Clinical Therapist

IECC is a private practice focused on patient care and not corporate profit or requirements from third-party payors (like insurance companies or Medi-Cal). You get the freedom of scheduling your own appointments and giving your clients an excellent, warm, personal experience from start to finish. Your clients get to build a relationship with you without the go-between of a scheduling or billing department. Our processes are created to promote client healing and not to serve the needs of insurance companies or tech platforms. Does your client need longer sessions, more frequent sessions, to involve other family members, to meet online or by phone? No problem! You don’t need to get permission to do what’s right for your clients.

Watch a 12 minute video with our owner Rebecca Williams on what our vision of quality mental health care is here and a discussion of some of the ways the medical model impacts quality mental health care here.

IECC is NOT a therapist burnout machine. We are committed to therapist wellbeing. Have you heard about those big tech companies promising huge salaries for therapists? They are burnout machines! In order to get those big payouts, therapists have to work 11-12 hour days, 5-6 days per week, and qualify for all the little bonuses that come with messaging clients between sessions or assigning worksheets whether or not those things are clinically indicated. They’ve been known to encourage therapists to practice in ways that aren’t ethical or even legal sometimes. Why? Those companies aren’t run by therapists. They aren’t lead by people with a passion for transformation and healing. They are tech companies looking for profits.

Get some more info on the problems with the big tech companies selling therapy here.

IECC is different. We’re lead by a therapist who wants to provide great care for clients and to create a work environment that works for therapists too. We want you to take time off, to have something left at the end of the day for your own relationships, to enjoy your work so that you can stay in the field long term and continue to serve clients who need you. Often you will be alone in the office but you’re never without the support of the IECC team. We meet as a team weekly, have virtual check-ins, and are available for professional collaboration and support when you need it. You’ll get to come to work in a professionally designed space in a quiet building of other professional offices.

This means that you don’t have the headaches of worrying about whether insurance will reimburse for what a couple really needs. You also don’t have the stress of wondering whether your pay will be impacted by when and if an insurance company pays. Some practices offer a percentage split that looks really nice until you learn how much an insurance company actually pays. You don’t need that kind of stress! At IECC, you don’t need to think about documenting for medical necessity; you simply document your great clinical interventions and outcomes. You get to use your best clinical judgement to capture what matters in your notes and to use your clients’ meaningful language in their treatment plans. Working for IECC means we bring you clients that are motivated to change and that you get to jump right in to build rapport and bring hope to them in the first session. You might be fearful of whether you could attract and maintain a caseload of fee-for-service clients; we aren’t. If you are great at what you do, we will handle the rest.

You get to do scheduling and documentation through an electronic health record. Your client files can be accessed securely online or through an app at anytime and from anywhere. Your clients fill out their intake paperwork online and you get a chance to review it before you have them sitting in front of you. You have the reassurance of knowing that your clients’ information is secure, and you get to work in an office that isn’t cluttered with stacks of files and walls of file cabinets.

We encourage collaborative documentation so that you’re not always ‘catching up’ on notes. If you’re unfamiliar with electronic record keeping, collaborative documentation, or strategies to keep you at the forefront of therapeutic excellence but willing to learn, we’d love to teach you! We want you to experience the joy and freedom of keeping your documentation done all the time and doing fulfilling, rewarding clinical work. This is not a joke, people! Therapists in our office have their documentation done on time all the time. That’s not a threat; it’s a statement of fact. We’ve made documentation as easy as possible and have systems set up to help you get it done without stress. The dread of documentation and stress of constantly being behind on notes are simply not a thing at IECC.

We don’t want you wasting your time in never-ending staff meetings when we can send a quick email or video message to accomplish the same thing. We’d like you to be comfortable with direct communication and straightforward conflict management. You’re right for us if you’re the kind of person who will speak up and ask for help when you are struggling with a case or skills instead of waiting until we bring you in for ‘a talk’ when we get a client complaint or notice your retention is low. We like getting problems solved efficiently so that we can spend our time together in creative collaboration on client issues, finding a good work-life balance, and helping you be the excellent therapist you want to be. We have an extensive training program to take you from wherever you are and make you into a top-notch couples therapist. Our current employees say they love the training and support they get at IECC.

Couples work is tricky. Most graduate programs don’t adequately prepare therapists to do effective couples work. And many therapists find couples work frustrating and difficult; we believe this is usually because they haven’t been properly trained. When you know what to do, the work is fun and rewarding. We have a thorough training and onboarding program, continued weekly support with the therapist team, and reimbursements for outside training.