Fellowships

Post-Master’s Fellowship

A nationally recognized, competency-based, two-year psychotherapy training fellowship for pre-licensed clinicians pursuing LICSW, LMFT, or LPCC licensure in Minnesota. Full-time. Salaried. In-person. Benefits-eligible.

Job Title: Post-Master’s Fellowship
Direct Supervisor: Administrative Supervisor
Compensation: $51,000 - $90,000 Annually DOQ
Location: Minneapolis - St, Paul Metro Area

Why This Fellowship Exists

Graduating your master’s program is an exciting and disorienting moment. The idealism you’ve built over years of study meets the complexity of the clinical landscape and the fragmented reality of pre-licensure requirements. Most pre-licensed clinicians leave their programs well-prepared and largely on their own — assembling a supervision arrangement here, a caseload there, hoping the hours add up in the right categories before the money runs out. The worst-case scenario is a role where it’s all about throughput — where the first thing that goes out the window is your learning, and where two years pass and you’ve accumulated hours but haven’t really been formed.

This fellowship was built because we think the pre-licensure period deserves better than that.

What if you could find a job that included most of your supervision — with a doctorally prepared psychologist among your supervisors? A role in an interprofessional clinic where you could learn from colleagues across disciplines, not just your own? A position that wasn’t just a job but part of a training program, with a learning cohort at your licensure stage, a protected full-day seminar every month, and a steady salary rather than variable gig income? A role where you could choose your caseload based on your learning goals rather than on what your employer needed billed?

Lorenz Clinic was the first in Minnesota to offer an organized, competency-based post-master’s fellowship — a model since replicated across the region. We consider it our most enduring contribution to the profession. [Apply Now]

About Lorenz Clinic

Lorenz Clinic is on a mission to heal the world one relationship at a time — not by being the biggest, but by being the best. Founded around a dining room table, we have grown into a regional leader in clinical services and training, pioneering the first Family Psychology specialty clinic in the North.

We don’t treat symptoms in isolation. We treat the relational and systemic dynamics that hold symptoms in place. That conviction is visible in everything we do — from our clinical models to the way we train, supervise, and develop our people. At any given time, approximately 20% of our staff is engaged in active training or supervision, which brings genuine intellectual vitality and a spirit of inquiry to our workplace.

Training allows us to work on the field, not just in it. Our training program spans master’s practicum, post-master’s fellowship, doctoral internship, and postdoctoral fellowship — one of the most vertically integrated training systems in the region, and among the most selective. We have adopted an evidence-based clinician wellness roadmap aimed at ensuring autonomy, choice, a reasonable workload, social connectivity, fairness, and actualization of our core values — which are, not incidentally, clinically relevant.

What This Fellowship Is Building Toward

We have a specific clinical formation goal, and we are specific about it by design. The fellowship is not merely oriented toward producing competent generalists. It is oriented toward producing psychotherapists: clinicians who work with a second-order theory of change, who use the therapeutic relationship itself as a vehicle of transformation, and who can hold clients in genuine depth.

That formation unfolds across seven developmental domains. By the time a fellow completes this program, they are developing:

The capacity to stay curious about what is happening inside a client — and inside themselves — even when the relational field becomes activated, distressing, or uncertain.
The ability to notice and work with ruptures in the therapeutic alliance — not avoid them — and to use the repair itself as a vehicle of change.
Access to their own internal experience during session, and the skill to hold it as clinical information rather than noise to be managed or a feeling to be enacted.
A genuine theory of why — the capacity to move past diagnosis to a case formulation that explains what keeps producing the problem, grounded in the client’s relational and developmental history.
The developmental narrative as a living structure — understanding a client’s history not as background context but as a pattern that is active in the room, right now, with this clinician.
The ability to hold a client through regression — to stay present when the work gets harder before it gets easier, without reflexive rescue, referral, or restructuring.
A formulation-first clinical mind — the habit of moving from data through diagnosis through problem formulation through case conceptualization to treatment, rather than from diagnosis directly to modality.

These are not competencies you need to arrive with. They are what the fellowship is building. What you need to arrive with is the orientation — the genuine curiosity about why, the willingness to be uncertain, the interest in what happens between people rather than only what happens inside them.

If that description fits how you already tend to think, you are likely the kind of clinician this program is designed for.

