Senior Psychotherapist & Clinical Supervisor (LCSW or LPC)

The role

Turning Leaf Therapy is hiring an experienced Pennsylvania LCSW or LPC to carry a clinical caseload and supervise master's-level therapists working toward independent licensure. The job suits someone who likes clinical work and likes teaching it.

We're a relational psychodynamic practice specializing in complex trauma, developmental and relational trauma, PTSD, and dissociation. Most of your week goes to your own clients. Two to four hours are paid supervision, in groups and one to one, with more individual supervision available as the program needs it.

You'll work with our Clinical Director, Director of Supervision, and fellow supervisors on how the training program runs.

The supervisor we're looking for

We want a supervisor who steadies a room and can teach from whatever comes into it. The teaching covers case formulation, transference and countertransference, enactment, and interpersonal dynamics. In practice, the role asks for:

• Providing a steady presence. Anxiety and self-doubt are a normal part of early clinical work. You offer consistent, reflective supervision that helps developing therapists think through difficult moments and build confidence. In groups, you keep the discussion thoughtful when strong feelings come up.
• Disagreeing and staying connected. When you read a case differently than a therapist does, you say so plainly and stay curious about how they got there. Trainees know where you stand and still feel free to argue with you.
• Repairing what gets missed. Everyone in this work gets something wrong sooner or later, supervisors included. When it happens in your group, you help people name it and repair it, and the group keeps working. You do the same when the miss is yours.
• Treating culture as part of the formulation. Culture, family, class, religion, and migration history shape how a client understands their distress and what they want from therapy. In supervision you ask what the therapist has learned about the people and communities a client relies on, and you teach therapists to ask clients directly. A client's deference to a therapist can be a relational pattern, a cultural norm, or both. You help therapists hold both readings.
• Getting concerns to the right place early. We're a relational practice, and that includes how we handle concerns with each other. When a therapist has a concern about a colleague or about how the practice works, you help them bring it to the person involved early and work it out directly, when that's appropriate. You model that yourself. In the rare case where a direct conversation isn't appropriate, you use good judgment about where the concern should go. You make sure it reaches someone who can act on it and that the therapist hears back.
• Working as one supervision team. Trainees work with more than one supervisor. You compare notes with the Clinical Director, the Director of Supervision, and fellow supervisors, and when you see something differently, you take it up with them directly.

Your clinical work

The minimum is 23 scheduled client appointments per week, and you're welcome to carry more.

You'll provide individual psychotherapy grounded in relational psychodynamic or psychoanalytic theory. Clients come to us with depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties, and with complex trauma and dissociative symptoms and disorders.

How the practice supports you

The practice handles intake, insurance, and billing so your time goes to clients and supervisees.

• Intake and matching. Our intake staff talk with each prospective client about what brings them to therapy, then match them with a clinician whose experience and availability fit. A new client reaches you because someone thought the two of you would work well together.
• Insurance and billing. The practice handles insurance verification, credentialing, and billing.
• Weekly case consultation. Our therapists meet every week and take turns presenting cases they want help thinking through. People are kind in that room and willing to say when they see a case differently.
• Your own office. You'll have a window office on the third floor of the historic Corn Exchange at Second and Chestnut. The therapy rooms in our renovated suite are furnished like living rooms, with leather sofas and art on the walls. SEPTA's 2nd Street station on the L is a block away. The coffee and tea are free, for those who consider that an essential benefit.

Pay and benefits

Clinical pay is based on a share of collected session fees, and supervision is paid at the same rate as a clinical hour. We consider clinician pay when choosing insurance contracts. We remain out of network with Independence Blue Cross because its rates would lower what our clinicians earn per session.

Two examples, each assuming 48 working weeks per year and two to four paid supervision hours per week:

Estimated W-2 earnings include earned PTO and paid meetings and training. Total compensation estimates include employer payroll contributions and an estimated retirement match. Earnings vary with collections and supervision hours.

Benefits

• Earned PTO
• 401(k) with employer matching contributions of up to 3%
• Access to a Flexible Spending Account
• Employer-provided life insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Medical coverage, with eligibility for this supervisor position starting at 25 scheduled client appointments per week. Turning Leaf pays 50% of the individual medical premium for supervisors who enroll, in addition to the estimates above.

Qualifications

Required

• Active, unrestricted Pennsylvania license as an LCSW or LPC.
• At least five years of postgraduate clinical experience, including five years within the past ten in clinical social work or professional counseling, as applicable. You must meet Pennsylvania's supervision requirements for the licensure track of your assigned supervisees.
• Substantial experience providing relational psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy and advanced training in trauma treatment.
• Training in multicultural counseling, culturally responsive clinical social work, or culturally responsive psychotherapy through graduate coursework, postgraduate education, or supervised clinical training. We'll ask how you keep building that knowledge and how you use it in treatment and supervision.
• Experience supervising developing therapists and leading group supervision or clinical case discussions. We'll ask about your approach to group supervision.

Preferred

• Knowledge of how to assess and treat dissociative symptoms and disorders.
• Training in group psychotherapy or group dynamics.

How to apply

Email your résumé or CV and a short cover letter to careers@tltherapy.com. In the letter, tell us about your clinical orientation, your training, and your supervision experience.

Please include two short examples, a few sentences each:

1. Something you learned about a client's cultural or family context that changed your work or the guidance you gave a developing therapist.
2. A time a supervision group or case discussion became tense or divided, and what you did.

Composite examples are welcome. Please leave out identifying details.

Turning Leaf Therapy is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome qualified applicants of all backgrounds.