Our Family Therapists play a key role in our multi-disciplinary teams and work to ensure synergy across treatment. As a Family Therapist, you’ll conduct family sessions with patients and their loved ones that will aim at providing support, offering education, and promoting collaboration. If your passion is helping those who are working to support our patients,  you would be a great addition to our team. 

Our location in Northbrook is our first and largest facility, and consists not only of our widest variety of programs, but also serves as a pilot site for many of our new treatment offerings. 

What you'll do:

• Facilitating family sessions to a caseload of assigned child and adolescent patients (ages 7-18) and their loved ones. 
• Providing guidance and support to patients and family members to help promote goals and encourage patients progress through the program.
• Providing direction to families about effective ways of supporting patients. Discussion topics and family therapy goals include safety plans, incorporating skill implementation, improving communication, creating contracts.
• Works with various presenting issues including depression, anxiety, psychosis.
• Assisting in supporting families through phone coaching and follow-up calls.
• Supporting patients in crisis.
• Coordinating with the treatment team. This involves attending rounds and other program meetings regularly as well as using the electronic systems of communication.
• Communicating with outside providers conducting family therapy for continuity of care.
• Collaborating with the treatment team in assessing the patient’s progress and need for higher level of care, stepdown, or discharge.
• Helping the family to coordinate an effective discharge plan.
• Providing individual support to patients as needed.
• Contributing clinical observations and insights during interdisciplinary meetings.
• Charting progress of patients appropriately in the electronic medical record.
• Participating in program meetings as needed.
• Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass.
• Participating in a weekly family therapy meeting.

Who you are:

• Have two years, post master’s family therapy experience (preferred) 
• Have two years, post master’s experience working in higher levels of care (preferred)
• Hold the following licenses or certification: LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, PsyD, PhD, or associate level licensure such as the LSW, LPC, AMFT 
• Possess a core skill set of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)