Therapist / Group Facilitator
About the Role
Divine Intervention Recovery Center is seeking a compassionate, dependable, and motivated Therapist/Group Facilitator to join our dual-diagnosis treatment team.
Divine Intervention Recovery Center provides behavioral health treatment to adult men and women experiencing substance use disorders, mental health conditions, and co-occurring disorders. Our approach focuses on treating the whole person through individualized, recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and evidence-based services.
The Therapist/Group Facilitator will provide individual and group-based services within the scope of their education, training, and credentials, while working collaboratively with the clinical team to support client stabilization, recovery, improved functioning, and successful transition through the appropriate levels of care.
Minimum Credential Requirement
Applicants must possess a current Ohio CDCA credential or higher, appropriate to the services they will provide.
Examples of qualifying credentials may include:
- CDCA
- LCDC II
- LCDC III
- LICDC
- LISW/LISW-S
- LPCC/PCC
- Other applicable Ohio behavioral health credentials
Primary Responsibilities
Individual Services
The Therapist/Group Facilitator will provide individual client services consistent with their qualifications, scope of practice, treatment plan, and clinical supervision requirements.
Responsibilities may include:
- Conduct individual therapeutic or recovery-focused sessions within the scope of the individual's credentials.
- Establish professional rapport with clients while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
- Assist clients in identifying problems, strengths, barriers, and recovery goals.
- Support clients in developing healthy coping skills and strategies.
- Address substance use, mental health, emotional regulation, relapse prevention, relationships, life skills, and other identified treatment needs within the scope of practice.
- Utilize appropriate evidence-based and recovery-oriented interventions.
- Monitor client progress toward treatment goals.
- Identify barriers that may interfere with treatment progress.
- Communicate significant changes in client presentation or functioning to the appropriate clinical supervisor.
- Participate in treatment planning and discharge planning.
- Coordinate care with other providers when appropriate releases of information are in place.
Group Facilitation
The Therapist/Group Facilitator will facilitate structured, purposeful, and engaging groups based on the needs of the population and the program schedule.
Potential group topics include:
- Substance use education
- Relapse prevention
- Mental health education
- Emotional regulation
- Coping skills
- Triggers and cravings
- Trauma-informed recovery
- Cognitive and behavioral patterns
- Healthy relationships
- Boundaries
- Communication skills
- Accountability
- Stress management
- Anger management
- Self-esteem and self-awareness
- Life skills
- Recovery supports
- Wellness and self-care
- Community functioning
- Dual-diagnosis education
Effective Group Facilitation
Group facilitators are expected to:
- Arrive prepared with a clear and purposeful topic.
- Maintain a safe, respectful, and treatment-focused environment.
- Encourage appropriate participation.
- Manage group dynamics effectively.
- Redirect conversations when they become off-topic.
- Address disruptive behavior appropriately.
- Prevent individual clients from dominating the group.
- Encourage respectful communication.
- Maintain professional boundaries.
- Connect group content to recovery and treatment goals.
- Provide education and therapeutic interventions appropriate to the facilitator's credentials and scope of practice.
- Complete accurate group documentation.
A successful group should be more than a conversation. Groups should have a clear purpose, structured content, active facilitation, and relevance to the client's treatment and recovery needs.
Clinical Documentation
Accurate and timely documentation is an essential responsibility of this position.
The Therapist/Group Facilitator is expected to document services in a manner that accurately reflects the client's clinical presentation, treatment needs, interventions, response, and progress.
Documentation should appropriately address:
- Presenting symptoms and concerns
- Severity and frequency of symptoms
- Functional impairments
- Substance use and recovery needs
- Mental health concerns
- Treatment goals and objectives
- Interventions provided
- Client response to interventions
- Progress toward treatment goals
- Areas of continued impairment or need
- Changes in functioning and symptoms
- Barriers to progress
- Continued treatment needs when applicable
- Discharge and transition needs
Documentation must be:
- Accurate
- Objective
- Timely
- Clinically relevant
- Consistent with services actually provided
- Connected to the client's treatment plan when applicable
- Completed according to DIRC policies and applicable payer and regulatory requirements
Employees are expected to complete documentation within established agency timeframes and respond promptly to identified documentation corrections or deficiencies.
Treatment Planning
The Therapist/Group Facilitator will participate in the development and ongoing review of individualized treatment plans.
Responsibilities may include:
- Identifying clinically relevant problems and needs.
- Developing realistic and measurable goals and objectives within the scope of practice.
- Identifying interventions appropriate to the client's needs.
- Monitoring progress toward treatment goals.
- Updating treatment plans as client needs change.
- Documenting progress and barriers.
- Providing information needed for continued-stay reviews and authorization requests.
- Participating in treatment plan reviews and discharge planning.
Treatment plans should reflect the individual client rather than generic goals and should demonstrate a clear connection between identified needs, interventions, and measurable outcomes.
Medical Necessity & Clinical Accountability
Because Divine Intervention Recovery Center provides structured behavioral health services, staff must understand the importance of documenting medical necessity and functional impairment.
The Therapist/Group Facilitator should be able to clearly communicate:
- What problems brought the client into treatment.
- How those problems affect the client's daily functioning.
- What interventions are being provided.
- How the client is responding to treatment.
- What has improved.
- What continues to require intervention.
- What barriers remain.
- Why continued treatment is clinically appropriate when applicable.
The goal is not to exaggerate symptoms or impairment. Documentation must accurately reflect the client's actual clinical presentation and demonstrate both progress and continued treatment needs.
Treatment Team Collaboration
The Therapist/Group Facilitator is an active member of the multidisciplinary treatment team.
