Proudly Serving Montgomery County Maryland
301 Inspiration Lane, Second Floor, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
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“We are destigmatizing mental health care by creating an environment where clients are catered to, cared for and respected.”
Dr. Elizabeth Carr, Founder & CEO
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What We’re All About
Are you looking for a private practice career opportunity in Montgomery County, Maryland? Have you clocked your hours for your licensure and “paid your dues” in insurance-based, high-risk, residential, or partial hospitalization settings and now you’re looking for something…different? Slower? More personal? Kentlands Psychotherapy provides individualized, high quality care to our clients. Our practice model supports clinicians through our sustainable care model. From the first phone call with our intake coordinator, to the “goodbye-for-now’ open ended termination session, we want our clients to feel respected, supported, championed, and cared for. If that model resonates with you, keep reading. We want to meet you!
We have a mission to increase the gender, racial, cultural, religious, sexual, ability/disability diversity within our profession. Representation matters and having clinicians in the field who clients can related to and feel understood by because of shared experiences and perspectives is extremely important in our work. Our internship program demonstrates our commitment to contributing to the mental health training pipeline. Check out our Hall of Fame page to see all of our awesome internship graduates! We don’t just give lip service to valuing diversity. We put hundreds of hours each year into training local young people to support them in pursuing their professional dreams. Do you believe there’s something about your experience or background that could add unique view point to our clinical team? Our practice, and more importantly our community, needs you! Let’s start a conversation.
We want our staff to love working here and to “settle in and stay a while.” To that end, we will learn about your unique long-term professional goals, nurture them, and market them so you can stand out for your expertise, both within the practice and throughout greater community. We even offer a CEU reimbursement program!
Established in 2005, we are exclusively a fee-for-service practice in the heart of the Kentland’s award-winning new urbanist community. The owners, the Drs. Carr, have a passion for exceptional leadership that includes accessible mentorship, transparency in business decisions, healthy culture creation where staff are carefully selected to maintain both a pleasant collegial work environment and our outstanding reputation within the community. Our highly skilled, no-drama, clinically diverse staff members are a pleasure to collaborate with or to just grab a bit together for lunch. Petra Desmond, our gem of an office manager, runs a tight ship with billing and payroll, makes an excellent first impression with prospective clients in her role as intake coordinator, and keeps us well supplied to do our jobs. Our loyal clients come from the local community of suburban Montgomery County families. They represent our loved ones, our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, and our family members and we do our best to take phenomenal care of every one of them.
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Our practice design allows for scheduling flexibility and our founder strongly supports every member of our team achieving work/life/school/family balance. The practice environment offers spacious, well-appointed offices, and workflow support (SimplePractice EHR) platforms for easy communication, documentation, and scheduling. We are located in a safe, picturesque neighborhood bustling with shops, restaurants, and free & easy parking.
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Current Positions
– Testing Psychologist *** Anticipated Opening Winter 2023 ***
– Prescribing Clinicians, Psychiatrist, Psychiatric NP, Psychiatric Physician Assistant
– Young Adult/Adult Psychotherapist (Part or Full-Time) *** Anticipated Opening Summer 2022 ***
– Child Psychotherapist, Child Psychologist, Registered Play Therapist (RPT), Parent-Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT), Theraplay, and/or Sandplay/Sand Tray (CST) Therapist (Part or Full-Time) *** Filled – ask about next anticipated openings ***
– Assistant to our Director of Administrative Hospitality ***Filled***
– HS/College Level Internships unpaid *** Accepting applications now for 2022-2023 school year ***
Are you looking for something else? Are you an art therapist? A geek and gamer therapist? Executive functioning coach? We are always looking for caring, skilled, collegial clinicians to join our team. Please reach out to us and start a conversation if you think you could be a fit. We would love to hear from you.
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Minimum Requirements for All Clinical Positions:
- Maryland professional clinical license in good standing
- Liability insurance adequate to the panel size and work hours
- Conscientious work ethic, especially with regard to timeliness with regard to appointment boundaries, responsiveness to communication from pts and staff, and pt care documentation
- Up-to-Date COVID-19 vaccination documentataion for in-office/in-person work
- Excellent clinical skills; drive to be “the best” in your craft
- Collaborative and congenial interpersonal style with colleagues
- Exceptional rapport building skills with patients (respectful, warm, and relationally oriented)
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Testing Psychologist
Description
Are you interested in giving Psychological Assessments to adults, adolescents, or children, to test for measures of intellectual functioning, educational or developmental delays, or personality dynamics? Are you capable of administering tests, analyzing results, writing clear reports, and providing useful and diplomatic feedback?
Minimum Requirements Include:
- Excellence in psychotherapy assessment skills
- Ability to evaluate and administer psychological tests
- Doctorate in Psychology
- Exceptional rapport skills with patients (respectful and relationally oriented) and their parents
- Exceptional writing skills
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Direct Inquiries To:
Petra Desmond
Director of Administrative Hospitality
240-252-3349 ext. 807
PDesmond@KentlandsPsychotherapy.com
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Prescribing Clinicians
Description
Do you consider yourself an exceptional psychopharmacologist (Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist or Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner) who is able to connect with children and adolescents, as well as adults? Are you able to form a collaborative working relationship with parents?
Would you like to have a fee-for-service practice of your own, choose your own clients and be your own boss, yet you’re disinclined to take on the hassles of marketing and running a small business yourself?
Are you looking for an opportunity with flexible hours so you can spend more time with a child at home, or so that you can grow your family? Or perhaps you’re interested in downshifting to a semi-retired status.
