Anasazi Foundation is an Arizona-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit working across behavioral healthcare, education, and youth support. Its wilderness therapy and primitive living programs help teens and young adults explore personal potential while addressing emotional and behavioral challenges in an outdoor setting. The organization also involves families through workshops and educational forums, extending its preventive and supportive approach beyond the program experience.
Family Therapist – Outdoor Behavioral Health (Hybrid)
Provide family therapy, psychotherapy, crisis support, and treatment planning for clients in ANASAZI Foundation’s outdoor behavioral health program. Coordinate family care, field-based services, and discharge planning.
Description
- Complete behavioral health assessments and provide individual, family, and other psychotherapy within professional scope
- Create, implement, review, and document individualized treatment plans
- Maintain therapeutic contact with assigned clients and communicate with parents and caregivers
- Conduct field visits and deliver clinical services in ANASAZI’s outdoor setting
- Track client progress, behavioral health needs, risk factors, treatment response, and transition readiness
- Conduct crisis assessments, provide interventions and safety planning, and escalate concerns when clinically necessary
- Coordinate family participation and support preparation for reunification and post-discharge transition
- Work with Field Operations, Nursing, Admissions, Alumni Services, and other teams on client needs
- Offer clinical consultation and direction to program staff
- Prepare complete, timely, accurate, and compliant clinical records, including assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, and discharge records
- Take part in clinical staffing, case consultation, quality improvement, risk management, training, and other required clinical work
- Coordinate discharge and aftercare recommendations with clients, families, the Clinical Director, and external providers
- Uphold professional ethics, client rights, confidentiality, boundaries, and mandatory-reporting obligations
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in social work, counseling, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or another behavioral health field qualifying the candidate for required licensure
- Professional clinical or behavioral health experience serving clients and families
- Current Arizona behavioral health professional license in good standing appropriate to the assigned services
- Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card as required by law and ANASAZI policy
- Valid driver’s license and satisfactory driving eligibility for assigned field or program travel
- CPR/First Aid or another safety certification required by policy or assigned duties
- Experience with adolescents, family systems, behavioral health treatment, residential programs, crisis intervention, or outdoor behavioral health preferred
- Independent licensure preferred and required when duties or supervision level call for it
- Proficiency in behavioral health assessment and treatment planning
- Proficiency in individual and family psychotherapy
- Knowledge of family systems and family-centered treatment
- Skill in risk assessment, crisis intervention, and client safety
- Experience providing adolescent behavioral health services
- Knowledge of trauma-informed care
- Proficiency in clinical documentation and regulatory compliance
- Understanding of professional ethics, boundaries, client rights, confidentiality, and mandatory reporting
- Strong interdisciplinary communication and clinical consultation skills
- Ability to support discharge and aftercare planning
- Ability to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation
- Ability to maintain required licensure and practice within authorized scope, demonstrated competence, and applicable supervision requirements