[Hiring] Family Therapist @Compass Health Center

Role Description

Our Family Therapists play a key role in our multi-disciplinary teams and work to ensure synergy across treatment. As a Family Therapist in the Over-18 Eating Disorders Program, you’ll conduct sessions with patients and the people who support them that will aim at reducing accommodation, building support skills, and creating a home environment that sustains recovery after discharge. You’ll also facilitate interpersonal skills groups for patients.

If your passion is helping those who are working to support patients, you would be a great addition to our team.

Compass is proud to be a trailblazer within the future of behavioral health, offering fully virtual PHP/IOP programs to patients across the entire state of Illinois.

What You'll Do:

• Family and Support Sessions
  • Facilitate family and support system sessions for a caseload of assigned adult patients and their loved ones
  • Conduct couples and partner sessions where the primary support is a spouse or partner
  • Assess role of support system in maintaining or interrupting disordered behaviors
  • Provide psychoeducation about eating disorders, co-occurring conditions, and the treatment model
  • Identify and target accommodation of eating disorder behavior and co-occurring conditions
  • Coach support people in practice skills
  • Address diet culture and weight talk within family system
  • Work with patients and families to prepare the home food environment for step-down and discharge
• Group Facilitation
  • Facilitate interpersonal and family-focused skills groups within program curriculum
  • Support patients in applying interpersonal skills to conversations with family, partners, and support people
  • Contribute to the development of caregiver-facing programming as program grows
• Care Coordination
  • Partner with Primary Therapist to align family work with patient’s case formulation and treatment targets
  • Contribute clinical observations and insights during interdisciplinary rounds and program meetings
  • Communicate with outside providers for continuity of care
  • Collaborate with the treatment team in assessing progress and need for higher level of care, step-down, or discharge
  • Help family coordinate an effective discharge and aftercare plan
• Program Operations
  • Chart family session content and clinical observations in the electronic medical record
  • Participate in weekly family therapy meeting, required program training, fidelity monitoring, supervision, and consultation
  • Other duties, as assigned

Qualifications

• Psychologist or master’s level therapist (required)
• Independently licensed or license-eligible as a psychologist, LCSW, LCPC, or LMFT (required)
• 1+ years clinical work experience post-degree delivering family or couples therapy (strongly preferred)
• Experience treating eating disorders (preferred)
• Experience treating OCD, anxiety, PTSD, and/or depression (preferred)
• Have experience in a PHP, IOP, residential, or inpatient setting

Requirements

• Working knowledge of conceptualization of eating disorder treatment and co-occurring conditions
• Able to work with adult patients and their support systems, balancing family involvement against patient autonomy and consent
• Able to identify family accommodation and coach support people to withdraw it without escalating conflict
• Able to hold a validating stance towards caregivers while maintaining clear expectations of them
• Comfortable delivering both family sessions and group programming
• Practices from weight-inclusive framework
• Adopts “all foods fit” approach towards clinical nutrition
• Works within defined curriculum and fidelity expectations rather than an idiosyncratic model
• Seeks and uses supervision and consultation

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans
• 401k program with company matching
• Generous PTO (including competitive parental leave after 1 year of employment)
• Continuous training through CEU seminars and volunteering opportunities

Compensation

$55,000 — $90,000 USD

Company Description

Compass Health Center is a recognized leader in crisis-level mental health, bringing passion, connection, and patient-centered care to the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient space (PHP/IOP). Based in Chicagoland, we serve hundreds of patients every day, ranging from ages 5 through adulthood, in our onsite facilities or through our flourishing virtual programming.

We are committed to a fair and equitable work environment.