Part-Time Couples & Individual Therapist Culturally Responsive Care for South Asian, Multicultural Clients
Location: Remote in NJ (telehealth) Hybrid in person options in Princeton, NJ
Job type: Part-time, W2, with the opportunity to grow into full-time
Pay: $50-90 per hour based on licensure/experience
Minimum caseload: 15 completed client sessions per week
Join We Rise Therapy & Wellness
We Rise Therapy & Wellness is a trauma-informed, culturally responsive group practice supporting first- and second-generation South Asian and Asian clients, women of color, multicultural individuals, and couples throughout New Jersey.
We understand that mental health and relationships are shaped by more than individual experiences. Culture, identity, migration, family expectations, gender roles, religion, race, community, and intergenerational patterns can all influence how people experience distress, connection, conflict, and healing.
We are seeking a thoughtful, relational Couples and Individual Therapist who has formal training in an evidence-based or evidence-informed couples therapy model and is also comfortable providing individual psychotherapy to adults.
Clinicians of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We are looking for someone who demonstrates cultural humility, curiosity, inclusivity, and a genuine commitment to serving diverse communities.
The Role
This therapist will maintain a mixed telehealth caseload of couples and individual adult clients.
The position begins with a consistent part-time caseload of at least 15 completed sessions per week, with the opportunity to grow into a full-time role based on client demand, clinician availability, performance, and mutual fit.
The ideal clinician understands that couples therapy is a distinct clinical specialty requiring structure, relational assessment, emotional attunement, and the ability to remain balanced during conflict.
What You’ll Do
- Provide virtual couples and individual therapy to clients located in New Jersey
- Maintain a minimum of 15 completed client sessions per week
- Conduct thorough clinical and relationship assessments
- Develop clear, individualized treatment plans
- Use a structured, evidence-based or evidence-informed couples therapy approach
- Help couples improve communication, navigate conflict, rebuild trust, strengthen intimacy, and create healthier relationship patterns
- Support couples experiencing cultural, religious, intergenerational, parenting, family-boundary, or identity-related concerns
- Provide individual therapy for concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, identity, life transitions, family stress, and intergenerational patterns
- Maintain timely, accurate, and clinically appropriate documentation
- Participate in team consultation, meetings, training, and professional development
- Collaborate with the administrative team regarding referrals, scheduling, and client needs
- Coordinate referrals or higher levels of care when clinically indicated
- Contribute ideas for future couples groups, premarital programs, relationship workshops, or community offerings
Required Qualifications
- Current New Jersey license as an LMFT, LAMFT, LPC, LAC, LCSW, or LSW
- Experience providing couples therapy
- Formal training in an established couples therapy approach, such as:
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
- Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
- Relational Life Therapy
- Another structured, evidence-based or evidence-informed couples therapy model
- Experience providing individual psychotherapy to adults
- Ability to maintain at least 15 completed client sessions per week
- Strong clinical judgment, communication, boundaries, and documentation skills
- Commitment to culturally responsive, trauma-informed, inclusive care
- Ability to work independently while collaborating with a supportive clinical team
Associate-licensed clinicians must meet all applicable New Jersey supervision requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced or certification-level training in a couples therapy modality
- Experience working with South Asian, Asian, multicultural, immigrant, first-generation, intercultural, interfaith, or interracial couples
- Experience addressing:
- Communication and recurring conflict
- Emotional disconnection
- Trust and infidelity recovery
- Premarital concerns
- Parenting and co-parenting differences
- Extended-family boundaries
- Gender expectations and emotional labor
- Intimacy concerns
- Cultural or religious differences
- Major life transitions
- Training in EMDR, CBT, ACT, DBT, IFS-informed therapy, psychodynamic therapy, or another established individual therapy approach
- Interest in developing relationship-focused groups, workshops, or educational programs
- Availability for some afternoon or evening appointments
What We Offer
- Part-time W2 employment
- Opportunity to grow into a full-time position
- Flexible scheduling within agreed-upon practice and client-care needs
- Established referral and marketing support
- Administrative, scheduling, billing, and credentialing support
- Professional development and peer consultation
- Supervision toward LPC licensure for eligible LACs.
- Potential paid opportunities to facilitate workshops, groups, and community programs
- Professional-development assistance and tuition-reimbursement opportunities, based on eligibility and practice policy
- A collaborative, inclusive, and culturally responsive team environment
- The opportunity to help expand couples and relationship services within a growing practice
You May Be a Strong Fit If You
- View couples therapy as a clinical specialty rather than two individual sessions conducted together
- Can remain grounded, balanced, and compassionate during high-conflict sessions
- Are warm and relational while also providing structure and accountability
- Understand how culture, race, religion, gender, migration, family expectations, and intergenerational patterns can influence relationships
- Enjoy working with both couples and individual adults
- Can translate insight into meaningful behavioral and relational change
- Value collaboration, feedback, cultural humility, and continued learning
- Want to grow your caseload and role within a mission-driven group practice
How to Apply
Email your résumé and a brief cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line:
Couples and Individual Therapist Application – [Your Name]
Please include:
- Your current New Jersey license
- Your couples therapy training
- The approximate number of couples you have treated
- The couples therapy model you use most consistently
- Your experience providing individual therapy
- Your weekly availability
- Your desired start date
Work location: Remote within New Jersey
Pay: $50.00 - $85.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Professional development assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Princeton, NJ 08540
