Behavioral Health Counselor-Santa Monica Healthy Weight Management Clinic Clinical Nutrition

UCLA Health System

Santa Monica, CA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$47.82–$69.67 Per Hour
LOCATION
Santa Monica, CA
POSTED
4 days ago

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n Work Location: Santa Monica, CA, USAn

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n Wednesdays 11:30-5:30pm and Saturdays 7:30am-12:30pmn

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n 06/09/2026n

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n Salary Range: $47.82 - 69.67 Hourlyn

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n 6-9 monthsn

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n 31165n

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Under the direction of the Clinic Manager incumbent will, serve as Behavioral Health Counselor in the Bio-Behavioral Program of Weight Management Clinic. Develop, plan and provide educational and counseling services. Plan, organize, coordinate and implement lecture subject material for classroom and group education and behavioral change and psychological support intervention activities for the dietary intervention of Internal Medicine and Internal Medicine Subspecialties patients.

  • program who are having difficulty adhering to the weight loss or maintenance programs. Your groups must offer a safe environment for participants to address individual struggles and emotional issues and stress. You will maintain an up to date appropriate licensing for either licensed psychotherapy or MFT. It is also the leaderxe2x80x99s responsibility to maintain a specialized interest in weight and eating disorders.
  • The behavior modification class leader will lead weekly sessions that are based on the theoretical principles of cognitive behavioral therapy. This therapy will take into account the fact that long-term changes in behavior need to be accompanied by changes in the way individuals think, their cognitions. Goals include addressing and altering certain black and white thinking through reframing of thinking so as to reduce misconceptions of failure and reinforce efforts for sustaining behavioral change.
  • The nutritional lecture series is taught weekly by a licensed professionals from a variety of specialties including medicine, nutrition exercise physiology and psychology. The lecturerxe2x80x99s responsibility includes background in a specialty for the lecture being instructed. Such topics include eating disorders, anger and stress management, failure syndrome and recovery from failure syndrome, hypertension, diabetes, eating habits, compulsive or emotional overeating, cardio and strength training and various other related topics.
  • This is a 40% limited position that may convert to career*

$47.82- $69.67

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Master in Social Work (MSW) Master in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) or Master in Psychology or Masters in Counseling Psychology or Masters of Art in Counseling.

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As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.

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