Early Childhood Mental Health Therapist

Shelby American, Inc.; Chaska (MN); On-site; USD 75,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking clinic that prioritizes quality mental healthcare over profit. As a licensed mental health therapist, you will work in a supportive environment with a focus on excellence. Enjoy a robust benefits package, including student loan repayment and generous paid time off. You'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of early childhood clients while collaborating with inspiring colleagues. This role offers flexibility in caseload and emphasizes professional development, ensuring you thrive in your career. If you're passionate about mental health and want to be part of a transformative team, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Student Loan Repayment

Paid Burnout Time

Paid Parental Leave

Annual CEU Allowance

401k with Matching

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Flexible Schedule

Qualifications

• Master's or doctoral degree in a mental health profession required.
• Full, unrestricted licensure as a mental health professional in Minnesota.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological services including assessments and treatment planning.
• Participate in case consultations and maintain documentation standards.

Skills

Clinical Supervision

Psychotherapy

Diagnostic Assessments

Treatment Planning

Child Therapy

Relational Therapy

Education

Master's or Doctoral Degree in Mental Health

Job description

Note: This position is eligible for a $10,000 sign-on and retention bonus as well as private student loan repayment. Details can be had by contacting Human Resources.

The mental health system is breaking—dominated by corporate interests, non-clinical leaders, and clinics prioritizing profits over quality care. Clinicians are overworked, undervalued, and stripped of autonomy, forced into environments that fail to inspire or sustain them. At Lorenz Clinic, we’re different.

We prioritize excellence by hiring only the top 5% of therapists, ensuring you’ll work alongside smart, inspiring colleagues. We offer time to thrive: paid time off, paid burnout time, consultation, CEUs, holidays, and generous parental leave. You’ll have control over your workload, a supportive community, and a shared commitment to quality over profit.

Make a difference on Main Street, not Wall Street. Join Lorenz Clinic and help build the future of mental healthcare—clinician-led, inspiring, and sustainable. Join us, and never give up hope for what mental healthcare could be.

About Lorenz Clinic

Lorenz is on a mission to heal the world one relationship at a time– To be the best clinic in Minnesota, not the biggest. We’ve fast become a regional leader in clinical services and training, our novel approach to clinician development often emulated by other practices. The clinic was the first Family Psychology specialty clinic in the North and was the first clinic in Minnesota to develop organized Post-Master’s Fellowships. It is recognized by many as one of the best post-degree training programs in Minnesota for clinicians looking to employ systemic, relational therapies. Compared to other large clinics regionally, Lorenz has the highest standards and ideals for clinicians and is the most selective in its hiring, selecting only 5% of applicants.

Our people have diverse backgrounds and experiences. We welcome an ever-changing, increasingly diverse group of applicants. Clinicians and trainees most often want to be here more than anywhere else because of how inspiring our high ideals are. Although training isn’t all we do, the training center is the font of vitality to the institution at large. We are growing, evolving, and changing on a daily basis.

We think big but act small, locally. Thirty years from now, Lorenz Clinic aspires to become one of the leading family institutes in the country, having gone from a microscopic mom and pop shop at someone’s dining room table to one of the premier family institutes in the world. The people that pass through Lorenz will continue to be the movers and shakers in the field, leaders that infuse systems thinking and relational, reflective practice into the mental health field for generations to come. We hope that our contributions to the specialty will be deep and lasting. Our hope is that people will always take great pride in being part of an organization that, for decades, has served a progressive leader in strengthening and healing relationships of all kinds. Through an integrated approach that involves research, training, and the service of others through therapy, Lorenz will deliver superior results and distinctive impact with lasting endurance for the children, adults, families, and couples of Minnesota.

The Department

Lorenz's early childhood practice is supported by three levels of care: in-home, outpatient, and early childhood day treatment. The program has close ties with regional graduate schools that do infant and child development training. Working alongside psychiatry providers and family therapists with access to testing and higher levels of care, psychotherapists treat clients who are being held by a clinic system and interprofessional treatment team. In addition to outpatient psychotherapy, the department this position is housed in, the clinic also hosts trauma-focused, early childhood day treatment at the same clinic location.

