Training Director, Post-Master's Fellowship

The Lorenz Clinic, LLC•Minneapolis, MN

6d•$125,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Post-Master's Fellowship takes pre-licensed master's clinicians to independent licensure across two years, on the LICSW, LMFT, and LPCC tracks. The work of this role is not the clinical caseload itself. It is the conditions under which that clinical work is done well, and under which a master's-level clinician becomes an independent practitioner. The role works on the formation, not only in the service, and it does so at a level of depth the master's preparation arc does not itself reach. Taking graduate-trained clinicians to independent practice through excellent community-based psychotherapy training, inside a real community mental health clinic, is the center of it. The role is, in plain terms, the training director of the Fellowship. The formal title is Associate Training Director, one of several training directors who hold the clinic's various training placements. This person is the steady center of the Fellowship: beyond their supervisor, the one fellows know, bring things to, and orient themselves by. The work is done through presence more than policy. The role owns the Fellowship cohort seminar and holds curricular coherence across the two years, so the sequence builds rather than accumulates. It keeps fellows engaged and genuinely known; a fellow who becomes peripheral to the civic fabric of the program in the first year rarely recovers it in the second. And it runs the supervision operation around the cohort: supervisor assignment and matching, coordination across sites, standards, and accountability for the quality of supervision fellows receive. The cohort is also a professional microcosm. Fellows learn to become citizens of a clinical organization, to work with its boundaries, its authority, and its shared obligations, by participating in one at a scale they can see whole, and by having that experience made available for reflection rather than left unexamined. This is not a secondary aim. Autonomy after licensure is only as durable as the civic capacity underneath it. The Fellowship is the second half of a longer developmental arc. Most fellows arrive having completed a practicum year in the same clinic, so a clinician's formation here runs from graduate school through independent licensure across roughly three years. That full arc is held by two coequal directors, one for the practicum program and one for the Fellowship. This role holds the Fellowship, and the two directors coordinate closely on curricular coherence so the practicum year builds toward what the Fellowship requires; neither directs the other, and neither owns the other's program. The position reports to the CEO. It works closely with the Director of Clinical Operations, who holds the operational and administrative machinery around training (records, hour tracking, scheduling infrastructure, the training calendar), and it coordinates with the practicum program's leadership on the coherence of the arc. The role has a standing weekly hour with the CEO and works with an established supervisor corps across the clinic's sites.

Requirements

Doctoral degree in psychology, marriage and family therapy, or a closely related field (PhD or PsyD). The doctorate is required because the role works on the conditions of clinical formation at a level that draws on doctoral-depth scientific training and on teaching competency, and because it asks for someone who has themselves come through the compressive formation of doctoral training and an accredited, competency-based doctoral internship.
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. Fellows license across social work, marriage and family therapy, and professional clinical counseling, and this role is accountable for the supervision structure serving all three.
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. This is weighted heavily in this search; see "What We're Looking For" above.
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; expanding access for underserved communities is central to the clinic's mission.

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, dental, and vision insurance
life insurance
short- and long-term disability
401(k) with employer match
HSA
employee assistance program
paid parental leave
paid time off and holidays
Paid Burnout Time, a protected leave benefit separate from PTO
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