The Cohort

Tfellowship follows a cohort model, and the cohort is one of its most distinctive features. Each year’s group is drawn from the fields of counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work, and psychology — constructed intentionally so that the interprofessional texture of the cohort mirrors the interprofessional nature of clinical work itself.

About half of our fellows relocate from across the country specifically for this program. They tend to be people who have done their homework — who know what Lorenz is, what the model asks, and why that distinction matters. They are interpersonally attuned, curious about process, and capable of working with what happens between people rather than only with what happens inside them.

Fellows consistently describe the cohort as one of the most formative elements of the program — not only because of what is taught in the room, but because of who is in it. The intellectual company here is serious, collegially rich, and demanding in the best sense.

The program is rigorous. The first year is the most challenging, and the fellows who thrive tend to be those who engage the program’s structures actively: who bring their real cases to consultation, use the supervisory relationship as a genuine collaboration, and show up in their training groups when it’s uncomfortable. Clinical work at this level is genuinely hard — not because of anything specific to Lorenz, but because sitting with people in real pain, carrying an active caseload, and developing clinical judgment under supervision is demanding, particularly in year one. This fellowship provides more structure for that experience than the pre-licensure period typically offers. Fellows who use that structure do well.

As Bowlby noted about formative relationships, these bonds persist. Our alumni carry with them a professional network whose members now include some of the most well-regarded clinicians, supervisors, and leaders in the region. They have founded clinics, completed doctoral programs, led professional associations, expanded access to care for underserved communities, and shaped state policy. What connects them is not only where they trained but how they were trained to think — and the professional relationships, some of them lifelong, that formed alongside that thinking.

Supervision

Supervision at Lorenz is a professional discipline, not an informal extension of clinical experience. Our supervisors are trained in supervision as a distinct practice — with its own theory, competencies, and ethical obligations — rather than practitioners who simply accumulated clinical experience and were handed a supervisee.

All fellows receive 8 hours per month of professional supervision, structured as follows:

4 hours per month with a doctorally prepared psychologist — individual or group, depending on program track
4 hours per month with a professional supervisor — doctorally prepared psychologist or master’s-level licensed clinician, as determined by licensure track requirements

The supervisory relationship here works best when fellows approach it as an active collaboration — able to identify what they need, name what they are observing in their clinical work, and help shape the experience alongside their supervisor. Supervision is not something done to you. It is something you participate in shaping. Fellows who engage with that posture develop most rapidly and get the most from the experience.

Access to doctorally prepared supervision during the pre-licensure period is meaningful regardless of the licensure track you are pursuing. The quality of thinking modeled in that relationship shapes how you come to understand what clinical work actually is. For fellows who are considering doctoral training in the future, this supervisory relationship offers an early look at the kind of clinical reasoning that advanced preparation cultivates.

Several of the clinic’s current supervisors and clinical leaders are themselves PMF alumni — clinicians who were formed here and chose to remain, or return, to do the work of forming others. That continuity is not accidental. It is what a genuine training culture looks like. [Apply Now]

The Training Curriculum

The fellowship’s learning architecture is designed to ensure that the pre-licensure period is genuinely developmental rather than merely accumulative. The training structures below are not supplemental to a clinical job — they are the scaffolding that ensures the complexity of clinical work deepens fellows rather than simply wears them down.

Together, these experiences cover all 16 APA Competency Benchmark domains, woven through four cross-cutting themes that run the length of the fellowship: systemic thinking, individual and cultural diversity, leadership and service, and relational and interpersonal practice.

Monthly PMF Seminar — 8 hours per month

The full PMF cohort gathers for an in-person, full-day seminar. This is a protected learning day — fellows are not expected to carry a full clinical schedule during seminar week.

Each session is organized around one of the 16 APA Competency Benchmark domains and is designed as a complete learning experience rather than a lecture. A typical seminar includes a focused didactic component, structured experiential activities, a guest practitioner-scholar with specialized expertise, and small-group discussions organized around the cross-cutting themes. Sessions include required and recommended readings chosen to advance both clinical thinking and professional identity formation.

The goal is genuine complexity made metabolizable — sessions calibrated to the cohort’s current developmental stage so that the same content is never applied the same way twice. Theory is meant to become lived experience in the room.

