We’re Hiring Licensed and Rostered Therapists

(updated 3/26)
You’re a therapist who wants to do good work, be a whole person while you’re doing it, and be paid a sustainable living wage. You may be tired of working in a system that consistently underpays and overworks therapists. You’ve considered (or are already in) private practice, but the marketing, shouldering all the expenses and headache of running a practice, paying an extra 15% in self-employment taxes, and being all alone just is NOT for you.

You’d love to find a practice that pays you a generous wage and offers benefits that allow you to support yourself, your (chosen) family, and community. AND, you want to be a part of a rad team whom you look forward to seeing, who you learn from, and who share your approach to therapy as a tool for liberation. At the end of a hard clinical day, you want to be glowing because you know you did excellent work with clients and a team that you love.

This is precisely what we’re building here. And you don’t even need to live in Vermont to be a part of it! (Read below for how out-of-state licensed and non-licensed clinicians can legally practice here with us at Refuge).

We are currently a team of 8 (6 somatic therapists/supervisors, 1 acupuncturist, and a Practice Manager).

Are you?

  1. integrating the body into the work that you do (or want to receive the financial support to deepen that training?)

  2. Queer and Trans-celebrating

  3. Neurodiversity-aligned

  4. an unabashed intersectional feminist

  5. grounded and have good boundaries? Read on!

How it works:

  • We will build you a full-time caseload of 23 weekly clients

  • You decide when you want to work with the exception of 9 appointment slots between 3-8PM/week and Thursday afternoons 1.00-2.30PM (EST) for staff-wide somatic trauma training

  • You meet for monthly supervision with our Somatics Supervision and Training Wonderperson, MawuLisa Adeyemo-Thomas! (Or if rostered, you’ll receive weekly supervision towards licensure)

  • After 6 consecutive weeks of seeing 23 clients/week, your health stipend kicks in and you start accruing toward your 3 paid weeks off/year and become eligible for 401(k) contributions with an employer match

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Qualifications

*We especially encourage interested applicants with lived experience in a Body of Culture to apply.*

NOTE: You do not have to reside in VT to be the right fit. For those LCSWs, LPCs, and LCMHCs licensed outside of VT, you would submit a "Fast Track Endorsement". Open to fully remote candidates.

Salary and Benefits

(Please note: this is a W-2 employee position including workers compensation coverage and all the benefits and rights of being an employee)

These benefits apply to all full-time Refuge employees (see pay scale below):

  • Paid administrative time (up to 3.5 hours/week) for training and non-clinical work

  • Full-time = 26.5-27 hours/week

    • 23 clinical hours/week

    • 2.5-3.5 supervision/group meetings/week

  • Flexible work week with 9 weekly appointment times between 3-8PM required; combination of remote and in-person work in Burlington, VT (fully-remote possible for the right fit)

  • 3 weeks paid vacation and immediate sick time accrual in accordance with VT State law

  • $512.50/month health stipend (tax-free HSA for those with high-deductible plans and taxable addition to paycheck for others)

  • 401(k) plan with employer match (also available to PT team members)

  • Annual education/training stipend

  • Monthly 1:1 supervision + in-person and quarterly zoom training with a highly-experienced somatics practitioner with a liberatory lens + 3x monthly all-team somatic practice meetings + 1-2x annual somatics training retreats with the team

    • weekly supervision towards licensure for rostered/non-licensed team members

  • Free, same-day acupuncture appointments up to 3x/month

  • Potential for relocation support for out-of-state candidates

    • Master’s degree with Vermont licensure OR “Interim Telehealth Registration” as a LCMHC, LICSW, LPCC, LMFT, or LADC in good standing

    • At least 2 years of clinical experience

    • Lived experience and/or embodied understanding with communities experiencing marginalization and/or multiple marginalization

    • Training and/or certification in Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Sensorimotor, AEDP, Generative Somatics, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Strozzi Institute, Brainspotting, or other body-based therapeutic modalities not named here

    • Physical ability to sit for up to 4 hours consecutively during the day (with 5-7 minute breaks each hour), ability to utilize a variety of offices (we share a large, plant and light-filled office space and rotate work spaces)

    • Trauma-informed / trauma transformational approach

    • Experience working with children 6 years old+

    • Credentialled with Green Mountain Care (VT Medicaid)

    • Master’s degree with Vermont licensure OR “Interim Telehealth Registration” as a LCMHC, LICSW, LPCC, LMFT in good standing

    • Lived experience and/or embodied understanding with communities experiencing marginalization and/or multiple marginalization

    • Physical ability to sit for up to 4 hours consecutively during the day (with 5-7 minute breaks each hour), ability to utilize a variety of offices (we share a large, plant and light-filled office space and rotate work spaces)

    • Trauma-informed / trauma transformational approachoes here

    • Highly-motivated to learn (inside and outside the work context) one or more somatic modalities

    • Interest in working with children 6 years old +

    • Credentialled with Green Mountain Care (VT Medicaid)

    • Training and/or certification in Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Sensorimotor, AEDP, Generative Somatics, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Strozzi Institute, Brainspotting, or other body-based therapeutic modalities not named here

  • $50 - $65/clinical hour concomitant with experience + $34/hour admin rate (annualized: $59,650-$76,810)

    • above range uses each end of pay scale for 22 ATTENDED appts/week + 2.5 admin hours/week (this includes PTO and allowances for cancelations and unplanned absences for a realistic salary estimate

    • This does NOT include the $512.50 monthly health stipend which increases the range to $65,800-$82,960

  • while working toward licensure, clinical pay rate is $33-$39.41/hour and $20/admin hour:

    • $38,536-$43,035

    • above range uses each end of pay scale for 21 ATTENDED appt/week + 2.5 admin hours/week (this includes PTO and allowances for cancelations and unplanned absences for a conservative salary estimate

    • for your 24th client and above, your clinical hourly rate is doubled allowing you to make significant extra wages

    • This does NOT include the $512.50 monthly health stipend which increases the range to $44,686 - $49,185

Inclusion and Non-Discrimination Statement (credit: Radical Healing)

Systems of power, privilege, and oppression have traditionally created barriers for persons and groups with particular identities, ages, abilities, and histories. We pledge to do all we can to replace such barriers with ever-widening circles of solidarity and mutual respect. We strive to be a center for health and healing that truly welcomes all persons and commits to structuring our work in ways that empower and enhance everyone’s participation.
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We intentionally welcome all. We foster a climate of purposeful inclusion, an environment where all can feel safe, valued, cared for, and given an opportunity to form meaningful connections with each other. We value the diversity of differences which includes (but is not limited to) gender identity and its expression, age, race, ethnicity, and national origin, range of abilities, sexual orientation, financial means, family structure, educational and class status and political perspective