Seeking: MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS (GENERALLY REGISTERED, COUNSELLING OR CLINICALLY ENDORSED AND/OR CLINICAL REGISTRARS) AND MENTAL HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS

Wild Calm Therapies is a unique private practice based in Hobart and online. We provide specialised individual counseling for adults. Our client base is predominantly womxn wanting to take charge of their lives more, the LGBTIQ+ community and health and social services professionals. We are an established practice with a trusted reputation, and your case load will be built easily in a short amount of time. We have a high attendance rate and cancellation fees are charged to the client if less than 48 hours notice is provided for non-attendance/late cancellations. Rescheduled appointments are also often filled. We pride ourselves on minimal marketing and have steadily relied on word of mouth and recommendations, and have a very high return rate of past clients returning when they desire further support.

Practitioners typically see up to 6 clients (max) per day with short breaks booked between sessions for the therapist’s self-care, including a lunch break. Quality over quantity of client sessions is prioritised. At Wild Calm Therapies we highly value who the therapist is as a person and value lived experiences in relation to our typical client groups (Use of Self, how they build relationships with clients, and authenticity).  It is important to us to uphold and offer diversity. This makes it critical to find the right fit for us, so we will take our time with careful selection processes and thoughtful recruitment.

Wild Calm Therapies leads with heart and connection first. We model being real. This means we’re ok owning being imperfect. We practice balancing normalising this transparently while holding a grounding, containing position of expertise and experience in our specialty areas. We are conscious of the presence of power and work to create shared power in relationships, including from the inside with practitioners. 

Your role:

• Provide medium to long-term individual counselling to a range of adult clients with a variety of mental health concerns.
• Administration & standard caseload management duties such as case noting, GP reports and letters, processing & monitoring payments and rebates, liaising with external services, ongoing bookings.
• Report to the Director, who is available for clinical debriefing, risk management support, and operational assistance.
• Bring your full and authentic self to your practice, with appropriateness.

Essential Criteria:

• Own indemnity insurance (or eligibility to apply).
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in providing individual counselling/psychotherapy.
• Mandatory, current registration with relevant accrediting body (eg. AASW, AHPRA)
• Eligibility to apply for a medicare provider number.
• Compassionate, person-centred and relational therapist.
• High capacity for self-awareness, self-reflection and willingness to engage in feedback processes.
• Commitment to being a part of our team long-term, and developing long-term therapeutic relationships with clients.
• Desire to work in a connected and authentic environment, yet happy to be autonomous and self-manage in day to day practice.
• Experience working with trauma, family and / or sexual violence, LGBTIQ+ matters, burnout prevention. Lived experience of the same.
• Experience working from a trauma-informed, feminist and intersectional framework.