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Licensed Adolescent Therapist

Wellspring is seeking a compassionate and experienced Full Time Licensed Therapist to join our adolescent behavioral health team. The ideal candidate will provide evidence-based therapy and counseling services to our population of adolescents. This role involves conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, and delivering individual, group, and family therapy. The Therapist will play a vital role in supporting clients and collaborating with the clinical team, while adhering to clinical ethical guidelines and HIPAA regulations. Experience with specialized areas such as disordered eating, autism spectrum disorders, and borderline personality disorders is highly valued.

Who we are:

The adolescent girls who come to Wellspring typically present with issues that stem from, but are not limited to: victimization, anxiety disorders, PTSD, mood disorders, personality disorders, adoption issues and substance use in partial remission. Interest and experience with these issues and family systems is desired. In addition, experience with specialized areas such as disordered eating, autism spectrum disorders, and borderline personality disorders is highly valued.

Experience:

• Proven experience in mental health counseling or clinical social work within residential setting
• Demonstrated expertise in psychotherapy modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, grief counseling, and trauma-focused interventions
• Experience working with diverse populations including children & family counseling
• Telehealth experience is preferred; candidates should be comfortable delivering remote therapy sessions using secure platforms.
• Ability to handle crisis situations effectively while maintaining professional ethical guidelines in accordance with HIPAA regulations.

Position Details:

• Position Title: Adolescent Therapist
• Employment Agreement Type: Full Time (40 hours)
• Some evenings and weekends required

Salary and Benefits:
$75,000 – $80,000 annually

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Generous Paid Time Off

Retirement Plan

Requirements:
Current License in the State of CT:

LPC, LMFT, Ph.D

We welcome candidates who have experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum and who demonstrate patience, flexibility, and a strengths-based approach to care.

Licensed Adolescent Therapist

Wellspring is seeking a compassionate and experienced Part Time Licensed Therapist to join our adolescent behavioral health team. The ideal candidate will provide evidence-based therapy and counseling services to our population of adolescents. This role involves conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, and delivering individual, group, and family therapy. The Therapist will play a vital role in supporting clients and collaborating with the clinical team, while adhering to clinical ethical guidelines and HIPAA regulations. Experience with specialized areas such as disordered eating, autism spectrum disorders, and borderline personality disorders is highly valued.

Who we are:

The adolescent girls who come to Wellspring typically present with issues that stem from, but are not limited to: victimization, anxiety disorders, PTSD, mood disorders, personality disorders, adoption issues and substance use in partial remission. Interest and experience with these issues and family systems is desired. In addition, experience with specialized areas such as disordered eating, autism spectrum disorders, and borderline personality disorders is highly valued.

Experience:

• Proven experience in mental health counseling or clinical social work within residential setting
• Demonstrated expertise in psychotherapy modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, grief counseling, and trauma-focused interventions
• Experience working with diverse populations including children & family counseling
• Telehealth experience is preferred; candidates should be comfortable delivering remote therapy sessions using secure platforms.
• Ability to handle crisis situations effectively while maintaining professional ethical guidelines in accordance with HIPAA regulations.

Position Details:

• Position Title: Adolescent Therapist
• Employment Agreement Type: Part Time (20 – 25 hours a week)
• Some evenings and weekends required

Salary and Benefits:
$36.00 – $39.00 per hour

Generous Paid Time Off

Retirement Plan

Requirements:
Current License in the State of CT:

LPC, LMFT, Ph.D

We welcome candidates who have experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum and who demonstrate patience, flexibility, and a strengths-based approach to care.

OPENING FOR THE 2026 – 2027 ACADEMIC YEAR
The Arch Bridge School at Wellspring, located in Bethlehem, has a part time opening for a Health and Physical Education teacher for our state approved, and NEASC accredited independent private school.

The Physical Education Teacher for the Arch Bridge School will provide physical education for our school programs covering middle and high school grades. Scheduling for the PE classes is flexible. The part time PE Teacher can provide PE classes during one full day, or over two days. This will be discussed with those selected for interview.

The Arch Bridge School is part of Wellspring, a therapeutic and educational center in the rural, northwest corner of Connecticut (Litchfield County.) The school serves the educational needs of both residential and day students.

