Role: Anti-Oppressive & Social Justice-Orientated Individual & Relationship Counsellor
at Sydney Inclusive Individual & Relationship Counselling
Location: Beverly Hills, Sydney NSW 2209
Pay: Percentage of session fee + 12% super
At our service we work together with peers and with clients in relationships built on mutual openness, respect, safety, accountability and trust.
Our values: Compassion, integrity, transparency, growth, courage, care.
The ethics and values that are the foundation of the practice framework:
- Radical Social Work
- Critical Social Work
- Anti-Oppressive Practice
- Liberatory / Liberation
- Healing
- Social Justice
- Equity not equality
- Transformative Justice
We take a non-pathologizing approach with neuro-affirming practice, social model of disability and reject the biomedical model of mental health.
The majority the client demographic hold multiple intersectional identities and/or experiences of neurodivergence (often ADHD, Autism, and/or AuDHD), disability, LGBTQIA+, CARM/CALD, trauma, and want to connect with a therapist who has experience navigating those complexities.
This often includes:
- People of colour
- People from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds
- LGBTIQA+ folk
- Neurodivergent folk
- Sex workers
- Victim-survivors
- People who have relational trauma
- People with disability/s including self-diagnosed
- People who have caused harm
- People who don’t buy into mainstream ideas of work
As well as people in all kinds of relationships including:
- Friendships
- Professional relationships
- Queer/LGBTQI2A+ relationships
- Polyamorous, non-monogamous, multigamy and/or multi-partnered polycules
- Adult children and their parents
Role Description
We’re looking to expand for the first time to take on a contractor for a few hours across (to start with) on evenings and/or the weekend (specifics times/days negotiable). We’re looking for someone who can provide both telehealth and in-person counselling for individuals and relationship. This contract role involves conducting intake assessments, delivering regular counselling that align with anti-oppressive and social justice principles.
Our warm, non-clinical space located in Beverly Hills, NSW 2209 conveniently right next to the trains, bus stop, and untimed street parking. The hope is to grow this role to a 3+ day/week role as either a permanent employee or under a contractor service agreement, depending on your preference and circumstances.
This would probably be a great fit for an early to mid-career therapist who wants to explore entry to private practice but doesn’t need to depend on this role for their main income.
What will you get in return?
- In-house referrals
- Support getting set up for private practice with systems and software if needed
- You will be paid a percentage per session fee + 12% super contribution
- Regular weekly supervision and additional informal debriefing/supervision available as needed, and
- Mentoring to help you set up for your own business if desired
- Anti-oppressive practice and anti-capitalist boss who is prioritises radical transparency (including financial) and ethical practice over profit
Essentials
- Demonstrated skills in individual counselling, relationship counselling, and working with diverse relationship structures (e.g., couples, families, polycules, adult child-parent, friendships, etc).
- Excellent ability for self-reflection, vulnerability, and critical thinking along with receptiveness to constructive feedback especially in supervision with such complex cases
- Experience providing trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive therapeutic support, including work with marginalized and underrepresented communities.
- Relevant training and experience as a counsellor, psychotherapist, peer worker, psychologist, or social worker, etc.
- Strong abilities in assessment, case formulation, risk management, and documentation, including maintaining clear and accurate clinical notes.
- Commitment to social justice, intersectional practice, and ongoing critical self-reflection around power, privilege, and systemic inequities.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and boundary-setting skills, with the capacity to build collaborative, respectful therapeutic relationships.
- Willingness to engage in regular supervision, continuing professional development, and learning related to anti-oppressive practice and ethical standards.
- Ability to work independently on-site to manage a client caseload on evenings after 5pm and/or weekends
- Own insurance and full working rights in Australia (no sponsorships available).
Desirable
- Fluency to in a language other than English to deliver services in
- Lived/living experience and experience using Peer Work principles and practices
- Eligibility to be registered/Registration as a Victims Services Counsellor and interest in seeing a minimum number of such clients in your caseload as part of social justice commitment to equity of access
- Experience in private practice or community mental health.
- Experience supervising, coaching, or mentoring frontline staff and/or leadership.
- Experience with NDIS participants, processes and billing
I strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and racially marginalised backgrounds, migrant and refugee backgrounds, people with disabilities, and people of all genders and sexualities to apply.
Please send a cover letter addressing the above criteria and your CV/resume to sydneyinclusivecounselling@gmail.com