Through clinical services, education, and research, The Family Institute at Northwestern University is one of the nation’s leading relationship-based behavioral health organizations committed to strengthening and healing children and adolescents, couples, families, and individuals. When you join The Family Institute, you are joining a team of over 250 collaborators comprised of clinicians, educators, researchers, therapists-in-training, partners, and administrators across four service sites. We are a strong, independent organization focused on advancing the world of behavioral health.

WE HAVE OPENINGS ON THE FOLLOWING TEAMS:

• Adult Services
• Child, Adolescent, and Family Services
• CBT
• Couples Services
• MBT/ DBT

LOCATION

Therapists may work in a hybrid work arrangement from their home office and any office location in downtown Chicago, Evanston, Westchester, or Northbrook.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Provide psychotherapy that is empirically informed, theoretically grounded, culturally responsive, and relationally based.
• Provide a timely response to all current or prospective clients and provide referrals when necessary.
• Perform mental health assessments, identifying at-risk behaviors and developing an appropriate treatment plan.
• Document all services in EHR within established organizational timelines.
• Build and maintain a caseload by meeting revenue targets.
• Obtain two years of clinical supervision with satisfactory evaluations.
• Work collaboratively with clients, external systems, colleagues, and operation staff, and in a culturally sensitive and appropriate manner.
• Collaborate with team members on complex clinical or shared cases as appropriate.
• Support organizational or administrative communication with clients
• Attend weekly individual supervision.
• Attend a weekly peer clinical consultation meeting.
• Attend monthly Clinical Services meetings with all clinical staff, in addition to all other mandatory meetings.
• Demonstrate an ongoing investment in professional development. Adhere to confidentiality practices and procedures.
• Maintain compliance with organizational policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Optional Job Duties:

• Contribute to a class (e.g., guest lecturer)
• Supervise therapist in-training
• Participate in a clinical, educational, or research program
• Present a topic to external groups (workshop, presentation)
• Receive meta vision
• Develop and disseminate a “product” (e.g., workshop, talk, blog) that drives referrals to The Family Institute