We are building a behavioral health service line, and we are looking for the clinician who will build it with us.
WHO WE ARE
Embodied Wellness is a multidisciplinary integrative clinic in Spokane. We have been here more than five years. Our team includes an East Asian medicine provider, a chiropractor, licensed massage therapists, and clinical support staff. We serve a broad patient population, including U.S. veterans through the VA Community Care Network.
Our owner and clinic director is an EAMP with a master's in Traditional Chinese Medicine and more than a decade of additional training in functional medicine. She is currently completing an MSW. Her clinical work is grounded in Five Element acupuncture, somatic approaches to trauma, and Polyvagal theory.
WHAT INTEGRATIVE MEANS HERE
It does not mean several kinds of provider sharing a waiting room.
It means the person doing a patient's acupuncture, the person adjusting them, and the person doing their mental health work talk to each other about that patient should it be appropriate and necessary. Cross-disciplinary consultation is a normal part of a week here, not a scheduled event. It changes what we notice and it changes what we can offer because we are a team working together for the patient.
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING, AND WHY WE NEED YOU
We want to develop a mind-body approach to trauma and mental health, and we are looking for a partner to develop it with.
Our owner knows the Chinese medicine side. Nearly twenty years of clinical work with the body, mind and trauma from a somatic perspective, with Polyvagal theory and Five Element acupuncture as the working frameworks. What she does not know is the clinical mental health side, and she is not going to pretend otherwise. That is precisely why this role exists.
We are not looking for someone to run a therapy department next to an acupuncture clinic. We are looking for a clinician who wants to sit down with us and work out what it actually looks like when Chinese medicine, somatic work, and clinical psychotherapy are designed together rather than referred between. Nobody has handed us a model for this and we are not aware of any models like this. We would be building it.
Your clinical expertise is the piece we are missing. We mean that literally. You would be shaping the method, not implementing ours.
Group work is part of the plan. So much of what brings people to trauma care is isolation, and we believe the group itself does real clinical work. How that gets built is a conversation we want to have with you.
Clinical authority for your patients is yours. Formulation, pacing, intervention selection, discharge. Nobody here directs the care of a patient they are not licensed to treat.
Collaboration is not a perk of working here. It is a requirement of it. A provider who wants to work in complete independence would not be happy in this clinic.
THE WORK
- Individual psychotherapy and therapeutic groups
- Building the service line with us: clinical model, protocols, group programming, documentation standards
- Case consultation across disciplines
- Optional, as the program develops: clinical supervision and university-approved field instruction for MSW students. We would like to grow into this. It is not a requirement of the role, and we are not screening for it.
We support and encourage EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, IFS, NARM, parts and attachment-based work, DBT and CBT skills, verbal psychotherapy, and structured lifestyle intervention. Our orientation leans toward paced work that builds a patient's capacity before it asks anything of them.
REQUIRED
- MSW from a CSWE-accredited program
- Active, unrestricted LICSW in Washington State, or an equivalent independent clinical social work license in another state with Washington endorsement underway
- Minimum two years post-licensure clinical experience
- Credentialed or credentialable with commercial and federal payers
PREFERRED
- Already credentialed with TriWest and active on the VA Community Care Network panel. This is a real advantage. A clinician already on the panel can begin seeing veterans in weeks rather than waiting out a credentialing cycle, and veterans are a meaningful part of who we serve.
- Formal somatic training
- Working familiarity with Polyvagal theory
- Group psychotherapy experience
- Interest in eventually serving as an MSW field instructor and clinical supervisor
COMPENSATION AND SUPPORT
- $40–45 per hour depending on experience, with a formal review at 90 days and an increase anticipated for strong performance
- Part-time with variable hours. Annual compensation depends on scheduled hours, which we will set together based on your availability and how the service line develops.
- Hourly for all worked time. Sessions, documentation, consultation, and program development are all paid. This is not a billable-hours-only model.
- You will not need to bring a caseload. Referrals come through the existing clinic.
- Administrative, scheduling, credentialing, and billing infrastructure already in place
- Flexible schedule
- Continuing education support for modality certification
WHO THIS IS FOR
If you want a program that already runs, this is the wrong post. There is real ambiguity here and decisions neither of us has made yet.
If you have been carrying ideas about how trauma care should be structured and have never had the authority to build them, this is the post to read twice.
TO APPLY
Reply through this posting with a resume and brief answers to these three questions. We would rather read something short and real than a formal cover letter.
- How do you understand the relationship between nervous system state and psychological presentation?
- What excites you about this position specifically?
- What would you bring to it that we would not get from someone else?
Work location: in person and possibly some remote, Spokane.
More about the clinic: www.EmbodiedClinic.com
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.