Amazing place to work - Behavioral Health Therapist Firefly Institute Employee Review

Provides the best of both worlds, opportunity/freedom to work with who you want, when you want but also a great staff of knowledgeable and experienced collegaues to turn for for collaboration and supervision if needed. The front office and care coordinators are on it! They are great to work with on a personal level, highly organized, motivated, and work well both with management and clinicians. Billing and scheduling feel like they run on automatic which allows me to focus on the people I am seeing. The leadership team bring a wealth of experience, positive work environment, loyalty to both clients and clinicians, and generousity in spirit, time, and support. I personally feel like I have lucked out in landing the ideal post-grad position. I am garnering tons of experience without feeling overwhelmed, have a much higher than average salary than most of my cohort, have multiple opportunities for education/career advancement, and appreciate the abundant resources made available. I have the opportunity to decide where and how I invest clinically, with guidance along each continuning education path. The reputation of the company within the community and schools provides a constant source or referrals that allow me to keep my work flow steady or increase when desired. The team and leaderships consistently demonstrate loyalty and desire to collaborate combined with respectful allowance for personal independence in work flow.

The mental health industry can be personally taxing and I have watched some new clinicians make the mistake of taking on more than they probably should or feel overwhelmed causing burnout. The office advises new hires to ramp up slowly but does not force anyone's hand so I've watched several clinicians get ambitious in caseload. This causes a higher rate of turnover than I would prefer.

I am pleased to write that my experience has been wonderful. I was asked to write a review and provide my feedback recently by our office management. That was all, just that it would be appreciated if I could provide feedback about my experience on this site. I was surprised to see some of the other reviews, considering this hasn't been my experience at all. I am concerned to see a post that anything positive was fake. The social worker in me is frankly outraged that my voice is being silenced and that my perspective and experience doesn't matter and is considered 'fake news.' I feel like we have had enough of that type of bullying to last us a lifetime. My experience is that this practice is a space in which I am supported, have freedom to build my practice in a way I want (type of clients I see, therapeutic theory/evidence based practice is decided by me in collaboration with my clients, schedule, etc.) I work with wonderful people and feel supported in this group. I receive scheduled consultation for client cases and can reach out to peers when I need to staff a case. I appreciate being able to structure my day and caseload in a way which supports my professional goals or needs for work/life balance. This has overall been a good experience and a good fit for me.

Because we don't necessarily need to be on site if we don't have clients scheduled, it means office doors are often closed (people are in session) or dark (therapists are out of the office). This wasn't necessarily unexpected, but it does mean I need to be proactive and ask to schedule a consultation time with colleagues/lunch/coffee meeting or I might miss them!