The Arch Bridge School offers core academics and college preparatory courses, allowing students to meet their unique academic objectives while in Residential Treatment or as students attending our Therapeutic Day School. Our students tend to be bright, creative and college bound.

Our most successful teachers have an experiential approach to learning and thrive when able to teach in a kind, nurturing environment. We offer an opportunity to teach in small, well-supported classroom settings. Class size tends to be 4-8 students but does not exceed twelve (12) students. We have multiple clinicians on staff to provide immediate support throughout the day. This allows our teachers the chance to provide a creative, challenging, relational classroom where each student is known as an individual. Our teachers are part of a cohesive team that collaborate regularly with each other and our students and are truly able to make a difference in their lives.

Preferred Certifications:
Connecticut Certification, Physical Education, PreK-12 (044).
-Certified by the State of Connecticut to teach physical education… or, be in the process of working toward the certification.

Senior Clinical Director

Wellspring is seeking an experienced, thoughtful, and mission-driven Senior Clinical Director to provide clinical leadership across our therapeutic and educational programs. This is a senior management position, reporting directly to the CEO, and will be responsible for supporting clinical excellence, strengthening therapeutic practice, supervising licensed clinicians, and helping guide the continued evolution of Wellspring’s programs and services.

The Senior Clinical Director will provide leadership, consultation, and oversight to licensed therapists and clinical staff across the organization. This position will help ensure that clinical services are consistent with Wellspring’s mission, philosophy, and core values while also promoting high standards of clinical care, professional growth, and accountability.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned clinical leader who is energized by the opportunity to mentor clinicians, strengthen treatment approaches, support interdisciplinary collaboration, and advance clinical excellence across programs. This individual should be comfortable working as part of a management team and contributing to organizational planning, program development, quality improvement, and clinical decision-making.

Who we are:

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational organization located in the peaceful setting of Litchfield County, Connecticut. Our programs serve adolescents and young adults in long-term therapeutic and educational communities that include school and family-style residential environments.

Clients and students who come to Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School often present with complex clinical needs, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma histories, victimization, suicidal behaviors, personality disorders, family conflict, adoption-related issues, substance use in partial remission, and school avoidance. Experience with these populations, in addition to Autism Spectrum Disorders and eating disorders, as well as a strong grounding in trauma-informed care, attachment-based work, and family systems, is strongly preferred.

Experience:

• Experience supervising licensed clinicians and supporting multidisciplinary teams strongly preferred.
•  Demonstrated expertise in adolescent and young adult mental health, trauma-informed care, family systems, psychodynamic treatment, and complex clinical presentations.
• Strong communication, teaching, mentoring, and leadership skills.
• Ability to balance clinical depth with practical leadership, sound judgment, and organizational collaboration.
• Experience with public speaking, training, program development, or clinical teaching is a plus.

Position Details:

• Position Title: Senior Clinical Director
• Employment Agreement Type: Full Time (40 hours)

Salary and Benefits:
This position includes a competitive salary, comprehensive health benefits, generous paid time off, and a flexible work schedule.

Requirements:
Minimum of 8 years of clinical experience, including at least 2 years of post-doctoral experience.

Current clinical licensure or credential required. Acceptable credentials include PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMFT, LPC, or other appropriate advanced clinical license.

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational agency and an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage candidates who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to our community.

Administrative Milieu Counselor

The Administrative Milieu Counselor provides essential administrative, organizational, and direct care support to ensure the smooth day-to-day operation of residential programs. Working within a non-institutional, family-modeled environment, this role promotes a safe, structured, and therapeutic setting while remaining personally responsive to the needs of the residents in their care.

This position combines administrative responsibilities with hands-on resident support, requiring an individual who is equally comfortable providing compassionate direct care and managing operational tasks. Responsibilities include maintaining accurate documentation, coordinating communication, assisting with scheduling, supporting program operations, and ensuring compliance with agency standards, while actively engaging with residents and contributing to their daily care and treatment.

Who we are:

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational organization located in the peaceful setting of Litchfield County, Connecticut. Our programs serve adolescents and young adults in long-term therapeutic and educational communities that include school and family-style residential environments.

