Clinical Therapist

Be an essential part of real change and lasting growth in a community that emphasizes collaboration, respect, and professional excellence. Keswick School, an internationally recognized nonprofit therapeutic boarding school for boys near Charlotteville, VA, is seeking an exceptionally talented and engaging full-time psychologist or mental health professional to join our robust therapeutic community. Our clinical team includes a child and adolescent psychiatrist, a Ph.D. clinical psychologist, a Ph.D. marriage and family counselor, a doctoral-level occupational therapist, an independent-licensed LCSW, a speech-language pathologist, and an art therapist. 

Our clinicians direct the experience, growth, and development of a small caseload of boys ages 10–17 with complex functional challenges, using traditional therapies and dynamic, context-based interventions. This demanding leadership position involves working with students who have multiple diagnoses, as well as developmental, attachment, and social-emotional difficulties. Clinicians lead individual, family, and group therapies, and support multidisciplinary teams and program development. Maturity, emotional investment, creativity, follow-through, and an inspired commitment to children’s growth and well-being are key characteristics of a successful candidate. Experience in school or residential settings, social thinking, neuro-cognitive functioning, experiential approaches, and hands-on learning are preferred.

Benefits include: 

• Competitive salary (commensurate with education and experience)
• 401(k) with 4% matching
• Voluntary health, vision, dental, and short-term disability insurance
• Employer-provided group long-term disability and life insurance
• Five weeks of paid holiday leave
• Three weeks of discretionary paid time off
• Employer-provided financial planning
• Professional development opportunities
• Relocation funds

Please email your CV to Marc Columbus, Head of School, for more information and to request an application.

The position is available beginning in April 2026.