Restorative Pathways Counseling, LLC Therapeutic Support Specialist Zanesville, OH · Full time Company website

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Restorative Pathways Counseling is a privately owned and operated mental health practice dedicated to helping individuals and families live healthier, more connected lives. Since 2017, we’ve grown from a solo practice to a thriving group practice offering counseling, case management, groups, workshops, and private therapeutic retreats. We are accredited by The Joint Commission, certified by OHMAS and Ohio Medicaid, and recognized as both an NHSC and Great Minds Fellowship site. Our culture emphasizes collaboration, growth, integrity, and whole-person support - for both clients and team members. We prioritize accessible, high-quality care for a variety of populations, including children, the LGBTQ+ community, and those healing from trauma, including religious trauma.

Full-Time and Part-Time positions available. A minimum of 20 hours per week is required. 

Therapeutic Support Specialists provide goal-directed behavioral health support and case management services to help clients improve daily functioning, develop skills, overcome barriers, and successfully engage with their families and communities.

What You’ll Do

Depending on client needs, you may:

• Help clients identify goals, strengths, needs, barriers, and next steps
• Teach and practice coping, emotional regulation, communication, social, and daily living skills
• Help clients develop routines and strategies for functioning more successfully at home, school, work, and in the community
• Support clients with skills such as budgeting, medication routines, home management, self-care, and use of community resources
• Help clients recognize mental health symptoms, triggers, and strategies for managing them
• Develop crisis-prevention strategies and coordinate additional supports when needed
• Connect clients and families with healthcare, behavioral health, social service, educational, and other community resources
• Advocate for clients and help them navigate complex systems
• Collaborate with therapists, families, physicians, schools, probation officers, CPS, OhioRISE care coordinators, and other members of a client’s treatment team
• Document services, client progress, and treatment outcomes
• Participate in supervision, consultation, and ongoing professional development

What This Role Is—and What It Isn’t

This isn’t a desk-based referral position where your primary job is handing someone a phone number and hoping they figure it out.

Our Therapeutic Support Specialists work alongside clients. You might help a teenager develop a morning routine so they can consistently get to school. You might help someone apply for benefits, learn how to use transportation, prepare for a medical appointment, practice a coping strategy in the community, or identify what keeps getting in the way of following through on their treatment goals.

The goal is not to do everything for clients. The goal is to help clients develop the skills, supports, resources, and confidence to increasingly do things for themselves.

What Makes RPC Different

A Deep Commitment to Quality Care

• High expectations matched by meaningful support
• Individualized services based on each client’s needs, strengths, and goals
• Thoughtful collaboration across members of the treatment team
• Documentation designed to support quality client care—not simply check boxes

A Supportive, Genuine Team Culture

• A team grounded in purpose and integrity
• A relaxed, cozy, relational environment—not cold or corporate
• Leadership that is transparent, vulnerable, ethical, and responsive
• Coworkers who genuinely enjoy working with one another
• Direct, respectful, and collaborative communication
• Opportunities for advocacy, coalitions, community involvement, and special projects (if you’re interested)

Meaningful Multidisciplinary Support

• Work alongside therapists and other behavioral health professionals
• Collaborate with an experienced clinical leadership team
• A fully staffed, in-office administrative team that supports client communication and practice operations
• Regular opportunities for case consultation and collaboration

High Quality Supervision and Growth

• Regular supervision that is invested, responsive, and supportive
• Paid case consultation
• Training and support to develop required behavioral health competencies
• Personalized mentorship and feedback
• Opportunities to develop specialized skills and grow long-term

A Healthy Workplace

• A workplace focused on collaboration, sustainability, and employee wellbeing
• A culture where team members are encouraged to ask questions and seek support
• Leadership committed to creating an inclusive and respectful work environment

Who We’re Looking For

This position can be a great fit for someone who:

• Genuinely enjoys working with people
• Is comfortable working with children, adults, and families experiencing behavioral health challenges
• Can build rapport while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries
• Is patient, flexible, and able to adapt when plans change
• Is resourceful and willing to problem-solve
• Can work independently while remaining connected to a larger treatment team
• Communicates clearly and follows through on commitments
• Is comfortable providing services outside of a traditional office environment
• Understands that progress often happens through small, consistent steps
• Is receptive to supervision, feedback, and continued learning
• Approaches clients with compassion, dignity, and respect

Qualifications

Applicants must meet Qualified Behavioral Health Specialist (QBHS) requirements:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in social work, psychology, nursing, behavioral health, or another related human-services field; OR
• A high school diploma with at least three years of relevant work experience
• Education, training, or demonstrated competency related to mental health and/or substance use disorders. (Required competency training must be completed within the first 90 days of employment when applicable. RPC can provide all required training.)

Previous behavioral health, social services, case management, child welfare, community support, or related experience is preferred.

Schedule & Work Environment

This is a community-based behavioral health position.

Services may occur:

• In our Zanesville office
• In clients’ homes
• In schools
• In community settings
• At appointments or other locations connected to a client’s treatment goals

Because we serve clients in the community, reliable transportation and the ability to travel locally are important for this position.

Scheduling is flexible. All providers establish their own work schedules in collaboration with Leadership. 

Benefits

Benefits include:

• Paid administrative/non-billable time
• PTO
• Flexible scheduling
• 401(k)
• Paid supervision and consultation
• Internal training and professional development
• Dedicated administrative support
• Mileage reimbursement for eligible community travel
• A relaxed, warm environment
• Recognition and growth opportunities

Health insurance is not a benefit currently offered. 

Ready to Join Us?

If you want a role where you can get out from behind a desk, build meaningful relationships, solve real-world problems, and help people turn their treatment goals into actual changes in their lives, we’d love to hear from you.