Clients and students who come to Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School often present with complex clinical needs, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma histories, victimization, suicidal behaviors, personality disorders, family conflict, adoption-related issues, substance use in partial remission, and school avoidance. Experience with these populations, in addition to Autism Spectrum Disorders and eating disorders, as well as a strong grounding in trauma-informed care, attachment-based work, and family systems, is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Able to establish relationships of healthy mutuality with clients, as stated in the Wellspring mission statement, values, and philosophy, within the context of professional responsibilities.
• Able to establish and maintain professional and personal boundaries.
• Responsible for the overall organization of the program’s chart room: the general administration and maintenance of office files and supplies, projects as assigned by the Program Director, or Milieu Supervisor, and other duties to ensure smooth flow of work and maximum organization.
• Assists with new admissions, including proper completion of paperwork.
• In coordination with the Milieu Supervisor or designee: maintains, updates, and posts the daily program and staff schedule, as well as the schedule of program activities and Weekend Plans.
• Responsible for the maintenance and updating of all forms.
• Prepares residential pass request list on a weekly basis.
• Provides clerical support to the program where needed.
• Maintains and updates residents log books; including levels, restorative work, and special protocols.
• Receives, maintains, and reports accurate Petty Cash funds on a monthly basis.
• In conjunction with the Milieu Supervisor, coordinates monthly fire drills and ensures that they are returned in a timely matter.

Skills and Competencies:

• Capable of receiving and utilizing supervision for professional growth.
• Able to observe, interpret and share client’s patterns of behaviors as they apply to the Master Treatment Plan’s goals objectives.
• Demonstrates an awareness of the developmental issues of the program clientele and the impact of various disorders on human development.
• Ability to participate in Wellspring’s intimate, intensive, and expressive programs; ability to work therapeutically with assigned age group.
• Maintains confidentiality as it relates to all aspects of student/client/resident information.
• Reports to work on time and works assigned hours.
• Completes all assignments, paperwork, and reports in a responsible and timely manner.
• Is consistent in daily work relationships. Demonstrates initiative and stable mood. Is supportive of others, willing to share information and collaborates as a team player.
• Performs other reasonably related duties as assigned by immediate supervisor.

Position Details:

• Position Title: Administrative Milieu Counselor
• Employment Agreement Type: Full Time (40 hours)

Salary and Benefits:
$20.60 per hour (base hourly rate), plus shift differentials for weekend and overnight hours. Shift differentials can add $2/hr. to $4/hr. to the base rate.

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Generous Paid Time Off

Retirement Plan

Requirements:
A.S./B.A. Degree in Psychology, Social Work or a related field

One year experience working with the emotionally disturbed or handicapped, or equivalent life or work experience.

An interest in learning about treatment of emotional disturbances outside of the traditional mental health setting.

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational agency and an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage candidates who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to our community.

Residential Milieu Counselor

We are seeking a part time dedicated and passionate individual to join our team as a Milieu Counselor I for our Young Adult Women’s program. This position will involve providing Milieu Support to residents, and assisting in various aspects of their daily programs.

Who we are:

Angelus House at Wellspring is a premier mental health residential treatment program for young adult women & gender diverse individuals age 18 and older.

Responsibilities:

• To support the milieu, in a non-institutional, family modeled setting, with the ability to be personally responsive to the residents in your care.
• Contribute to and be a part of a community that helps and models healthy living to prepare the residents to meet the realistic demands of returning to their families and their communities.
• Assist, as a team member to clinical staff, to provide a structured environment with professional supervision of daily activities to counteract the debilitating effects of internal emotional disorders the residents are facing.
• Follow a program structure that is flexibly responsive to the resident’s needs and abilities while they navigate through their daily therapies, responsibilities and recreational activities.

SHIFT SCHEDULE:

• Sunday: 10am-10pm
• Tuesday: 3pm-10pm
• Thursday: 1pm-9pm
• Saturday: 4pm-9pm

Position Details:

• Position Title: Milieu Counselor I
• Employment Agreement Type: Part Time (32 hours)

Salary and Benefits:
$20.60 per hour (base hourly rate), plus shift differentials for weekend and overnight hours. Shift differentials can add $2/hr. to $4/hr. to the base rate.

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Generous Paid Time Off

Retirement Plan

Requirements:
An earned BA/BS in Psychology or related field is preferred. Experience working in a therapeutic field and prior experience working with adolescent girls and/or adult women is desirable. Please read more about Wellspring, our programs, and the application process by visiting our homepage www.wellspring.org

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational agency and an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage candidates who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to our community.

