Family Therapist

Systemic and Family Psychotherapist (registered with a professional body - UKCP)

Days per week: Minimum of 1 shift (AM shift is 7:30am-2:30pm or PM shift is 2:30-9:30pm)

Contractual Terms: Freelance

Pay rate: £90/ per 50min session (FT) £50/£60 per 50min session (individual/couple)

Clinical Team support from our Senior Clinicians and Clinical Leads

About Us: We’re Self Space, a contemporary mental health service offering a good conversation with a qualified person. We support individuals and some of the most progressive, industry-leading global companies to reach their potential. Since 2017, we’ve been making therapy more accessible and creating a space where people can take care of their mental health before they hit crisis mode. Now, we’re on a mission to be on every high street in the world. Bold? Absolutely. But we believe it’s possible to shift the culture around mental health to something that feels more normal and less… heavy. With 5 sites across London and growing we’re looking for brilliant therapists to join our mission to make therapy accessible to all. We mean no waiting lists, no long faffy assessments — just good therapy there and then.

Our Values matter a lot to us:

• Clients First: We put clients at the centre of everything we do.
• Radical Compassion: We lead with empathy and kindness.
• Name it: We say what needs saying, even when it’s tough.
• Keep the edge: Be bold. Disrupt and challenge the norm, but with love.
• Look after you: We take care of ourselves seriously as someone we love.
• Grit: Perseverance and passion. We know what it takes to shift culture.

Who we’re looking for: Family and Systemic Psychotherapists with 3yr post-qualification experience. We are especially interested in those with psychosexual training and those applicants who are able to work weekends. This is for in-person work based in one of our London sites (Greenwich, Soho, Kings Cross, Spitalfields, Borough). We’re prioritising candidates who can work in our Greenwich location. We are also prioritising candidates with the following specialisms:

• ADHD/Neurodiversity
• Issues with sex/anxiety around sex/psychosexual therapists
• Fertility
• Pregnancy
• Parenting
• Work stress/work anxiety/progression and direction at work
• LGBTQIA+ therapists with specialism in this area
• Cultural issues/world issues
• OCD
• Long term health issues
• Eating disorders
• Addiction
• Anger

Role Outline:

• To provide a consultation and structured 8 session family therapy model
• To provide the highest standard of in-person short and long-term interventions.
• To be digitally competent and administratively rigorous across note keeping, and diary management
• To have your own regular supervision external to us
• To have the capacity to work autonomously within BACP, HCPC, UKCP and other recognised ethical frameworks
• Liaising with other professionals to ensure safety and wellbeing of our clients (with our support)
• Supporting us to continuously improve the quality of our service and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in mental health support will flourish

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• Accredited with appropriate regulatory/governing body (HCPC, BACP etc.)
• Minimum 3 years post-qualifying experience
• Extensive knowledge and experience of Risk management and working in partnership with relevant organisations to manage risk issues
• Extensive knowledge and experience of working with safeguarding issues and working in partnership with relevant organisations to manage safeguarding issues
• Have proof of Public Liability Insurance and ICO registration
• Have extensive experience of working with IT systems e.g. emails and booking systems
• Ability to challenge outdated and rigid approaches to therapy whilst upholding the highest clinical standards
• Ability to be versatile and flexible in your approach therapy
• Current Enhanced Children and Adult DBS Clearance (or be willing to undergo this)
• A desire to shift the culture around mental health and be a part of something at the forefront of that

Benefits and Opportunities:

We are not a faceless, tech-driven organisation or a directory. We are a therapist-founded and therapist-led service that exists to improve the lives of others, challenge the status quo and do brilliant work. We are a community of therapists who support each other. Working with us, as well as a diverse clinical caseload, you will get access to:

• Weekly group supervision with an external qualified supervisor
• Fortnightly reflective spaces with our clinical team
• 1:1 check-ins when you would like them
• Peer support groups and Skill-Sharing sessions
• Two CPD events a year
• Social events (always, always good grub)
• Discounted sessions for family and friends

Equal Opportunities Statement: At Self Space, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we are grateful for it because it enriches the work we do and the support we offer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and we are dedicated to building an inclusive, affirmative and diverse team. We particularly welcome applications from those who are underrepresented within the field of Psychotherapy in the UK, including LGBTQIA+ and global majority communities.

If you feel you are able to meet the criteria above, have a passion for providing high quality care and are able to commit to shifts in one of our London locations then please apply now by following the link below.

Please contact jo@theselfspace.com if you have any questions or would like to talk more about the role.