Recruiting Resources

Trauma-informed care has moved from a specialty orientation to a foundational expectation in behavioral health practice. The recognition that the majority of people seeking mental health services have experienced significant adversity — and that untreated trauma...

Music therapy, art therapy, drama therapy, and dance/movement therapy occupy a specific and often misunderstood niche in behavioral health. These expressive arts disciplines are not supplemental activities or recreational programming — when delivered by...

One of the most common mistakes behavioral health employers make in recruiting is treating outpatient and inpatient clinical positions as variations of the same search. They are not. The skills, motivations, temperament, career goals, and professional preferences of...

The Vice President of Clinical Operations is the executive who makes a behavioral health platform's clinical infrastructure work at scale. As group practices grow from a handful of locations to dozens, and as PE-backed platforms build multi-state footprints, the...

The behavioral health case manager is one of the most undervalued and most understaffed roles in the community mental health system. Case managers — who coordinate services, connect clients to resources, monitor treatment adherence, manage housing and benefits...

The peer support specialist — a person with lived experience of mental health challenges, substance use, or both, who has achieved stability in their recovery and is trained to support others navigating similar challenges — is the fastest-growing workforce category in...

The certified alcohol and drug counselor — credentialed as CADC (Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor), LCDC (Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor in Texas), LADC (Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor), CASAC (Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor in...

The clinical director hire is a defining moment in the life of a behavioral health group practice. It is the hire that signals the transition from a founder-led clinical organization — where the founding clinician carries clinical authority, quality assurance, and...

The licensed psychologist — PhD or PsyD — occupies a specific and increasingly strategic niche in behavioral health workforce planning. Psychologists are the only doctoral-level behavioral health providers in most states who can independently administer and interpret...

The Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist is one of the most distinctive credentials in the behavioral health workforce — defined not by a different level of training but by a different theoretical orientation. MFTs are trained in systems theory, relational dynamics,...

San Antonio's behavioral health market is distinct from Austin and Houston in ways that matter for employers and recruiters. It is a larger city by population than Austin, more diverse, with a higher percentage of uninsured and Medicaid-covered residents, and with a...

Columbus is Ohio's largest and fastest-growing city, and its behavioral health market has expanded dramatically alongside that growth. The combination of Ohio State University's medical school and clinical training programs, a large and diverse immigrant population,...