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Child & Family Therapist – QMHP

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Alliance Counseling Center / The Center at Heron Hill

Canby, Oregon | In-Person | Nature-Based Behavioral Health

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Come Practice Differently

What if therapy with children and families didn’t always have to happen within four walls?

Alliance Counseling Center / The Center at Heron Hill is seeking a compassionate, creative, and experienced Child & Family Therapist (QMHP) to join our multidisciplinary behavioral health team on our beautiful 60-acre therapeutic farm in Canby, Oregon.

Our approach combines evidence-based mental health treatment with opportunities for nature-based, experiential, animal-assisted, and outdoor interventions. Clinicians have access to traditional therapeutic spaces as well as trails, gardens, outdoor areas, and our therapeutic farm environment.

We are looking for a therapist who genuinely enjoys working with children, adolescents, and their families and who is interested in practicing in a setting that allows therapy to extend beyond the traditional office.

The Position

The Child & Family Therapist provides outpatient behavioral health assessment and treatment to children, adolescents, and families experiencing a range of emotional, behavioral, developmental, and relational concerns.

This position works collaboratively with our clinical team and may coordinate care with parents and caregivers, schools, medical providers, skills trainers, occupational therapy, and other community supports when appropriate.

Depending upon clinical need, treatment may incorporate traditional psychotherapy as well as experiential and nature-based approaches.

 

What You’ll Do

• Provide individual psychotherapy to children and adolescents.

• Provide family and caregiver-supported interventions when clinically appropriate.

• Complete behavioral health assessments, treatment plans, and required clinical documentation.

• Develop individualized, developmentally appropriate treatment goals.

• Work collaboratively with parents and caregivers while maintaining appropriate therapeutic boundaries and the child’s clinical needs.

• Coordinate care with other members of the client’s treatment team.

• Participate in clinical supervision, consultation, and team meetings.

• Maintain documentation and treatment plans in accordance with agency, payer, and Oregon requirements.

• Support children with emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, trauma, behavioral challenges, family transitions, social difficulties, neurodevelopmental differences, and other outpatient behavioral health needs.

• Incorporate experiential, outdoor, or nature-based interventions when appropriate to the clinician’s training and the client’s treatment plan.

• Maintain ethical, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and neuro-affirming clinical practices.

 

Who We’re Looking For

We are especially interested in clinicians who:

• Truly enjoy working with children and adolescents.

• Understand that effective child therapy frequently involves supporting the family system.

• Are comfortable working collaboratively rather than practicing in isolation.

• Bring creativity and flexibility to treatment.

• Appreciate neurodiversity and individual differences.

• Are comfortable working in an active, nature-based environment.

• Value strong clinical boundaries, ethical practice, and high-quality documentation.

• Enjoy being part of a multidisciplinary team.

Experience or training in play therapy, family systems, trauma treatment, attachment-based approaches, CBT, DBT-informed interventions, somatic approaches, neurodiversity-affirming care, ecotherapy, or animal-assisted therapy is welcomed but not required.

 

Minimum Qualifications

Applicants must meet Oregon requirements to practice as a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) and possess an appropriate graduate-level behavioral health degree.

Candidates may include:

• Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC)

• Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW)

• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT)

• Licensed or registered associates working toward independent licensure

• Other master’s-level clinicians who meet Oregon QMHP requirements

Candidates must also be able to complete required credentialing, background checks, mandatory reporting requirements, and payer enrollment.

 

Schedule

This is primarily an in-person clinical position at our Canby therapeutic farm.

The position is intended for a clinician seeking a consistent caseload while maintaining enough flexibility to provide thoughtful, individualized care to children and families.

Specific schedule and weekly hours may be discussed during the interview process.

 

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive compensation based upon education, licensure, clinical experience, and relevant specialized training.of $50 to $68 per hour depending on the above, with additional differential pay for administrative duties and mandatory meetings, etc. 

Benefits for eligible employees may include:

• Paid time off (PTO)

• Paid sick time

• 401(k) retirement benefits with employer percentage match

• Medical, dental and vision benefits (employer pays 50% of the employee-only monthly premium)

• In-house clinical supervision and consultation

• Professional development opportunities with employer paid $1,000 annual CEU reimbursement

• Supportive multidisciplinary team environment

• Access to nature-based and experiential treatment spaces

• Opportunities to develop specialized programming based upon clinician interests and expertise

 

About Alliance Counseling Center / The Center at Heron Hill

Alliance Counseling Center provides outpatient behavioral health services to children, adolescents, adults, and families.

Our work is grounded in the belief that healing can happen through meaningful relationships—not only between therapist and client, but also through connection with family, community, animals, movement, and the natural environment.

Our Canby campus provides a unique therapeutic setting where traditional behavioral health treatment can be thoughtfully integrated with experiential and nature-based care.

We are looking for clinicians who want to help us continue building a thoughtful, collaborative model of behavioral healthcare for children and families.

 

Hiring Timeline

We anticipate conducting interviews during September and October 2026.

Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply early. Applications will be reviewed as they are received.

Alliance Counseling Center / The Center at Heron Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer.