Windhorse staff members are second to none. They treat you not like a patient or client, but like a human being.
— Alejandro, Windhorse Alum
Windhorse is always seeking compassionate individuals to become part of our team. We seek individuals who have a strong sense of their own basic sanity, and confidence in the basic sanity and health of others. We encourage our staff to have a mindfulness or contemplative practice to help cultivate the capacity for being present, available, and attuned to those we support. Most members of our staff have a background that aligns well with Windhorse philosophy and approach. In particular, our organization seeks to find individuals that are willing to look beyond clinical diagnoses and treat clients with the dignity they deserve.
Employment Opportunities
Current Openings in Northampton, MA
Housemate
Windhorse Integrative Mental Health is seeking housemates. A housemate lives with a person experiencing significant emotional distress (i.e. depression, schizophrenia, trauma, etc.) and needing a high level of support and interaction in their recovery process. Windhorse uses a mindfulness-based philosophy in working with these individuals. Each household is fully supported by a clinical team. This is an excellent opportunity for a well-grounded person interested in supporting those seeking recovery and well-being. It is an opportunity for self-growth and work within the human services. Specific experience in this field is not required. Being engaged in a personal contemplative discipline (i.e. meditation, yoga, etc.) would be supportive to this job.
Benefits include a weekly stipend, rent and utilities are paid for, a monthly food allowance, the freedom to work up to 25 hours per week at another job, ongoing individual and group training and supervision.
We ask a minimum of a six month commitment. Please send a cover letter and resume to frontoffice@windhorseimh.org
Clinical Team Leader
Hours: Full-time
Compensation: Pay scales upon request, includes benefits (generous PTO, health, vision, dental, life/LTD, simple IRA)
Job Description:
A team leader coordinates a care team of 4+ clinicians who all work together to offer a tremendous amount of support and 1-on-1 time to clients. A team leader also meets with clients for typically 3 hours at a time, perhaps several times per week, partaking in activities that support healing in client homes or out and about in the community such as hiking, sharing a meal, getting coffee, volunteering, taking a class together, etc. Case load is only a few clients per counselor, allowing for extensive depth of healing and connection. This position includes ongoing training as well as the opportunity to supervise others.
Ideal Candidate:
- Strong clinical and case management skills
- Warm and compassionate
- Thrives in a collaborative team environment
- Capacity for humor, playfulness, and lightheartedness
- Malleable—open to learning non-traditional therapeutic approaches
- Humble and curious—remains mindful and transparent about one’s own growth edge
- Affinity toward relationship-based healing
- Tends to not be overly anxious, fear-based or rigid
- Personally well-resourced and grounded
Job Requirements:
- Licensed for clinical practice at the Master level (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, etc)
- Ongoing personal mindfulness/contemplative practice
- Extensive experience with adult psychosis, mood disorder and trauma (preferably in a community setting)
- Experience in conducting direct psychotherapy and case management
- Skilled in acute crisis management
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary team environment
If you would like to apply for this position, please email a resume and cover letter to Victoria Yoshen at: frontoffice@windhorseimh.org
Still Point Manager
Are you interested in working where you live? Do you want to make a difference in the lives of others? Do you have experience with running a household, and do you appreciate community-based environments? Windhorse is seeking a manager of a hosted home environment for individuals working with extreme mind states who are arriving to our step-down program. When a Windhorse client first arrives, they are received at our Still Point house, an established home environment where they can land, orient, and meet their clinical team. Each client remains at our Still Point house for two to twelve weeks, at which point they then move to an apartment, which they share with a housemate.
Windhorse is seeking a Still Point Manager who will live ongoingly in a house in Northampton and help with these transitions as well as other uses for the house. This individual should be skilled at running an uplifted home (including typical home cleaning and maintenance), cooking, and shopping for the home. They also need to be emotionally regulated, welcoming, compassionate, organized, and patient. While the Still Point Manager has extensive clinical support, the job itself is not clinical. In addition, the Still Point Manager is anticipated to hold outside employment and may do so for up to 20 hours per week.
During periods of vacancy when there is no client in residence, the Still Point Manager may also be asked to host guests in the home, either other housemates when they are on respite from their households, or friends and family members from the Windhorse community. In addition, during vacancy periods the Still Point Manager is responsible for providing short periods of respite coverage during housemate time off. This may involve staying with the client in their apartment while the housemate is away (typically for 3 nights) or hosting the client at the Still Point house.
The compensation package includes a weekly stipend of $600 (paid biweekly), fully covered rent and utilities, a monthly food allowance whenever a client is in residence, and a generous benefits package (paid time off; 401(k); health, dental, and vision insurance; life/LTD policy). Interested? Send your cover letter, resume, and references to “frontoffice at windhorseimh.org”.
Current Openings in San Luis Obispo, CA
Team Counselor
Hours: Part-time (with potential to grow to full-time)
Compensation: Pay scales upon request; part-time is paid hourly and full-time includes salary and benefits
Job Description:
Clinical team counselors work on a team of 4+ clinicians, each offering a tremendous amount of support and 1-on-1 time to clients. A team counselor meets with a client for typically 3 hours at a time, perhaps several times per week, partaking in activities that support healing in client homes or out and about in the community such as hiking, sharing a meal, getting coffee, volunteering, taking a class together, etc. Full-time case load is only a few clients per counselor, allowing for extensive depth of healing and connection. A generous amount of supervision, mentoring and training is offered for this position.
Ideal Candidate:
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Warm and compassionate
- Thrives in a collaborative team environment
- Capacity for humor, playfulness, and lightheartedness
- Malleable—open to learning non-traditional therapeutic approaches
- Humble and curious—remains mindful and transparent about one’s own growth edge
- Affinity toward relationship-based healing
- Tends to not be overly anxious, fear based or rigid
- Personally well-resourced and grounded
Job Requirements:
- Master’s Degree in relevant field (working toward clinical licensure for clinical practice preferred)
- Ongoing personal mindfulness/contemplative practice
- Able to attend staff meetings, clinical team meetings and trainings
If you would like to apply for this position, please email a resume and cover letter to: sfletcher@windhorseimh.org
Current Openings in Portland, OR
Clinical Team Leader
Hours: Full-time
Compensation: Pay scales upon request, includes benefits (generous PTO, health, vision, dental, life/LTD, 401K)
Job Description:
A team leader coordinates a care team of 4+ clinicians who all work together to offer a tremendous amount of support and 1-on-1 time to clients. A team leader also meets with clients for typically 3 hours at a time, perhaps several times per week, partaking in activities that support healing in client homes or out and about in the community such as hiking, sharing a meal, getting coffee, volunteering, taking a class together, etc. Case load is only a few clients per counselor, allowing for extensive depth of healing and connection. This position includes ongoing training as well as the opportunity to supervise others.
Ideal Candidate:
- Strong clinical and case management skills
- Warm and compassionate
- Thrives in a collaborative team environment
- Capacity for humor, playfulness, and lightheartedness
- Malleable—open to learning non-traditional therapeutic approaches
- Humble and curious—remains mindful and transparent about one’s own growth edge
- Affinity toward relationship-based healing
- Tends to not be overly anxious, fear-based or rigid
- Personally well-resourced and grounded
Job Requirements:
- Licensed or almost licensed for clinical practice at the Master level (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, etc)
- Ongoing personal mindfulness/contemplative practice
- Extensive experience with adult psychosis, mood disorder and trauma (preferably in a community setting)
- Experience in conducting direct psychotherapy and case management
- Skilled in acute crisis management
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary team environment
If you would like to apply for this position, please email a resume and cover letter to: aboboia@windhorseimh.org