Sessional - Personal Wellness Counsellor

Descr

Contract Faculty
- Department

Counselling Services
- Location Name
- Location

Peterborough, Ontario
- Created

06/13/2025
- Date Closed

06/21/2025
- Job ID

3219
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- Full/Part Time

Full-Time
- Regular/Temporary

Temporary

**What Are We About?**:
Fleming is located in the heart of the Kawartha Lakes Region in Central Ontario, Traditional Mississauga Anishinaabe Territory and covered by the Williams Treaties,1923... a beautiful place to live and work, surrounded by natural beauty and a mere 90 minutes north-east of Toronto. The College’s 6,800 full-time and 10,000 part-time students, including hundreds of international students from countries around the world, attend at campus locations in Peterborough, Lindsay, Haliburton and Cobourg. Fleming offers more than 100 full-time programs in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Fine Arts, General Arts and Science, Technology, Skilled Trades, Community Development, Health, Business, and Justice as well as other Continuing Education courses.

We are also extremely proud of our more than 85,000 Fleming alumni who are contributing to their communities in the region, across the province and around the world.

**What This Position is About**:
As a member of the Health, Wellness and Accessible Education Services team the Personal Wellness Counsellor will work collaboratively with students to help them develop insights, identify strengths, and enhance their personal resilience. Reporting to the Dean of Students, the Counsellor will have multi-campus responsibilities in providing clinical and therapeutic support to both 2SLGBTQIA+ and non-2SLGBTQIA+ students with a focus on supporting students using a brief, goal-directed, stepped care model. Clinical duties include collaborating with students to determine their individual goals, challenges and areas requiring support to maximize their personal and academic success at Fleming.

**For More Information**:
For a complete classification definition of Counsellor in the academic bargaining unit, please refer to the document found here: Counsellor Description

**¿What We Are Looking For**:

- Masters Degree in Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Social Work or other closely related discipline
- 3-5 years directly related work experience in a post-secondary, counselling service or community based mental health agency
- Be a member in good standing with respective regulatory body (Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), College of Psychologists of Ontario)
- Possess the lived experience, knowledge, and cultural experiences required to address the specific issues 2SLGBTQIA+ students face safely and effectively
- Knowledge and awareness of, the life experiences and needs of2SLGBTQIA+ students
- Awareness of the impacts of historical and ongoing colonialism and intergenerational trauma for Indigenous, Metis and Inuit communities, and demonstrated commitment to decolonialization
- Clinical experience involving brief counselling and crisis intervention with college student populations, and with 2SLGBTQIA+ students in particular; strong generalist experience working with a variety of issues common in college populations including stress and anxiety management, eating and body image issues, sexual and other forms of trauma, substance abuse, non-suicidal self-injury, suicidality, depression and mood disorders, ADHD, ASD, etc.
- Experience working with transgender individuals in a clinical setting
- Knowledge of transition-related surgeries. Training to complete secondary assessments for transition-related surgeries is an asset
- Experience with diverse modes of counselling practice such as virtual service delivery, walk-in counselling, and single session
- Complete timely documentation according to Counselling Services and regulatory policies
- Demonstrated skills in the facilitation of therapeutic and psycho-educational groups, including groups specifically for 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, as well as experience in creating and delivering mental health workshops and training sessions
- Experience in case management in a multi-disciplinary team is an asset.

**Please Note**:
This is a temporary full time sessional assignment for a period of 10 months (August 2025
- June 2026).

**Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and Accessibility**:
Fleming College is committed to building diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible learning and working environments. Our mandate is to challenge societal inequities to achieve a cultural climate of inclusion, belonging and psychological safety. We are committed to being a welcoming place for all, where the needs of our diverse populations are met, and varying perspectives enrich our communities.

We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our community including, but not limited to, women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any se