KCCAT is growing and looking for experienced and enthusiastic individuals to join the team at our uniquely integrated specialty center! This is an excellent opportunity for an evidence-based psychologist with extensive training and experience with OCD, anxiety, mood, and related conditions. A cognitive-behavioral orientation that includes experience with exposure-based and behavioral interventions for moderate to severe presentations is required, as is comfort with assisting in services for at least older adolescents and adults, but applicants with child experience and/or willingness to be trained in working with youth is highly desired.
KCCAT is a fun, supportive, team-staffed facility for evidence-based treatment, training, and research. We focus on providing high-quality patient care from traditional outpatient to intensive and community-based services. Employees enjoy a well-appointed and spacious work environment, flexible hours, and patient-tailored services without the restraints of managed care, with ways of combining direct clinical duties with additional program development, scholarship, and research. Suitable candidates will be creative, organized, self-disciplined, and work well within a team approach.
Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City metropolitan area), United States. Employees have the option of hybrid work arrangements, but this is not a fully remote position.
Compensation is designed to afford employees significant flexibility in their schedule while maintaining full access to generous benefits. Clinical caseloads have a natural ebb and flow, and employees should expect some variability in their hours from month to month. We will discuss this in detail with qualified and interested candidates.
Generous employee benefits include paid health and professional liability insurance, retirement plan with company match, continuing education allowance, paid vacation and family leave, relocation assistance, and more.
Required base qualifications include a health service psychology doctorate (Clinical, Counseling, School) from an APA-accredited program and internship; must be eligible for licensure in Kansas and Missouri. Three or more years prior experience with pediatric OCD and anxiety spectrum conditions is strongly preferred but not required. If not, willingness to engage in on-the-job training to work with younger populations is highly desired.
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Specific responsibilities, compensation, and benefits depend on qualifications and experience. Primary activities will include delivering evidenced-based psychological services, assisting with the supervision of trainees, and helping to develop, deliver, and promote programming reflecting KCCAT’s treatment, research, and educational mission.
Individuals should submit curriculum vitae and a letter of interest. Proceeding candidates must supply three letters of recommendation and permission to speak with references. (Confidential initial inquiries are welcome; we will not contact references without speaking to and discussing with a candidate first.)
To apply, please complete our Position Interest Form and send application materials to the attention of KCCAT Director Katie Kriegshauser, PhD, via email: careers@kcanxiety.com.
Note: The current opening is for a full-time Staff Psychologist position with a negotiable start date. Applications for other employment roles are also accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis as we consider ongoing development and staffing needs. We are always happy to keep applications of fit on file for notification of any future openings.
KCCAT was founded by Dr. Lisa Hale, and originally developed out of the neurology and neuroimaging program at University of Kansas Medical Center and is now directed by Dr. Katie Kriegshauser, the only board certified Behavioral and Cognitive Psychologist in the Kansas City metro area. Our program serves as a trusted local and national resource for families and professionals alike, mentoring generations of clinicians and enjoying over 15 years as a respected treatment, research, and training facility focused on the promotion of evidence-based care. KCCAT is Kansas City’s only team-based specialty anxiety disorder treatment center and has a steady stream of referrals across the spectrum of anxiety, trauma-related, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. We are uniquely structured, both as a team and as a center outside of the limitations of managed care, to provide individually tailored treatment plans and services at the appropriate frequency and intensity needed to adequately address a range of presenting issues and severity levels. Our team-based approach allows for shared staffing of complex or higher-needs cases, and ensures clinicians receive ample support and close coordination, setting KCCAT apart from group private-practice models.
Staff are able to respond to observed clinical needs in our population by creating new services with support from our administrative team, and we highly encourage this! We foresee opportunities for future growth, such as expanding to provide high-quality services in areas such as group treatments for anxiety, OCD, and related disorders and developing specialty “clinics” or treatment programs for co-occurring conditions. Our staff come from diverse training backgrounds, and although KCCAT was founded with the mission of treating anxiety and related conditions, we are committed to providing evidence-based care for a variety of co-occurring difficulties to better serve our patients and local community.
Through academic appointments with The University of Missouri-Kansas City, our doctoral-level, licensed psychologists are able to facilitate academic research endeavors both within our center and in partnership with local or national institutions. KCCAT has a history of serving as a partner site for clinical trials and collaborative research collection, as well as being the recipient of research funding from NIMH to use technology to disseminate CBT to youth. Team members have access to our extensive clinical data sets for research purposes, and are encouraged to collaborate in seeking out external grant funding for larger-scale projects if of interest. KCCAT also serves as an active practicum site for local clinical psychology graduate programs, and there are opportunities for mentorship, clinical supervision, and research collaborations with students and their programs. KCCAT maintains an active postdoctoral training program as well, so opportunities for mentorship and supervision with fellows and early career staff members are also easily accessible.
Our staff is expected to adhere to the standards of high-quality, evidence-based care, and in return we hope to offer a work environment that allows individuals to build a career that is rewarding and fits their individual goals. In particular, we value providing a work environment that is flexible, supportive, and family friendly. Our setting is inclusive and accepting, and we have thoughtfully designed our service structure and employee benefits to best support our hard-working clinicians.