Staff Therapist

The University of Dayton is seeking a dedicated, hardworking, multiculturally focused, and community centered Therapist to serve in the Counseling Center. Within this 10-month position, the therapist is responsible for providing individual and group therapy, emergency walk-in support, after hours crisis intervention as part of a rotation, outreach, and supervision of graduate trainees.

Through an approach of prevention, education, and treatment, the Counseling Center team is missioned to provide a positive impact on the mental health, wellbeing, and academic success of all students through services that promote resiliency, capacity building, and facilitate optimal student development and growth. The Counseling Center actively contributes to the university's holistic approach to mental health and suicide prevention through integration of the UD Step Care Model.

The ideal candidate for this position will hold strong ethics regarding client confidentiality, serve as a generalist to help students who present with a wide range of clinical presentations, and understand the importance of being available some evenings and weekends to best serve students. To achieve success, the candidate must be dedicated to reducing barriers to care that exist for communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and other marginalized groups.

Further, a commitment to understand and support the University of Dayton's distinctive Marianist tradition and educational vision, as well as a willingness to model institutional values of service to others, community, and inclusivity are imperative.

• Responsible for assessing and treating common psychological issues such as anxiety, depression, disordered eating, substance misuse, grief, sexual trauma, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and personality disorder as part of individual and group psychotherapy, as well as providing crises intervention, risk assessment, consultation, and after hours emergency support.
• Utilize effective communication techniques with students, faculty, staff, parents, family members and concerned others.
• Collaborate and appropriately consult with Division of Student Development partners, psychiatrists, and medical staff.
• Appropriately refer clients on-campus and to off-campus community providers.
• Display a positive attitude within the Counseling Center and across departmental lines to contribute to staff morale and overall customer satisfaction.
• Ensure all clinical documentation is complete and maintained in a manner consistent with state and national ethical standards.

• Provide supervision and training to trainees and interns. Ensure all documentation and services rendered align with high ethical standards.
• Review videotaped sessions for supervises and provide regular performance evaluations.
• Review all clinical documentation drafted by supervises under the Therapist’s oversight and provide guidance regarding appropriate revisions.
• Ensure clinical supervision and training incorporates the importance of thorough safety/suicidality assessments, teaching related to psychological diagnosis and empirically supported treatments, guidance regarding supervises use of self and the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and ensuring supervises are demonstrating multicultural competencies.

• Provide psycho educational, specialty topic presentations, prevention outreach services to members of the student body and campus partners.
• Serve as a consultant for staff, faculty, students, and family members of students, hospitals, psychiatry, and others in need of psychological consultation pertaining…