Associate Training Director, Practicum

The Lorenz Clinic, LLC•Minneapolis, MN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Training Director for Practicum is a system-wide leadership role responsible for the master's-level practicum program across all clinic sites. This role sits on the clinic's leadership team and operates in a dyad with the Director of Clinical Operations. The ATD consults with, develops, and holds site-based supervisors to the formation framework. The central task is scaffolding practicum students over a 9-12 month arc toward the competencies required for Post-Master's Fellowship entry. This involves designing structures, seminar experiences, and formative relationships to close the developmental gap. The ATD also serves as a reflective consultant to one site-level unit and collaborates with the ATD for the Post-Master's Fellowship on the practicum-to-PMF transition. The role requires a deep understanding of clinical formation and the ability to build and maintain a robust supervisory system.

Requirements

Doctoral degree in psychology (PhD or PsyD) or equivalent from a regionally accredited program, OR a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy with a completed PhD. A master's-level license without a doctoral degree does not meet the requirement for this role.
Independent clinical licensure in Minnesota — LP or doctoral-level LMFT at the independent practice level — or documented eligibility
Experience providing clinical supervision to pre-licensed clinicians with sufficient duration to have genuinely formed a supervisee, not just supervised one
Grounding in systemic and relational models of psychotherapy; depth and second-order change orientation required
Genuine comfort with the administrative dimensions of a training program: university coordination, placement logistics, hour tracking, and the operational work that holds everything else in place
Skilled at holding anxiety without displacing it, maintaining structure without rigidity, and building formation environments that are simultaneously demanding and genuinely safe — at multiple levels of the system simultaneously.
Has supervised master's-level clinicians in a psychotherapy setting and can describe the formation theory underneath the practice.
Has a coherent picture of what practicum-to-PMF readiness means clinically and could articulate it without prompting.
Has supervised supervisors, or is ready to.
Treats the supervisory alliance as a named and tended competency — not a background condition.
Brings genuine multicultural humility into the supervisory field — not as a module, but as an orientation.
Practices and thinks as a psychotherapist — clinical identity organized around depth, relational process, and second-order change, not primarily symptom reduction or psychoeducation.
Can design a seminar around a developmental objective, not just a topic.
Monitors her own supervision practice with the same reflective scrutiny she asks of the clinicians she holds.
Has done real clinical work — community mental health, underserved populations, caseloads with genuine complexity.
Has been formed by someone. The supervisor she became was shaped by the supervision she received, and she knows it.

Nice To Haves

Experience providing consultation to supervisors, not just supervisees
AAMFT Approved Supervisor status or active candidacy, pursued voluntarily beyond what licensure required
Experience designing and facilitating graduate-level clinical seminars, including sustained cohort facilitation across a semester arc
Evidence of field engagement beyond the local level: presentations, publications, professional association involvement
Experience managing multiple university training program relationships simultaneously
Clinical experience in community-based or outpatient settings serving diverse and underinsured populations
Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged

Responsibilities

Hold and develop the practicum supervisory corps: providing regular reflective consultation to site-based supervisors, maintaining formation fidelity across sites, and functioning as the resource supervisors turn to when the work gets hard
Design and steward the scaffolding system that moves practicum students toward PMF entry competencies — including supervision structures, seminar arc, and formative feedback loops across the full placement year
Coordinate university relationships — serving as the primary point of contact for training directors across partner programs, maintaining placement agreements, and providing substantive developmental feedback on placed students at mid-placement and end of placement
Manage the administrative infrastructure: scheduling, hour tracking, placement assignments, semester coordination, and the operational continuity that holds the formation environment in place
Carry a small direct practicum supervision load
Facilitate the practicum seminar: integrating theory with lived practice, holding group process and tone as curriculum, and using here-and-now dynamics as teaching material rather than problems to manage
Conduct ongoing, transparent competency evaluation of practicum students — visible to trainees, legible to university partners, and actionable when standards require it
Serve as reflective consultant to one site-level pod
Collaborate as a peer with the ATD for the Post-Master's Fellowship on the practicum-to-PMF developmental arc
Contribute to the broader intellectual community: grand rounds, cross-program consultation, and the growing research and publication program