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Bonfire Healing is a collective of trauma healing providers with the mission to promote health equity through increasing access to evidence-based trauma treatment for clients who utilize insurance benefits so that this care is both effective and accessible. Cost is one of the biggest barriers to mental health care, particularly in marginalized groups, and there is a growing gap between clinicians trained in evidenced based trauma treatment modalities and those able to offer affordable care.  Our practice is insurance based to help fill this gap while providing needed support to clinicians in this field. 

We are seeking compassionate and dedicated trauma therapists to provide evidenced based outpatient, telehealth treatments to clients in WA state with recent, current, and/or history of trauma, including complex developmental trauma.   As a collective, we are aware that clinicians have different employment needs and offer both W2 employment positions in our practice and contracting options for clinicians in their own private practice.  This aligns with our goal to provide a collaborative professional environment to support both clinicians focusing on trauma work  and the clients we serve.

Both positions offer clinician flexibility, you choose your own schedule and clients. To obtain a full time caseload, you may need to offer evening and/or weekend hours, but that is up to you.   Either way, this is private practice, we cannot guarantee any set client hours and clinicians do their own marketing, advertising, and client management. We succeed if you succeed and vice versa so we offer guidance and consultation around marketing and client management.  The company also pays for advertising and if you’d like will put your bio on our website and send you referrals from this.  

Both positions offers our admin team that handles credentialing, billing, and insurance checks. For clinicians in W2 positions, admin handles all client discussions around billing and costs. For clinicians in their own practice (contracting), admin does not interface with your clients, but will share billing and copay information with the clinician.

The main differences in W2 vs contracting is how your insurance payouts are paid out to you.  The contracting is a set monthly fee for billing, supervision, EHR, and consultation and is set up a la carte so you choose what works for you. Clinicians handle their own business set up and operating costs and 100% of payouts go to the clinician.  *Billing Medicaid in the contracting role, requires independent licensure. 

The W2 position is set up for clinicians who want the business infrastructure, tax benefits, and inclusive framework with covered supervision, PTO, and benefits. This is not set up to make passive income for our business but to help clinicians manage the business and tax complexities that have historically blocked them from entering private practice. *The W2 position requires that you reside in Washington state.

Billing and Services Contracting: For clinicians in their own independent private practice. These services can be utilized À la carte style to support clinical development and administrative tasks.

o   Insurance Billing for Independently Licensed Clinicians: Premera, Regence, Lifewise, Aetna, Medicaid, Medicare, Cigna, Optum, United Health Care $125- $150/month ($25 discount for submitting your own claims)

o   Insurance Supervisory Billing for associate level clinicians: Regence, Aetna, Premera & LIfewise $225-$250/month ($25 discount for submitting your own claims)

o   Medicaid Only Billing: Can be utilized to offer health equity in your private practice as it is the ultimate sliding scale.  Must be independently licensed. We charge a small $5 per claim admin fee for billing and in exchange you are welcome to attend 1 monthly trauma healing consult group at no charge with the commitment of seeing at least 2 Medicaid clients per week.

o   Clinical Supervision $75-$100/hour for 2 clinicians and $150-$175/hour for individual ($25 increased cost for supervisor admin time if not utilizing billing service which already includes this cost)

o   Consultation $50-75 for group and $180 for individual

o   Telehealth and EHR platform (Simple Practice) $80/month

o   Practice set up consultation $150/hour

W2 Employee details:

o   $45-$65 per clinical (billable) hour. Rate is determined by client hours, supervision needs, and average payouts from insurance companies).

o   $25 per administrative (non-billable) hour

o   Paid time off: at 2 hours of vacation time and 1 hour of sick time per 40 hours worked. Once full time, 8 paid holidays off a year (can be rotated depending on what you celebrate). Combines to 5 weeks per year if working average of 40 hours per week.

o   Health & Dental Stipend for full time employees.

o   Clinical supervision with a WA state approved LMHC supervisor and Clinical consultation included and participation is part of paid admin time.

o   Training Stipend for advanced trainings

Overview
In this specialized role, you will provide direct therapeutic services to individuals, groups, and/or couples who have experienced or are experiencing acute, chronic, or complex trauma. You will work within a trauma-informed framework, prioritizing client safety, therapeutic rapport, empowerment, and choice while receiving clinical supervision and/or clinical consultation from specialists in trauma recovery.  You are committed to continuing to grow and learn in your practice and continue in meaningful CEUs and certifications in the field of trauma recovery.

