Clinical Manager (Outpatient Psychotherapy)

The Lorenz Clinic, LLC • Prior Lake, MN

12h • Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a licensed clinician with significant outpatient experience and a background in supervision, who is interested in the systemic factors influencing clinician development and organizational culture. The Clinical Manager will be responsible for the operational health of the Prior Lake site, leading a group of clinicians in reflective practice, and carrying a partial caseload. The position emphasizes a "clinicians-first" approach, where management is a stewardship function held by an active practitioner, rather than a move away from clinical work. The ideal candidate will think systemically, practice as a psychotherapist, and be able to hold authority and ambiguity while fostering a supportive and developmental environment. Lorenz Clinic is a private outpatient practice and psychotherapy training institute with a strong intellectual and clinical foundation, emphasizing a "holding environment" for both clients and clinicians.

Requirements

• Either: A) The equivalent of one year of experience as a Mental Health Professional at Lorenz Clinic with a documented track record of leadership and exceeding position requirements and an active Manager-in-training nomination; or B) The equivalent of three years of post-licensure experience as a Mental Health Professional providing clinical services, of which at least one year was in a management or clinical supervisory capacity in an outpatient setting
• A master’s or doctoral degree from an accredited program in marriage and family therapy, social work, clinical counseling, psychology, or a closely related field
• Independent clinical licensure in Minnesota: LP, LMFT, LICSW, or LPCC
• Board-approved clinical supervisor status, or eligibility to become board-approved within the first year
• Experience providing clinical supervision to pre-licensed or early-career clinicians (required for external candidates; internal MiT candidates assessed against program-defined supervisory development milestones)
• National Provider Identifier (NPI) prior to first day of employment
• Approval for Medicare participation within 180 days of hire, where Medicare participation is allowed for the license type
• Ability to work full-time, in-person
• Demonstrated ethical and moral character; references will be requested
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Thinks systemically and relationally about clinical work, supervision, and organizational life
• Practices and thinks as a psychotherapist, not a counselor
• Has supervised pre-licensed and early-career clinicians with intentionality
• Can hold authority without becoming authoritarian, and can support team members without rescuing them
• Tolerates ambiguity without rushing to resolve it
• Reads relational and group process in real time and can name patterns without weaponizing them
• Can deliver accountability cleanly
• Can shift register between roles
• Is interpersonally secure enough to be challenged without becoming defensive, and to challenge without becoming punitive
• Has the intellectual depth to engage a serious clinical and training culture — and the openness to be shaped by it
• Is drawn to building and tending an institution rather than to accumulating personal platform

Nice To Haves

• Prior management experience in an outpatient mental health setting
• Grounding in systemic, relational, or psychodynamic models of psychotherapy
• Familiarity with group relations theory, reflective supervision practice, or the Tavistock tradition
• Engagement with the supervision literature — Falender, Watkins, Bernard and Goodyear, or equivalent
• Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged

Responsibilities

• Hold the operational health of the Prior Lake site — productivity, documentation, compliance, staffing, day-to-day functioning — to the standards set by the Director of Clinical Operations
• Lead a small group of clinicians at the site in shared reflective practice, under explicitly delegated authority from the CEO to maintain fidelity to the model
• Carry a 0.5 FTE clinical or supervisory caseload, modeling the practice the team is being asked to sustain
• Provide clinical and administrative supervision to assigned clinicians and trainees, in alignment with the formation ladder governing each rung
• Hold accountability conversations with clarity and warmth — neither softening standards in the name of relationship, nor deploying authority in ways that fracture trust
• Coordinate with the Associate Training Directors as peers — collaborating on issues that intersect formation and operations, without triangulating, escalating prematurely, or absorbing work that belongs elsewhere
• Steward the relational field of the site so that anxiety is metabolized at the level it arises rather than routed upward by default
• Translate the institution’s clinical and operational standards into local practice — and translate site-level patterns back to leadership when something the institution should know about is emerging
• Participate in the management team’s reflective and operational rhythms
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Paid time off, paid holidays, paid service/volunteer time
• Paid Burnout Time — a structured, protected leave benefit designed to support sustained clinical performance, separate from standard PTO
• Twelve weeks of paid parenting leave regardless of gender
• Annual continuing education allowance
• Employee assistance program
• Professional development support

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level