we’re hiring!

Allura Sex Therapy Centre is BC’s leading trauma-informed therapy practice that exclusively focuses on sex, sexuality, and relationships. We are passionate about providing exceptional attachment-focused sex therapy services with additional focuses in relationship and trauma therapy, providing a supportive environment for both clients and team members. 

We have 2 locations in BC: one in beautiful Downtown Vancouver and another in the quiet community of Oak Bay in Victoria, BC; our services extend virtually across BC and Canada (unregulated provinces only). 

We are currently hiring for the following positions:

• Full-time Couples Therapist (training in any attachment-based/informed approach is required, including EFT, RLT, Imago, IFIO, Developmental Model, or PACT)

• Full-time Sex Therapist (extensive sex therapy training is required)

Qualifications required: You must be a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), Registered Social Worker (RSW), or Registered Psychologist (RPsych)

Are you the candidate we’ve been looking for?

You are a passionate, mature, and self-assured trauma-informed therapist who enjoys working collaboratively and is seeking to grow their clinical skills and expertise. You’re able to put clients at ease upon first meeting, and have a semi-structured approach to your work; you’re able to guide clients through the therapeutic process, building clear assessments and plans of care while ensuring the client(s) feel heard, supported, and validated and have ultimate choice of how the work progresses. You are seeking to be a part of a team that works together, rather than apart, and supports each other to do the best work. Further, you:

• are committed to inclusivity and weaving an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed lens into your practice

• have specialized training or experience in sex, couples, or trauma therapy

• open to change and growth, and are accountable to your responsibilities that you’re assigned as a part of our team

Are we the fit you’ve been looking for?

At Allura, we look to create a practice of team members who are not only dedicated to our vision and the work we do but also want to balanced and nurtured life outside of work. This looks like:

• Our Team Structure: we only bring on employees to our team – we believe that when team members are able to have their needs met through a secure base of employment, they live more pleasure-focused lives outside of work as well as deliver high-quality services to clients. 

• Specialized Expertise & Continuous Growth: we are deeply rooted in sex therapy, couples therapy, and trauma-informed care; our ongoing professional development is rooted in ensuring we are updating our skills and knowledge consistently and wanting to growth as individuals and professionals

• Collaborative and Like-minded Community: we work in collaboration with fellow clinical team members, supervisors, team leads, and client care staff to ensure we are able to offer our clients well-rounded support and seamless care; while you may be conducting sessions independently, you feel the support of a team consistently around you.

what we offer

• Competitive Compensation, starting as a commission based employee with a transition to salary after the probation period with bonus opportunities. See the positions above to see starting salary.

• Extensive PTO: we offer ample time away from work through paid stat holidays, PTO, and wellness days

• Health Benefits: health, dental, vision, and paramedical benefits for you and your family

• Ongoing training opportunities and clinical supervision

• Flexibility in your schedule to support work-life balance, including hybrid work (in-person and virtual sessions)

• A professional development fund to support ongoing trainings

• Administrative support for intake, scheduling, and billing

• Opportunities to design and lead programs and groups for clients

• Opportunities to become a clinical supervisor or team lead

• A beautifully designed and welcoming clinic space with everything you need

Our Values 

Our team acknowledges that we are uninvited settlers on the traditional, stolen, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations, also known as Vancouver, British Columbia. We hold gratitude and awareness of the history of the land and people to whom it belongs to, and are committed to decolonizing our practice as therapists and as humans.

How to Apply

1. Send an email to Owner & Clinic Director, Diana Sadat, at diana@alluracentre.com with the subject “I want to join the Allura team as a _________” with the position title in the blank. In your email, please include your latest CV and a cover letter letting us know why you want to join our team.

2. If it’s a fit, you’ll hear back from us shortly with more information about our practice and how we work, as well as an Inquiry Form to complete with some more details about yourself

3. From there, we’ll set up a clinical interview where we provided you with a case conceptualization prior to the interview and we’ll get to see how you work clinically. Think of this as a conversation to see if our ways of conceptualization will fit together.

4. Finally, we’ll check in with your references – then, we’ll make an offer if we both feel like we’d be a good fit to work together.

All along the way, we’ll ask you if you’d like to continue – we believe that fit is bi-directional and you need to feel the fit with us as much as we may feel the fit with you. Just like the therapeutic fit, we know that when everyone involved feels aligned, we’ll work best together.