Staff Therapist – Emerging Adult Team

DEPARTMENT: Clinical Services

REPORTS TO: Associate director of Emerging Adult Service Team

LOCATION: Hybrid work arrangement from home office and any office location in Chicago, Evanston, or Northbrook

FLSA CLASSIFICATION: [EXEMPT]

Through clinical services, education, and research, The Family Institute at Northwestern University is one of the nation’s leading relationship‑based behavioral health organizations committed to strengthening and healing children and adolescents, couples, families, and individuals. When you join The Family Institute, you are joining a team of over 230 collaborators comprised of clinicians, educators, researchers, therapists‑in‑training, partners, and administrators across three service sites.

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We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Staff Therapist to join our Emerging Adult Team. This clinician will provide mental health services tailored to a wide range of clients across the lifespan with a specific interest in working with emerging adults, supporting their unique developmental, social, and emotional needs. The role involves working with individuals, couples, and families, to promote growth and resilience aligned with the Family Institute’s mission and values.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong interest in working with emerging adults and be comfortable addressing common presenting problems including life stage transitions, relationship challenges, social and cultural identity, addiction, neurodivergence, sexuality, and work/life balance. They will have experience working systemically with families and couples.

• Provide psychotherapy that is empirically informed, theoretically grounded, culturally responsive, and relationally based
• Provide a timely response to all current or prospective clients and provide referrals when necessary
• Perform mental health assessments, identifying at‑risk behaviors and develop appropriate treatment plans
• Document all services in EHR within established organizational timelines
• Build and maintain a caseload by meeting revenue targets
• Network with various providers throughout Illinois to build individual referral stream
• Obtain two years of clinical supervision with satisfactory evaluations
• Work collaboratively with clients, external systems, colleagues, and operation staff, and in a culturally sensitive and appropriate manner
• Collaborate with team members on complex clinical or shared cases as appropriate
• Support organizational or administrative communication with clients
• Attend weekly individual supervision, if required
• Attend a weekly peer clinical consultation meeting
• Attend monthly Clinical Services meetings with all clinical staff, in addition to all other mandatory meetings
• Demonstrate an ongoing investment in professional development. Adhere to confidentiality practices and procedures
• Maintain compliance with organizational policies and procedures
• Perform other duties as assigned by manager for business necessity

• Contribute to a class (e.g., guest lecturer)
• Supervise therapist in‑training
• Participate in a clinical, educational, or research program
• Present a topic to external groups (workshop, presentation)
• Receive meta‑vision
• Develop and disseminate a “product” (e.g., workshop, talk, blog) that drives referrals to The Family Institute

• Possess a training background and clinical experience that are empirically informed, theoretically grounded, and systemically oriented
• Experience or strong interest in working with emerging adults and developmental challenges
• Understanding of personal and professional boundaries
• Organizational skills
• Time and stress management skills
• Communication skills to include interpersonal, teamwork, and collaboration skills
• Computer literacy
• Problem solving skills

• Master’s Degree in a license‑eligible discipline
• Minimum of one-year post‑graduate experience
• Experience building and maintaining a consistent clinical caseload and ensuring timely completion of all required…