Associate Training Director, Practicum

The Lorenz Clinic•Minneapolis, MN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for an experienced supervisor who is passionate about clinician formation and wants to lead a practicum program within an institution designed to support high training ideals. The Associate Training Director for Practicum (ATD) is a system-wide leadership role responsible for the master's-level practicum program across all clinic sites. The ATD will consult with, develop, and guide clinic-based supervisors, ensuring adherence to the clinic's formation framework. While carrying a small direct supervision load, the primary function is to architect the system, provide reflective consultation to supervisors, maintain fidelity across sites, and ensure supervision is a developmental discipline. The ATD will also serve as a reflective consultant to site-level units and play a key role in the transition from practicum to the Post-Master's Fellowship (PMF). The central task involves scaffolding practicum students over a 9-12 month period towards competencies required for entry into post-degree supervised practice, designing structures, seminars, and relationships to bridge this gap. This role requires a deep understanding of clinical formation, systems thinking, and the ability to build and maintain a robust developmental scaffolding system.

Requirements

Skilled at holding anxiety without displacing or fusing with 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 formational theory underneath the practice.
Has a specific account of a supervisee they genuinely shaped, and can describe what that formation required of them personally.
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.
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.
Has held a cohort through a semester arc — including the middle, where the real developmental work happens.
Monitors their own supervision practice with the same reflective scrutiny they ask of the clinicians they holds.
Has done real clinical work on "main street" — community mental health, underserved populations, caseloads with genuine complexity.
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 — Licensed Psychologist (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 clinician, not just supervised one.
Grounding in systemic and/or 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.

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 team: 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 or more site-level pods.
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.