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Posting Reason

New Position

Job Type

Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):
N/A

Job Family

Student Health and Wellness

# of Open Positions:
1

Faculty/Service - Department

Varsity Sports High Performance Athletics

Campus

Main Campus

Union Affiliation

SSUO

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD)

2026/10/05

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):
2026/10/16

Hours per week

35

Salary Grade

SSUO Grade 11

Salary Range

$95,594.00 - $120,750.00

About Student Affairs

Student Affairs is at the very heart of the student experience at the University of Ottawa. We recruit the very best future students, support them throughout their university years and leave them well-prepared for fulfilling careers and future studies. Our team of more than 600 dedicated staff provides the services that keep students happy, well and thriving as they pursue their ambitions. We help them apply and enrol for courses, we oversee 11 residences and an award-winning Dining Hall, we organize fun events, we provide extensive recreation program opportunities and varsity sports activities, we run an innovative career development and experiential learning program and much more!

There's nothing more rewarding than helping future generations reach their full potential at a world-class university. With our wide variety of career opportunities and professional development pathways, we're sure that you'll enjoy the experience as much as our students do.

Position Purpose

Provide psychotherapy and mental performance support to varsity student-athletes for the duration of their University of Ottawa career. Offer tools, resources, counseling, and psychotherapy to help them develop the skills, abilities,



and habits that promote their mental health and wellness while competing at the highest level of Canadian University Sport. Provide mental performance support as a certified mental performance consultant to varsity student-athletes in a primarily one-on-one setting. Work closely with members of the Integrated Support team to determine the best plan for student-athletes from a holistic approach.

In this role, your responsibilities will include

- Deliver Clinical Psychotherapy Services : Provide evidence-based psychotherapy to student-athletes across the mental health continuum, including those experiencing distress as well as those seeking to proactively maintain wellness, resilience, and balance, in order to support psychological health, sustainable performance in support of their academic, athletic and personal development.
- Deliver Mental Performance Consulting: Design and implement mental performance interventions (goal setting, focus, confidence, motivation, stress regulation) to enhance athletic performance, resilience, and consistency in training and competition environments.
- Advisory Role: Act as an advisor to the supervisor and Head Coaches to support the development of safe, supportive and psychologically healthy varsity sport environments that promote the well-being and safety of student-athletes in the daily training environments.
- Varsity Integrated Support Team (IST): Collaborate with members of the Varsity Integrated Support Team to deliver holistic,



individualized care for student-athletes, and provide guidance on Safe Sport-informed best practices to ensure varsity environments, policies, and procedures are psychologically safe, inclusive, and free from maltreatment and psychological harm.
- Coach and IST Education: Assess learning needs and design, lead, and recommend training and/or psychoeducation for full-time coaches and Integrated Support Team members to ensure consistent knowledge and shared standards related to mental health, wellness, and psychological safety. Coordinate and deliver onboarding and ongoing education opportunities for new sport leaders within the sector to promote informed, safe, and supportive sport environments.
- Collection and Analysis of Mental Health Information : Collect and analyze aggregate mental health data, including urgency and frequency of interventions and environmental factors impacting student-athlete well-being, to inform service planning and delivery. Share nonconfidential insights with Integrated Support Team members to provide continuous improvement of supports, and flag emerging or concerning trends to the supervisor, in accordance with consent and privacy requirements.

What you will bring

- Be a certified member in good standing with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).
- Be a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) in good standing as per the Canadian Sport Psychology Association.
- Postgraduate degree in counseling, psychology, or another related discipline.
- Bilingualism: French and English (spoken and written), to be considered for this position, candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their sec

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📌 Senior Psychotherapist, Varsity Mental Health and Performance (Ottawa)
🏢 University of Ottawa
📍 Ottawa