Weekly Didactic Seminar — 1 hour

Fellows participate weekly in a one-hour didactic seminar shared with the clinic’s doctoral psychology interns. The curriculum is a broad survey of the clinical landscape. Topics over the course of a year include ethics, family systems, attachment theory and culture, child development, trauma, adult psychopathology, mood and bipolar disorders, the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, multicultural perspectives in clinical practice, object relations theory, rupture and repair in psychotherapy, neuroscience and psychotherapy, suicide risk assessment, and more. Presenters are doctorally prepared faculty clinicians.

Participating in this seminar alongside doctoral interns is itself formative — it places fellows within the broader intellectual community of the training program and exposes them to the clinical thinking culture that runs across all levels of Lorenz training.

Monthly Grand Rounds — 1 hour

Grand Rounds is one of medicine’s oldest teaching traditions, and Lorenz has practiced it consistently for many years. Once per month, the full clinical staff — across disciplines and training levels — gathers for a one-hour case presentation or topic-focused event. Most sessions feature an internal, de-identified clinical case; others bring in outside presenters of regional and national significance. Grand Rounds is facilitated by a doctorally prepared psychologist and is CE-eligible.

Fellows attend alongside licensed clinicians, doctoral interns, and postdoctoral fellows — a cross-training-level gathering that reflects Lorenz’s commitment to shared intellectual culture. Over the course of the fellowship, fellows will have the opportunity to present.

Monthly Case Consultation — 4 hours

Fellows participate in four hours per month of structured specialist case consultation. This experience is distinct from supervision: it is consultee-focused, non-evaluative, and explicitly designed to build the habit of disciplined clinical thinking.

The Lorenz consultation method moves through a structured sequence — from clinical data through diagnosis, problem formulation, case conceptualization, and treatment formulation. The point is not advice. It is formulation. The consultation space is protected from performance evaluation, which means fellows can bring the cases they are genuinely uncertain about — not the cases that make them look good. Over time, this builds the formulation-first clinical thinking that distinguishes strong practitioners from technically adequate ones.

As an active training clinic, most Lorenz clinicians earn approximately 100 hours per year of board-approved continuing education simply by showing up to work.

What You Will Learn

The fellowship develops effective, relationally and systemically oriented clinicians — not just credentialed ones. Training covers all 16 APA Competency Benchmark domains.

Foundational Competency Areas

Professionalism
Ethical, legal, and policy issues
Individual and cultural diversity
Relationships
Scientific knowledge and evidence-informed practice
Evidence-based practice
Reflective practice
Interdisciplinary systems and interprofessional collaboration

Functional Competency Areas

Assessment, problem formulation, and treatment planning

Psychotherapeutic intervention across modalities
Consultation
Supervision
Teaching and public presentation
Research and evaluation
Management and administration
Advocacy

Cross-cutting themes woven throughout: systemic thinking, individual and cultural diversity, leadership and service, and relational and interpersonal practice.

The Lorenz system is particularly well suited to clinicians drawn to relational, systemic, and developmentally informed work — those who want to understand how to use the interpersonal process as a lever of change, not just a context for it.

Note: training outcomes are aspirational and not guaranteed, as they are a function of many factors including trainees’ prior preparation, learning goals, commitment to learning, and personal readiness.

Training Tracks

Fellows are assigned to one of three clinical program tracks based on their stated learning goals, prior preparation, supervisor competencies, and program need:

Outpatient psychotherapy — clinic-based individual, couples, family, and group therapy
Intensive outpatient group psychotherapy — structured group treatment across diagnostic presentations

At times, fellows may carry a blended caseload across programs to extend development. The clinic enjoys a strong referral base and waitlist, which allows for meaningful input on client age range and presenting concerns. The program believes specialization is best suited to later developmental stages, and that the most well-rounded graduates gain early experience with a diversity of clients across the lifespan.

The Role

Post-master’s fellows provide psychotherapeutic services to a variety of clients under direct supervision. A typical fellow carries approximately 12–18 active clients, built gradually during the first months of the fellowship — calibrated to developmental stage and learning goals, not billing targets.

Fellows operate under the direct supervision of their Treatment Supervisor, with adjunctive supervision provided by Clinical Supervisors and program leadership. Fellows are considered clinical trainees in clinic policy.

