Eating Disorders & Over 18 Family Therapist

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. The Family Therapist in this role will work within all of the 18+ PHP/IOP Programs, with an increased focused on the Eating Disorder Program when it launches

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. 

Schedule: This role is 5 days per week, Monday through Friday.

What You'll Do: 

• Facilitating family sessions to a caseload of assigned young adult and adult patients 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.
• Providing loved ones with psychoeducation about substance use and various other Axis 1 and 2 disorder symptoms
• Provides couples’ therapy for patients and their partners
• Works with various presenting issues including depression, anxiety, psychosis, substance abuse, PTSD, Axis 2 Disorder, Bipolar, etc.
• 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
• Working on projects focused on program improvement and the overall growth and development of Compass
• Opportunities to supervise unlicensed clinicians and work across different programs as needed (e.g., Young Adult, OCD, Trauma, Mental Health Pain and Illness)
• Participation in monthly 1-hour family support group
• Provide group therapy, as needed
• Other duties, as assigned

Who You Are: 

• Are a Psychologist or Master’s level therapist (required) 
• Hold one of the following licenses: PhD, PsyD, LCSW, or LCPC (preferred)
• 1+ years clinical work experience post-Master’s (strongly preferred)
• Have knowledge and experience utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), as well as other evidenced-based therapies, ideally in the context of delivering family therapy  
• Have experience with patients in crisis, ideally prior experience working in partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, inpatient hospital, or residential setting