LIC Marriage and Family Therapist
LIC Marriage and Family Therapist
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11-04-2025
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Job Description
OVERVIEW STATEMENT:
The Massachusetts General Hospital seeks a dynamic and experienced fulltime or parttime Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT) to serve as a couples and family therapist for the Red Sox Foundation MGH Home Base Program. The mission of the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program is to heal the invisible wounds of war including post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) by connecting post9/11 veterans and military families to world class care. Home Base provides clinical care and support services as well as community education and innovative research. We provide clinical care to active duty service men and women veterans and their families.The Couples and Family Therapist reports to the Home Base Outpatient Clinic Director.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for assessment and treatment of couples and families impacted by deployment and reintegration stress and conditions including PTSD Traumatic Brain injury and substance abuse.
- Familiarity with a wide range of couples and family therapy approaches substance use disorders and trauma
- Works effectively with colleagues to provide multidisciplinary care and is part of a multidisciplinary treatment team.
SKILLS/ABILITIES/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:
- Demonstrate the following competencies in the domain of admission to treatment:
(a) understand the risks and benefits of individual marital couple family and group;(b) Consider health status mental status other therapy and other systems involved in the clients lives (e.g. courts social services);(c) Recognize issues that might suggest referral for specialized evaluation assessment or care;(d) Gather and review intake information giving balanced attention to individual family community cultural and contextual factors;(e) Determine who should attend therapy and in what configuration (e.g. individual couple family extrafamilial resources);(f) facilitate therapeutic involvement of all necessary participants in treatment.
- Demonstrate the following competencies in the domain of clinical assessment/diagnosis:
(a) understand principles of human development; human sexuality; gender development; psychopathology; psychopharmacology; couple processes; and family development and processes (e.g. family relational and system dynamics);(b) understand the major behavioral health disorders including the epidemiology etiology phenomenology effective treatments course and prognosis;(c) understand the clinical needs and implications of persons with comorbid disorders (e.g. substance abuse and mental health; heart disease and depression);(d) comprehend individual marital couple and family assessment instruments appropriate to presenting problem practice setting and cultural context;(e) understand the current models for assessment and diagnosis of mental health disorders substance use disorders and relational functioning;(f) develop hypotheses regarding relationship patterns their bearing on the presenting problem and the influence of extratherapeutic factors on client systems;(g) screen and develop adequate safety plans for substance abuse child maltreatment domestic violence physical violence suicide potential and dangerousness to self and others;h) diagnose and assess client behavioral and relational health problems systemically and contextually.
- Demonstrate the following competencies in the domain of therapeutic intervention:
(a) Comprehend a variety of individual and systemic therapeutic models and their application including evidencebased therapies and culturally sensitive approaches;(b) know which models modalities and/or techniques are most effective for presenting problems;(c) recognize strengths limitations and contraindications of specific therapy models including the risk of harm associated with models that incorporate assumptions of family dysfunction pathogenesis or cultural deficit;(d) match treatment modalities and techniques to clients needs goals and values;(e) reframe problems and recursive interaction patterns;(f) generate relational questions and reflexive comments in the therapy room;(g) empower clients and their relational systems to establish effective relationships with each other and larger systems;(h) provide psychoeducation to partners/families whose members are struggling psychologically (e..g with PTSD);(i) evaluate reactions to the treatment process (e.g. transference family of origin current stress level current life situation cultural context) and their impact on effective intervention and clinical outcomes.
LICENSES CERTIFICATIONS and/or REGISTRATIONS:
- LMFT licensed in Massachusetts.
- Postlicensure advanced clinical training in couples/family treatment
EDUCATION:
- LMFT Required
- Evidence of coursework and/or clinical practicum in systems concepts theories and techniques that are foundational to the practice of marriage and family therapy
EXPERIENCE:
- 35 years postlicensure clinical experience
- Experience with wide range of couples and family therapy approaches substance abuse disorders and trauma
- Experience with military populations a plus.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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