Counsellor - Perinatal and Trauma

Counsellor - Perinatal and Trauma

Highgate, WA, and online

**Fixed-Term Part-Time Position - 9-Month Maternity Leave Contract.**
**Commencing 20 October 2025, concluding 31 July 2026**

**$84,098-$92,951 incl super, pro rata**

**About the Practice**
Fiona Rogerson - Perinatal and Trauma Counselling is a well-established private practice delivering high-quality, evidence-based therapy to individuals and couples across Western Australia and beyond. Our work is grounded in clinical rigour and a deep commitment to trauma-responsive care, particularly in the areas of birth trauma, perinatal distress, and relational repair.

We’re not just here to reduce symptoms. We are here to support deep, sustainable healing, and to challenge the systems that have failed so many. Our team is driven by values of integrity, transparency, and collaboration. We care deeply about how we work, who we work with, and why this work matters.

You’ll be joining a committed team that values clinical excellence, reflective practice, and real connection, both with our clients and with each other.

**About the Role**
We are offering a 9-month, fixed-term part-time role to cover a period of maternity leave. The role involves individual and couples counselling, with a caseload focused on birth trauma, perinatal distress, parenting challenges, and complex trauma. Sessions are offered both in-person at our Highgate office and via telehealth. A full client load is available.

The role requires clinical confidence, a strong grounding in trauma and attachment work, understands the perinatal space, and works with a high level of professionalism, compassion, and self-awareness.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Provide trauma-focused individual and couples counselling services to adults.
- Conduct client intake, risk and needs assessment with all clients.
- Develop collaborative care plans using trauma and attachment-informed approaches
- Recommend and implement appropriate interventions to clients based on their presenting issues, their history, risk assessment, the impact of presenting issues on any children in the family, and their service delivery goals.
- Participate with other members of the team to develop appropriate services as required.
- Establish, foster and maintain close working links with relevant mental health and other service providers that are also working with clients.
- Maintain adequate and ongoing client files, case notes and risk management documentation.
- Maintain the client information system (via Splose) to enable effective client bookings.
- Demonstrate ongoing commitment to and participation in independent, regular clinical supervision and professional development as ACA/PACFA requirements.
- Where directed, assist with the provision of administrative, marketing and general office duties.
- Contribute to operational planning as requested.
- Adhere to all organisational policies, procedures, standards and practices.
- Act only in ways that advance the objectives, values and reputation of _Fiona Rogerson - Perinatal and Trauma Counselling._
- Other duties, consistent with skills and experience, as directed by the reporting manager.
- Work and act within the legal, financial and ethical constraints and boundaries of your role.
- Working in a self-motivated and autonomous way
- Being a collaborative team member, even in a part-time role
- Ongoing personal and professional growth
- Practising with clinical integrity and high ethical standards
- A deep commitment to client wellbeing, not just symptom relief
- Contributing to meaningful, systemic change in the perinatal and trauma space

**Staff are professional and highly motivated people, supported with**:

- Regular fortnightly supervision
- An extensive range of therapeutic tools and resources for use during sessions

**Applications are welcomed from professionals who have**:

- Relevant qualifications in Counselling or Psychotherapy.
- Demonstrated experience in the delivery of counselling with individuals in complex trauma recovery.
- Demonstrated experience in the delivery of couples counselling.
- Demonstrated knowledge of physiology of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, as well as an understanding of the Australian maternity context (medical/hospital terminology, the maternity system, etc) is highly desirable.

**Highly desirable**:

- EMDR trained
- Familiarity with somatic and/or parts-based models
- Evening availability

**Applications should include**:

- A cover letter briefly outlining your suitability for the role as per the above criteria, your experience in working with perinatal and trauma-affected individuals, highlighting your use of specific therapeutic approaches, and elaborate on why this area of work is important to you. Please also include your availability (including evenings if available).
- A current resume citing two recent professional referees.
- National Police Certificate are required for employment.
- Proof of membership level to AC