Integral Counseling Psychology - Full-Time Core Faculty Position - SPRING 2025

Company: California Institute of Integral Studies
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

California Institute of Integral StudiesJob Posting: Integral Counseling Psychology - Full-Time Core Faculty Position - SPRING 2025Integral Counseling Psychology - Full-Time Core Faculty Position - SPRING 2025Category: Faculty PositionsSubscribe:Department: Integral Counseling PsychologyLocations: San Francisco, CAPosted: Dec 3, 2024Closes: Open Until FilledType: Full-timePositionID: 183568ShareAbout California Institute of Integral Studies:
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is an internationally recognized leader in integral education. CIIS strives to embody spirit, intellect, and wisdom in service of individuals, communities, and the earth. CIIS has an enrollment of over 2,000 students pursuing degrees and professional certificates in a variety of academic programs in its schools of Consciousness and Transformation, Professional Psychology and Health, Undergraduate Studies, and our research centers and global initiatives.CIIS is a mosaic of faces and philosophies, and backgrounds and beliefs. Like our faculty and staff, students are intellectually engaged and socially active. Each day brings new experiences that broaden horizons and hone critical thinking. Programs, both inside the classroom and throughout the University, inspire creativity, nurture community, cultivate curiosity, and foster social good. In addition, CIIS offers a dynamic array of events through its Public Programs, including conversations, workshops, continuing education, and conferences and hosts a vibrant art exhibition series. The University also provides low-cost mental health services to the San Francisco Bay Area through its 6 award-winning community counseling clinics. CIIS is accredited by the Western Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC).CIIS strives to cultivate a culture of inclusion and belonging as part of its Seven Commitments . More than accept difference, we honor and celebrate our staff's diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. In turn, our diverse and inclusive culture brings us together in ways that empower everyone to connect, belong, and grow.
Job Description:
The Integral Counseling Psychology (ICP) Program of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is accepting applications for a full-time faculty position, to start Fall 2025. The Integral Counseling Psychology Master of Arts program educates future psychotherapists by centering student development in the three pillars of our program: depth of clinical skills training, transpersonal and/or spiritual approaches to psychology, and social justice via a liberation psychology framework. Through experiential, contemplative, theoretical, and transformative learning, students deepen self-awareness and hone clinical skills in coursework and practicum placements.Inspired by CIIS founder, Haridas Chaudhuri's integral yoga philosophy, the program aspires to graduate students versed in socially engaged spirituality, relational and liberatory approaches, and critical consciousness.Successful candidates will demonstrate a reverence for all three pillars in all aspects of the job. One of the hallmarks of the ICP program is personal and transformative growth through experiential, contemplative, and didactic learning. Successful applicants should have experience in facilitating collaborative discussions, community-building practices, experiential exercises, mindfulness and other contemplative practices, and reflective writing, where students combine inner experience and personal development with preparation to work as a therapist.Major responsibilities include teaching 18 units per year, advising students, attending faculty and university meetings, attending orientations and graduations, service on departmental and university-wide committees, and ongoing participation in scholarship and publication.ICP is accredited as a residential program, and most faculty teaching is in person at San Francisco CIIS building.Priority deadline to apply is February 2, 2025ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Any rank is open (assistant; associate; full professor)
• Master's or doctoral degree in counseling psychology or related field; licensed clinician (or license-eligible) in the State of California
• Moderate to extensive successful experience teaching in graduate clinical education and training
• Clinical experience in relational and long-term psychotherapy with clients, and with social and culturally diverse clients
• Ability to teach one or more clinical foundation courses at the graduate level: therapeutic communication, the clinical relationship, transpersonal psychotherapy, family dynamics, and/or multicultural counseling
• Ability to teach at the graduate level one or more of these specialty courses: couples counseling, child therapy, trauma therapy, integrative seminar, gestalt therapy, and/or psychodynamics
• Demonstrated ability to address, manage and facilitate dynamics around power, privilege, and oppression related to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, ability status, neurodiversity, size, and ethnicity that arise in the classroom
• Experience evaluating, advising, and mentoring graduate students
• Interest in scholarly productivity
• Affinity for the CIIS mission and the three pillars of ICP program
  Requirements:
  MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  • Any rank is open (assistant; associate; full professor)
  • Master's or doctoral degree in counseling psychology or related field; licensed clinician (or license-eligible) in the State of California
  • Moderate to extensive successful experience teaching in graduate clinical education and training
  • Clinical experience in relational and long-term psychotherapy with clients, and withsocial and culturally diverse clients
