Description

Lorenz Clinic has chosen excellence in psychological services and training rather than growth at all costs like larger clinics. Our duty to the public is our North Star, leading us to select the most reflective, well-prepared, professional staff because that’s what drives psychotherapeutic change and the best training. Lorenz Clinic has led on the basis of excellence since its inception, distinguished by its clinically-relevant core values. The clinic was founded on the ideals of interprofessionalism and engages in Reflective Practice, which ensures our workplace is conducive to the work itself. 

Lorenz Clinic has adopted an evidence-based clinician wellness roadmap aimed at ensuring autonomy, choice, a reasonable workload, social connectivity, fairness, and actualization of our core values.

The Department

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.

Clinicians at Lorenz aren’t pigeon-holed working with high acuity cases in isolation and have autonomy to choose the types of cases best suited to their competence and interest. The practice enjoys deep, special relationships with referring PCPs that have grown to trust the department to deliver a high level of collaboration and specialized consultation.

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.

Description

The Lorenz Clinic Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship in Couple and Family Psychology is a 1-year, full-time clinical position that prepares trainees for licensure as a psychologist in Minnesota. The APPIC-listed training program involves some required components, but allows for flexibility to create the experiences the fellow desires. Founded in a scientist-practitioner model, we have a diverse, passionate group of supervisory faculty who enjoy training and working with postdoctoral fellows.

We view the fellowship as a final year of intensive training before independent practice, and our supervisory psychologists are dedicated to assisting you in this exciting year. The postdoctoral fellowship is truly the culmination of many years of preparation and hard work, and is meant to help prepare you for your first position as a psychologist. We are invested in you as a practicing psychologist and a person, and strive to make this year meaningful, enjoyable, and helpful as you launch your career.

Distinctive Elements of our Training Program

• The fellowship training is part of a 6-site, growing mental health clinic that serves clients (age 0-100) from across Minnesota
• Our clinic and program’s founder and CEO, Chad Lorenz, PsyD MBA ABPP is a couple and family psychologist, demonstrating how our leadership is grounded in both the science and practice of psychology.
• Fellows collaborate with an interdisciplinary team, including staff with expertise in psychiatry, marriage and family therapy, nursing, social work, and more
• We offer opportunities for both in-person and tele-psychological services, tailored for both client and clinician preference and scheduling
• All of our patient care and training activities are grounded in a systemic, relational, contextually-informed lens
• We have a broad array of licensed psychologists who participate in the training program, offering fellows the ability to learn from experts in different areas. We have specific training faculty who are passionate about supervising and whose specific duties include expanding and continuously improving our training program.
• Two of our supervisory psychologists are Board Certified in Couple and Family Psychology, reflective of our program’s national reputation and expertise in this area

Core Clinical Activities

• Carry a psychotherapy caseload that includes couples and families along with individual therapy clients. Fellows discuss prior to the Fellowship the expected goals for the Fellowship, which may include ages and populations for psychotherapy and psychological assessment cases (if assessment is a stated goal).

Core Training Activities

• Monthly seminars led by psychologist faculty: Couples Therapy, Assessment, Supervision of Supervision, Postdoctoral Seminar (addresses professional development issues)
• Monthly Case Consultation and Site Meetings
• Monthly 2-hour Grand Rounds seminar
• Monthly Lunch and Learn
• Annual conference with internationally recognized presenters

Supervision

• 2 individual hours a week with Licensed Psychologists with competencies in the types of psychotherapy cases.

Teaching

• Supervise one practicum student on their psychotherapy cases (if supervision is a stated goal)
• Provide at least one lunch and learn seminar

Optional Activities

• Rotation in Integrated Behavioral Health in our new Glencoe clinic location

Key Responsibilities

• Carrying psychotherapy and assessment caseload as defined by clinic
• Ability and availability to meet clients during times that work for them (typically at least 2 later evenings per week)
• Ability to work a 5-day workweek and offer appointment times that work for clients
• Ability to provide clinical services to a wide variety of populations (i.e., ages, populations, diagnoses, etc.) under clinical supervision
• Ability to conduct supervised practice with children of all ages and their families
• The provision of clinical services including conducting diagnostic assessments, psychological evaluations, treatment planning, psychotherapy, and discharge planning for patients of the clinic
• Attending and participating in individual supervision, monthly case consultation, Grand Rounds, business meetings, and other meetings as required by Clinic
• Providing intermittent didactics within clinic’s training program as assigned
• Compliance with clinic documentation standards
• Compliance with licensing board rules, APA Code of Ethics, and DHS regulations and guidelines
• Maintain professionalism in all interactions with staff, patients, and business associates of clinic
• Keeping abreast of billing issues and discussing same with patients when necessary
• Assisting in intermittent peer-reviews of patient files
• Adherence to directives by applicable direct clinical and administrative supervisors
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Eligibility

• Applicants must have a doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology from an APA-accredited graduate program.
• Candidates with training and experience working with couples and families are especially encouraged to apply.
• Applicants are pre-licensed clinicians who are accumulating post-degree supervised work for licensure within a structured and vibrant clinical training program. The position is designed to be a one-year, temporary training placement

Qualifications

• Completion of an APA-accredited doctoral degree in psychology prior to start date
• A declared licensure track in Minnesota with active pursuit of licensure attainment (full licensure not required)
• Compliance with respective board rule related to pursuit of licensure
• Reasonable progress towards licensure attainment within one year
• Ability and willingness to service patients primarily on an outpatient basis (with some services done in-home or in the community as cases demand)
• Flexibility to meet when patients are available to meet (usually requires some evenings)
• Evidence of a high level of professionalism within the field
• Strong clinical acumen
• An expressed interest in working with children and families
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team
• Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills
• Ability and willingness to provide services to children, adolescents, and families
• Ability to respect diversity and integrate issues of culture into case conceptualizations
• Ability to engage with patients who may be ambivalent about treatment
• Ability to adapt interventions to patients’ strengths, skills, and developmental levels
• Commitment to empowering patients to solve their own problems when necessary
• Ability to intervene decisively, when necessary, to protect patient safety
• Ability to set appropriate boundaries and limits for best practice
• Ability to comply with clinic documentation standards
• Ability to maintain a full caseload as defined by clinic

This is a salaried, benefits-eligible, W2 position.

Benefits

Full-time, independently licensed clinicians enjoy a robust benefits package that includes paid burnout time, twelve weeks of paid parenting leave regardless of gender, and an annual CEU allowance. Employer-sponsored medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability insurance are also available. A 401k with employer match is available. Paid time off, paid holidays, paid service/volunteer time, paid continuing education hours, and a continuing education allowance round out the offering. Did we mention paid burnout time? 

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.

Above all, adding Lorenz Clinic to your resume is a distinctive badge of professionalism and quality recognized the field over. For the past decade and a half, Lorenz has been known as the psychotherapist’s clinic– one of the few practices many clinicians would entrust with their career or in many cases, their own family.

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.

Offers of employment are conditional and contingent upon successful clearance of all background checks. For an unabridged job description, please contact human resources.