Couple's Counsellor

**Postgraduate Counselling Fellowship**

Lavender Counselling is an established Group Practice with offices in Langley and Vancouver. We are hiring a Couple's Counsellor to fill a need for in person counselling services in our Langley Office. We provide psychotherapy to a wide range of clients including those experiencing the manifestations of complex trauma and PTSD.

Our clinicians are committed to modalities that rely on a broadly person centered foundation, coupled with principles of attachment, while working within the tri-phasic model of trauma treatment. We are a team of dedicated clinicians with a deep commitment to each other and our work.
- Person Specification - You are_
- A Counselling Therapist with outstanding interpersonal skills
- Empathic and respectfully aware of others
- Open to your own experiencing
- Willing to pay appropriate heed to clinical intuition and to be vulnerable
- Comfortable with relational intimacy
- Committed to genuineness (‘authenticity’ or ‘congruence’) in all human interactions both personal and professional
- Open to exploring/learning how you are perceived by and how you affect others
- Committed to working with the profound experience and challenges of an approach to counselling that views the counsellor-client relationship as a real, evolving, and a deeply intimate human relationship
- Seeking an appropriate humility coupled with a robust and compassionate sense of self worth
- Committed to regular professional support (supervision) and personal therapy as needed
- A Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), a Registered Psychologist (R.Psych.), or a Registered Social Worker (MSW), or soon to be registered with one of these bodies
- Available for up to 20 client hours of work that includes either evenings or weekends
- You bring_
- The capacity to meet every client with Unconditional Positive Regard —non-judgmental compassion, prizing, and an absolute conviction that the client is best placed to determine the direction of their personal therapy and of their life as a whole
- The recognition that when it comes to any individual, no matter how wounded, the only expert on them is themselves
- Intentionality—a proven capacity for reflexive thought and enquiry:

- Why am I taking this action?
- What is going on for me right now?
- How am I meeting and not meeting the client’s need of their therapist in this moment?
- How does this benefit the client or the therapeutic relationship?
- The ability to use your own experiencing, and particularly your own, felt, bodily experiencing, as a part of your therapeutic interaction with your client.
- A theoretical understanding and clinical capability to work relationally within a tri-phasic model of trauma treatment
- A willingness to engage in stringent ethical practices and reflection and ongoing training, supervision, and professional development
- Specialized training in couples including the Emotion Focused Therapy Externship at a minimum
- Application Process_

While we absolutely thank all those who apply, only selected applicants will be contacted.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: $60.00-$117.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events

Schedule:

- Evening shift
- Weekends as needed

**Education**:

- Master's Degree (required)

Licence/Certification:

- registration (R.Psych/MSW/RCC/CCC) (required)

Work Location: In person