  • Ability to teach one or more clinical foundation courses at the graduate level: therapeutic communication, the clinical relationship, transpersonal psychotherapy, family dynamics, and/or multicultural counseling
  • Ability to teach at the graduate level one or more of these specialty courses: couples counseling, child therapy, trauma therapy, integrative seminar, gestalt therapy, and/or psychodynamics
  • Demonstrated ability to address, manage and facilitate dynamics around power, privilege, and oppression related to race, class, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, ability status, neurodiversity, size, and ethnicity that arise in the classroom
  • Experience evaluating, advising, and mentoring graduate students
  • Interest in scholarly productivity
  • Affinity for the CIIS mission and the three pillars of ICP programPreferred Qualifications:
    • Significant training and experience practicing and teaching in depth, relational, gestalt, and/or transpersonal psychologies
    • Significant training and experience practicing and teaching in feminist, womanist, mujerista, LGBTQ+, and/or liberation psychologies
    • Specialization in Black psychologies, Latinx psychologies, Indigenous and decolonial psychologies, and/or AMENA (Arab, Middle Eastern, North African) psychologies in teaching, clinical practice, and/or scholarship
    • Successful experience in community mental health settings
    • A publication record and an interest in research
    • Experience serving and collaborating with other faculty on committees, tasks, and projects at various departmental, school, and university-wide levels
    • Teaching and or expertise in online pedagogy.
      ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDSOccasional work performed alone with ability to work remotely from time-to-time. Collaboration and constant work around and with other people.PHYSICAL ABILITIESThis position requires attention to detail, good memory, ability to work under deadline pressure, sitting and standing for long periods of time, oral and written communication, keyboarding for significant portions of the workday, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, reaching, patience, and tact to perform the essential functions.
      Additional Information:
      WAGES AND BENEFITS
      • Associate Professor:$79k - $92k
      • Professor:$94k - $109kNOTES TO CANDIDATE
        • Working Conditions -- Duties are primarily performed in an office environment at a desk or computer terminal, typically, Monday through Friday in the Day program. If teaching in the weekend program, Fridays-Sundays approximately once a month plus an 8-day intensive in August.
        • Background Check -- Due to the sensitivity and requirements of our positions, you should expect to undergo and be cleared of an employment background/criminal check, if extended an offer for employment. You may also be asked to provide proof of educational degree(s), licenses, or credentials pertinent to the position. If your job requires driving on behalf of CIIS you will be required to provide proof of a valid driver's license.
        • Visa Sponsorship -- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.
        • Relocation Assistance -- This position is eligible for relocation assistance.Due to CIIS's ongoing recruitment in other departments, please specify ICP CORE FACULTY POSITION in your application materials. Please include ALL of the following to be considered for a position:
          • Curriculum vitae or resume
          • Transcripts of highest and most relevant degrees must be included.
          • Descriptive letter addressing all qualifications and demonstrating interest in mission of ICP Program and CIIS
          • A statement of teaching and scholarly interests
          • Professional/scholarly work examples
          • Names and contact information of three professional referencesEQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY POLICYCIIS strives to cultivate and preserve a culture of inclusion and belonging as part of its Seven Commitments. More than accept difference, we honor and celebrate our staff's diversity of experiences, perspectives, and identities. Together, our community creates and maintains working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, accessible, and welcoming.CIIS is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an open, fair, inclusive, non-discriminatory environment for all individuals across differences of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, socio- economic status, ethnicity, age, physical ability, or medical condition. We seek to increase the presence, representation, and inclusion of U.S. historically under-represented people of color, international, bilingual, and bicultural students, faculty, and staff; and, to provide an environment that will attract and retain individuals identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex (LGBTQQI+). CIIS is committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
            Application Instructions:
            The ICP program is offered in both a traditional weekday and an intensive weekend format. The weekend program begins with an eight-day retreat each August, followed by one weekend per month between September and May. Weekday program follows a traditional graduate program schedule of one class per week during regular semester. Most ICP faculty teach some in both programs. Weekday and weekend schedule flexibility and availability will be important.We are accepting applications for a full-time core faculty position. We will continue to accept applications until the positions are filled. Please contact Search Committee Co-Chairs Anna Benassi (abenassi@ciis.edu) and Shanna Butler (sbutler@ciis.edu) for more information, or to inquire whether we are still taking applications.Priority deadline to apply is February 2, 2025
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