Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (Counselling and Psychotherapy)
Location: Hawthorn East
Employment Type: 0.60 EFT (Level B or C, commensurate with experience)
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We are seeking a passionate and highly skilled Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy to join our collaborative and community-focused academic team.
This role is central to our teaching mission and is ideal for someone deeply grounded in person-centred and humanistic-experiential approaches, with a strong commitment to experiential learning, supervision, and the development of therapeutic presence in students.
You will contribute to high-quality teaching, curriculum innovation, and the development of a growing psychotherapy change research profile, supporting our commitment to training reflective, relational, and practice-ready graduates.
About the Role
This role involves:
- Delivering engaging, experiential and process-oriented teaching
- Providing supervision that emphasises relational depth, attunement, and use of Self
- Designing curriculum grounded in humanistic-experiential pedagogy
- Embedding trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and inclusive teaching practices
- Contributing to scholarship and research, particularly in psychotherapy process and change
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Strong expertise in person-centred counselling and humanistic-experiential approaches
- Experience in experiential teaching, training, and/or supervision
- A commitment to inclusive, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive practice
- Demonstrated ability to engage students in reflective and applied learning
- Interest or experience in psychotherapy change research
Highly desirable:
- Registration with Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia and/or
Australian Counselling Association
- Experience in experiential curriculum design
- Doctoral qualification (required for Senior Lecturer)
About the Cairnmillar Institute
The Cairnmillar Institute is a not-for-profit registered health promotion charity that has been providing high-quality professional education and accessible psychological services for over 60 years.
We are one of Australia’s leading trainers of postgraduate psychologists and counsellors, with a strong commitment to relational, evidence-informed, and socially responsive practice.
Why join Cairnmillar
- Supportive, collaborative academic team
- Strong focus on experiential and practice-based teaching excellence
- Opportunities to contribute to emerging psychotherapy research
- Flexible work arrangements
- Purpose-driven culture focused on wellbeing and inclusion
How to apply
Please submit:
- Cover letter
- CV
- Contact details for two referees
If you would like a position description, please visit our website- https://www.cairnmillar.org.au/about/careers-at-cmi/job-search/level-c-academic-counselling-and-psychotherapy.
Please contact People and Culture (hr@cairnmillar.edu.au) if you have an enquiry about the position.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
The Cairnmillar Institute promotes the following values: collaboration, compassion, integrity, professionalism and respect and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Cairnmillar is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce that reflects the community it serves.
