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About the Role

The Center for Jewish Mental Health provides culturally responsive outpatient mental health care. This position includes a defined responsibility to provide individual and group psychotherapy through The UJA Funded - Lev Initiative, serving Jewish survivors of intimate partner violence and their families. The clinician will also maintain a broader outpatient caseload serving clients with diverse backgrounds and clinical needs.

Responsibilities

Provide assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy, crisis intervention, care coordination, and documentation.
Provide individual and group services for survivors of intimate partner violence and their families through the Lev Initiative.
Deliver trauma-informed, culturally responsive services coordinated with relevant community, legal, housing, safety-planning, and clinical supports.
Conduct comprehensive evaluations, psychosocial assessments, and risk assessments.
Develop, review, and update treatment plans in collaboration with clients and their supports.
Provide culturally responsive individual, family, group, collateral, and crisis services.
Integrate Jewish cultural context into assessment and treatment when clinically appropriate.
Work effectively with clients across a broad spectrum of Jewish identity, background, affiliation, observance, language, family structure, and community experience.
Treat presenting concerns including trauma, grief, intimate partner violence, safety needs, family stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Coordinate care with psychiatric, medical, school, legal, housing, domestic violence, Jewish communal, and other collateral supports.
Collaborate with internal partners to support referrals, assignments, group enrollment, and continuity of care.
Facilitate or co-facilitate Lev Initiative psychotherapy groups and document participation, progress, risks, and follow-up needs.
Participate in clinical meetings, staff meetings, CJMH/Jewish Services team consultation, required trainings, and supervision.
Maintain timely, accurate documentation according to agency and regulatory standards.
Maintain professional behaviors and ethical standards.
Support timely access to care by accepting appropriate referrals, maintaining an active caseload, and meeting expected productivity and kept-visit standards.

Requirements

Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work from an accredited program.
New York State License in Licensed Masters Social Worker (LMSW).
Experience providing outpatient mental health treatment in a clinic, community behavioral health, or comparable setting preferred.
Experience with intimate partner violence, trauma, grief, family stress, or culturally specific mental health services preferred.
Demonstrated cultural humility and ability to serve diverse Jewish communities while also working with clients across broader backgrounds and identities.
Group therapy experience preferred.
Ability to provide culturally responsive care without stereotyping or making assumptions about clients’ beliefs, practices, gender roles, family systems, or community expectations.
Comfort discussing sensitive topics that may intersect with Jewish identity.
Ability to build trust with clients who may be hesitant to seek mental health treatment due to stigma, privacy concerns, communal visibility, or prior negative experiences.
Experience with documenting in electronic health records and using Microsoft Office software.
Experience with tele mental health platforms a plus.
Ability to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs.

Skills

Individual psychotherapy
Group psychotherapy
Trauma-informed care
Culturally responsive care
Assessment
Treatment planning
Crisis intervention
Care coordination
Documentation
Risk assessment
Electronic health records
Microsoft Office software
Tele mental health platforms
Hebrew
Yiddish
Russian
Ukrainian

Location

Brooklyn

Work Type

Hybrid
Evening hours twice a week

Experience Level

Outpatient mental health treatment experience preferred
Intimate partner violence experience preferred
Trauma experience preferred
Grief experience preferred
Family stress experience preferred
Culturally specific mental health services experience preferred
Group therapy experience preferred

Education Level

Master’s degree in counseling, creative arts, or social work
Licensed Masters Social Worker (LMSW)

About the Company

The Center for Jewish Mental Health provides culturally responsive outpatient mental health care within the Seymour Askin Counseling Center/Brooklyn CCBHC.
The UJA Funded - Lev Initiative serves Jewish survivors of intimate partner violence and their families.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.