The Johns Hopkins University Counseling Center (CC) provides services to students in full-time graduate and undergraduate academic programs in the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering located on the Homewood campus, as well as the Peabody Institute of Music.

This embedded counselor position will focus on developing and providing supportive services for student-athletes. The person in this position will provide direct clinical services in a dedicated office in the Ralph S. O’Connor Center for Recreation and Well-Being, and they will be expected to provide psychoeducational programming and indirect clinical services in various locations in the O’Connor Center and the Newton White Athletic Center. This person is expected to consult with and work collaboratively with the Athletics Department to develop systems and programs designed to serve JHU student-athletes. This person will have a non-clinical supervisor within the Athletics Department, but they will be an employee of the CC, will have a supervisor within the CC, and will operate under the same confidentiality rules that apply to all CC providers. In order to best meet the needs of the student-

- Provides multi-culturally informed direct clinical services, including initial consultations, intake assessments, individual counseling, group counseling, relationship counseling and crisis intervention to a diverse body of JHU student-athletes. These services will be provided at the Ralph S. O’Connor Center for Recreation and Well-Being.

- Provides psychoeducational workshops, outreach, and consultation services to the Athletics community. In addition to programming targeted toward the student-athletes, programming will be provided to coaches, sports performance staff, and administrators to help them best support the student-athletes and reduce barriers to counseling.

- Provides and participates in opportunities for less formal interactions with student-athletes, including informal drop-in hours focused on the reduction of barriers to counseling, and attendance at games, practices, and/other athletics events.

- Works collaboratively and consults with sports performance staff, Student-Athlete Development, Coaches, and Administrators in the Department of Athletics to develop and provide a network of supportive services for student-athletes.

- Serves on the Student-Athlete Wellness Team, and collaborates with colleagues across campus regarding best practices and supportive services for student-athletes

- Provides afterhours (as backup to ProtoCall) on-call shifts, in rotation with the rest of the clinical staff.

- Shares expertise and provides training regarding student-athletes to CC staff, including CC doctoral interns.

- Works to remain up-to-date regarding the literature on the needs of student-athletes and research supported strategies and interventions for this population.

- Attends all relevant Counseling Center meetings, including ongoing supervision, and professional development programming on-site at the CC.

- Provides services to the wider student population if the need arises and availability allows