Couples Therapist; MSW​/RSW or RP

Position: Couples Therapist (MSW/RSW or RP)
Young Sprouts Therapy is a child, teen, and family practice in Thornhill serving Vaughan and York Region. Couples counselling sits alongside our family therapy and parent work, and it is a service we currently turn away more of than we can take on.
What makes this caseload distinctive is who walks through the door. A good share of the couples we see are already connected to the practice: a child in therapy, a parent in coaching, a family in the middle of an assessment. The strain shows up as co-parenting conflict, an unequal division of labour, or the particular exhaustion of raising a child with additional needs.

That said, plenty of the couples we see are not parents at all, and this is not a co-parenting counselling role in disguise.
The caseload is yours to shape. If you want to work exclusively with couples, we can build toward that. If you would rather hold a mix of couples, family, and individual work, that is available too.
What you would be doing   Provide couples counselling to partners at every stage: premarital, newly cohabiting, long-married, blended, and separating.
Work with the presenting issues couples actually arrive with: communication breakdown, recurring conflict, trust and affair recovery, intimacy and desire differences, parenting disagreements, financial stress, and cultural or interfaith differences.
Screen for intimate partner violence and coercive control, and recognise when conjoint work is contraindicated and what to offer instead.
Set and hold clear policies on individual sessions and confidentiality within couples work, so nobody is surprised by how information is handled.
Offer discernment counselling to couples who are genuinely unsure whether to stay together.
Collaborate with our child, family, and assessment clinicians where the same family is seen across more than one service.
Complete intakes, treatment plans, and progress notes in Jane within our documentation timelines.
Hold a consistent weekly schedule with real evening availability, because that is when most couples can attend together.
Qualifications and requirements   Registered and in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers as a Registered Social Worker with an MSW, or with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario as a Registered Psychotherapist.
Demonstrated experience working with couples, not individual therapy only.
Training in at least one recognised couples model, such as the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, PACT, or Imago.
Competent at screening for intimate partner violence and at managing a session that turns high-conflict.
Comfortable raising and discussing sex, intimacy, and desire without deflecting.
Current professional liability insurance and a clear Vulnerable Sector Check.
Able to work in person at our Thornhill office. Virtual couples sessions are available across Ontario.
Familiar with PHIPA obligations and comfortable working in an EMR. We use Jane.
Considered an asset   Gottman Method training at Level 2 or 3, or certification as a Certified Gottman Therapist.
EFT externship, core skills, or ICEEFT certification.
Discernment counselling training for couples on the brink of separating.
Sex therapy training, or genuine comfort working with sexual concerns.
Perinatal or transition-to-parenthood training.

Experience with neurodiverse couples, including partners with ADHD or autism.

Experience with cultural, interfaith, and newcomer families navigating differing expectations of marriage.
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SLGBTQ+ affirming practice, including experience with non-monogamous and non-traditional relationship structures.
Fluency in a language other than English. Russian, Hebrew, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, Italian, and Punjabi all come up among the…