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Attention: Registered Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists, and Registered Social Workers

You care deeply about your clients. You deserve to be part of a group practice that cares that much about you.

Building Bridges Psychotherapy welcomes all therapists to apply to our practice. We celebrate and affirm all persons of all cultures, ethnicities, faiths, ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, relationship orientations, and intersectionalities. Diversity is our strength!

Why Join Building Bridges Psychotherapy?

1. We value providing high quality therapy to clients and believe that healing happens through connection. Be part of a team where everyone truly cares about helping the world be a better place.

2. Your well-being as a practitioner is prioritized. Our philosophy within the practice is “Happy therapists do great therapy”. We do our best to take care of you, so you can take care of your clients.

3. We are a diverse, inclusive, and fun team of professionals. We support and connect with one another through peer consultation, social events, and one-to-one mentoring and coaching.

4. We offer competitive rates for compensation (starting at $114/hr) with room for growth, including our pay increase structure and promotion opportunities.

5. Therapists have flexibility in scheduling. There is a much room to customize your work schedule to fit your life: whether you’d like to work full-time, part-time, days, evenings, weekends, etc.

6. Free drop-in clinical supervision is currently offered on a bi-weekly basis!

7. We also offer health benefits! Our benefits plan includes paramedical (e.g., psychotherapy, massage therapy, physiotherapy, naturopathy), dental, drugs, vision, and more.

8. We provide intensive private practice training and ongoing mentorship by our management team. We proudly offer an intensive 15hr training course upon hiring, equipping our new hires with the tools to offer high quality therapy and succeed as a BB therapist!

9. We offer continuing education and training opportunities in-house (e.g., sex therapy, relational therapy, group therapy, public speaking).

10. All marketing is provided in-house! You are not responsible to generate any of your leads! We have an in-house marketing team and analytics team that custom tailors your marketing to help attract high quality leads to build your caseload. We invest a significant amount of time and resources in making you shine! For example, our therapists get stand out from the rest by being featured in our very own professionally-produced podcast, Mental Health Matchmaker.

11. There are ample opportunities for growth in the company, as additional roles (including management positions) are hired internally.

Join our practice and learn why we are one of the fastest growing therapy practices in Ontario, and are currently one of the largest practices by quantity of therapists and quantity of in-person locations!

Minimum Requirements:

Interested candidates must be registered with their respective regulatory college (i.e., CRPO, OCSWSSW, CPO) and be able to practice psychotherapy in Ontario. Whether you are a seasoned therapist or a newly graduated therapist in the process of becoming licensed or registered—you are invited to apply.

Before applying, candidates are asked to read the "Our Values", "How we do Therapy", and the “Diversity” pages on our website, bbtherapy.ca. It is important that these values and general approaches are in alignment with those of our therapists.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate can work with individuals, couples, and/or families, and can work in-person. Candidates that do not offer all three modalities and/or can only work remotely are still encouraged to apply, especially candidates that are interested in offering more of these in the future.

Ideal candidates are kind, warm, supportive, positive, amicable, and are passionate about helping clients heal, grow, and connect. Ideal candidates work from a strength-based perspective, are anti-oppressive, non-directive, systemic-relational in their thinking, appreciate the importance of intersectionality, as well as the importance of relationships for well-being.

Because we highly value diversity, therapistsare also invited to apply if they have any special insight or experience working with clients in a different language, or with clients belonging to a particular cultural group, faith group, or any other identity or intersectionality. However, this is not a requirement.

Seasoned therapists as well as newly registered therapists are all welcome to apply. We may also be able to accommodate therapists who already have their own existing private practice and are interested in merging with our practice.

Our Locations

We proudly have many in-person locations for our therapists to see clients:

1. Our Mississauga location (close to Square One)

2. Our Toronto location (Bay and Bloor)

3. Our Vaughan location (close to Vaughan Mills)

4. Our Markham location (404 and 407)

5. Our Guelph location (downtown)

6. Our Windsor location (Wyandotte St E and Pillette Rd)

7. Out Ottawa location (Centretown in Downtown Ottawa)

Therapists who wish to only work remotely are also encouraged to apply!

About Building Bridges Psychotherapy:

Founded on World Mental Health Day (Oct 10) in 2020 by Justin the Therapist, we are now one of the largest practices in Ontario. We are a diverse team of relational therapists that believe that healing happens through connection. We help our clients heal and grow by working on their relationships—not only romantic and familial relationships, but relationships with their communities, their cultures, their spirituality, and most importantly the relationship they have with themselves.

As for workplace culture, we believe that therapist well-being is key to providing quality service to our clients. Put simply, we believe that happy therapists do great therapy.

We believe that diversity is our strength, and we are committed to anti-oppressive practice. We are collaborative, diverse, post-modern, anti-oppressive, strength-based, and relational therapists aiming to make a positive difference in the communities we serve.

How to apply:

1. Please fill out our online application form by clicking the link on this page: https://bbtherapy.ca/careers/therapists/

2. At the end of the form, you will be asked to upload your resume and cover letter using Google Drive. If you’re unable to upload them in the form, please email your resume and cover letter to: careers@bbtherapy.ca.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Best of luck!

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Casual, Freelance

Pay: From $114.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking
• Vision care
• Work from home

Application question(s):

• Regarding your resume and cover letter, did you upload it in the form or send it to our careers email?
• Did you complete the application form using the link provided?

Education:

• Master's Degree (required)

Licence/Certification:

• license to perform the protected act of psychotherapy in ON? (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Ottawa, ON K2P 0M3