Career and Training Opportunities

About Parent & Family Wellness Center (PFWC)

PFWC is a therapy practice providing relationship-based, reflective care to individuals, couples, and families across Colorado, with a particular specialization in perinatal mental health. Our team includes over 30 clinicians, 4 supervisors, and in-house prescribers, working collaboratively to deliver coordinated, comprehensive care.

We are a training-oriented organization, committed to developing strong clinicians through high-quality supervision, ongoing learning, and a culture of thoughtful clinical practice. We partner across disciplines and with ancillary providers to ensure clients receive well-integrated support.

Our goal is to make high-quality mental health services accessible throughout Colorado while maintaining care that is clear, grounded, and responsive to the communities we serve. At PFWC, you won’t be working in a silo—you’ll be part of a supportive, intellectually engaged group of clinicians who care deeply about their clients and each other, and who are actively shaping how care is delivered within the practice.

Position Summary

The Clinical Director is responsible for the clinical integrity, consistency, and functioning of care across PFWC.

This role holds authority over clinical decision-making, supervisor leadership, clinician performance, and clinical systems to ensure that care is clear, aligned, and effectively delivered.

The Clinical Director integrates clinical judgment, people leadership, and operational clarity to ensure that:

• Clients are appropriately supported and not lost in the system

• Clinicians are meeting expectations and developing in their roles

• Supervisors provide high-quality, consistent supervision

• Clinical processes function smoothly and reliably

This is a senior leadership role with both clinical and organizational responsibility.

This is a hybrid position: majority work-from-home with some in-person work required in Boulder.

How This Role Operates

Leads primarily through supervisors, stepping into direct ownership only when complexity or risk requires it. Collaborates regularly with business and program leaders.

In Practice, This Role Looks Like

• Meeting with supervisors to review clinical work and performance

• Weighing in on complex cases, placements, or clinical decisions

• Addressing clinician performance or reliability issues

• Monitoring client flow and resolving breakdowns in coordination or matching

• Clarifying ownership and next steps when situations are unclear

• Collaborating with administrative and business leaders and with program leads

Core Responsibilities

1. Clinical Decision-Making & Consultation

Serves as the escalation point for complex clinical situations, including presentation, risk, placement, and treatment direction.

Provides consultation by default, with the ability to clarify direction and step in directly when needed.

2. Supervisor Leadership & Accountability

Leads and develops the supervisor layer, which holds primary responsibility for clinician support and case oversight.

Accountable for supervision quality, supervisor effectiveness, and appropriate escalation of clinical and performance concerns.

Runs group supervision and other meetings as needed.

3. Clinician Performance & Role Alignment

Oversees clinician performance through supervisors, ensuring alignment with expectations for caseload, reliability, documentation, and role clarity.

Leads performance conversations, development, and performance improvement processes as needed.

4. System Ownership & Clinical Flow

Owns the effectiveness of clinical flow and underlying systems.

Ensures:

• Timely and appropriate client placement

• Clear coordination across providers

• Resolution of breakdowns in intake, matching, or communication

Defines clinical criteria for placement and steps in on complex or unclear decisions.

5. Hiring & Onboarding

Leads hiring for clinical roles and ensures onboarding establishes clear expectations and alignment with PFWC standards.

6. Applied Training & Clinical Standards

Ensures clinicians and supervisors meet clear standards for care delivery.

Focuses on applied, performance-based training tied to real clinical work.

Partners with Director of Training on broader training and curriculum.

7. Documentation Standards & Clinical Compliance

Defines expectations for documentation and use of the EHR (e.g., SimplePractice) in alignment with billing and regulatory requirements.

Provides clear guidance on ambiguities and ensures consistency across clinicians.

8. Partnership with Administrative & Intake Functions

Partners with administrative leadership and intake program leadership to align clinical care with operational systems.

Provides clinical input into:

• Scheduling and capacity

• Intake and matching processes

• Documentation requirements impacting billing

Steps in on complex placement or coordination issues.

9. Direct care

Holds a caseload of 8-10 clients per week with the goals of:

• Maintain an understanding of the typical population served

• Understand PFWC systems and is able to identify gaps and monitor the impact of system changes

• Engage in reflective supervision with President to deepen supervision practice

• Support the organization’s finances

Accountability

This role is accountable for:

• Timely client placement and continuity of care

• Strong clinician performance and follow-through

• High-quality, effective supervision

• Clear and compliant documentation

• Smooth clinical flow with minimal breakdowns

Scope & Workload (Typical)

• 2–5 escalated clinical consultations per week

• 2–4 complex placement or clinical decisions per week

• Ongoing supervisor leadership and performance oversight

• Continuous attention to flow, coordination, and system clarity

What This Role Is Not

• Not the primary owner of the training program

• Not an administrative or operations role

• Not a passive advisory position

Relationship with President  

The Clinical Director holds full evaluative and decision-making authority.

President (former Clinical Director) provides reflective consultation, clinical depth, and model development, and is not involved in performance decisions or ongoing case management.

