Training Director, Post-Master's Fellowship

Lorenz Clinic; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits

Student loan repayment

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

CE allowance

In-person worksite

Job summary

Lorenz Clinic in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area seeks a Post-Master's Fellowship training director to guide fellows toward independent licensure on LICSW, LMFT, and LPCC tracks. The role centers on training, supervision, and curricular coherence across two years within a real community mental health clinic.

The appointed Associate Training Director leads cohort seminars, coordinates across sites, and ensures high-quality supervision while maintaining a bounded clinical caseload.

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in psychology, marriage & family therapy, or related field.
• Independent Minnesota licensure as a Licensed Psychologist or doctoral-level LMFT, or eligible.
• Board-approved supervisor status or eligible to obtain it.
• Clinical supervision experience with pre-licensed clinicians.
• Grounding in systemic/relational models; depth/second-order change.

Responsibilities

• Owns the cohort seminar and supervision operations across the two-year fellowship.
• Coordinates with practicum leadership for curricular coherence across sites.
• Maintains accountability for the quality of supervision fellows receive.
• Manages the supervisory alliance as an intervention and fosters cultural humility.
• Not remote; role requires in-person collaboration within the clinic.

Skills

Psychotherapist identity

Community clinical work

Caseload experience

Reflective supervision

Teaching supervision

Education

Doctoral degree in psychology/therapy

Job description

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, 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 across the clinic's placements). This person is the steady center of the Fellowship: beyond their supervisor, the one fellows know, bring things to, and orient themselves by. They own the cohort seminar, hold curricular coherence across the two years, and run the supervision operation around the cohort: assignment and matching, coordination across sites, standards, and accountability for the quality of supervision fellows receive. The cohort is also a professional microcosm, where fellows learn to become citizens of a clinical organization by participating in one at a scale they can see whole, with that experience made available for reflection. Autonomy after licensure is only as durable as the civic capacity underneath it.

The position reports to the CEO, coordinates with the practicum program's leadership on the coherence of the full graduate-school-to-licensure arc, and works closely with the Director of Clinical Operations, who holds the administrative machinery around training. It carries a real but bounded clinical caseload, and does not own the practicum program or personally supervise practicum students.

Lorenz Clinic is an outpatient practice and psychotherapy training institute serving children, families, and adults across the southwest Twin Cities metro: roughly 130 staff, with about 20 percent of clinical staff in active training or supervision at any time. Lorenz pioneered Minnesota's first organized, competency-based post-master's fellowship, a model since replicated across the region.

The clinic treats systems, not symptoms, and the same conviction shapes how it forms clinicians: object relations and attachment theory, containment and group relations, mentalization, systems epistemology, and competency-based supervision are working frameworks here rather than historical citations. Although its locations are only 15 to 30 minutes from downtown Minneapolis, Lorenz serves a predominantly suburban and rural population, including many clients without insurance. This is central to the Fellowship: fellows are being formed to do depth work inside a real community mental health clinic, holding complex, high-acuity, and underinsured cases under genuine production conditions, and to do it well.

What We're Looking For

The clinic is more interested in a few capacities and experiences that go deeper than mere credentials. It is looking for someone who:

• Practices and thinks as a psychotherapist in a specific sense: clinical identity organized around depth, relational process, and second-order change rather than symptom reduction or psychoeducation, working experientially with the therapeutic relationship itself as an instrument of change. This is a matter of register, not credential: a master's-licensed clinician may embody it fully, and a doctorally licensed one may not. The director must already inhabit the register they are forming in others.
• Has done real clinical work in community conditions. A director who has only ever practiced in well-resourced academic or cash-pay settings cannot form fellows for community practice, because they have not held it themselves. Substantial experience in community, public, or comparably under-resourced settings is weighted heavily.
• Has carried real professional responsibility in demanding conditions: a full complex caseload, a program or team under strain, decisions that could not be deferred. The strongest candidates have carried comparable weight before, where the work was hard and the support was thin.
• Knows reflective supervision or mentalization-based work from the inside, as something practiced or been formed by, not cited. This is among the qualities the clinic most values.
• Teaches well and treats teaching as a competency, has formed a supervisee (not merely supervised one) and can say what changed and what it required, can hold a cohort through a full arc, treats the supervisory alliance as an intervention in its own right, and brings genuine cultural humility into the supervisory field.

Required Qualifications

• 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 teaching competency, and because it asks for someone formed through the compression of doctoral training and an accredited, competency-based doctoral internship.
• Independent Minnesota licensure as a Licensed Psychologist or 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 sufficient to have genuinely formed a supervisee, not merely supervised one.
• Grounding in systemic and relational models; depth and second-order change orientation.
• Genuine comfort with the administrative dimensions of a training program.

Preferred:

substantial community or public-sector clinical experience (weighted heavily); reflective supervision or mentalization-based training; graduate faculty experience; graduate seminar and cohort facilitation; AAMFT Approved Supervisor status or candidacy; ABPP/CFP or active pursuit; group relations or Tavistock-tradition experience; interest in action research within organizations; bilingual.

Where This Leads

Five years into this role, the person holding it has a lineage. The supervisors working across the clinic's sites include clinicians they helped form as fellows and then watched become people who now form others. What a good supervisor once gave them is, by then, in the building in more than one pair of hands, and it will outlast any single tenure. That is finally what the role is for: not to run a program, but to build the makers a community-based clinic needs in order to keep forming clinicians well, long after any one person has gone.

What This Role Is Not

Not remote; the training model depends on people being in rooms together. Not primarily a teaching role. Not free of administration. Not a way to stop practicing; the role carries a caseload by design. And not the right fit for a candidate whose deciding factors are schedule, remote work, or compensation.

Compensation

$125,000–$160,000 annually, depending on qualifications. W-2, salaried, exempt. Full benefits, including student loan repayment, 401(k) with employer match, paid parental leave, Paid Burnout Time (a protected leave benefit separate from PTO), and a continuing education allowance, plus roughly 100 hours annually of board-approved CE that come with working in an active training clinic. Primary in-person worksite is one of the clinic's southwest metro locations, 15 to 30 miles from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Lorenz Clinic is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive clinical community.