Psychotherapist Positions
About Smart Love
We are a not for profit, outpatient counseling agency led by genuinely committed clinicians who provide high-quality mental health services and receive ongoing professional training and consultation no matter their experience level. We use an innovative, optimistic relational psychotherapy approach that produces better clinicians and therapists who enjoy greater fulfillment in the caregiving they provide. Our objective is to make our training more available to clinicians so that we can increase access to high-quality mental health care to those in need.
We are seeking Illinois licensed therapists for full-time (30 hours per week), hybrid (Telehealth and in person) therapist positions for our Oak Park and Logan Square offices. We strongly encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, as Smart Love believes that differences enable us to be a better team and impact our communities and the world in meaningful ways.
- Primarily provide psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults of all ages from diverse backgrounds, using Intrapsychic Humanism (IH).
- Intrapsychic Humanism is a contemporary psychodynamic theory that provides a powerful and unique understanding of what causes unhappiness and internal barriers to self-care that are common for many. It offers an optimistic psychotherapy approach that emphasizes the availability of the therapeutic relationship to help clients regain their inborn desire for genuine pleasure and capacity for core self-worth leading to improvements in self-care, relationships, and potential in school or work.
- Provide parent guidance using the Smart Love® parenting model, preferably in a Spanish-speaking, bilingual setting
- Smart Love looks beyond behavior and understands children’s primary emotional needs to feel loved and loveable, and the importance of responding kindly and positively to children’s immaturity and difficult behaviors, not punitively, since children learn to treat themselves and others by copying the care they receive.
- Additional opportunities to provide couple, family and group psychotherapy, psychological testing, and parent education seminars/webinars.
- Offer group program services to families of racially diverse backgrounds through our It Takes a Village Program.
Requirements:
- Licensed as a Clinical Psychologist, LSW/LCSW or LPC/LCPC in IL
- Values providing long-term psychotherapy and relationship-based psychotherapy
- Flexible schedule to fulfill some required evening hours
- Enjoys learning and ongoing supervision/consultation regardless of experience level
- Desire to work as part of a team, particularly for community outreach and impact projects
- Ability to form and maintain relationships and to model and encourage positive collaborative behaviors
Payment Structure:
- For fully-licensed therapists: Fee for service model (paid 50% of collections plus quarterly bonus for billing over 20 client hours per week)
- For LPC or LSW therapists working towards full licensure: Full time fellowship that offers a 12 month competitive stipend (starting at $50,000)
Benefits of Joining Our Team:
Fee for Service and Fellowship Benefits
- Employment W-2 status which comes with perks (compared to independent contractor/1099 status):
- Health (Medical and Dental) insurance offered through BCBS PPO with Employer contribution (once minimum work hours are met).
- Employee administered 401K plan (once minimum work hours are met).
- FICA tax portion is paid by employer
- Participate in the Federal Loan Forgiveness Program due to Smart Love’s standing as a not for profit organization.
- All intake, billing, marketing and office management is provided for you.
- Monthly Group Consultation with Smart Love’s creator and author of IH, Dr. Heineman Pieper.
- Weekly, individual Clinical Supervision regardless of license level
- Paid membership to Intrapsychic Humanism Society (covers up to 8 CE’s per year/value of $160)
- Quarterly Diversity In-Service Trainings (covers up to 6 CE’s per year/value of $120) and monthly discussion meetings on advancing Racial and Social Equity
- Newly renovated offices in great locations – Oak Park and Logan Square
- A positive, collaborative work environment with a close team that offers ongoing opportunities for support, growth, and development!
Fellowship Benefits Only:
- Additional benefits for fellows with 12 month stipend include 3 weeks paid vacation, 8 paid holidays, and 5 days of sick time.
Fee for Service Benefits Only:
- Bank of approximately 60 sick hours per year (paid at $16 per hour)
Visit our website for more information about our organization www.smartlovefamily.org.
If interested, please submit a cover letter and CV to Carla M. Beatrici, Psy.D., Director of Clinical Services carla.beatrici@smartlovefamily.org, (773) 665-8052, ext. 200.