Key Qualities

• Strong clinical judgment and comfort making decisions in ambiguity

• Ability to provide clear, direct feedback and hold accountability

• Systems thinker who integrates across people and processes

• Ability to balance care quality with operational realities

• Reliable in follow-through without over-functioning

Preferred:

• Experience supervising clinicians and/or supervisors

• Depth in relational reflective clinical work

• Openness to ongoing consultation and alignment with PFWC’s model

Bottom Line

The Clinical Director ensures that clinical care at PFWC is clear, aligned, and actually happens as intended—across people, cases, and systems.

Compensation

This role offers a base salary in the range of $115,000–$125,000.

The ideal candidate is open to starting part time and building towards FT as we build up their caseload. 

Benefits

PFWC offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, including:

• Paid Time Off: 15 days annually, accrued from start date

• Paid Holidays: 6 fixed holidays plus 2 floating days

• Sick Leave: 6 days annually, accrued from start date

• Parental Leave: 4 weeks paid

• Health Insurance: Multiple plans through Anthem; PFWC covers at least 50% of the base individual plan

• Dental Insurance: 100% employer-paid base plan

• Vision Insurance: Fully covered

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Retirement: 3% employer match on IRA contributions

• Family & Medical Leave: Participation in Colorado FAMLI program

To Apply

Complete this screener application. https://forms.gle/M2ZutswrpzJTJe8t5

PFWC offers opportunities for newly graduated clinicians to gain knowledge of perinatal and early family mental health theory and practice, including differential diagnosis, biopsychosocial models of assessment and treatment, evidence-based approaches, and attachment theory. The fellowship is intended to provide a highly supportive environment with opportunities for structured learning while clinicians gain hours towards licensure.

PFWC Fellows receive specialized training and ongoing supervision from licensed clinicians on various topics related to reproductive, perinatal, and early family mental health, including diagnosis and assessment of PMADS, attachment, trauma, infant mental health, and grief and loss. We ask for a 2-3 year commitment while therapists gain hours towards licensure.

Candidates who are a good fit can demonstrate thoughtfulness, professionalism, enthusiasm, and a high level of self-reflective capacity. Individuals must feel comfortable interacting with community partners and medical clinics and must be dedicated to follow through and consistent presence in their various roles. Fellows hold ongoing psychotherapy cases at PFWC, have a portion of time directly embedded in medical clinics to provide Collaborative Behavioral Health Care, and support other programming as needed, including offering groups, classes, and wellness check-ins.

In addition to working with expectant, postpartum and new parents and their children, clinicians see a wide swath of folks from a variety of life circumstances. Fellows will hold a diverse caseload, including non-perinatal individuals and families. With regards to the perinatal population served, fellows learn about the importance of balancing the needs of the parents with the needs of infants and young children during a critical period of the family’s life, and provide psycho-education, appropriate referrals, and evidence-based treatment to support the mental and emotional well-being of families.

PFWC is thrilled to partner with Mayamotion Healing to offer supplemental training and an enhanced focus on social justice and community-based work in our fellowship/internship programs.

We strongly encourage applicants whose lived experience reflects the diverse communities we serve. At this time, we are particularly prioritizing candidates with experience working with fathers, male-identified clients, and/or children. We also welcome applications from individuals whose identities and perspectives have been historically underrepresented in mental health care, including but not limited to clinicians of color, LGBTQ+ clinicians, and those from non-dominant cultural or religious backgrounds.

The ideal candidates:

• Are committed to reproductive, perinatal, and early family mental health, and come with an interest in and desire for training in these specializations;

• Provide ethical care with high integrity by honoring his/her strengths and seeking collaboration & support from colleagues when necessary;

• Are committed to ongoing professional development in evidence-based and best-practice care;

• Work independently to provide clients with an exceptional therapy experience by representing the Parent and Family Wellness Center through excellent judgment and professional conduct at all times;

• Demonstrate professionalism and a true commitment to mission-driven work

• Demonstrate strong self-reflective capacity and eagerness to receive reflective supervision/mentorship and serve as an active team member in a collaborative environment;

• Are enthusiastic about participating in a wellness community with a commitment to collaborative client care;

Professional Requirements:

• Have completed a graduate-level education in social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, or psychology;

• Be open to supporting and treating pregnant and lactating women who require pharmaceutical medicine as a component of their care;

• Feel comfortable offering both counseling and case management, and committed to collaborative treatment;

• Be interested in holding a diverse clinical caseload of clients and also offering assessments and psychoeducation through a collaborative care model ;

• Comfortable receiving and integrating feedback from supervisors and colleagues;

• Self-motivated, highly organized, and comfortable with marketing; this placement requires a willingness to market services in the community in order to help generate referrals and requires professionalism in representing a larger practice in community settings

Compensation

Fellow therapists are employed as staff psychotherapists at our center. Compensation is $33 per hour, or $74,000 for a full time (40 hour/week) position carrying a caseload average of 5 clients per day. Part Time positions are also available, with an expected caseload of 3 clients/day, and 20 hours/week. Supervision and training are included.

