Join the Team
January 2022:
- We are currently seeking an experienced relationship counsellor. Please see below for details.
- We are also always interested in hearing from Medicare registered psychologists, mental health social workers and mental health occupational therapists who may be interested in joining our team.
- If you are not a relationship counsellor or a Medicare registered practitioner but believe you still have something to offer our team and clients, we invite you to submit your expressions of interest, as we are always keen to connect with passionate therapists.
Experienced Relationship Counsellor
Create Balance Psychotherapy and Counselling
Pakington Street Geelong West VIC 3218
About you
You are an experienced and empathetic relationship counsellor: either a psychologist or mental health social worker. You can use mindful communication strategies and attachment theory to help couples build respectful, effective behaviour and communication skills that support them to develop greater understanding and acceptance of their partner and feelings of security and fulfillment within their relationship.
You will possess:
Our culture
Create Balance Psychotherapy and Counselling is an evolving mental health practice that incorporates tradition forms of therapy with innovative therapeutic approaches to mental health practice. We are a dynamic, stimulating and gratifying workplace and proud of the unique and supportive culture we’ve created for our clients and ourselves. We take pride in our lived experience of a variety of mental health challenges. This is reflected in our ability to provide empathetic, personalised and passionate therapy that supports our clients’ therapeutic goals.
Our vision
The Create Balance vision reflects our strong desire to achieve the very best outcomes for our clients. Our seven key values underpin our vision and inform our reflection, planning and decision making.
Our values
Our therapeutic approach
We are highly skilled and motivated to support clients with varied experiences of trauma and distress. We offer focussed psychological strategies and client-focused practices along with progressive approaches and innovative technologies to clients who have exhausted all avenues of therapeutic support or feel traditional talk therapy is not enough for them. We have developed an exciting Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) program and witnessed the effectiveness of this cutting edge therapy.
Why join our team?
We enthusiastically encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from the LGBTQIA+ community, people who are neuro-diverse and people who identify as having a disability are enthusiastically encouraged to apply.
We invite you to learn more about what we do by exploring our website, blogs and social media but also by chatting personally to the director of Create Balance Psychotherapy and Counselling, Shannon Bowman. Feel free to email admin@createbalance.com.au or call 0434 415 575.
Create Balance Psychotherapy and Counselling
Pakington Street Geelong West VIC 3218
- 2–3 days per week
- Contractor session fee rate $130 per 50-minute session
- Employment rate negotiated depending on level of experience
- Be part of a supportive, visionary team
- Thrive in a unique and evolving culture
About you
You are an experienced and empathetic relationship counsellor: either a psychologist or mental health social worker. You can use mindful communication strategies and attachment theory to help couples build respectful, effective behaviour and communication skills that support them to develop greater understanding and acceptance of their partner and feelings of security and fulfillment within their relationship.
You will possess:
- A high level of communication and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to build rapport and trust with clients.
- Knowledge and experience of attachment theory, parts therapy or internal family systems, motivational interviewing, acceptance commitment therapy and mindfulness based therapies.
- An ability to conduct assessments, write clinical reports and liaise with other relevant professionals.
- Efficient organisational, multitasking and IT skills.
- An ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously on company projects and goals.
- Registration with AHPRA or AASW, PACFA or ACA.
- Professional indemnity insurance.
Our culture
Create Balance Psychotherapy and Counselling is an evolving mental health practice that incorporates tradition forms of therapy with innovative therapeutic approaches to mental health practice. We are a dynamic, stimulating and gratifying workplace and proud of the unique and supportive culture we’ve created for our clients and ourselves. We take pride in our lived experience of a variety of mental health challenges. This is reflected in our ability to provide empathetic, personalised and passionate therapy that supports our clients’ therapeutic goals.
Our vision
The Create Balance vision reflects our strong desire to achieve the very best outcomes for our clients. Our seven key values underpin our vision and inform our reflection, planning and decision making.
Our values
- Connection
- Authenticity
- Integrity
- Compassion
- Hope
- Responsiveness
- Innovation
Our therapeutic approach
We are highly skilled and motivated to support clients with varied experiences of trauma and distress. We offer focussed psychological strategies and client-focused practices along with progressive approaches and innovative technologies to clients who have exhausted all avenues of therapeutic support or feel traditional talk therapy is not enough for them. We have developed an exciting Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) program and witnessed the effectiveness of this cutting edge therapy.
Why join our team?
- Opportunities to work on projects, innovative therapies and create and develop workshops and online courses.
- Work within a supportive, passionate and collaborative team of therapists.
- Support diverse client groups.
- Achieve real and measurable therapeutic outcomes for couples
- Opportunities to build upon therapeutic areas of interest, as well as enthusiastic support in pursuing new areas of interest.
- Access to innovative and effective EMDR tools and technology.
- Opportunities for increased responsibilities and leadership.
- Negotiable employment conditions - contractor or employee model.
- Generous compensation.
- The ability to work flexible hours.
- Monthly supervision (over $2500 value per year).
- Practice management.
- Personalised reception and support.
- Attentive marketing management.
- Located in vibrant Geelong West on iconic Pakington Street.
We enthusiastically encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from the LGBTQIA+ community, people who are neuro-diverse and people who identify as having a disability are enthusiastically encouraged to apply.
We invite you to learn more about what we do by exploring our website, blogs and social media but also by chatting personally to the director of Create Balance Psychotherapy and Counselling, Shannon Bowman. Feel free to email admin@createbalance.com.au or call 0434 415 575.
Call 0434 415 575 today
for a confidential discussion about how our therapists can assist you in your current situation.
for a confidential discussion about how our therapists can assist you in your current situation.
