Over 18 Family Therapist

Compass Health Center; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

comprehensive medical/dental/vision

401k program with company matching

generous PTO

CEU training opportunities

Job summary

Compass Health Center in Northbrook, IL seeks a Family Therapist to lead family sessions. You will support patients and families, provide psychoeducation, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to coordinate care and crisis management.

The role emphasizes applying evidence-based therapies (CBT/DBT) and contributing to discharge planning, safety planning, and program development across PHP/IOP services.

Qualifications

• Master's level therapist or Psychologist required.
• Experience with CBT/DBT or evidence-based therapies.
• Licensed or license-eligible in relevant state.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate family sessions for young adult and adult patients and families.
• Provide psychoeducation to loved ones about conditions and treatments.
• Coordinate with treatment team and attend rounds.
• Develop safety plans and therapy goals with families.
• Assist in crisis support and discharge planning.
• Document progress in the electronic medical record.

Skills

CBT

DBT

Family therapy

Crisis experience

Education

Master's degree

Job description

About This Role

Weekly outpatient therapy isn't always enough, and a trip to the ER isn't the only answer. Patients and their families rely on Compass Health Center when in crisis – every day, we help people overcome depression, anxiety, suicidality, obsessions/compulsions, trauma, chronic pain, and other obstacles in order for our patients to live freely.

Our Family Therapists play a key role in our multi-disciplinary teams and work to ensure synergy across treatment. As a Family Therapist, you’ll conduct family sessions with patients and their loved ones that will aim at providing support, offering education, and promoting collaboration. If your passion is helping those who are working to support our patients, you would be a great addition to our team.

Our location in Northbrook is our first and largest facility, and consists not only of our widest variety of programs, but also serves as a pilot site for many of our new treatment offerings.

Schedule

This role is 5 days per week, Monday through Friday.

What You'll Do

• Facilitating family sessions to a caseload of assigned young adult and adult patients and their loved ones
• Providing guidance and support to patients and family members to help promote goals and encourage patients progress through the program.
• Providing direction to families about effective ways of supporting patients.
• Discussion topics and family therapy goals include safety plans, incorporating skill implementation, improving communication, creating contracts.
• Providing loved ones with psychoeducation about substance use and various other Axis 1 and 2 disorder symptoms
• Provides couples’ therapy for patients and their partners
• Works with various presenting issues including depression, anxiety, psychosis, substance abuse, PTSD, Axis 2 Disorder, Bipolar, etc.
• Assisting in supporting families through phone coaching and follow-up calls.
• Supporting patients in crisis.
• Coordinating with the treatment team. This involves attending rounds and other program meetings regularly as well as using the electronic systems of communication.
• Communicating with outside providers conducting family therapy for continuity of care.
• Collaborating with the treatment team in assessing the patient’s progress and need for higher level of care, stepdown, or discharge.
• Helping the family to coordinate an effective discharge plan.
• Providing individual support to patients as needed.
• Contributing clinical observations and insights during interdisciplinary meetings.
• Charting progress of patients appropriately in the electronic medical record.
• Participating in program meetings as needed.
• Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass.
• Participating in a weekly family therapy meeting
• Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass
• Opportunities to supervise unlicensed clinicians and work across different programs as needed (e.g., Young Adult, OCD, Trauma, Mental Health Pain and Illness)
• Participation in monthly 1-hour family support group
• Provide group therapy, as needed
• Other duties, as assigned

Who You Are

• Are a Psychologist or Master’s level therapist (required)
• Hold one of the following licenses: PhD, PsyD, LCSW, or LCPC (preferred)
• 1+ years clinical work experience post-Master’s (strongly preferred)
• Have knowledge and experience utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), as well as other evidenced-based therapies, ideally in the context of delivering family therapy
• Have experience with patients in crisis, ideally prior experience working in partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, inpatient hospital, or residential setting

We are committed to a fair and equitable work environment.

We are committed to a fair and equitable work environment.

Compensation

Compensation $55,000 — $90,000 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 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. 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.

Benefits & Perks

• 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