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Hiring We are hiring Masters level clinicians with expertise and advanced practice in mental health

  • MSW Social Worker—Clinical Specialists

  • MA Registered Counselling Therapists

  • M.O.T.

Lesley Hartman & Associates Inc. (LHA) is a well-established, highly respected private psychological practice based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For nearly 20 years, we’ve provided high-quality psychological therapy, assessment, and mental health services to individuals across the lifespan, as well as to couples and families. 
We are a multi-disciplinary team, and a teaching practice that provides opportunities for students in local Clinical Psychology, Social Work and Counselling graduate schools to pursue practicum and internship placements with us.
We provide a wide range of services, including intervention for mental health concerns, sex therapy, couples therapy, psycho-diagnostic, psycho-educational, ASD, ADHD and WPATH assessments, as well as offering advanced/specialized treatment for PTSD. 
We have a warm and cooperative work environment characterized by a high degree of contact, connection and support amongst the team, and mentorship opportunities in various trauma modalities, such as EMDR and IFS (Internal Family Systems Therapy). 

Qualifications & Experience​

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  • Minimum of a Master’s degree 

  • Carries a Nova Scotia License in one of the following: Social Work—Clinical Specialist; Registered Counselling Therapist; or Occupational Therapist with advanced practice in psychotherapy. 

  • Experience in one or more of the following areas:

  o Evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents

  o Evidence-based treatment for adults

  o Evidence-based Couples and/or family therapy



Responsibilities


Depending on your background and interests, your role may include any combination of the following:

  • Providing evidence-based outpatient psychological treatment for adults with a range of mental health concerns

  • Providing evidence-based outpatient psychological treatment for children and adolescents

  • Providing outpatient psychological treatment to couples and/or high conflict families using evidence-based approaches


WHAT DO WE bring to the table? 

At LHA, we offer you:

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  • Permanent position with a fee-for-service model offering very competitive compensation rates

  • An excellent reputation in the community with a stream of diverse cases

  • Administrative and intake support

  • Beautiful, art and light-filled, fully equipped workspaces

  • Easy-to-use practice management software (for charting, booking and billing)

  • Flexible work schedules, choose to work in-office, remotely, or a hybrid model

  • Supportive, collegial environment with both individual and group consultation opportunities

  • Autonomy in your clinical work, with access to mentorship and peer support

  • Opportunities to teach, supervise, and contribute to training if desired


Our Commitment to Diversity:

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Lesley Hartman & Associates Inc. values the diversity of the people it hires and serves. Diversity at LHA means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths. It also means celebrating, in a safe environment, the rich dimensions of diversity within everyone. This includes race, ethnicity, sexuality and sexual orientation, gender and gender expression, socio-economic status, age, differently-abled individuals etc.

At LHA we believe that cultivating diversity in our workplace helps us to do better work and develops stronger relationships.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and are specifically interested in recruiting racialized and differently abled people. In an effort to improve the quality of our care and to better serve our community. We invite you to let us know the diversity that you bring to our team.

Interested in joining us?
Whether you’re actively planning a move or just starting to explore the idea, we’d love to hear from you.
Please send your cover letter and curriculum vitae to lesley@lesleyhartman.ca.
Let’s talk about your professional journey to Nova Scotia.

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