Job Description

• Consulting with clients to discuss their medical histories and identify the problems or conditions they wish to overcome.
• Conducting art therapy sessions with clients using various types of visual art, including drawing, sculpting, painting, ceramics, and clay modeling.
• Discussing clients artworks with them to evaluate the meaning and emotions behind the artworks.
• Collaborating with other healthcare practitioners to develop or integrate personalized treatment plans.
• Developing suitable art therapy programs for clients based on their needs, objectives, and preferred forms of artistic expression.
• Teaching clients coping skills and strategies to enable them to deal with challenging and traumatic experiences.
• Conducting group or family art therapy sessions as required.
• Supervising art therapy students and interns.
• Maintaining detailed records of patients\' progress as well as observations made during art therapy sessions.

Art Therapist Requirements:

• Master\'s degree in art therapy or counseling with additional coursework in art therapy.
• Certified by the art therapy credentials board or counselling board
• Sound knowledge of visual art.
• Excellent observational and counseling skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Patient, empathetic, and creative.
• A passion for art
• To therapeutically work with Adults, children and adolescents
• Providing individual and family interventions using evidence based practice
• Ability to work face-to-face and online
• Liaising with other professionals e.g. psychiatrists, pediatricians doctors.
• Providing talks, workshops and training
• Working with corporate clients e.g. schools
• Minimum 3-5 years experience of a variety of treatment modes
• Previous experience working in private setting with local population and expats is desirable but not essential.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a team player
• Additional experience training and confidence in working with self-harm, violence or suicidality is desirable.
• Experience of working with complex cases risk, self-harm, suicidality, OCD, emerging personality disorders, dual diagnosis, interpersonal violence, historic substance misuse
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team e.g. shared cases
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends, occasional home visit where necessary
• Experience of implementing structured change models
• Committed to attending regular supervision
• Ability to work with autonomy and be a team player
• Flexible working in a fast-paced environment that is growing
• IT skills in Office Applications such as Word, Excel, use of Apps

As part of the work, you will be offered free monthly supervision by a senior clinician and will have support through weekly peer supervision. We also have monthly training sessions in the team and webinars. You will be joining a warm, open and caring team that are enthusiastic and committed to offering excellent service to our clients and support to our clinicians.

Please send CV to hello@us-therapy.sg