MU611 - Music Psychotherapy Skills IV: Verbal Counseling F26

Position Summary

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This course helps students develop a balanced and integrated theoretical and practical approach to verbal counseling with a focus on skills development and students’ integration of their learning into clinical work. Students begin to develop their own verbal counselling style by learning and practicing active, accurate, and attentive listening. They learn to understand and utilize non-verbal communications, encouragers, rapport building, and therapeutic environment. Students learn a wide variety of verbal interventions such as reflecting, repeating, paraphrasing, clarifying, summarizing, perception checks, empathetic statements, and focusing. They also learn therapeutic questions such as lineal, circular, strategic, and reflexive questions, solution-focused brief therapy interventions, and person-centred therapy techniques. A special focus will be on a trauma story assessment, narrative exposure therapy techniques, Yalom’s group interventions, and verbal interventions needed for in-take interview and assessment. Students also learn therapeutic interventions for silences in therapy and how to react on difficult group situations. After practicing the applications of various verbal counseling skills, students are now prepared to integrate a variety of techniques into their clinical work. Course materials include lectures, readings, clinical case examples, video observation/analysis, demonstrations, and class role-playing. This course is closely linked and integrated to 2-year students’ concurrent Music Psychotherapy Placement I (MU604) and it prepares 1-year students for their clinical work.

Qualifications – Required: Master’s in Music Therapy, or equivalent. Registered Psychotherapist (independent practice status with evidence); Music Therapist Accredited in good standing.

Qualifications – Preferred: Experience teaching verbal psychotherapy; training courses that meet CRPO qualifications; clinical music psychotherapy experience; record of scholarship.

Salary: $9,913.75

Application Deadline: June 15, 2026

Submit with Application:

Required for All Applicants

• CV

Required for External Applicants

• Names and Contact Information for Referees
• Evidence of Good Teaching (may include but not limited to: Reference letters, teaching evaluations, list of student successes etc.)
• Verification of highest degree

Optional

• Cover Letter
• Teaching Dossier
• Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)

Note: A Cover Letter is not expected (unless noted as required) as the CAF will include information that is typically included in a Cover Letter.

Applications may be addressed to:

Music Part-Time Appointment Committee

Faculty of Music

Questions about this posting may be sent to:

Demian Kogutek

Chair, Part-Time Appointment Committee

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