Clinical Therapist

Clinical Therapist

Facility: Camp Baer – Wise Path Recovery Centers
Location: West Virginia
Employment Type: Full-Time / Salary
Setting: Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Join Our Team

Camp Baer is seeking a compassionate, experienced Clinical Therapist to join our opening clinical team.

This role is ideal for a licensed behavioral health professional who wants to do more than provide therapy within an established program. At Camp Baer, you will have the opportunity to help shape the therapeutic culture, clinical programming, treatment practices, and patient experience from the very beginning.

Our Clinical Therapists play a central role in helping individuals understand the underlying drivers of substance use, build meaningful recovery skills, strengthen relationships, and create a sustainable path forward.

About Camp Baer

Despite its name, Camp Baer is not a traditional camp. It is a premier residential substance use disorder treatment center located in a chalet-style lodge nestled within the wooded mountains of West Virginia.

Designed to provide a private, restorative environment for healing, Camp Baer delivers high-quality, evidence-based substance use disorder and behavioral health treatment to individuals from across the country. The setting combines exceptional clinical care with the tranquility and privacy of a retreat-style environment.

Camp Baer is part of Wise Path Recovery Centers, operated by Ascension Recovery Services. Together, we provide integrated behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment grounded in evidence-based clinical practices and a commitment to compassionate, patient-centered care.

Our culture is built around kindness, teamwork, empathy, integrity, excellence, and being deeply mission-driven. We believe exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people, and we are intentionally building a team that shares that commitment.

Why Join Camp Baer?

Camp Baer offers the opportunity to help build something meaningful from the ground up. As a member of our opening team, you will have the opportunity to:

• Help launch a brand-new residential behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment program opening in November 2026.
• Help build and develop a high-performing, mission-driven clinical team.
• Establish a strong therapeutic culture centered on safety, dignity, accountability, compassion, and recovery.
• Help shape clinical programming, therapeutic workflows, treatment practices, and the overall patient experience.
• Work in a unique, retreat-style treatment environment surrounded by the wooded mountains of West Virginia.
• Partner closely with experienced behavioral health leaders across Wise Path Recovery Centers and Ascension Recovery Services.
• Contribute to evidence-based, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented care.
• Make a meaningful and lasting impact on individuals and families affected by substance use disorders.

For clinicians who want more than simply stepping into an established program, Camp Baer provides the opportunity to help create the culture, standards, and treatment experience that will define the facility for years to come.

About the Role

The Clinical Therapist is a licensed behavioral health professional responsible for delivering individual, group, and family therapy within a trauma-informed, recovery-oriented treatment setting.

This role includes conducting diagnostic and clinical assessments, developing and updating individualized treatment plans, coordinating care, and maintaining high-quality clinical documentation aligned with state, federal, payer, and organizational standards.

The Clinical Therapist functions as an engaged member of the multidisciplinary treatment team and plays an important role in supporting patient safety, stabilization, engagement, and long-term recovery outcomes.

What You’ll Do

Clinical Assessment & Treatment

• Conduct biopsychosocial assessments, diagnostic evaluations, risk screenings, and other clinically appropriate assessments.
• Develop, implement, review, and update individualized treatment plans based on patient needs and established clinical criteria.
• Incorporate ASAM criteria into treatment planning and recommendations as appropriate.
• Provide structured individual, group, and family therapy.
• Utilize evidence-based and evidence-informed approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and other clinically appropriate modalities.
• Identify and address co-occurring behavioral health conditions within scope of practice.
• Support patients in developing coping skills, relapse-prevention strategies, recovery supports, and sustainable discharge plans.
• Respond to behavioral health crises and safety concerns in accordance with facility policy and clinical best practices.
• Maintain therapeutic boundaries while developing strong, trusting relationships with patients.

Documentation & Compliance

• Complete clinical documentation accurately, thoroughly, and within required timeframes.
• Maintain clinically appropriate progress notes, assessments, treatment plans, treatment plan reviews, discharge summaries, and other required documentation.
• Ensure documentation supports medical necessity, continuity of care, and applicable payer requirements.
• Maintain documentation in accordance with applicable Medicaid, commercial payer, licensing, accreditation, and organizational standards.
• Protect patient confidentiality and privacy in accordance with HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, ethical standards, and organizational requirements.
• Maintain trauma-informed, objective, and clinically appropriate documentation.
• Support compliance with Joint Commission standards, state licensing requirements, and other applicable regulatory expectations.

