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BMH Village is a bold, local nonprofit organization harnessing community, data, and novel technology to facilitate innovative whole-person healing and mental health education. Through community-led healing initiatives, we aim to address mental health disparities and the well-being of Black and minoritized communities impacted by trauma, poverty, or lack of mental health care access.

Job summary

The Youth & Community Therapist will provide healing-centered, trauma-informed, culturally responsive therapeutic support to youth and families connected to BMH Village’s programs, including Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) funded Domestic Violence Awareness, Education, and Support activities and the Metro Public Health Healing-Centered Youth Program. This contract / part-time clinician will anchor the “clinical healing” side of BMH Village’s youth ecosystem, partnering closely with the Youth Healing & Advocacy Manager, HEAL Team, and community partners to ensure youth have access to individualized and group therapy, crisis support, and warm handoffs to longer-term care when needed.​

The role serves youth in general while intentionally centering Black and other minoritized youth who experience disproportionate exposure to trauma, systemic violence, and barriers to care.​

Key responsibilities

Direct clinical services

• Provide individual, family, and small-group therapy to youth and caregivers engaged through MDHA, MPHD, and related youth programs, using trauma-informed and healing-centered approaches.​
• Offer short-term, goal-directed therapy and stabilization, with the ability to extend care or connect youth to trusted community partners and providers for longer-term treatment.​
• Facilitate or co-facilitate healing circles, psychoeducation groups, and support spaces focused on topics such as domestic/intimate partner violence, grief, anxiety, depression, stress, and identity.​
• Provide crisis intervention, risk assessment, and safety planning as needed, including suicide risk and harm reduction conversations related to substance use.​

Integration with youth programs and advocacy

• Collaborate with the Youth Healing & Advocacy Manager to ensure youth programming (workshops, town halls, events) includes clear, accessible pathways to mental health support before, during, and after events.​
• Attend selected youth events and spaces to build trust with youth and caregivers and to normalize early, preventative mental health support.​
• Consult with staff and partners on trauma-informed, non-carceral practices, supporting them in responding to distress, disclosures of violence, or behavioral crises in ways that align with BMH Village values.​

Coordination, referrals, and collaboration

• Coordinate care with families, schools, and community partners (with appropriate consents) to support continuity of care and reduce barriers to follow-through.​
• Maintain updated knowledge of culturally responsive, sliding-scale, and insurance-based mental health resources, including the BMH Village therapist network and directory.​
• Provide warm referrals and follow-up to external providers when youth need more intensive, specialized, or long-term services than can be offered within this role.​

Documentation, reporting, and grants

• Complete timely clinical documentation (intakes, progress notes, treatment plans, discharge/transition summaries) in alignment with professional and ethical standards.​
• Track basic service data (sessions, groups, demographics, presenting concerns, outcomes) to support MDHA, MPHD, CBHE, and other grant reporting.​
• Participate in brief monthly check-ins with leadership to review caseload needs, trends emerging from youth work, and alignment with grant deliverables and organizational priorities.​

Professional development and village culture

• Participate in individual and/or group clinical supervision and reflective practice spaces as required by licensure and organizational policy.​
• Engage in ongoing learning related to racial trauma, healing justice, decolonizing mental health, and abolition-informed practice, consistent with BMH Village’s framework.​
• Contribute to a culture of collective care, joy, and accountability within BMH Village, modeling boundaries, consent, and sustainable work practices.​

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Psychology, or related field.​
• Licensed or license-eligible in Tennessee (e.g., LMSW, LCSW, LPC-MHSP, LMFT, or closely related), with required supervision arrangements in place or open to arranging them.​
• At least 2 years of experience providing therapy to youth and/or families, ideally in community-based, school-based, or grassroots settings.​
• Demonstrated experience working with Black and other minoritized youth and families, with a strong grounding in culturally responsive and anti-oppressive care.​
• Training and practice in trauma-informed, healing-centered approaches; familiarity with evidence-informed modalities such as CBT, EMDR, narrative therapy, or similar is a plus but not required.​
• Comfort working alongside organizers, advocates, and non-clinical staff in community spaces (not just traditional office settings).​
• Commitment to equity, healing justice, housing justice, and health justice, and to serving all youth while centering those most impacted by systemic harm.​

Contract details

• Status: Contract / Part-Time (e.g., 8–15 clinical hours per week, plus limited admin/meetings; exact hours shaped by funding and demand).​
• Schedule: Primarily afternoons, evenings, and occasional weekends to align with youth availability; some flexibility and hybrid options may be possible.​
• Compensation: Hourly clinical rate or per-session rate commensurate with experience, licensure, and available MDHA, MPHD, CBHE, and unrestricted funds; to be discussed during the interview process.​

How to apply

To apply, please submit the following on Gusto:  

• A resume or CV.
• A short letter, video, or voice note sharing:
• Your experience providing therapy to youth and/or families.
• How you integrate healing-centered, culturally responsive, and anti-carceral approaches into your work.
• Why working with BMH Village’s youth ecosystem interests you.

For video or voice note submissions, please email [email protected] and mention this in the section provided for your written answers.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the contract is filled.​

Black Mental Health Village welcomes applicants of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, abilities, and backgrounds, and strongly encourages individuals with lived experience of the issues facing our communities to apply.