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.