Inner Circle Mental Health Couples & Relationship Therapist-- First Responder & Veteran Focus Remote · Full time

Apply for Couples & Relationship Therapist-- First Responder & Veteran Focus

Inner Circle Mental Health is a dedicated mental health service for first responders and their families, offering support tailored to their unique experiences and challenges. With a deep understanding of the first responder culture, it provides accessible mental health solutions in a manner that resonates with an audience often reluctant to seek help. The service's approach is characterized by empathy, respect, and a deep knowledge of the professional and cultural nuances of first responder work. It aims to create a trusted space for these professionals, acknowledging and addressing the mental health needs specific to the demanding and often stressful nature of their roles.

Inner Circle Mental Health | Norman, Oklahoma

Part-Time | Opportunity to Grow | In-Person Preferred

Inner Circle Mental Health is expanding our couples and relationship counseling services and is looking for a therapist who genuinely enjoys working with couples.

We are looking for someone who can help couples navigate conflict, communication breakdowns, trust concerns, major life transitions, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and the impact that demanding careers can have on relationships.

This is an opportunity to build a strong couples caseload within an established practice while still having the flexibility to see individual clients if desired.

About Inner Circle

Inner Circle Mental Health is an outpatient mental health practice in Norman, Oklahoma. We work with adults, couples, first responders, veterans, healthcare professionals, and members of the broader community.

Our practice places a strong emphasis on practical, evidence-informed care and creating an environment where people who may not traditionally seek therapy feel comfortable walking through the door.

For couples in particular, we want therapy to be useful, direct, and focused on helping partners better understand each other and develop healthier ways of communicating and functioning together.

What You'll Do

The Couples & Relationship Therapist will primarily provide outpatient psychotherapy to couples experiencing a range of relationship concerns.

Responsibilities include:

• Conduct couples and relationship therapy sessions.
• Complete initial assessments and develop appropriate treatment plans.
• Help couples improve communication, conflict management, emotional connection, and relationship functioning.
• Provide individual therapy when clinically appropriate and within the therapist's caseload.
• Maintain timely and accurate clinical documentation.
• Coordinate care when appropriate.
• Maintain appropriate professional and ethical boundaries when working with multiple members of a relationship.
• Participate in practice meetings, consultation, and training as required.

We're Especially Interested in Therapists With Experience In

• Couples counseling
• Marriage and relationship concerns
• High-conflict couples
• Communication and conflict resolution
• Infidelity and rebuilding trust
• Premarital counseling
• Divorce or separation decision-making
• Blended families
• Parenting and co-parenting stress
• Trauma and its impact on relationships
• First responder or military relationships

Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Prepare/Enrich, Discernment Counseling, or another evidence-based couples therapy model is highly desirable but not required.

Qualifications

Applicants must be eligible to provide behavioral health services in Oklahoma.

We welcome:

• LPCs
• LMFTs
• LCSWs
• Licensed candidates under appropriate supervision

A master's degree in counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work, psychology, or a closely related behavioral health field is required.

Experience providing couples therapy is strongly preferred. Candidates who have primarily worked with individuals but have specific training and a strong interest in developing a couples specialty are also encouraged to apply.

Schedule

This position can begin part-time and grow as the clinician's caseload develops.

Evening availability is strongly preferred, as couples frequently request appointments after traditional work hours.

We are particularly interested in clinicians who can consistently maintain their agreed-upon schedule and build toward a stable recurring caseload.

Compensation

This is a revenue-based clinical position, with compensation tied to completed client services rather than simply scheduled hours.

Final compensation will depend on licensure, experience, payer mix, and employment structure and will be discussed during the interview process.

Inner Circle provides the infrastructure necessary to build and maintain a caseload, including:

• Office space
• Electronic health record and scheduling system
• Billing and claims management
• Credentialing support
• Client referrals
• Administrative support
• Marketing
• Established relationships with insurance and referral partners

The Person We're Looking For

The right clinician for this position is comfortable sitting in the room with two people who may strongly disagree with each other without immediately taking sides.

You should be able to identify patterns underneath the argument, slow conflict down, create psychological safety, and help both partners participate in meaningful change.

We value clinicians who are:

• Direct but compassionate
• Comfortable with difficult conversations
• Clinically curious
• Reliable
• Collaborative
• Able to maintain neutrality in couples work
• Willing to give clients practical tools they can use outside of therapy
• Interested in developing a recognizable specialty within the practice

Most importantly, we want someone who actually likes couples therapy.

If helping two people understand each other better sounds more interesting to you than intimidating, we would like to hear from you.