Staff Psychotherapist (BIPOC Student Focus)

Staff Psychotherapist (BIPOC Student Focus) 

Anticipated Start: Spring 2026

Position Description: Cal Poly Humboldt Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) is collecting applications for a Staff Psychotherapist or Psychologist with a particular focus on identifying and supporting the mental health needs of students of color. This full-time position will include providing direct clinical services (individual and couples counseling, group psychotherapy, and crisis intervention) as well as outreach, and other duties assigned. Outreach and campus engagement will involve close collaboration with our University’s Cultural Centers of Academic Excellence. Depending on experience and qualifications of the candidate, the clinician may also be involved in ongoing training and support efforts to strengthen cultural competency among CAPS staff. 

Professional Duties:

• Clinical services - Provide individual and couples counseling, single-session therapy, group psychotherapy, and crisis intervention.
• Outreach services - Engage in outreach presentations and workshops with a focus on supporting the mental health of students of color; foster relationships with University’s Cultural Centers for Academic Excellence; and provide consultations with faculty, staff, and students.
• Training activities - Provide individual and group clinical supervision and training of post-graduate residents and practicum trainees in the university’s master’s in counseling program
• Other professional duties as assigned - For example, depending on the qualifications and interest of the successful candidate, the position may involve training and support for CAPS staff to increase cultural competency and to develop cultural humility, consultation with CAPS leadership on improving access to services for students of color, engagement in additional administrative and professional activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

Degree- 

• Master’s Degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology, Social Work, or closely related field. Doctorate Degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology, Social Work, or closely related field will be given preference.
• California license-eligible (as a Psychologist, LMFT, or LCSW) by date of appointment (e.g. potential for licensure within a year of hire).

Experience-  

• Experience in time‐limited psychotherapy and crisis intervention with young adults.
• Competence in the assessment and treatment of AOD issues, trauma, anxiety, and depression.
• Professional experience supporting communities of color, knowledge of historic and current issues facing people of color, expertise in both outreach to, and engagement with, historically underserved groups.
• The ability to conceptualize cases and provide diagnoses within a sociocultural context.
• Collaborative team member with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to keep up with the fast pace of the center and maintain timely case documentation.

Preferred:

• Professional license to practice as a mental health clinician.
• Previous experience providing psychological services in a university or college counseling center.
• Interest and experience providing clinical supervision, particularly with counseling students just learning to be therapists.
• Specialization in time-limited approaches to therapy (such as, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy).
• Experience and interest in leading psychotherapy or psycho-educational groups.
• Strong skills in suicide risk assessment and management and working with “high risk” issues more generally.
• Bilingual (ability to conduct services in both English and Spanish).

Rank and Salary: This is an open rank position and outstanding candidates at both the SSP AR I and SSP AR II rank will be considered.  Rank and salary are dependent on the successful candidate's experience, qualifications and degree of assigned leadership tasks.  The expected salary range is $75,000 to $92,000 for the academic year position (which is paid over a 12-month period).  Early career (e.g., non-licensed or recently licensed candidates) are expected to be hired at the lower end of this pay scale ($75,000 to $83,000) and candidates with longer-standing mental health licensure and experience are expected to land higher on the pay scale ($84,000 to $92,000). 

• SSP/AR I, AY: $6,221 - $11,105 monthly