Director of Counseling: New Hope Counseling

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Job Title:

Director of Counseling: New Hope Counseling

Job Description:

Job Title: Director of Counseling (DC) Reports to: Executive Director (ED) Direct Reports: Counselors (for all counseling items) Hours/Week: 25 hrs/wk + 15 hrs/wk Salary: $45,000 + caseload PTO Hours: 3 Weeks (cannot be scheduled during DO's PTO) As the DC at New Hope Counseling, you'll devote most of your time to overseeing a team of counseling professionals and managing the organization alongside the Director of Operations (DO); the remainder of your time will be direct clinical work with NH clients. This role is ideal for an experienced mental health clinician who excels at both leadership and therapy. Primary Areas of Responsibility: 1. Leadership & Supervision A. Organization Leadership: management, promotion, and recruitment

• Honor and cultivate the spirit of partnership with Redeemer's leadership
• Promote the presence of New Hope as a vital place for professional counseling
• Promote to Redeemer, other churches, and other organizations in the city of Indianapolis
• Alongside the DO, maintain alignment between NH's counseling philosophy and NH's counseling policies and practices
• Work with the DO in recruiting qualified, gospel-centered staff counselors
• Oversee, and regularly lead, workshops to be offered at Redeemer by NH staff
• Sustain familiarity with and adherence to applicable professional code of ethics (i.e., ACA, AAMFT, NASW, or AACC) and maintain membership with at least one of these three organizations
• Sustain familiarity with and adherence to Indiana state licensing guidelines

B. Team Building & Professional Development

• Cultivate the counselors as a team through intentional development of their professional bonds with one another
• Lead/coordinate working retreats focused on team building (half-day)
• Facilitate monthly team training, leading the majority of them directly
• Promote the ongoing professional development of each counselor

C. Case Supervision

• Support each counselor in faith integration, case conceptualization, treatment planning, applicable ethics, and professional growth
• Provide weekly, scheduled and on-call, clinical supervision to pre-licensed counselors and scheduled and on-call clinical consultation to licensed counselors
• Alongside the DO, monitor staff's certifications and compliance, including but not limited to HIPAA, CEUs, licensure status, and compliance with handbook standards

2. Clinical Client Work (15 total hours per week)

• Conduct counseling sessions, up to a maximum of ten appointments per week.
• Assess client needs, develop treatment plans, maintain timely documentation
• Practice client-centered care that aligns with New Hope's counseling philosophy

Position Qualifications:

Qualifications (Required) • Alignment with New Hope's mission, values, and philosophy • Good-faith subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith • Master's Degree in Counseling • Licensed Mental Health Professional (e.g., LMHC, LCSW, LMFT) • At least 3–5 years of clinical experience post-licensure • Strong theoretical knowledge of contemporary counseling modalities • Minimum two years of clinical supervision experience, plus documentation of supervision-specific continuing education or commitment to pursuing such in first year at New Hope • Excellent leadership and management skills

Application Deadline

Job Type:

Full Time

Salary Range:

$90k+

General Information

Church/Organization Name

New Hope Counseling

Contact Name & Contact Info

Industry

Non-Profit/Ministry

Denomination

Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)

City, State

Indianapolis, IN

Description of Organization

New Hope's heart and mission is to bring wholeness to the city through restorative counseling. We operate out of the local church to serve a wide range of people in the greater Indianapolis area with professional, confidential counseling.

Our story began in 2012, when a group of church leaders and mental health professionals began work on a proposal to Redeemer Presbyterian Church's leadership for a counseling service that would operate out of the church as a separate entity.

The goal was for a mission into the city out of the church. We did not want a stand alone counseling center that could operate without Redeemer. We did not want an in-house counseling ministry that would operate solely within Redeemer.

That goal took a significant step forward in 2015, when the session voted in favor of the vision for a counseling service that would exist beneath the governance of Redeemer's session, but with a constitutional jurisdiction of its own. New Hope would serve a range of clientele with professional counseling services, counseling that would be aligned with Redeemer's theology but kept strictly confidential, according to Indiana law.

Since 2024, New Hope has had eight counselors, five female and three male, who see individuals, couples, children, teens, and families for an array of professional counseling services. Approximately one-third of NH clients come from Redeemer's congregation, and two-thirds come from a wide range of church and non-church backgrounds across Indianapolis and central Indiana.

In 2025, we moved into a wonderful space that is half a duplex owned by Redeemer, on a property immediately adjacent to the church building. We are amazed, humbled, grateful, and excited that, by God's grace, the goal for a mission into the city out of the church happened and continues to happen.

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