The Alamo Psychotherapy and Training (formerly Michelle Harwell Therapy) Associate Clinician Los Angeles, CA · Part time Company website

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At the Alamo, we’re cultivating a growthful community of therapists committed to becoming fully ourselves, teaching each other how to make our humanness available, and in turn providing high quality psychotherapy to the neighborhoods we love. We offer an innovative and integrative training program that blends contemporary psychoanalytic theory with an interdisciplinary approach that appreciates body-based and brain-based approaches. We provide supervision to all clinicians, with a deep emphasis in helping you become your best and most authentic clinical self. Associate therapists receive weekly supervision from psychodynamically and psychoanalytically oriented experts in the field for the duration of their associateship. Becoming an excellent clinician does not happen in isolation. At our core we believe that community and relationality is the key to our clinical development. We recognize the vulnerability it takes to be in this work so we offer a supportive space with rigorous reflection and connection.

The ideal candidate is passionate about continued therapeutic growth and values ongoing learning, training, consultation, and supervision. Specifically, the candidate will be interested in psychodynamic work, an interdisciplinary approach, and body-based and brain-based approaches. The candidate will be eager to engage training and supervision with the goal of becoming their most authentic clinical self. 

The successful candidate will desire training and experience working with children and families. The ideal candidate will have an interest in developmental and attachment theories. The candidate will have supervision and training to work with play therapy and in establishing rapport with both children and parents, providing families with guidance and direction as needed, and bringing insight and clarity to the unique challenges of families with children.

Schedule will need to include afternoons, evenings, and weekend. Further, this candidate is prepared for the demands of a private-practice model group practice, is organized, professional, and ready to engage both the clinical and business aspects of the role. A successful candidate places high value on community, and is interested in engaging with our community of therapists for a minimum of two years, preferably longer.