Per Diem Residential Milieu Counselor

We are seeking dedicated and passionate per diem Milieu Counselors for our Adolescent and Adult Campus. This position will involve providing Milieu Support to residents, and assisting in various aspects of their daily programs.

Who we are:

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational organization located in the peaceful setting of Litchfield County, Connecticut. Our programs serve adolescents and young adults in long-term therapeutic and educational communities that include school and family-style residential environments.

Clients and students who come to Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School often present with complex clinical needs, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma histories, victimization, suicidal behaviors, personality disorders, family conflict, adoption-related issues, substance use in partial remission, and school avoidance.

Responsibilities:

• To support the milieu, in a non-institutional, family modeled setting, with the ability to be personally responsive to the residents in your care.
• Contribute to and be a part of a community that helps and models healthy living to prepare the residents to meet the realistic demands of returning to their families and their communities.
• Assist, as a team member to clinical staff, to provide a structured environment with professional supervision of daily activities to counteract the debilitating effects of internal emotional disorders the residents are facing.
• Follow a program structure that is flexibly responsive to the resident’s needs and abilities while they navigate through their daily therapies, responsibilities and recreational activities.

SHIFT SCHEDULE:

• Per Diem (as needed)
• Availability for Weekday Evenings and Weekend Days preferred

Position Details:

• Position Title: Milieu Counselor Per Diem
• Employment Agreement Type: Per Diem

Salary and Benefits:
$20.60 per hour (base hourly rate), plus shift differentials for weekend and overnight hours. Shift differentials can add $2/hr. to $4/hr. to the base rate.

• Retirement Plan

Requirements:
An earned BA/BS in Psychology or related field is preferred. Experience working in a therapeutic field and prior experience working with adolescent girls and/or adult women is desirable. Please read more about Wellspring, our programs, and the application process by visiting our homepage www.wellspring.org

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational agency and an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage candidates who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to our community.

Kitchen Coordinator

The Kitchen Coordinator is responsible for preparing nutritious and appealing meals for adolescent residents in a safe, supportive residential environment, ensuring compliance with Joint Commission standards and Department of Public Health regulations. This role ensures that meals meet dietary guidelines, accommodate special needs, and contribute to a positive mealtime experience that supports the health and well-being of residents.

Who we are:

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational organization located in the peaceful setting of Litchfield County, Connecticut. Our programs serve adolescents and young adults in long-term therapeutic and educational communities that include school and family-style residential environments.

Clients and students who come to Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School often present with complex clinical needs, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma histories, victimization, suicidal behaviors, personality disorders, family conflict, adoption-related issues, substance use in partial remission, and school avoidance

Responsibilities:

• Plan menus and prepare all daily meals, serving, lunch, and snacks, and provide guidance to program staff for dinner preparation, all in accordance with nutrition standards and program guidelines.
• Accommodate special dietary needs, food allergies, and cultural or religious preferences.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and organized kitchen, adhering to all sanitation, health, and safety regulations.
• Monitor food inventory for frozen, refrigerated and dry stores; order supplies and manage kitchen equipment responsibly, maintaining cost control and adherence to the approved budget.
• Collaborate with program staff to schedule meals and ensure timely service.
• Teach basic nutrition and healthy eating habits when appropriate.
• Follow all policies and procedures to maintain a safe and supportive residential environment.
• Assist with kitchen-related events or educational activities for residents as needed.
• Follow dietary guidelines, update the dietary manual in consultation with the nutritionist, and adapt menus to meet the needs of residents.

SHIFT SCHEDULE:

• Monday – Friday 6am-2pm

Position Details:

• Position Title: Kitchen Coordinator
• Employment Agreement Type: Full Time (40 hours)

Salary and Benefits:
$22.00 per hour

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Generous Paid Time Off

Retirement Plan

Requirements:
High school diploma or equivalent; culinary training preferred.

Previous cooking experience in residential, institutional, or nonprofit settings preferred.

Knowledge of nutrition, food safety, and sanitation practices.

Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Ability to work collaboratively with staff and residents in a supportive, trauma-informed environment.

Must possess a current ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification (or equivalent food safety certification).

Wellspring and the Arch Bridge School is a private, nonprofit mental health and educational agency and an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage candidates who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to our community.