About This Role
Providing meaningful psychotherapy services to an adult client population is the core of this full-time hybrid position. The role involves maintaining an active clinical caseload, offering short-term counselling and crisis support, and collaborating within a close-knit clinical team.
Responsibilities
- Provide individual psychotherapy services to adult clients in both English and ideally in French
- Maintain a caseload of approximately 25 psychotherapy sessions per week
- Provide short-term, solution-focused counselling and supportive interventions
- Conduct client assessments, treatment planning, clinical documentation, case management, and referrals as required
- Support adults navigating complex personal, workplace, mental health, and life challenges
- Participate in a shared crisis-response program through scheduled paid on-call coverage
- Provide appropriate support to clients experiencing urgent or challenging mental health situations
- Exercise strong clinical judgment when assessing client needs and determining appropriate interventions or referrals
- Maintain ethical and professional standards in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with colleagues and external service providers to support continuity of care
- Contribute to a supportive team environment focused on open communication, collaboration, and quality client care
- Support organizational initiatives related to mental health promotion, education, and wellness programming
- Provide guidance and clinical support to developing clinicians, as required
- Provide a combination of in-person and virtual psychotherapy services, with the majority of the role based from the Ottawa office
- Work within a flexible clinical schedule and participate in shared scheduled on-call coverage
- Maintain a private and professional home-office environment when providing virtual counselling services
- Work effectively within a busy and evolving environment where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important
Requirements
- Professional ability to conduct psychotherapy services in both English and French is preferred
- Master's degree in Counselling Psychology, Social Work, or a related field
- Current registration in good standing as a Registered Psychotherapist (RP), Registered Social Worker (RSW), or another acceptable regulated professional designation permitting the provision of psychotherapy
- Minimum 5 years of clinical practice experience
- Demonstrated experience providing psychotherapy to adult clients
- Ability to provide in-person clinical services from the Ottawa office
- Strong clinical judgment, assessment, communication, and crisis-intervention skills