Core Job Duties

Provide psychological services including diagnostic assessment, treatment planning, psychotherapy, and discharge planning under supervision

Carry and maintain a psychotherapy caseload as assigned, in-clinic or in-home depending on program track
Provide individual, couples, group, or family psychotherapy as assigned by supervisor
Attend and actively participate in individual and group supervision, case consultation, training activities, Grand Rounds, Pod meetings, and team meetings
Conduct at least two formal, scholarly presentations during the fellowship — one to colleagues, one to the public
Comply with clinic clinical policies, documentation standards, licensing board rules, and applicable codes of ethics
Other duties as assigned

After the Fellowship

The fellowship is a two-year formation experience with a natural endpoint — full licensure and the independent practice that follows. What happens next varies by fellow.

Many alumni continue their development within the clinic. The formation ladder at Lorenz does not stop at licensure — it extends through supervision, clinical management, training leadership, and advanced clinical stewardship. Fellows who have moved through it have gone on to hold some of the highest levels of clinical and supervisory credential available in the field. The ceiling is not imposed by the fellowship. It is set by the person.

Historically, approximately 88% of second-year fellows who seek staff positions at Lorenz find them here. Staff employment is not automatic — fellows must apply and be selected — but the fellowship functions as a genuine pipeline, and the clinic prefers to hire clinicians it has formed. Many of the clinic’s current supervisors and senior clinicians are PMF alumni.

Alumni who have left the clinic have gone on to independent and group private practice, community mental health, doctoral programs, policy leadership, and professional association leadership. What distinguishes them is consistently described by those who supervise or work alongside them: the quality of their clinical thinking, and their capacity to work with relational and systemic complexity.

Lorenz Clinic has established an endowed scholarship at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Professional Psychology — a program whose relational and systemic orientation reflects values closely aligned with those that animate our training. [Apply Now]

Requirements

The most successful candidates demonstrate a track record of sequential, scaffolded clinical learning aimed at a career as a psychotherapist. We look for clinicians who are curious about what they don’t yet know, open to feedback that requires growth, and oriented toward the profession as a calling rather than a credential.

Who Thrives Here

Fellows who do their best formation at Lorenz tend to share a few qualities that credentials alone don’t capture: they are interpersonally secure enough to be challenged without becoming defensive; they are drawn to understanding why something works, not just what to do next; they can sit with ambiguity without collapsing it prematurely; and they are oriented toward the profession as a vocation. They want to be formed, not just employed.

Fellows whose primary motivation is income maximization, schedule flexibility, or licensure hour accumulation tend to find this fellowship a poor fit. It is designed for depth, not volume.

We take our formation commitments seriously in both directions. Fellows who are developing well can expect to be challenged. Those who encounter difficulty can expect to be held honestly — not managed quietly.

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree in psychology, clinical counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work, or a closely related field from a regionally accredited program

- Candidates from doctoral programs should consider our Postdoctoral Fellowship or Clinical Extern programs
Successful completion of a clinically focused master’s-level practicum or internship where individual psychotherapy — including diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing therapeutic work — was the primary activity
- LICSW-track candidates specifically: a social work degree is not sufficient on its own. This is a psychotherapy training clinic, and we require demonstrated formation in psychotherapy specifically. Placements focused primarily on case management, care coordination, community support, or generalist social work services — even excellent ones — do not meet this requirement. We respect the breadth of the social work profession; this fellowship is for the portion of it pursuing clinical psychotherapy as a vocation.
A declared mental health licensure track (LICSW, LMFT, or LPCC in Minnesota) with compliance with all supervised practice requirements
- Social work track candidates must hold a current, non-provisional LGSW before start date
A completed master’s-level practicum totaling at least 9–12 months of clinic-based formation where outpatient psychotherapy was the primary focus, prior to start date
- Practicum placements that were primarily remote or telehealth will not be considered

Preferred Qualifications

Prior preparation in systems thinking, group relations, or relational and psychodynamic intervention models

Bilingual candidates are strongly preferred — expanding access for underserved communities is central to our mission
Demonstrated commitment to the profession and the common good

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary: $51,000–$90,000 per year, based on qualifications, caseload, and program track. A pay-for-performance compensation model is available at the fellow’s election; however, this fellowship is designed to prioritize learning depth over volume, and fellows whose primary goal is income maximization will find a better fit elsewhere. This is a W-2, salaried role — your paycheck is steady and predictable.

