Licensed Psychotherapist
New York
Clinical Operations /
Part Time /
Are you looking for a role in a company that's solving one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime? Ophelia helps people end their opioid use and restore their quality of life with respect for their time and dignity. Our Mission is to make evidence-based treatments for opioid use disorder accessible to everyone... and we're looking to bring more people onto our team to help us achieve it.
Join us, save lives, and help fix healthcare for those who need it most.
About the Role
The substance use therapist is a vital part of our multidisciplinary care team. The therapist should have experience and comfort treating patients with substance use disorder via telehealth using evidence-based therapeutic techniques. The person in this role will provide a wide range of services including conducting ongoing skills and process therapy groups, managing a panel of individual therapy patients, collaborating with other multidisciplinary to assist in treatment planning, and making referrals to local resources to promote high-quality holistic health for our patients.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Facilitate individual therapy with a regular panel of patients using evidence-based techniques (e.g., motivational interviewing)
- Facilitate regular ongoing skills- and process-based group therapy programs
- Build therapeutic relationships based on trust, hope, encouragement, and respect
- Convey empathy for the challenges that OUD places on all aspects of life
- Create holistic treatment plans that offer routine and supportive approaches to help patients realize and meet their treatment goals
- Provide education on OUD to reduce stigma and increase access to compassionate healthcare
- Encourage management of OUD by teaching healthy lifestyle habits, providing coping techniques, maximizing time with clinicians, and addressing recovery barriers
- Provide strategies and skills for personal advocacy and self-determination
Required Skills
- Licensed to practice counseling or therapy in a state where Ophelia currently operates (e.g. LCSW, PsyD, PhD)
- Strong knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial treatments, counseling techniques, or brief behavioral intervention
- Ability to conduct and design curricula for group therapies for substance use disorders
- Demonstrated ability to offer encouragement, hope, and a positive demeanor
- Experience working in addiction medicine and/or psychiatry
- Comfortable working with diverse population of people with opioid use disorder
- Ability to provide patient-centered, non-judgmental, compassionate care
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team setting
- Ability to maintain effective and professional relationships with patients and other members of the care team
This role is a remote, telehealth position that allows you to work collaboratively with the Ophelia team, while conveniently at your home, with flexible hours.
Interested in working at Ophelia? Apply below!
