We’re not hiring at this time however…
updated 11/6/24:
if you’re interested in employment at Refuge, please complete the application, we won’t turn-away a good fit!
You’re a therapist who wants to do good work and be paid a sustainable living wage. You may be tired of working in a system that consistently underpays and overworks therapists. You’ve considered (or are already in) private practice, but the marketing, shouldering all the expenses and headache of running a practice, paying an extra 15% in self-employment taxes, and being all alone just is NOT for you.
You’d love to find a practice that pays you a generous wage and offers benefits that allow you to support yourself, your (chosen) family, and community. AND, you want to be a part of a rad team of practitioners you look forward to seeing, who you learn from, and who share your approach to therapy as a tool for liberation. At the end of a hard clinical day, you want to be glowing because you know you did excellent work with clients you love.
This is precisely what we’re building here. And you don’t even need to live in Vermont to be a part of it!
We are currently a team of 4! (3 full-time somatic therapists and an acupuncturist/herbalist).
Are you?
integrating the body into the work that you do (or want to receive the financial support to begin and deepen (!) that training?)
Queer and Trans-celebrating
Neurodiversity-aligned
an unabashed intersectional feminist
grounded and have good boundaries? Read on!
How it works:
We will build you a full-time caseload of 23 weekly clients. You will pull potential clients from our waiting list.
You decide when you want to work with the exception of 5 appointment slots between 3-8PM/week and two monthly Fridays for staff meeting and somatic trauma training. We have offices in Bristol and Burlington, VT. Fully remote possible for the right clinician.
If you’re not in VT, you apply for an “Interim Telehealth Registration” (which takes 10 mins) to practice with VT clients
You meet for monthly supervision with our Somatics Supervision and Training Wonderperson!
We all convene monthly for somatic training where we learn together and build skills around trauma transformation from an intersectional lens
After 6 consecutive weeks of seeing 23 clients/week, your health stipend kicks in and you start accruing toward your 3 paid weeks off/year
The logistics:
Required
Master’s degree with Vermont licensure OR “Interim Telehealth Registration” OR working towards licensure (rostered) to practice as a LCMHC, LICSW, LPCC, LMFT, or LADC in good standing
Embodied understanding and/or lived experience with communities experiencing marginalization and/or multiple marginalization
Physical ability to sit for up to 4 hours consecutively during the day (with 5-10 minute breaks each hour), ability to utilize a variety of offices (we share a large, plant and light-filled office space and rotate work spaces)
Trauma-informed / trauma transformational approach
Excited to begin training in somatic trauma transformation with our expert somatic practitioner supervisor
Desired but not required
Training and/or certification in Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Sensorimotor, AEDP, Generative Somatics, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Strozzi Institute, Brainspotting, or other body-based therapeutic modalities not named here
Salary and Benefits
(Please note: this is a W-2 employee position including workers compensation coverage and all the benefits and rights of being an employee)
$51.15 - $70/hour concomitant with experience (annualized: $65,085-$87,630 for 23 clinical hours/week and 2.5 hours/week paid admin)
for rostered folks working toward licensure, clinical pay rate is $33-$39.41/hour with an annual pay review (annualized: $42,068-$49,734.36 for 23 clinical hours/week and 2.5 hours paid admin), for your 24th client and above, your clinical hourly rate is doubled allowing you to make significant extra wages
everything else is the same except you receive weekly supervision toward licensure!
Paid administrative time (2.5 hours/week) for client communications or other non-clinical work
Full-time = 23 clinical hours/week
Flexible work week with 5 weekly appointment times between 3-8PM required; combination of remote and in-person work in Burlington or Bristol, VT (fully-remote possible for the right fit)
3 weeks paid vacation and immediate sick time accrual in accordance with VT State law
$512.50/month health stipend (tax-free HSA for those with high-deductible plans and taxable addition to paycheck for others)
Annual education/training stipend
Holiday bonus
Monthly 1:1 supervision + bi-monthly experiential group somatic group with a highly-experienced somatics practitioner with a liberatory lens + monthly self-organized clinical consultation group
Free, same-day acupuncture appointments up to 3x/month
Inclusion and Non-Discrimination Statement (credit: Radical Healing)
Systems of power, privilege, and oppression have traditionally created barriers for persons and groups with particular identities, ages, abilities, and histories. We pledge to do all we can to replace such barriers with ever-widening circles of solidarity and mutual respect. We strive to be a center for health and healing that truly welcomes all persons and commits to structuring our work in ways that empower and enhance everyone’s participation.
We intentionally welcome all. We foster a climate of purposeful inclusion, an environment where all can feel safe, valued, cared for, and given an opportunity to form meaningful connections with each other. We value the diversity of differences which includes (but is not limited to) gender identity and its expression, age, race, ethnicity, and national origin, range of abilities, sexual orientation, financial means, family structure, educational and class status and political perspective.