Key Responsibilities

• Trauma-Focused Therapy: Deliver evidence-based treatment for PTSD and trauma-related disorders using modalities such as IFS, EMDR, DBT, or Somatic Experiencing.

• Safety Planning: Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and develop collaborative safety plans for clients experiencing flashbacks, dissociation, or crisis.

• Biopsychosocial Assessments: Perform intakes with a specific lens on developmental trauma, attachment styles, and the impact of systemic oppression.

• Psychoeducation: Educate clients on the neurobiology of trauma and effective coping mechanisms for emotional regulation and safe communication and connection.

• Clinical Records: Maintain documentation in accordance with HIPAA and state regulations, ensuring a high level of confidentiality.

• Participation in consultation: Clinical case consultation, development of skills, and sharing training learnings within weekly consultation groups.

• Proactively manage and grow a full clinical caseload through active engagement in marketing efforts, professional networking, and providing exceptional client care that drives word-of-mouth referrals.

Qualifications & Skills;

·       Education: Master’s or Doctoral degree in Counseling, Social Work, or Psychology

• Licensure: Active license or associate-level license; LMHC, LMFT, LISCW or LMHCA, LMFTA, LSWAIC.

• Clinical Focus: Demonstrable strong clinical interest and/or previous training in trauma treatment modalities and working with clients with complex trauma histories.

• Assessment Proficiency: Ability to utilize or interest in learning trauma-specific screening tools (PCL-5, ACEs, DES).

• Skills: High degree of cultural humility, interpersonal compassion, able to provide consistency, choice, and context to clients, interest in your own work and healing, and the ability to manage secondary traumatic stress.

• Interest in Health Equity: Preference for candidates with an interest in promoting health equity within the mental health field.

• Experience: Preference for candidates with experience in specialized areas such as domestic violence, sexual assault recovery, addiction recovery, eating disorder recovery, chronic illnesses, or childhood abuse.

Benefits

• Specialized Supervision and Consultation: Weekly clinical supervision with a focus on the assessment and treatment of trauma.  Weekly group consultation with specific focus on the implantation of trauma treatment modalities including EMDR, IFS, DBT, and Somatic Experiencing. Can include certification hours for EMDR through EMDRIA.

• Focus on clinician sustainability: Your time is valuable, and this work is important and fulfilling; it is also complicated and requires support, training, and time off.  

  • Focus on appropriate client fit so clinical work can be long term and rewarding.  

  • Prioritization of collaborative team environment with a non-shaming approach to learning to help every clinician feel supported and part of the group.

  • Flexibility for you to design a schedule that works for your life and correlates with client need.

·       Health Equity in hiring: We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage applications from clinicians across the global majority, those in the LGBTQ+ community, people of all body sizes, adult ages, and abilities, women, and immigrants.

Things to Consider

·      Hours not guaranteed: There is generally high demand for these services so generally open spots on your schedule will fill up though we aren’t able to guarantee you a set client load.  

·      Telehealth Practice: We are a telehealth only practice through provide HIPPA complaint telehealth platforms and electronic health records. You will need: Access to a private, confidential space for telehealth sessions, reliable high-speed internet connection, computer with camera for telehealth, cell phone or computer capable of installing HIPPA phone app, and moderate tech proficiency with the ability to troubleshoot issues independently.

We very much look forward to connecting and learning about your interest and expertise in trauma healing. Contact Bonnie at bonnie@bonfirehealing.com or fill out the form below.