitate recovery for our clients.

The successful candidate will have extensive training in CBT, have an affinity for working with adolescents and young adults, be licensed (or license eligible) in Connecticut, exhibit a track-record of clinical success, and thrive working with a team of dedicated professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide up to 25 hours a week of direct client treatment for anxiety and related disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and trauma related disorders.
• Provide comprehensive diagnostic evaluations and evidence-based treatment to children, adolescents, and young adults with anxiety disorders, including patients with comorbid mood disorders.
• Conduct family-based interventions with parents/caregivers and implement strategies for fearful and resistant clients and parents related to attendance, commitment, and completion of treatment.
• Collaborate with our board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist on cases requiring pharmacotherapy.
• Provide community education and support marketing/outreach by conducting trainings, attending regional and/or clinical conferences, writing articles for publication, etc.
• Acquire and maintain current clinical knowledge, skills, and standards set forth by the Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA) and the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF).Up to 28 hours a week of direct client treatment to adolescents and young adults with anxiety and related disorders such as obsessive-compulsive behavior and trauma-related disorders.
• No on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Applicants must be an MSW, MFT, counselor or psychologist.
• Licensed (or license eligible) in the State of Connecticut.
• A minimum of 2 years of individual, group and family therapy experience with school/college aged individuals and their parents.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of individuals/groups.
• Flexible thinking with the ability to work with challenging cases in a fast-paced environment.
• Preference will be given to those with experience/proficiency using ERP protocols for OCD, and/or those who have a personal understanding for anxiety disorders and a professional passion for its treatment.
• Affinity to work with school/college aged individuals and their parents.