Responsibilities include:
- Participate in treatment team meetings.
- Communicate relevant client information to clinical leadership.
- Collaborate with case managers, peer support staff, medical providers, and other treatment professionals.
- Participate in clinical consultation and supervision.
- Communicate significant changes in client presentation or functioning.
- Communicate safety concerns promptly.
- Assist with referrals and continuity of care.
- Participate in discharge and transition planning.
- Support consistent communication across the treatment team.
Client Engagement
The successful Therapist/Group Facilitator understands that rapport and accountability must exist together.
Responsibilities include:
- Build professional and therapeutic relationships with clients.
- Encourage active participation in treatment.
- Help clients identify strengths and areas for growth.
- Encourage personal responsibility and accountability.
- Support clients through difficult treatment experiences.
- Maintain appropriate professional boundaries.
- Avoid creating dependency or inappropriate relationships.
- Respect client autonomy and self-determination.
- Use a trauma-informed approach when addressing difficult behaviors or experiences.
- Maintain a nonjudgmental and respectful approach while appropriately challenging behaviors that interfere with treatment.
Dual-Diagnosis Approach
Because Divine Intervention Recovery Center serves individuals with co-occurring disorders, the Therapist/Group Facilitator should understand the relationship between mental health and substance use.
Treatment should recognize that:
- Mental health symptoms may contribute to substance use.
- Substance use may worsen psychiatric symptoms.
- Clients may use substances as a coping mechanism.
- Psychiatric symptoms can interfere with recovery.
- Recovery requires addressing both mental health and substance use concerns.
- Clients may have different levels of motivation and readiness for change.
- Treatment should address the whole person rather than treating each diagnosis in isolation.
Professional Boundaries & Ethics
All employees are expected to maintain professional boundaries and comply with applicable ethical and confidentiality requirements.
Employees must:
- Maintain appropriate professional relationships with clients.
- Protect client confidentiality.
- Follow HIPAA requirements.
- Avoid dual relationships.
- Avoid personal, financial, romantic, or social relationships with clients.
- Avoid favoritism.
- Use appropriate professional communication.
- Maintain appropriate boundaries regarding personal disclosure.
- Follow DIRC policies and procedures.
- Practice within the scope of their credential and training.
- Seek supervision when a situation exceeds their knowledge, training, or scope.
Crisis Recognition & Safety
The Therapist/Group Facilitator must recognize and appropriately communicate significant changes in client presentation or safety.
Concerns requiring prompt communication may include:
- Suicidal or homicidal statements
- Significant changes in mental status
- Psychosis
- Severe emotional dysregulation
- Suspected intoxication or withdrawal
- Threats toward others
- Significant medication concerns
- Medical emergencies
- Suspected abuse or neglect
- Significant changes in functioning
- Other safety or clinical concerns
Employees are expected to follow DIRC's established crisis, emergency, incident reporting, and escalation procedures.
Minimum Requirements
- Current Ohio CDCA credential or higher.
- Experience working with individuals experiencing substance use disorders, mental health conditions, or co-occurring disorders preferred.
- Ability to provide services within the scope of the employee's credential and training.
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong written documentation skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary treatment team.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Dependable attendance and professional conduct.
- Ability to complete documentation within required timeframes.
- Commitment to trauma-informed, person-centered, and recovery-oriented care.
Additional Education and Licensing
A degree, advanced credential, or independent license is preferred and may be required for specific clinical responsibilities.
Candidates with credentials above the minimum CDCA requirement are encouraged to apply.
Clinical responsibilities will be assigned based on the individual's education, credential, experience, supervision requirements, and applicable Ohio regulations.
Desired Clinical Skills
We are especially interested in candidates with experience or training in:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Trauma-informed care
- Relapse prevention
- Person-centered therapy
- Psychoeducation
- Crisis intervention
- Integrated treatment for co-occurring disorders
- Recovery-oriented care
- Group dynamics and facilitation
- Behavioral modification
- Emotional regulation
- Substance use treatment
- Mental health treatment
Desired Professional Qualities
The ideal candidate will be:
Compassionate – Demonstrates genuine respect and empathy for clients.
Accountable – Takes responsibility for assigned duties and follows through.
Clinically Curious – Willing to continue learning and developing professionally.
Reliable – Consistently prepared, punctual, and dependable.
Professional – Maintains appropriate boundaries and represents DIRC appropriately.
Adaptable – Able to work with clients presenting with complex and changing needs.
Team-Oriented – Communicates effectively and works collaboratively with colleagues.
Organized – Able to manage clinical responsibilities, groups, documentation, and deadlines.
Recovery-Focused – Believes clients can develop meaningful, sustainable recovery.
Appropriately Assertive – Can redirect clients, manage group dynamics, maintain structure, and address behaviors that interfere with treatment while remaining respectful and therapeutic.
What Makes This Position Meaningful
At Divine Intervention Recovery Center, we believe effective treatment requires more than addressing a diagnosis. Our team works with clients to understand the relationship between mental health, substance use, trauma, relationships, environment, behaviors, and daily functioning.
Our goal is to help clients stabilize, develop practical coping and recovery skills, improve functioning, strengthen their support systems, and successfully transition to the next stage of their recovery.
The Therapist/Group Facilitator is an important part of that process.
We are looking for professionals who want to be part of a growing organization that values quality clinical care, accountability, professional development, teamwork, and meaningful client outcomes.
If you are committed to helping individuals make real and sustainable changes in their lives and want to grow alongside a dedicated behavioral health team, we encourage you to apply.
For additional questions, please contact Kathy Bendall @ 937-605-3416