Early Career Professionals

LPC-Associates

(Check back in the Summer for 2025 for a Fall Cohort)

Do you want to make the most of your supervision experience before full licensure?

Congratulations on finishing your Master’s degree…Whew – what a huge accomplishment!

Now that you’re looking for a supervisor/site, you might feel excited, overwhelmed, unsure, or all of the above.

Dallas Therapy Collective launched our Early Career Professionals Program in the Fall of 2022 to help Associates navigate the transition from graduate clinician to Early Career Professional. Our hope is to provide continued opportunties for integration of your knowledge and experience as you continue to learn and work with clients.

Our program will offer you the support of seasonsed clinicians as you transition from the graduate clinician identity into a fully licensed professional. Our goal is to prepare you to feel confident to launch into independent practice by the time you complete your required residency hours.

Nitty Gritty Details

Supervision

We provide your weekly 1-hour supervision with a board-approved LPC-Supervisor who is contracted with Dallas Therapy Collective. You don’t have to worry about a conflict of interest regarding money….DTC will pay your supervisor directly regardless of your productivity, thereby eliminating a potential conflict of interest and freeing you to be more open about your clinical work and maximizing your supervision experience.

Weekly Training, Supervision, and Consultation

On top of your individual supervision, you will have three additional hours (weekly) of opportunities for integration:

1) You will attend our weekly staff consultation meeting where all of our clinicians are invited to come and disuss cases as needed/desired. We hope you’ll feel comfortable to share about your own cases. (This meeting is held on Wednesdays at 2:00 and is a hybrid meeting.)

2) You will receive group supervisiosn with licensed mental health professionals every other week. This will include formal case presentations and group consultation. On the off-weeks you will engage in bi-weekly peer group consultation with the other Associates and the practicum students, who make up your cohort.

3) You will receive weekly 1-hour didactic trainings. Examples include private-practice related topics such as managinging the financial aspect of therapy, niching yourself in private practice, conducting intakes in a private practice setting, marketing, etc. We also provide ongoing clinical trainings on topics such as addressing intersectionality, trauma-informed care, working with LGBTQAI+ clients, religious trauma, Motivational Interviewing, working with Highly Sensitive People, theory-focused trainings, and more. (Our group-sup/consultation and didactic trainings will be held in person on Fridays from 10am-12pm.)

Learn How to "Do" Private Practice

There is so much that goes into private practice. We’ll help you learn the ins-and-outs of the business, marketing, finances, clinical pace, and help you identify your ideal clients and what works best for you in private practice. By the time you’re fully licensed, our goal is for you to feel ready and confident to launch your own private practice should you wish to do so.

Our Values at DTC

Collaboration with a multidisciplinary team
Trauma-informed work as we understand the ways in which adverse life experiences impact the mind, body, and spirit
Honoring our clients’ and our own cultural identities and intersectionality and exploring how cultural identities impact experiences in life, including adversity, privilege, and marginalization
Ethical and intentional care pursuant to the highest standards outlined in our individual ethics codes and industry standards
On-going learning within our own fields and about how our fields can work together to enhance client care

Compensation

We are hiring our Associates as W2 employees with a 50% revenue split (50% of revenue from each session will to go the Associate and 50% will go to DTC to cover your supervision, billing, and overhead). We expect that revenue per session will range from $100-150 per hour (which will then be subject to the split). Private pay rates will start at $125 and then shift to $150 once you have seen 20+ client for four consecutive weeks. We expect that you will work toward scheduling 25 clients per week on average. We cover a porton of health benefits, life insurance, and give you access to vision and dental.

Our Ideal Candidates Are...

Open minded to seeing and experiencing a range of clients and presenting concerns as you continue to identify your ideal clients
Interested in growing in intersectionality, working with cultural and generational traumas, and LGBTQ+ identities
Interested in traumatic stress, family of origin trauma, codependency, neglect/miss-attunement in addition to typical presenting concerns of anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns
Open to exploring your biases, your own areas of privilege and marginalization, and your intersecting identities
Open to receiving and providing feedback and reflecting on your personal experiences and interpersonal style
Wanting to soak in every last bit of training and supervision during your Associate experience

Application Requirements

Please send your resume/CV, a cover letter, and two letters of recommendation (including at least one from a clinical supervisor and the other from another supervisor, professor, or someone who can evaluate your clinical work). Please direct all application materials and/or questions to drkeller@dallastherapycollective.com.

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Apply Now

If you are looking to work as an LPC-Associate in our Early Career Professionals program, please contact us at at drkeller@dallastherapycollective.com.