psychotherapist

Job Description Job Description LOCATION: Toronto, ON POSITION TYPE: Regular Full-Time (37.5 hours/week) POSTING CLOSING DATE: March 18, 2026 SALARY RANGE: $73,224 - $80,864 Interested in working with an amazing team that really cares? Then you should join Lumenus! At Lumenus we illuminate a seamless pathway to optimal wellbeing for our clients. As one of the largest mental health agencies in Ontario, we offer a broad range of high-quality mental health, developmental and community services for infants, children, youth, individuals, and families across Toronto. We are a passionate, dynamic and growing agency. We offer a competitive salary, employer paid benefits, ongoing training, and career development opportunities! Lumenus Community Services is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We value a recruitment and selection process that is inclusive and barrier-free and we encourage applications from all individuals including, but not limited to, all cultures, religions, racialized communities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions. Lumenus Community Services is looking for a dynamic individual to be a member of our Community Counselling and Intensive DBT Programs. In addition to providing ongoing counselling for youth aged 12+, position will provide DBT- specific therapy as part of Lumenus' Intensive DBT program for youth aged 14-18 and their caregivers. The Intensive DBT Program includes individual, group and family therapy, DBT skills coaching and weekly DBT Team consultation -essential to helping DBT therapists monitor their fidelity to the model, increase their skills, monitor their burnout and sustain their motivation when working with high-risk, youth. The successful candidate will also provide ongoing counselling, service coordination, and therapeutic support within our Community Counselling program to youth aged 12+ and their families/caregivers. This position addresses a range of mental health issues, including emotional, behavioral and/or psychiatric symptoms that may be impacting one's functioning at home, school, socially or in the community, as well as situational challenges including family conflict, bullying, trauma, substance use, struggles with psychiatric diagnoses. Therapeutic support is evidence-based, youth-centered, and reflective of the diverse needs of clients and their families. Experience with/lived experience of oppression, racism, homophobia, transphobia and/or ableism and/or personal connection to queer or trans communities of color, including newcomer and disability communities will be an asset for applicants. Lumenus Community Services is a dynamic and growing agency. We offer a competitive salary, ongoing training, and career development opportunities! KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide individual DBT informed therapy based on through Biosocial Assessment, for youth age 14-18, Co-facilitate DBT skills group for youth and their caregivers, provide DBT Skills Coaching to youth as needed, and be an active participant in weekly DBT Consult Team; Formulate assessments and treatment plans and provide therapeutic counselling using a range of Evidence-Based and/or Evidence-informed Practices, including Narrative Therapy, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Attachment-based therapy, Solution-focused, therapy, Trauma-informed therapy, Family Therapy, etc., and provision of psycho- education as needed; Provide direct clinical service to clients while ensuring all services are based on wholistic practice and an integration of family focus, wellness, attachment theory and trauma-informed principles. Knowledge of approaches that promote health equity, including anti-oppressiv