Postdoctoral Psychology Fellow

The Lorenz Clinic • Minneapolis, MN

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a one-year, full-time, salaried postdoctoral psychology fellowship at Lorenz Clinic of Family Psychology, a training institution with a clinical practice. It is APPIC-listed, with Couple and Family Psychology as the declared Major Area of Study. Fellows are integral to the organization's trajectory, contributing clinically, supervisorily, and within the training community. The fellowship offers substantive supervision, a focus on relational and systemic frameworks, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree (PhD or PsyD) in clinical or counseling psychology from an APA-accredited program, completed prior to fellowship start.
• Completed APA-accredited predoctoral internship prior to start.
• Active pursuit of Minnesota LP licensure; full licensure not required at hire.
• Demonstrated training or clinical experience with couples and/or families.
• Ability to work full-time, in person, five days per week with evening availability as caseload requires.
• Doctoral-level psychotherapist who can tolerate not knowing.
• Uses their own relational experience as clinical data.
• Brings genuine uncertainty into supervision rather than managed competence.
• Has been in a supervisory relationship that actually changed how they work and can describe specifically what that supervisor did and what it was like to receive it.
• Capable of acquiring the clinic's theoretical grammar, even if not speaking it on arrival.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate training with a relational, systemic, or contemporary psychodynamic emphasis.
• Expressed interest in ABPP/CFP board certification.
• Prior supervised experience providing clinical supervision, or genuine interest in the supervisory role.
• Evidence of scholarly or professional engagement with the field.

Responsibilities

• Carry a direct clinical caseload (individuals, couples, families, or groups) developed collaboratively based on background, training interests, and program need, within a relational, systemic, here-and-now frame.
• Supervise a practicum student, with structured oversight and support for those naming supervision as a training goal.
• Co-facilitate the Post-Master's Fellowship monthly seminar under the guidance of the Associate Training Director, aiming to design and facilitate a seminar that is epistemologically anchored, structurally alive, and transferable.
• Hold a consultation group within the clinic system, learning to read the information it carries about larger systems.
• Participate in a didactic seminar series, including monthly faculty-led seminars, monthly Grand Rounds, case consultation, and an annual conference.

Benefits

• Employer-sponsored medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Three weeks PTO plus paid holidays.
• Paid CEU allowance.
• Paid burnout time.
• Approximately 100 hours of board-approved continuing education annually.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree