Art Group Therapist

Compass Health Center; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 47,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Compass Health Center is seeking an experienced Creative Art Therapist to deliver evidence-based therapy to Adults and Young Adults with anxiety and mood disorders in our Chicago-area program. You will facilitate general skills groups, process groups, and creative art therapy sessions, coordinating practices and individual treatment plans as needed.

Ideal candidates hold a Master’s or PhD in the Creative Arts, and ATR or BC-DMT certification, with licensure preferred (LPC/LCPC/LSW/LCSW).

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in the Creative Arts required.
• ATR or BC-DMT certification required.
• License preferred (LPC, LCPC, LSW or LCSW).
• Experience with CBT/DBT in group and individual art therapy settings.

Responsibilities

• Develop CBT/DBT skills curricula and facilitate groups.
• Consult with treatment team on goals and ethics.
• Develop and facilitate Creative Art Therapy curricula.
• Ensure safe, organized art materials and supplies.
• Document in the EHR with ethics, storage, and consent considerations.

Skills

CBT

DBT

Group facilitation

Crisis intervention

Education

Master’s degree in Creative Arts

PhD in Creative Arts

Job description

About This Role

We are seeking an experienced clinician with a passion for delivering evidence-based therapy to Adults and Young Adults with anxiety and mood disorders. As a Creative Art Therapist, you will be responsible for facilitating general skills groups, process groups, creative art therapy groups, coordinating creative art therapy practices and principles and providing individual treatment as needed.

If you are passionate about working with patients to communicate, develop and carry out appropriate treatment plans and compassionate care, you would be an ideal addition to our team.

What You’ll Do:

• CBT/DBT Skills curriculum development and group facilitation
• Consideration of therapy treatment goals and consultation with treatment team
• Creative Art Therapy Curriculum Development and group facilitation
• Helping establish creative art therapy principles including patient challenges, modifications/theoretical consideration
• Ensuring the upkeep of materials and art supplies are safe and organized
• Documenting within the electronic health record with ethical considerations/storage and disposal of artwork/consent
• Consulting with treatment team about principals and ethics regarding responding to patient art, what to do with concerns over content, storage, documentation and processing
• May assist in the training of new staff and interns, providing direction and clinical guidance
• Provide crisis intervention as needed

Who You Are:

• Hold a Master’s degree or PhD degree in the Creative Arts
• ATR (registered art therapist) or BC-DMT required
• License preferred (LPC,LCPC, LSW or LCSW)
• Have experience with program target population in group and individual art therapy settings
• Possess a core skill set of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

We are committed to a fair and equitable work environment. The expected compensation range for this role is below. This range includes multiple career path levels across the organization; where you fall in the range is dependent upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, your years of experience, type of experience, location, and education/certifications. Compass reserves the right to update these ranges.

Compensation: $47,000 USD - $65,000 USD

Who We Are

Compass Health Center is a recognized leader in crisis-level mental health, bringing passion, connection, and patient-centered care to the PartialHospitalizationand 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.Compass fills a critical gap between outpatient and inpatient care through an intermediate level of Behavioral Healthcare.

A few more things we want you to know: our values are super important to us, and hopefully will be to you, too. Cultural humility, teamwork, continuous improvement, connection, patient centered care, passion, innovation, and agility should be your power sources. Joining Compass is an opportunity to feel fulfilled through a joint mission towards healing our communities.

We know that you will be dedicated to your purpose here. We look at that investment as a two-way street. We are proud to offer plenty of space for growth, and opportunities to pursue continuous development within our organization.

For eligible positions, our other benefits include: comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans, 401k program with company matching, generous PTO (including competitive parental leave after 1 year of employment), and continuous training through CEU seminars and volunteering opportunities.