Growing more Colleagues
Connect Counseling hopes to develop more Colleagues, the clinicians who help lead the practice. The role is by invitation, and the hope is to grow it from within.
Growth isn't limited to the counseling room. When the practice funds something a clinician spearheads and it earns revenue, such as a video CEU course, that clinician earns their percentage of it. When a clinician's good work leads a school or organization to bring in Connect Counseling, that work is rewarded too.
Counselor Apprentice
For graduate students in counseling, social work, and marriage and family therapy completing an internship or practicum.
- Training in the Connect Counseling Assessment Protocol: client intake, genogram, and critical life history
- Weekly one-on-one supervision with a Colleague
- All clinical work in person at the office, with individual, couples, and family cases
- Placements are based in Lancaster and currently work best alongside a second placement site that provides additional direct hours
Associate Counselor
For LAPCs and LSWs working toward LPC or LCSW licensure.
- Weekly one-on-one supervision with a Colleague, and a structured path to supervised hours
- A direct caseload from day one
- After six months and shown competency, the option to see clients from home
- Once licensed, free to stay or go
Counselor
For licensed LPCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and psychologists. The modality is the clinician's own.
- Supervision every two weeks, focused on the practice's flow and clinical themes
- Work across any office or online, on a self-made schedule
- Room to mentor Associate Counselors and Apprentices, and a path toward becoming a Colleague
How pay works
Every clinician earns a percentage of collected session fees. The percentage steps up as an average weekly caseload settles into a higher range, and it holds through ordinary dips for health, school, or family. Raises are requested by the clinician, not negotiated case by case. Pay arrives every two weeks.
Positions are W-2 employment unless a clinician prefers otherwise.
Benefits and tools
- Professional liability insurance
- CEU costs reimbursed for courses that fit the practice's work
- License renewal and Psychology Today listing fees paid
- Health reimbursement (QSEHRA) for full-time clinicians, 20 or more billable hours a week
- A business phone line, a Chromebook, and a phone if needed
- SimplePractice for scheduling, notes, billing, and secure teletherapy
What Connect Counseling asks
- Learn the Connect Counseling Assessment Protocol (client intake, genogram, and critical life history) within the first six months
- Openness to supervision and feedback, at every level
- Practice within your own profession's code of ethics, ACA or NASW
- Show up for the team: staff meetings, shared cases, and each other's specialties
How to apply
Send a brief cover letter, resume, and professional references to michael@connectcounselingpa.com, or call Michael Hoober at 717.209.2357. Applications and practicum inquiries are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Connect Counseling is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, LGBTQ+ people, and members of other marginalized communities.