Telehealth Substance Use and Problem Gambling Counselor (Dually Licensed In NJ and NY Required)

About the role

Recreate Behavioral Health Network is seeking a compassionate, experienced, and engaging Telehealth Substance Use & Problem Gambling Counselor to provide remote clinical services to adults receiving outpatient behavioral health treatment in New York and New Jersey.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual counseling via telehealth to clients located in New York and New Jersey.
• Facilitate clinically appropriate virtual therapy groups addressing substance use disorders, problem gambling/gambling disorder, and related behavioral health concerns.
• Facilitate psychoeducational, process-oriented, relapse prevention, coping skills, recovery planning, and skills-based groups.
• Help clients identify gambling triggers, urges, cognitive distortions, high-risk situations, relapse patterns, and behaviors contributing to continued gambling.
• Address substance use triggers, relapse risks, recovery barriers, motivation for change, and development of healthy coping and recovery strategies.
• Incorporate appropriate interventions addressing the financial, relational, family, and emotional consequences associated with problem gambling.
• Conduct individual assessments and develop, review, and update individualized treatment plans.
• Monitor client participation, progress, clinical presentation, risk factors, and barriers to treatment.
• Provide discharge planning, referrals, and linkage to appropriate community and recovery-support resources.
• Utilize evidence-based and best-practice interventions, including Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), relapse prevention, harm reduction, and other appropriate therapeutic approaches.
• Adapt clinical interventions to individual needs, readiness for change, stages of recovery, learning styles, and levels of engagement.
• Recognize and appropriately address co-occurring substance use and mental health concerns within professional scope of practice.
• Maintain appropriate therapeutic boundaries and comply with applicable confidentiality requirements, including HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2.
• Complete assessments, treatment plans, individual and group progress notes, attendance records, discharge documentation, and other required clinical documentation accurately and within established timeframes.
• Maintain documentation consistent with applicable New York OASAS requirements, New Jersey regulatory requirements, Joint Commission standards, professional licensing requirements, and organizational policies and procedures.
• Collaborate remotely with Clinical Directors and multidisciplinary treatment teams in New York and New Jersey to coordinate care and support positive treatment outcomes.
• Participate in required clinical supervision, virtual staff meetings, case conferences, training, and professional development.

Requirements

Applicants must hold active licenses and/or credentials that authorize them to provide the assigned clinical services in both New York and New Jersey. Holding a qualifying credential in only one state is not sufficient.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Education, training, experience, and active professional credentials necessary to provide telehealth clinical services in both NY and NJ.
• Applicable credentials may include:
• New York: CASAC, CASAC‑G, or other applicable NY behavioral health professional license/credential.
• New Jersey: LCADC, LCSW, LSW (within scope/supervision), LPC, LAC (within scope/supervision), LMFT, LAMFT (within scope/supervision), CCGC (when appropriate), or other appropriately licensed behavioral health professionals whose NJ scope permits the assigned services.
• Minimum of two years of experience working in substance use disorder, problem gambling/gambling disorder, behavioral health, or a related treatment setting (preferred).
• Demonstrated education, training, or clinical experience in the assessment or treatment of problem gambling/gambling disorder.
• Experience providing individual counseling.
• Experience facilitating therapeutic, psychoeducational, process‑oriented, or recovery‑focused groups.
• Ability to effectively engage clients and facilitate groups in a virtual/telehealth environment.
• Strong clinical, interpersonal, communication, organizational, and documentation skills.
• Ability to independently manage an assigned caseload while collaborating effectively with a multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Knowledge of professional boundaries, confidentiality requirements, and ethical standards applicable to behavioral health treatment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Specialized credentialing or training in problem gambling treatment, including CASAC‑G and/or CCGC.
• Experience treating individuals with co‑occurring substance use, gambling disorder, and mental health concerns.
• Experience providing outpatient behavioral health services in both New York and New Jersey.
• Experience working within an OASAS‑licensed treatment program.
• Experience with Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), relapse prevention, harm reduction, and other evidence‑based practices.
• Familiarity with 12‑Step programs, Gamblers Anonymous, self‑exclusion programs, financial recovery concepts, and other substance use and problem gambling recovery resources.
• Experience using electronic medical records and completing insurance‑compliant clinical documentation.
• Previous experience providing individual and group counseling through telehealth.

Skills

• Strong clinical, interpersonal, communication, organizational, and documentation skills.
• Ability to independently manage an assigned caseload while collaborating effectively with a multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Knowledge of professional boundaries, confidentiality requirements, and ethical standards applicable to behavioral health treatment.

Schedule

100% Remote / Telehealth; services provided to clients located in New York and New Jersey; individual counseling and virtual group facilitation; remote clinical documentation, treatment planning, case coordination, and team meetings; flexible scheduling based on program needs and client availability; evening availability may be preferred based on assigned caseload and programming.