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Interdisciplinary Non-Medical Clinical Counselor
Commander, Navy Installations Command · Posted 4 days ago
Hybrid Fort Meade, MD $102K – $117K Apply by Jun 11, 2026 Social Science INFJINFPINTJINTP Healthcare
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The primary purpose of this position is to provide nonmedical clinical counseling to individuals, couples, families, and groups on family dynamics, parent-child interaction, couples' communication, adjustment to commonly occurring personal and family issues/circumstances, adjustment to military life, and psycho-educational training programs.
What You'll Do
- →MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Non-medical Clinical Counseling (NMC) Receive and assess referrals made by military and civilian agencies for individuals, couples, families, and groups experiencing situational stressors, including deployment, grief, relocation, separation, relationship issues, parent/child issues, family hardships, and other military life challenges.
- →Provide direct, short term, solution focused NMC counseling services using psychotherapeutic services, such as cognitive therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, family systems therapy, expressive therapies, etc.
- →Develop and execute short-term, solution-focused NMC counseling treatment plans for those individuals who request such services and who present with commonly occurring life circumstance issues or adjustment disorders.
- →Assess individual/family needs and explore basic personality structures in relation to behavior patterns, mechanisms, and symptoms.
- →Assess and triage clients who present risk to harm self or others, and refer to the appropriate, nearest behavioral health provider.
- →Refer clients with issues falling outside the authorized scope of care (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, substance use disorders, major depression, etc.) within the Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) to military or civilian behavioral health providers.
- →Coordinate with legal, medical and social services including commands, to assist in counseling and referral.
- →Initiate, develop, and facilitate group treatment programs to address the needs of families, such as marital groups and child and adolescent groups.
- →Assist, individuals and families with finding satisfactory ways of coping with commonly occurring life stresses (e.g., career change, work-related stress), family dynamics (e.g., divorce, communication problems), parenting, crisis response (e.g., physical, sexual or emotional abuse), or other stressors.
- →Provide critical incident intervention services, when requested.
- →Conduct on-site/regional quarterly quality assurance (QA) reviews of cases, per DON policy, to ensure that all NMC counseling services provided are safe and of good quality.
- →Installation Family Advocacy Program (FAP) Serve as the installation FAP clinical subject matter expert (SME), consulting installation leadership, medical professionals and the command triad of FAP involved military service/family members regarding clinical needs assessment, determining clinical intervention, and utilizing evidence-based treatment strategies and treatment.
- →Provide initial and on-going case management services.
- →Identify crisis situations (e.g., suicide or homicide risk, danger of physical or sexual abuse to family members, increased risk of interfamilial or extra-familial violence) when conducting clinical assessments and provide immediate crisis intervention, conduct risk assessment, and prepare and/or coordinate safety planning IAW best practices in the mental health community.
Requirements
- ✓Successful candidates for this position shall meet all qualifications as outlined below: State licensure or state certification that provides legal authority to provide clinical services as an independent practitioner.
- ✓When the state licensing or certification requirements include a written examination, candidates must have achieved a passing score on that examination.
- ✓Possess at least a master's degree in one of the following clinical fields: Marriage and Family therapy, Social Work or Psychology from an accredited program.
- ✓Have engaged in 2 years (which includes at least 2000 hours) full-time, post- Masters supervised clinical experience.
- ✓Two (2) years of experience in assisting and providing advocacy services to victims of domestic abuse or sexual assault.
- ✓Applicants should be prepared to submit their credentialing packet as soon as possible, but no later than 5 days from the date of acceptance of the initial offer.
Personality Fit
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