Supervising clinicians will be interested to know Lorenz’s training department is an affiliate of a number of area graduate programs. Lorenz pioneered post-master’s fellowships in Minnesota, and it’s a model that’s now been replicated the field over. At the time of its inception, our fellowship was relatively novel in the region, and we consider it to be our clinic’s main contribution to the field. Working on the field, not just in it, enlivens our work and gives it dimension and meaning, which are integral to wellness and balance in the workplace.

The Role

In this role, you’ll function as a licensed mental health therapist providing psychological services to early childhood mental health clients in an applied, clinical, outpatient setting. You’ll engage in regular consultee-focused case consultation and maintain a rich schedule of continuing education events. You’ll likely earn 100 CEUs per year, just from showing up to work. You’ll have pay and caseload size options and choice, and your clients will mostly be assigned based on your passion, interests, and competence. Lorenz maintains favorable, interprofessional staffing ratios with each of the mental health professions represented. Clinicians have the ability to coordinate with and leverage in-house psychological testing, intensive groups, and psychiatry. The clinic selects interventionists who are relationally-focused and socially-committed. Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• The provision of psychological services including conducting diagnostic assessments, treatment planning, psychotherapy, psychological testing, and discharge planning for children ages 0-5 of the clinic
• Carrying patient caseload as assigned
• Attending and participating in monthly case consultation, Grand Rounds, team meetings, and other meetings as required
• Compliance with clinic documentation standards
• Compliance with relevant statutes, licensing board rules, and codes of ethics

Key job duties include but are not limited to providing psychological services including conducting diagnostic assessments, treatment planning, psychotherapy, and discharge planning for patients of the clinic. Attending and participating in regular case consultation, Grand Rounds, team meetings, and other meetings as required.

Job Requirements

The most successful candidates will evidence a track record of service as an interventionist with a high degree of professional activity within the field. The position requirements include but are not limited to:

• A master’s or doctoral degree in a mental health profession from an accredited academic program
• Full, independent, unrestricted licensure as a mental health professional in Minnesota (LP, LMFT, LICSW, or LPCC). Pre-licensed therapists such as LGSWs or LAMFTs should instead consider Lorenz's Post-Master’s Fellowship or Postdoctoral Fellowship positions unless licensure is imminent within four months.
• At least 2 years providing clinical supervision (preferred)
• Formal training in child, couples, family therapy, relational / interpersonal, or contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy (preferred)

Benefits

Full-time, independently licensed clinicians enjoy a robust benefits package that includes:

• Student Loan Repayment
• Paid Burnout Time
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave regardless of gender
• Annual CEU allowance
• A 401k with 401k matching
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid service/volunteer time
• Paid continuing education release days
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Professional development assistance
• Healthcare Savings Account
• Mileage Reimbursement
• Flexible in-person or hybrid work options
• Case consultation w/ CEUs

As an active training clinic, most clinicians at Lorenz earn about 100 hours per year of board-approved continuing education just from showing up to work. The clinic hosts an annual conference, monthly grand rounds, and four hours per month of case consultation with a specialist.

Compensation

The compensation hiring range for this role is $75,000 - $125,000, which is dependent on candidate qualifications, program fit, chosen caseload, and competencies. The hiring range for master's-level licensees is $75,000 - $106,250 per year, while the hiring range for licensed psychologists is $106,000 - $125,000 per year. This is a full-time, salaried, exempt, benefits-eligible, W2 role.

Application & Selection Process

Selection into our practice is competitive. Whereas the biggest, loudest clinics hire anyone and everyone, we tend to hire under 5% because we’re focused on quality. Cover letters are not required but do stand out, as they help us learn more about you and ensure the best fit for all-involved. Application materials may be submitted through the clinic’s job board at https://lorenzclinic.com/join-us/. Candidates are evaluated through variegated means based on a multitude of factors including but not limited to clinical competence (knowledge, skills, and attitudes), ability to perform job duties to a high degree of quality, potential to positively impact the field, and consistency with the clinic’s Core Values and mission.

Individual & Cultural Diversity

Lorenz Clinic is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We view Individual & Cultural Diversity as a professional competency area that applies to all professionals, one that requires specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Candidates who independently monitor and apply knowledge of self and others as cultural beings in assessment, treatment, and consultation are especially encouraged to apply.