Training Director, Post-Master's Fellowship

The Lorenz Clinic, LLC•Minneapolis, MN

23d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Training Director stewards the Post-Master's Fellowship — a two-year, full-time formation program for master's-level clinicians in MFT, counseling, and social work working toward licensure. The fellowship is among the most selective pre-licensure programs in the country, receiving over 1,400 applications annually for a small cohort. About half of fellows relocate nationally to participate. The current cohort includes clinicians from across these disciplines, each in the first years of post-degree practice, doing real clinical work with individuals, couples, families, and groups inside a structured developmental environment. The fellowship is not merely a licensure-hours accumulation program. It is a formation experience — organized around the conviction that the pre-licensure period can be made genuinely developmental rather than merely survivable, and that the right institutional environment produces a fundamentally different kind of psychotherapist. The Formation Ladder at Lorenz runs from master's practicum through the Post-Master's Fellowship, doctoral internship, and postdoctoral fellowship. The Training Director owns the PMF rung of that ladder — holding it with precision and fidelity, ensuring the developmental arc of the fellowship remains coherent, protecting the intellectual commitments that make it work, and ensuring that what the Fellowship is designed to do is what it actually does. This is a stewardship role, not an administrative one. The right candidate will read that description and feel recognition, not just interest. The Training Director works in close collaboration with the CEO on program design, training architecture, and institutional direction. This is a thought-partnership relationship. The CEO holds the ladder; the Training Director owns this rung — with full authority over the formation environment of the Fellowship and a genuine voice in the broader institutional direction.

Requirements

Doctoral degree in psychology or a related field (PhD or PsyD) from a regionally accredited program
Independent clinical licensure in Minnesota or documented eligibility — LP (Licensed Psychologist) or LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) at the independent practice level
Experience providing clinical supervision to pre-licensed clinicians in a psychotherapy setting
Grounding in systemic and relational models of psychotherapy — structural, intrapsychic, or relational systems orientations all welcome

Nice To Haves

Board certification or active pursuit of board certification in Couple and Family Psychology (ABPP/CFP)
Experience designing and facilitating graduate-level clinical seminars or training programs
Demonstrated engagement with the supervision literature — Falender, Watkins, Bernard and Goodyear, or equivalent
Familiarity with group relations theory, experiential group learning, or the Tavistock tradition
Experience in community-based or outpatient private practice settings
Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged — expanding access for underserved communities is central to our mission

Responsibilities

Steward the developmental arc of the Post-Master's Fellowship cohort across the full two-year formation sequence, calibrated to each cohort's developmental stage
Lead and coordinate individual and group supervision structures within the Fellowship, ensuring supervision functions as a distinct professional discipline — not an extension of clinical seniority
Maintain and strengthen consultation processes organized around the clinic's formulation-first method: from clinical data through diagnosis, problem formulation, case conceptualization, and treatment formulation
Design and facilitate the monthly PMF Seminar — integrating theory with lived practice in the room, holding group process and tone as curriculum, designing for enactment and reflective processing, and scaffolding professional identity formation across all 16 APA Competency Benchmark domains, with particular emphasis on the functional competency of Teaching
Work with live group dynamics — reading what is happening between people in real time, holding the cohort as a system, and using here-and-now process as a developmental resource rather than a problem to manage
Protect the intellectual coherence of the training program against the drift that tests every living institution
Evaluate fellow development and hold expectations with clarity and appropriate authority
Collaborate as a peer with other Associate Training Directors and with operational leadership within a distributed leadership structure
Coordinate with the CEO on fellow hiring, program design, and long-term development of the training architecture
Contribute to the clinic's broader intellectual community: grand rounds, invited speakers, cross-program consultation, and the growing research and publication program