Posting Number: F-1057
College/Unit: Student Affairs / Residence Life
Home Department: Counseling Center
Employee Group: Fixed-Term Faculty - Academic Year
Employment Status: Full-Time
Position Type: 9 month (Academic Year)
Position Classification: Fixed-Term Faculty
Position Begin Date: 10/15/2026
Position Summary
The Central Michigan University Counseling Center has a full time, 9 month, in-person mental health counseling position available. This position is aimed at furthering the emotional health and well-being of CMU students. This is a non-teaching, fixed-term faculty position.
The Counseling Center provides free and confidential, short term counseling services to currently enrolled CMU students dealing with personal issues that may negatively impact their academic success, interpersonal relationships, health, or well-being. Services are provided in person and via tele-mental health and offered in a variety of formats. The Counseling Center recognizes that each student is a unique individual with different stories, experiences, and needs. We strive to create an open, safe, and inclusive environment where students can freely explore and express all identities, beliefs, and values they hold.
This collaborative and supportive team environment offers an excellent work/life balance with a flexible work schedule and opportunities for creativity in student engagement. In addition to counseling services, this position allows for outreach across campus, collaboration with campus partners, professional development, and supervision opportunities. Estimated salary range is between $52,000 and $64,000.
Counselor responsibilities:
- Provide culturally responsive and identity-informed individual, couples, and group counseling services
- Provide campus outreach and prevention services
- Responsible for 25 client contact hours per week, 12 paperwork hours and attendance at scheduled staff meetings
- Provide consultation to colleagues, faculty, staff, and parents
- Provide crisis intervention services during office hours
- Participate in professional development within and outside of the center
- Adhere to Counseling Center scope of practice and procedures
- Maintain all professional, ethical, and legal standards in the State of Michigan
- Maintain licensure to provide confidential mental health services in the State of Michigan and meet any related professional development requirements for that license
Required Qualifications:
- Masters or doctoral degree in counseling, clinical psychology, social work or related field.
- Eligibility for licensure in Michigan within one month of start date.
- Understanding and use of cultural humility in providing counseling services to a diverse group of students.
- Clinical skills related to short term counseling and crisis intervention.
- Ability to effectively present outreach programming on mental health topics.
- Experience working as part of a collaborative and team-based approach to clinical services in a fast-paced work setting.
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively, strong communication skills, as well as commitment to workplace integrity and professional ethics.
- Ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Full Michigan licensure.
- Experience working in a college counseling center.
Message to Applicants:
Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering an environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We are especially interested in highly qualified candidates who will advance and promote CMU's mission, vision, and leadership standards.
You must submit an online application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position.
Visa sponsorship for this position/recruitment is not supported.
Cover letters may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.
Position will remain open until filled.
About the Department:
The Counseling Center provides free, confidential, short term counseling services to currently enrolled students living in the State of Michigan. Counselors assist students with personal issues that may negatively impact their academic success, interpersonal relationships, health, or safety. A variety of service modalities are used to best meet student's unique needs. Counseling Center staff value ongoing professional development and the advancement of services to honor the diversity and richness of the CMU community. To learn more about the Counseling Center, please click here.
Posting Begins: 09/15/2026
Posting Ends:
Open Until Filled: Yes
About CMU:
Central Michigan University has a more than 125-year legacy of preparing students to become leaders and changemakers in their communities and in their personal and professional lives.
We serve nearly 15,500 students on our Mount Pleasant campus, in satellite locations around the state and throughout the country, and through flexible online programs. Many of our approximately 300 undergraduate, master's, specialist and doctoral programs in the arts, media, business, education, human services, health professions, liberal arts, social sciences, medicine, science and engineering are nationally ranked for excellence.
CMU leads the nation in leadership development programming through our Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, and we are proud to be among only 5% of U.S. universities in the top two Carnegie research classifications. Our faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students in areas such as Great Lakes research, medical innovation, engineering technology and more.
Central is home to 17 men's and women's Division 1 sports including football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling and more. Our student-athletes achieve great success in competition and in the classroom, capturing Mid-American Conference championships and maintaining an average cumulative GPA of 3.17.
CMU is located in Mount Pleasant, a community that blends the best of small-town living with big-city amenities. It's part of the culturally varied and vibrant Great Lakes Bay Region that also includes Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and the state's largest Native American community, centered on the Saginaw Chippewa Isabella Reservation in Mount Pleasant.
Area residents enjoy the mix of outdoor activities, cultural events, shopping and dining options, and family attractions. Other major Michigan destinations and attractions — Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Traverse City, wineries, beaches, golf and ski resorts, and many more — are within easy reach of the city's central location in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
CMU employees enjoy access to a nationally recognized wellness program along with health care and benefits that exceed regional, state and national norms.
To apply, visit https://www.jobs.cmich.edu/postings/45453
CMU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and institution. CMU does not discriminate against persons based on age, color, disability, ethnicity, familial status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, height, marital status, national origin, political persuasion, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, race, religion, sex, sex-based stereotypes, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status, or weight.
CMU does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education program or activity that it operates, including admission and employment, and is required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 not to discriminate in such a matter.
Inquiries about the application of Title IX can be made to CMU's Title IX Coordinator, the US Department of Education's Assistant Secretary, or both.
