Generalist Counselor Therapist – Athletics/Sport Psychologist

Student and Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual, academic and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters including public service, health, wellness, social justice, residential living, food services, sports, recreation, career services, and student activities and organizations including sorority and fraternity life. We provide support and services to roughly 25,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Cornell Health's more than 200 employees collaborate to provide integrated and culturally-sensitive mental health, medical, health promotion, public health, student accommodations, and occupational medicine care and services. Dually focused on holistic health of Cornell students and well-being of the larger campus community, the unit supports readiness to learn, to participate fully in the Cornell experience, and to achieve academic, work, and life success. Cornell Health is nationally recognized for innovation and leadership, and is committed to an ongoing journey toward integrated, cost-effective, and community-based services and campus health initiatives.

Cornell Health’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) offers confidential counseling and psychiatric services, designed to help students with mental health concerns that may be affecting their quality of life and ability to learn. Our providers include psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses, and nurse practitioners from diverse cultural and clinical backgrounds. CAPS providers value students in all of their individuality, and are committed to welcoming all people with respect and sensitivity. Our providers regularly collaborate with Cornell Health’s diverse array of healthcare providers as an integrated service that support both the mind and the body.

Cornell University is a NCAA Division I institution and a member of the Ivy League. Through the Department of Athletics and Physical Education, the university fields teams in 37 intercollegiate sports and provides a comprehensive physical education program with the primary aim to inspire transformation through athletics. The university is committed to pursuing this aim through achieving academic, athletic, personal, professional, and organizational excellence (winning), promoting health, growth, equity, inclusion, and sustainability (wellness), generating community, spirit, pride, and passion for Cornell (spirit), and equipping citizen leaders inspired to change the world (leadership). Athletics and Physical Education offers a diverse program of physical and outdoor education, recreational services, intramural sports and intercollegiate athletics competition, in addition to wellness programs for faculty and staff and fitness centers for the entire Cornell community.

   

The Counselor Therapist at Cornell Health's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) embedded in Athletics and Physical Education (A&PE) serves as a member of a multidisciplinary service team with primary responsibility for ameliorating mental health conditions and related issues typically experienced by student-athletes engaged in competitive intercollegiate sports at the NCAA Division I level. The A&PE embedded clinical provider reports directly to the Assistant Director of Counseling and Psychological Services and maintains a close collaborative relationship with the Senior Deputy Director of Athletics for the Student-Athlete Experience in A&PE. Physically located within the athletics department, this role provides single session therapy, short-term individual counseling, group workshops, and referral and outreach programming services, as well as additional services as needs arise. The Counselor Therapist serves as a point of contact for mental health education and prevention strategies across the Athletics department, and will consult with coaches, trainers, staff, and parents regarding student-athlete mental health issues.

Success Factors

• Shares Cornell Health's commitment to providing timely mental health access to varsity student-athletes.
• Respects Cornell Athletics’ expectations to listen, lead, and love - and practices the departments’ standards of operating in ways that are collaborative, attentive, respectful, dependable, inclusive, and optimistic. 
• Maintains curiosity and willingness to learn the evolving values, culture, training, and educational approaches to working with NCAA Division I student-athletes. 
• Works collaboratively with professionals from different healthcare, athletics, academics, and student support services.
• Keeps current on NCAA and general best practices for providing mental health care within a campus community.
• Integrates value