- Job Title: Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- Direct Supervisor: Administrative Supervisor, Clinical Supervisor
- Compensation: $65,000 annually
- Location: Minneapolis, MN
The clinic offers an APPIC-listed post-doctoral fellowship in Couples and Family Psychology. The placement starts in September each year and requires a full-time, year-long commitment. Post-docs function in an applied, clinical role and receive structured training in the provision of supervision. Post-docs help organize the clinic’s grand rounds and provide a limited number of didactics in the larger training program. Direct client contact includes the provision of psychotherapy and contextually-informed psychological testing (if testing is a learning goal).
The fellowship features a rich invited speaker series, monthly grand rounds, and regular case consultation in addition to seminars in systems, couples therapy, assessment, and clinical supervision.
The fellowship is in the spirit of a practitioner-scholar model and requires a doctoral degree from an APA-accredited graduate program or completion of an APPIC-member doctoral internship. The strongest candidates for this specialty fellowship typically have graduate-level training in family therapy in addition to psychology. If invited to interview, applicants will be required to submit two letters of recommendation and two writing samples (one testing evaluation, one therapy diagnostic assessment). The fellowship follows APPIC-membership guidelines including the Common Hold Date and includes a competitive annual stipend and requires a full-time, year-long commitment. Admission is competitive, as we select from a national pool of family specialists. The placement is designed to meet the requirements for licensure as a psychologist in Minnesota; candidates pursuing dual-licensure as an LP/LMFT will receive the requisite amount of board-approved licensure supervision to fulfill licensure requirements of both respective licensing boards.
The Position
This position is open to pre-licensed clinicians looking to work on their declared psychology licensure track within a structured and vibrant clinical training program. The fellowship is a unique position that involves a pre-licensure clinical fellow functioning in an applied clinical role as a Mental Health Practitioner within the clinic’s training program. The position is designed to be a one-year, temporary training placement for trainees with doctoral degrees in psychology who are accumulating post-degree supervised work for licensure.
Job Duties
Job duties include but are not limited to:
• 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
• 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
Benefits
Postdoctoral Fellows receive two weeks of paid time off, paid holidays, access to employer-sponsored group medical and dental insurance, 401(k) with a company match, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, life insurance.
Application Process
Admission to our training program is competitive. Placement starts in September each year and requires a full-time, year-long commitment. Apply Here
To apply for a training placement, please complete our online application. If you are selected for an interview, you will be notified via email. The clinic’s selection policies are modeled on the APPIC selection guidelines. If you have questions about how to apply, please contact the Training Director, Dr. Brandon Suarez. The training brochure is available here.
Note: All postdoc offers are contingent upon successful completion of reference checks, I9, and background checks including Minnesota Statute 148.01 “Minnesota Sexual Exploitation Act.” This statute requires Lorenz Clinic contact employers from at least the last five years to determine whether any sexual exploitation of clients has occurred. Applicants who do not successfully pass these background checks will be dismissed from the placement.
Alumni of the Postdoctoral Fellowship program include:
- Morgan Bobo, Ph.D. – Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (2020-21)
- Gillian Tibbetts, Psy.D. – Adler University – Chicago (2019-2020)
- Kerry Thompson, Ph.D. – University of Wisconsin, Madison (2018-2019)
- Sarah Atkins, Ph.D. – University of North Texas (2016-17)
- Mary Benson, Psy.D. – University of St. Thomas (2016-17)
- Ia Xiong, Ph.D. – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (2016-17)
- Jacquelyn Wright, Psy.D – University of St. Thomas (2016)
- Erica Vien, Psy.D. – Chicago School of Professional Psychology – D.C. (2015-16)
- Ross Barr, Psy.D. – School of Professional Psychology – Forest Institute (2015-16)
- Kristen Stevens, Psy.D. – University of St. Thomas (2015)