About this role
Job Summary
At Purdue University, your work can make a meaningful difference in the lives of students when they need support most. As a Staff Therapist, Access & Consultation, you will help students connect to care through timely clinical services, consultation, and brief interventions that promote well-being, resilience, and academic success. In this flexible and collaborative role, you will serve as a key member of the Counseling and Psychological Services team, helping ensure students have access to high-quality mental health support. By responding to emerging clinical needs, providing consultation and triage services, and maintaining continuity of care, you'll help create a campus environment where students feel supported, empowered, and equipped to thrive.
Responsibilities Include
- Provide timely access to mental health support through one-time appointments, consultations, triage, and brief clinical interventions.
- Respond to fluctuating student demand and emerging clinical needs while helping optimize service capacity across the counseling center.
- Deliver individual, couples, and group therapy services based on student and departmental needs.
- Collaborate with counseling center colleagues to maintain continuity of care and provide coverage during staffing or service needs.
- Participate in on-call services and crisis response activities as assigned.
- Conduct clinical assessments and connect students to appropriate resources and levels of care.
- Provide mental health consultations to students, faculty, staff, and campus partners.
- Deliver outreach programming that promotes student well-being, mental health awareness, and help-seeking behaviors.
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and adhere to ethical, legal, and professional standards.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary campus partners to support student success and holistic well-being.
- For licensed therapists, provide supervision and mentorship to therapists-in-training as needed.
- Contribute to a culture of care, inclusion, and continuous improvement within the counseling center.
What Sets Us Apart: This role offers the opportunity to make an immediate impact by helping students access support when they need it most. Rather than carrying a traditional long-term caseload alone, you'll work across multiple service areas, including access, consultation, triage, therapy, outreach, and crisis response. This variety allows you to address emerging needs, support a broad range of students, and contribute to a responsive, student-centered model of care. Other highlights include: Our benefits start your first day of employment https://bit.ly/3DJE9os Professional development funds.
Recent market adjustments for competitive pay. No after hours on call and standard business hours with flex options. Career Development: We have career paths and many opportunities for you to develop to your next Giant Leap. We serve a large international and diverse campus and student body. This role will offer you the opportunity to join a team to assist in aligning CAPS with our Steps to Leaps initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- Required: Education and Experience: Ph.D. or Psy.D. in Clinical or Counseling Psychology.
- Relevant experience related to degree.
- In lieu of degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered (IE: Master’s Degree + Two years of experience.
- Current Indiana License, or license eligible as follows: Ph.D. or Psy.D. candidates without current Indiana license must demonstrate current eligibility to meet state HSPP licensure requirements within 18 months of hire.
- Master’s candidates without current Indiana license must demonstrate current eligibility to meet state LCSW, LMHC, LMFT or comparable license within 30-months of hire.
- Candidates receiving doctoral training with ABD status will be considered.
- Candidates must complete doctoral degree within one year of start date and obtain license following timeline above.
- Supervision will be provided for doctoral candidates considered.
- Skills Needed: Provision of group and individual therapy and clinical supervision.
- Ability to develop and teach seminars related to the provision of these skills.
- Strong generalist therapy skills.
- Ability to evaluate and diagnose clients, make decisions about the urgency of clients' problems, and design and implement appropriate therapy treatment interventions foundational.
- Manages individual caseload while also incorporating new clients in an ongoing manner.
- Skills and interest in outreach and consultation.
- Confidentiality and adherence to ethical practices.
- Adheres to relevant ethical and legal standards of HIPAA, relevant professional bodies, and state boards.
- Independent judgment and discretion.
- Must relate well to students, staff, faculty and other members of the University community.
- Specific interest in one or more of the following clinical areas and communities: interest and experience serving diverse clients and communities: brief therapy; substance use, abuse, and dependence issues; eating disorders; international students; and/or working with underserved populations, in general.
What is Helpful: One year of general therapy experience.
Additional Information: Purdue’s benefits summary https://www.purdue.edu/hr/Benefits/ Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this position A background check will be required for employment in this position FLSA: Exempt (Not Eligible For Overtime) Retirement Eligibility: Defined Contribution Waiting Period Career Stream Compensation Information: Professional 3 Pay Band S070 Job Code#20003421 Link to Purdue University's Compensation Guidelines: https://www.purdue.edu/hr/mngcareer/compguidelines/index.php EOE Purdue University is an equal opportunity/equal access university