Financial and Insurance Benefits

Student loan repayment program

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability insurance
401(k) with employer matching
Healthcare Savings Account (HSA)
Employee assistance program
Paid parental leave

Time and Flexibility

Paid time off

Paid holidays
Paid Burnout Time (a structured, protected leave benefit designed to support sustained clinical performance — separate from standard PTO)
Paid service/volunteer time
Flexible scheduling
Hybrid options available

Training and Professional Development

4 hours/month of supervision with a doctorally prepared psychologist

4 hours/month of professional supervision (per licensure track requirements)
Monthly full-day PMF Seminar (8 hours) with invited practitioner-scholar
Weekly didactic seminar with doctoral interns
Monthly Grand Rounds (CE-eligible)
Monthly specialist case consultation (4 hours)
Quarterly invited practitioner series
Licensing exam preparation support
Professional development assistance
Approximately 100 hours/year of board-approved CE included

How to Apply

Admission is competitive and reviewed by the Training Committee. To apply, submit a cover letter and CV via the online job portal for your preferred clinic location.

A cover letter is required. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

The cover letter is the primary means by which we assess whether a candidate has understood this program, why they want to be here specifically, and whether their goals genuinely match what we offer. Cover letters should address:

Your training goals and what you hope to develop during the fellowship
Your preferred track and why it fits your learning objectives
Your commitment to the common good and to the profession as a field
A brief narrative of your experience providing psychotherapy

Candidates invited to interview may be asked to provide writing samples, references, or a letter of recommendation from a past clinical supervisor. Preference is given to bilingual candidates.

For questions about benefits including the student loan repayment program, contact human resources.

[Apply Now]

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Lorenz Clinic is proudly committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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.

Pre-licensed therapists, unlicensed therapists, and intermediately licensed clinicians — including LGSWs, NCCs, and LAMFTs — are especially encouraged to apply. Licensed independent practitioners (LPCC, LMFT, LICSW) should see our separately posted Outpatient Psychotherapist role.

Post-Master’s Fellowship Alumni

Emily Calhoon, MA – University of St. Thomas (2024-26)
Josie Peterson, MS – University of Memphis (2023-25)
Brenna Rothmeier, MSW – University of St. Thomas (2023-25)
Richard Burleson, MA – Northwestern University (2023-25)
Riley Bartz, MA – University of St. Thomas (2022-24)
Taylor Stotz, MA – Lesley University (2022-24)
Kelsey Wall, MA – St. Mary’s University of Minnesota (2022-24)
Mason Carpenter, MSW – University of St. Thomas (2022-24)
Hannah Ellenby, MSW- St. Catherine University (2022-2024)
Ashley Utz, MSW – University of St. Thomas (2022-24)
Brittany Johnson, MSW – University of St. Thomas (2022-24)
Megan Fredrickson, MA – St. Mary’s University (2020-22)
Amy Backus (Spivey), MA – University of St. Thomas (2020-21)
MaryBeth Ehlert, MSW – University of St. Thomas (2020-21)
Emily Jaeger, MS – St. Cloud State University (2019-21)
Haley Guetter, MS – St. Cloud State University (2019-21)
Ali Kanan, MA, MS – Ball State University (2019-21)
Abbie Poush, MSEd. – University of Wisconsin, Superior (2019-21)
Kim Stewart, MA – University of St. Thomas (2019-20)
Eugene Hall, MA – University of St. Thomas (2017-19)
Christine Jones, MA – University of St. Thomas (2017-19)
Katelyn Schwartz, MA – University of St. Thomas (2017-19)
Gillian Koch, M.Ed. – William & Mary (2017-19)
Melanie Reuss, MS – Minnesota State University Mankato (2017-18)
Claire Pieper, MSW – St. Louis University (2017-19)
Abby Wulfing, MA – University of St. Thomas (2016-18)
Andrew Dahlen, MA – University of St. Thomas (2016-18)
Carly Jarvinen, MA – University of St. Thomas (2015-17)
Georgia Nesbitt, MA, MS – University of St. Thomas (2015-17)
Andrew Clemens, MA – University of St. Thomas (2015-17)
Kamila Stafin, MS – University of Wisconsin – Stout (2014-15)
Amy Gloudeman, MS – Marquette University (2013-15)
Laura Hughitt, MS – Marquette University (2013-15)
Jenny Hoglund, MS – St. Cloud State University (2012-14)
Anna Bohlinger, MS – University of Wisconsin – Stout (2011-12)