Care Coordination & Collaboration

• Participate actively in interdisciplinary treatment team meetings, case consultations, utilization management activities, and clinical reviews.
• Collaborate with physicians, nurse practitioners, nursing staff, behavioral health technicians, case managers, recovery support staff, and other members of the treatment team.
• Coordinate care with internal and external providers as clinically appropriate.
• Communicate with referral sources, community partners, family members, and other authorized supports when appropriate and permitted.
• Contribute to discharge planning and continuity-of-care efforts.
• Identify barriers to treatment and work collaboratively with the team to support patient engagement and retention.

Professional Practice & Development

• Maintain active professional licensure, credentials, continuing education, and required training.
• Participate in clinical supervision and consultation as applicable.
• Provide mentorship or consultation to interns, trainees, or less experienced clinical staff within scope and organizational guidelines.
• Participate in performance evaluation and professional development processes.
• Contribute to quality-improvement initiatives, clinical projects, and program-development efforts.
• Remain current on evidence-based practices related to substance use disorders, co-occurring conditions, trauma, and behavioral healthcare.

Who You Are

You are a clinician who understands that meaningful recovery requires both clinical expertise and authentic human connection.

You are comfortable working with individuals who may be experiencing significant emotional distress, trauma, substance use disorders, co-occurring mental health conditions, family disruption, or uncertainty about recovery.

You bring:

• Strong clinical assessment and critical-thinking skills.
• The ability to build therapeutic rapport while maintaining healthy professional boundaries.
• Confidence facilitating individual and group therapy.
• Strong clinical writing and documentation skills.
• Emotional resilience and sound ethical judgment.
• A collaborative, team-oriented approach.
• Respect for patient dignity, autonomy, confidentiality, and lived experience.
• A commitment to trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and recovery-oriented care.
• A willingness to balance empathy and accountability in helping patients move toward change.

You understand that recovery is rarely a straight line and believe every patient deserves thoughtful, individualized treatment delivered with dignity, compassion, and respect.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or another related behavioral health field.
• Current, unrestricted clinical license appropriate to practice in West Virginia and to the responsibilities of the position.
• Current CPR and First Aid certification or ability to obtain within the required timeframe.
• Ability to successfully complete all required pre-employment screenings.
• Strong assessment, treatment-planning, documentation, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Ability to maintain all required licenses, credentials, continuing education, and organizational training.

Preferred Qualifications

• State-recognized addiction counseling certification or credential.
• Experience in residential substance use disorder treatment, detoxification, behavioral health, or addiction medicine.
• Experience with ASAM levels of care, including residential or withdrawal-management settings.
• Knowledge of Medicaid and commercial payer documentation expectations.
• Experience working with individuals experiencing substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions.
• Training in trauma-specific modalities, culturally responsive care, or specialty treatment approaches.
• Experience facilitating family therapy or family programming.
• Experience working within Joint Commission-accredited or similarly regulated behavioral healthcare environments.

Work Conditions & Physical Requirements

Work Environment

• Primarily on-site within a residential behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment environment.
• Regular interaction with patients, families, clinical staff, and other members of the interdisciplinary treatment team.

Physical Demands

• Regular sitting, standing, and walking throughout the facility.
• Frequent use of computers and electronic health record systems.
• Routine use of hands for documentation and therapeutic activities.
• Occasional lifting or carrying of items weighing less than approximately 25 pounds.
• Ability to respond promptly to clinical or behavioral emergencies.

Mental & Emotional Demands

• Requires a high level of critical thinking, emotional resilience, professional judgment, and ethical decision-making.
• Regular exposure to complex clinical situations, trauma histories, behavioral health concerns, substance use disorders, family dynamics, and crisis situations.
• Ability to balance direct patient care, documentation requirements, treatment planning, interdisciplinary communication, and multiple competing priorities.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.

Compensation

Competitive salary based on experience, licensure, qualifications, and internal equity.

Benefits

The work you do truly changes lives, and we recognize the importance of supporting the people who make that impact possible.

Eligible team members may have access to a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employer-Paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental insurance options.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Training and Continuing Education Opportunities
• CEU reimbursement, as applicable.
• Employee Assistance Program
  

Equal Employment Opportunity

Camp Baer, Wise Path Recovery Centers, and Ascension Recovery Services are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a workplace free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, business needs, and applicable federal, state, and local law.