Clinical Manager

About the Clinic

Lorenz Clinic is a psychology clinic built on the values and norms of professional psychology. We treat systems, not symptoms — locating the presenting problem in its relational, developmental, and systemic context, because here there is no such thing as a problem that resides solely within the individual.

We were the first clinic in Minnesota to pioneer an organized post-master's fellowship, and training has been our keystone ever since. Our program spans master's practicum through specialty postdoctoral fellowship, and our internship and postdoctoral fellowships are APPIC-listed. About one in five clinicians here is involved in training at any given time. That is what lets us work on the field, not only in it — and it is part of why clinicians who take up the teaching role tend to stay well: using more than one professional muscle is among the more durable protections against burnout we know.

Professionalism is our superordinate value, understood as obligation rather than polish — a duty to clients, to the field, and to the people we develop. Reflective practice is not a wellness amenity; it is our developmental spine. For the better part of two decades, Lorenz has been the psychotherapist's clinic — one of the few practices clinicians would entrust with their own career, and in many cases, their own family.

The Mission of This Role

If you are an experienced, independently licensed clinician, you have probably noticed that supervision is the part of the job most organizations treat as an afterthought. In most settings, that skill is squeezed into the margins: an unpaid expectation between productivity targets, a form to sign, a role you were never actually prepared for and are quietly expected to "figure out."

The field treats licensure as the finish line and supervision as a natural extension of clinical skill — but being an excellent clinician no longer guarantees readiness to hold someone else's development. Supervision is its own professional practice. When it isn't treated that way, supervisors drift between rescuing supervisees and avoiding them, absorb anxiety that should be metabolized, and burn out doing work no one named as difficult.

We built this seat for the clinician who wants supervision to be a real craft — held to a real standard, supported by a real structure, and compensated as the skilled work it is.

Supervision is the first threshold at which a clinician stops being responsible only for their own work and becomes responsible for the development — and the anxiety — of someone else. We treat it as the first rung of clinical stewardship: custody of the conditions under which other people grow, held with an eye on a horizon longer than your own tenure.

The supervisors who do this well hold rather than rescue. They can stay with a supervisee's difficulty long enough for the supervisee's own thinking to emerge, rather than resolving it for them. They keep boundaries clear, calibrate challenge against support, and remain a steady, differentiated presence when a hard case or a struggling trainee brings heat into the room. And they don't do it alone — supervisors here are supervised in turn. We hold the holders.

Team & Culture

You would join an interdisciplinary mental health team — psychologists, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, psychiatric clinicians, and clinical social workers — with one home department across a level of care matched to your preparation and interest: outpatient, intensive outpatient, day treatment, or community-based. The clinical manager leads each team; supervisors take up a differentiated voice inside the team's regular reflective consultation, naming patterns early and bringing real uncertainty rather than only resolved cases.

The intellectual lineage is explicit and worn openly: Falender on competency-based supervision, alongside Yalom, Perry, Boss, Sue Johnson, and Bateson. We name our influences, because where you train shapes who you become.

This is a development-centered environment, not a service to be consumed. We invest a great deal in our people and we ask a great deal in return; we are selective on both sides, and we are willing to say not yet. Everyone in this field eventually holds the same license. What differs is the person who holds it — and that is the difference we are hiring for. Clinicians are developed here, not consumed.

How to Apply

If supervision is the part of the work you most want to do well — and you want to do it somewhere that treats it as a discipline rather than a duty — we would like to hear from you. Apply through this posting. For an unabridged job description or more information about our benefits, including the student loan repayment program, contact Human Resources.

Equal Opportunity

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.