Training Director, Post-Master's Fellowship

The Lorenz Clinic•Minneapolis, MN

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Post-Master's Fellowship at Lorenz Clinic is a two-year program designed to guide pre-licensed master's clinicians to independent licensure across LICSW, LMFT, and LPCC tracks. This role focuses on creating the optimal conditions for clinicians to excel and transition into independent practice, emphasizing deep formation beyond basic master's preparation. The Training Director is the central figure for the Fellowship cohort, responsible for its seminar, curricular coherence over two years, and the overall supervision operation, including assignment, matching, and quality assurance. The program also serves as a professional microcosm, teaching fellows to be engaged citizens within a clinical organization. This Fellowship is the second half of a longer developmental arc, often following a practicum year within the same clinic, creating a roughly three-year formation period from graduate school to independent licensure. The role reports to the CEO and collaborates closely with the Director of Clinical Operations and the practicum program leadership to ensure a cohesive training experience.

Requirements

Doctoral degree in psychology, marriage and family therapy, or a closely related field (PhD or PsyD).
Independent clinical licensure in Minnesota, as a Licensed Psychologist or a doctoral-level LMFT at the independent practice level, or documented eligibility with a defined timeline.
Board-approved supervisor status under the applicable Minnesota licensing board, or eligibility to obtain it.
Clinical supervision experience with pre-licensed clinicians of sufficient duration to have genuinely formed a supervisee, not merely 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: the coordination, tracking, and operational work that holds everything else in place.

Nice To Haves

Substantial clinical experience in community-based, public, or outpatient settings serving diverse and underinsured populations.
Training or sustained exposure to a reflective supervision model (the infant and early childhood mental health tradition), or to mentalization-based treatment and theory.
Graduate faculty experience (core, affiliate, or adjunct) in a psychology, counseling, social work, or marriage and family therapy program.
APA-accredited training program administration experience is a major plus.
Experience designing and facilitating graduate-level clinical seminars, including sustained cohort facilitation across a semester or program arc.
AAMFT Approved Supervisor status or active candidacy, pursued voluntarily beyond what licensure required.
Board certification, or active pursuit of board certification, in Couple and Family Psychology (ABPP/CFP).
Demonstrated engagement with the competency-based supervision literature.
Familiarity with group relations theory, experiential group learning, or the Tavistock tradition.
Evidence of field engagement beyond the local level: presentations, publications, professional association involvement.
A history of, or genuine interest in, action research within organizations.
Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged.

Responsibilities

Hold the two-year Fellowship arc as its steadiest presence and organizing center, calibrated to where each cohort actually is rather than to where the calendar says it should be.
Own the Fellowship seminar: a protected full-day seminar each month, eight hours with the full cohort, built around the sixteen APA Competency Benchmark domains, combining didactic instruction, structured experiential learning, an invited practitioner-scholar, and small-group discussion. Design, sequence, faculty, and delivery. Roughly twelve full teaching days per year, and the intellectual centerpiece of the program. Invited presenters are practitioner-scholars of national standing.
Maintain curricular coherence across the two years, and coordinate with the practicum program's leadership so the full graduate-school-to-licensure arc coheres rather than fragmenting at the seam between the two programs.
Use the cohort as an experiential learning environment, treating the group's own life as material for development, so fellows learn to work within a clinical organization and not only within a caseload.
Run supervisor operations: supervisor assignment and matching, coordination across sites, standards and consistency, and accountability for the quality of supervision fellows receive.
Steward the broader training structure: eight hours of supervision per fellow per month (four with a doctorally prepared psychologist, four with a professional supervisor); monthly case consultation held deliberately separate from evaluation, so fellows can bring the cases they are genuinely uncertain about; a weekly didactic hour shared with doctoral interns; and monthly grand rounds.
Make advancement, remediation, and occasional exit decisions within the Fellowship, on time and on principle, without escalating them upward by default.
Provide administrative supervision to the fellows: the managerial line, distinct from clinical supervision, which sits with others.
Carry a clinical caseload. The Associate Training Director is a practicing psychotherapist, not a full-time administrator. The caseload is real but bounded, and smaller than a full-time clinician's by design.
Draw on the operational and administrative infrastructure the Director of Clinical Operations holds (hour tracking, records, the training calendar, scheduling), so that this load is carried by the operational axis rather than displacing the developmental work the role exists to do.

Benefits

Student loan repayment
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
401(k) with employer match
HSA
Employee assistance program
Paid parental leave
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Paid Burnout Time
Paid service and volunteer time
Flexible scheduling
Continuing education allowance
Approximately 100 hours annually of board-approved CE that come with working in an active training clinic.