Application Process

Please complete our application form.

**Please note: Our applications are currently closed for the remainder of our 2026/2027 training year.

PFWC offers opportunities for graduate level clinicians to gain knowledge of perinatal and early family mental health theory and practice, including differential diagnosis, biopsychosocial models of assessment and treatment, evidence-based approaches, infant mental health, and attachment theory. Didactic and experiential learning and practice will take place within the context of a social-justice lens, with an emphasis on considering identity, power, privilege, and marginalization in the context of the therapeutic relationship.

PFWC Interns receive specialized training and ongoing supervision from licensed clinicians on various topics related to reproductive, perinatal and early family mental health, including diagnosis and assessment of PMADS, attachment, trauma, infant mental health, and grief and loss. We ask for a 12-month commitment starting over the summer but we’ll consider 9 month spots as well. These hours involve a mix of direct service and administrative tasks and projects.

Candidates are a good fit who can demonstrate thoughtfulness, professionalism, enthusiasm, and a high level of self-reflective capacity. Individuals must feel comfortable interacting with doctors, nurses, midwives, and front desk staff with community partners, must be dedicated to appropriate follow through and consistent presence in their various roles. Interns hold ongoing psychotherapy cases, offer free virtual reproductive and perinatal wellness check-ins to folks throughout Colorado, and participate in special projects as needed.

PFWC is thrilled to partner with Mayamotion Healing to offer supplemental training and an enhanced focus on social justice and community-based work in our internship program. PFWC interns will learn and grow alongside Maymotion Healing interns as they glean critical psychotherapy experience and skills.

In addition to working with expectant, postpartum and new parents and their children, clinicians at PFWC see a wide swath of folks from a variety of life circumstances. Interns will hold a diverse caseload, including non-perinatal individuals and families referred to the company due to our experience and reputation in the community. With regards to the perinatal population served, clinicians-in-training learn about the importance of balancing the needs of the parents with the needs of infants and young children during a critical period of the family’s life, and provide psycho-education, appropriate referrals, and evidence-based treatment to support the mental and emotional well-being of families.

We strongly encourage applicants whose lived experience reflects the diverse communities we serve. At this time, we are particularly prioritizing candidates with experience working with fathers, male-identified clients, and/or children. We also welcome applications from individuals whose identities and perspectives have been historically underrepresented in mental health care, including but not limited to clinicians of color, LGBTQ+ clinicians, and those from non-dominant cultural or religious backgrounds.

The ideal candidates:

● Are committed to reproductive, perinatal, and early family mental health, and come with an interest in and desire for training in these specializations;

● Provide ethical care with high integrity by honoring his/her strengths and seeking collaboration & support from colleagues when necessary;

● Are committed to ongoing professional development in evidence-based and best-practice care;

● Work independently to provide clients with an exceptional therapy experience by representing the Parent and Family Wellness Center through excellent judgment and professional conduct at all times;

● Demonstrate professionalism and a true commitment to mission-driven work

● Demonstrate strong self-reflective capacity and eagerness to receive reflective supervision/mentorship and serve as an active team member in a collaborative environment;

● Are enthusiastic about participating in a wellness community with a commitment to collaborative client care;

● We are particularly interested in candidates with experience with child and/or couples therapy.

Professional Requirements:

● Enrolled in a graduate level clinical program, including Counseling, Marriage and Family, Social Work, or Psychology programs;

● Be open to supporting and treating pregnant and lactating women who require pharmaceutical medicine as a component of their care;

● Feel comfortable offering both counseling and case management, and committed to collaborative treatment;

● Be interested in holding a diverse clinical caseload of clients and also offering assessments and psychoeducation through a collaborative care model ;

● Comfortable receiving and integrating feedback from supervisors and colleagues;

● Interested in holding a clinical caseload of clients and also offering perinatal wellness check-ins;

● Self-motivated, highly organized, and comfortable with marketing; this placement requires a willingness to market services in the community in order to help generate referrals and requires professionalism in representing a larger practice in community settings.

Students training with us will be expected to engage in the following:

● 5-10 hours of ongoing psychotherapy support to individuals and families via Telehealth and at our offices. Ongoing psychotherapy includes

○ Ability to establish rapport with clients;

○ Discerning differential diagnoses;

○ Developing an ease with assessing severity of symptoms and obtaining supervision consult as necessary;

● 5-10 hours offering reproductive and perinatal wellness-check-ins. Wellness check-ins include:

○ Collaboration with referring medical clinics as necessary;

○ Providing psychoeducation and mini-assessments;

○ Addressing mental health stigma;

○ Marketing PFWC practice;

● Other opportunities involve group facilitation, community psychoeducation, and ongoing community collaboration

Compensation

Interns receive a monthly stipend ranging from $240- $600, depending on caseload size (assuming a caseload of 8-10 clients/week).

Application Process

TO APPLY: Please complete this form and our Internship Coordinator will reach out.

**Please note: We are currently not accepting applicants until further notice. Our positions are full for the 2026/2027 training year. **

For questions please email: info@parentfamilywellness.com: