Pros
monday through friday schedule. flexibility, decent pay and benefits. get to work with a mixed clientele, helping people walk hand-in-hand with their mental health struggles and help their recovery.
Kontras
This place gives new meaning to treatment team. Your “team” will consist of RAD-Ts (Registered Alcohol and Drug Technicians) and an AOD (Alcohol and other drug) counselor who are the case managers; weighing in and criticizing your clinical work. Management does not stop them working outside of their scope of practice. The other therapists also will weigh in and there is a hierarchy there based on seniority. Regardless of your skill level, they will try and make you feel as if you do not know what you are doing or that they know better…and the “treatment team” will team up against you. They have sort of a hazing there and where you have to prove yourself to them. There is a pecking order, favoritism, nepotism, etc. If you are a new therapist and have never worked anywhere, then this place might be ok for you, but if you have been a therapist anywhere else, please avoid this place. You will not like it. You deserve better and don’t put yourself through this suffering.