Ideal candidates are individuals who are interested in exclusively, or primarily, offering medication evaluations and conservative management to our adults, adolescents, and younger children (if appropriate).
Unlimited earning potential with 100% commission pay structure with generous pay split, strong referral base from mid-sized practice and underserved regional community, flexible work hours, health insurance negotiable, and 4% 401K matching program, CEU/CME reimbursement program, Liability insurance paid, w-2 position.
Minimum Requirements Include:
- Board Certification
- Excellence in psychopharmacology skills
- Collaborative commitment with colleagues
- Exceptional rapport skills with patients (respectful and relationally oriented) and their parents
- Conscientious work ethic, especially with regard to communication follow-up with clients and timely responsiveness to refill requests.
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Direct Inquiries To:
Petra Desmond
Director of Administrative Hospitality
240-252-3349 ext. 807
PDesmond@KentlandsPsychotherapy.com
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Play and/or Sand Tray Therapy Clinician
Description
Do you consider yourself an exceptional psychotherapist who is able to connect with children and adolescents, as well as adults? Are you able to form a collaborative working relationship with parents?
Opportunity to grow your practice with part to full time flexible hours. Unlimited earning potential with 100% commission pay structure, flexible work hours, and 4% 401K matching program.
If you have a passion for helping children develop and heal, call us.
Minimum Requirements Include:
- Experience working with primary school aged children (6+)
- Advanced training in Play and/or Sand Tray therapy
- Comfortable working with families disrupted by divorce, comfort with diplomatic coordination with both parents in contentious custody arrangements.
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Direct Inquiries To:
Petra Desmond
Director of Administrative Hospitality
240-252-3349 ext. 807
PDesmond@KentlandsPsychotherapy.com
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Administrative Assistant (***Filled***)
Description
Do you consider yourself a first-rate professional who is able to work well with others, who has exceptional attention to detail, and who excels in customer service?
Do you like working in a team environment? Do you enjoy learning new things and having a variety of tasks in your daily work? Are you experienced in working in an office environment that includes customer interaction?
With Kentlands Psychotherapy, a boutique style, high end psychotherapy practice, you have an opportunity to grow in your career with semi flexible part time to full time hours. We offer competitive pay, commensurate with experience and skill set, and a 4% 401K matching program after six months with us. You will be working directly for our Director of Administrative Hospitality.
Our ideal candidate has a passion for delivering high quality client centered customer service, and a warm, friendly, and compassionate personality. We are looking for someone who is excited to be part of a team serving the emotional needs of our community at a time when mental health care is more important than ever. If you are ready to commit to this position for a minimum of two years, but are also interested in the potential to grow and stay with us long term, call us. We need you!
Minimum Requirements Include:
- Experience working in an office setting, medical settings a plus
- Working knowledge of computer technology such as Outlook, Word, Excel, GoTo Meeting or (other Zoom like technology), QuickBooks, and/or EMRs and willingness to learn new software programs
- Ability to work in person with the option of occasional remote work
- Ability to maintain absolute confidentiality
- Strong professional customer service, organization, and communication skills
- Experience with social media is a plus
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Send Cover Letter and Resume To:
Position has been filled. We are not taking applications at this time.
Petra Desmond
Director of Administrative Hospitality
240-252-3349 ext. 807
PDesmond@KentlandsPsychotherapy.com
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Psychology Student Interns
Description
If you’re a Senior in High School who has taken or is taking AP Psychology or a College Student or recent College Graduate interested in Psychology who is looking for a high-quality training opportunity, we may be able to help.
Please note: As an exclusively fee-for-service private practice, we are NOT able to offer clinical internships or externships to graduate students at this time. Although you will likely interact with clients on the telephone, or by training clients to use equipment such as Alpha-Stim or Muse (EEG brain training equipment) you will NOT be doing any psychotherapy with our clients. Therefore, our internships will NOT meet your graduate-level clinical externship or internship training program’s client contact hour requirements.
Also please note: This is a highly competitive training opportunity. You will be learning basic counseling skills through regular practice sessions with other interns and supervision with licensed clinicians. You will have opportunities to try our equipment (such as the Muse EEG feedback system). This is a learning, not an income-generating, position at the practice. As such this is a strictly unpaid position.
Our interns assist in doing background research for media posts, Facebook curating, TV interviews, Advice columns, etc. They collaborate in writing our advice columns with our licensed clinicians, assist in the management of our lending library, assist in public speaking planning and preparation, and update Instagram posts. They can assist our office manager in order to learn about some of the administrative aspects of practice management. They can lead projects such as the Main Street Trick or Treat event and they have limited direct interaction with clients on administrative matters and on occasion assisting patients with using the Alpha-Stim technology.
We do our best to ensure that we have interns in pairs to that they can practice person-centered therapy skills with each other in role-play type mini-sessions. To see a little of what this sort of therapy looks like, watch this video.
We demand much from our interns and will give much back in return.
Candidates must possess the following skills and qualities:
- Maturity that includes an ABSOLUTE capacity for maintaining confidentiality
- Reliability and responsibility at all times
- Diligence when assisting staff
- Compassionate spirit of service when interacting with clients
- Intellectual curiosity when engaged with clinicians
- Enthusiasm for the field and humility when working with those senior to you (which will be everyone)
Interns will be given an outstanding opportunity to learn about the profession with a supportive staff who enjoys teaching and mentoring.
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Direct Inquiries To:
The summer 2022 application process is ***closed***. We are currently taking applicants for the 2022-2023 school year.
Internship Applicants and Placement Directors are invited to initiate inquires with:
Petra Desmond
Director of Administrative Hospitality
240-252-3349 ext. 807
PDesmond@KentlandsPsychotherapy.com
