Supervisory Resident

Description

You've been thinking about supervision

Not the credential — the thing itself. What it means to hold someone else's development. What separated the supervisors who formed you from the ones who didn't. Whether you're ready, and what ready would even feel like.

You've probably looked at what's available. Most of what you've found offers supervision as an add-on: here's your caseload, and if you want, you can supervise an intern on the side. The supervision is incidental. The structure is thin. The feedback is mostly self-reported.  

That's not what you're looking for.

What This Role Is

Lorenz Clinic is hiring a Supervisory Resident, a licensed clinician who carries an active clinical caseload and enters a structured one-year formation program in clinical supervision.

You will supervise one practicum student through a complete placement cycle. You will receive regular supervision of your supervision from a senior Training Director — not debriefing, but actual review of your supervisory work, including direct observation of your sessions. You will engage a curriculum grounded in Falender's competency-based approach to supervision. You will keep a reflective log of your supervisory learning, the same kind of reflective structure we ask of trainees at every other level.

At the end of the year, your exit from this role requires three things: time completion, attainment of competency benchmarks, and evidence of positive outcomes in the supervised placement. All three. Not one.

This is a training placement. The word resident is chosen deliberately.

Why It's Structured This Way

Supervision is a distinct clinical practice — not an extension of clinical skill, not a reward for years of service. Carol Falender has made the point plainly: just because you had parents does not make you a good parent. The same logic applies here.

Most supervisors are made by assumption. They were good clinicians, so they were asked to supervise. What they received was a title and maybe a handbook. They learned supervision the hard way — through accumulated mistakes without anyone looking at their actual work.

This role is designed differently. The supervisory load begins at one to two sessions per week, intentionally bounded. You will hold one supervisee through a full cycle before being cleared to take on more. That boundary is not a hedge on your capacity. It is how supervision is actually learned.

Here is what this role asks of you, and what it gives back: the structure you are inside is the structure you are learning to provide. You will be supervised in supervision — held by someone more senior, with real feedback on your real supervisory work — while doing the same for a trainee who needs exactly that from you. If that sentence lands as meaningful rather than merely logical, this role may be the right one.

What You'll Be Doing

In this role, you will carry a full clinical caseload of approximately 25 sessions per week across individual, family, and/or group modalities. Alongside that, you will supervise one practicum student through a complete placement cycle, with the possibility of expanding to Post-Master's Fellow supervision in a second stage after clearance. You will meet regularly with a senior Training Director for supervision of your supervisory work — distinct from your clinical consultation — and participate in direct observation of your sessions rather than self-report alone. You will engage Falender's competency-based curriculum, maintain a reflective supervisory log, and complete a formal competency assessment at the one-year mark.

Successful completion of this role leads to the titled Supervisor position within Lorenz Clinic's W-2 staff. That is the pipeline. There is no ambiguity about where this goes.

What We're Offering

Salary is set at market rate for licensed clinicians in the Twin Cities, deliberately. The compensation is not the draw.

What we are offering is something the open market does not reliably provide: a formation environment for the supervisory role, with a senior practitioner engaged with your actual work, in an institution that treats supervision as a practice area worth taking seriously. If you complete this year well, you leave it a formed supervisor — not a clinician who happened to supervise.

Who Should Apply

You have been independently licensed for several years. You are technically strong and relationally serious. You have started to feel the edges of your clinical competence — not in a crisis way, but in the way that comes when a practice stops regularly challenging you. You have noticed the pull toward supervision, not just as a career direction but as a genuine question about what you are capable of holding.

You want to be supervised. You want someone looking at your supervisory work — your actual sessions, not your account of them. You want to be held to a standard you can respect, not simply handed an opportunity and left alone in it.

You are not looking to supervise broadly and immediately. You understand that one supervisee, held through a full cycle with genuine formation support, is worth more than five supervisees and a certificate. You are motivated by what this role will make you — not what it allows you to call yourself.

The role carries a full clinical caseload alongside the supervisory formation work. It involves formal evaluation, a bounded supervisory load, and a one-year structure with explicit exit criteria. Candidates who are energized by that combination — rather than drawn primarily to some other aspect of the opportunity — are likely to find it meaningful.

About Lorenz Clinic

Lorenz Clinic is an outpatient mental health practice in the Minneapolis area serving individuals, couples, and families across the lifespan. We operate a structured Post-Master's Fellowship, a practicum training program, and a multi-stage formation ladder that holds clinicians through the developmental thresholds of supervision, management, and institutional leadership.

We are organized around a conviction: that clinicians who are formed rather than consumed — who pass through the thresholds of their professional development inside relationships and structures that take those thresholds seriously — produce better outcomes, stay longer, and become the kinds of practitioners and leaders the field actually needs.

Formation is not a benefit here. It is the organizing principle.

Requirements

We are seeking clinicians who combine clinical competence with humility, reflective capacity, systems thinking, and a genuine commitment to ongoing development. Our most successful candidates are seasoned interventionists who remain curious learners — practitioners who are good at what they do and honest about what they don't yet know how to do.

Required:

• A master's or doctoral degree in a mental health profession from an accredited program
• Full, independent, unrestricted licensure as a mental health professional in Minnesota (LP, LMFT, LICSW, or LPCC)
• At least two years of post-master's experience providing predominantly outpatient psychotherapy
• The ability to approach psychotherapy from systemic, relational, and developmental theoretical perspectives
• Willingness to complete formal coursework or CEUs in supervision toward board-approved supervisor status
• Demonstrated reflective capacity and comfort being observed, evaluated, and developed

Preferred:

• Formal training in child, couples, family, relational/interpersonal, or contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Prior experience in a training-intensive clinical environment
• Familiarity with competency-based models of supervision (Falender or similar)

Pre-licensed clinicians (LGSW, LAMFT) should consider our Post-Master's Fellowship. This role is designed for independently licensed clinicians who are ready to begin supervised supervisory training.

Compensation and Benefits

The hiring range for this role is $75,000 – $106,000 for master's-level licensees and $106,000 - $125,000 for doctoral-level licensees. This is a full-time, salaried, exempt, benefits-eligible, W-2 position.

Full-time clinicians at Lorenz Clinic receive a benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) with employer matching; student loan repayment; paid time off and holidays; paid burnout leave; paid CEU release days; an annual CEU allowance; mileage reimbursement; a healthcare savings account; an employee assistance program; and professional development support.

We don't just offer benefits — we offer time. Time to rest, to grow, to reflect, and to stay inspired. Burnout leave, CEU time, and flexible scheduling are designed to prevent depletion before it starts. As an active training clinic, most Lorenz clinicians accumulate approximately 100 hours per year of board-approved continuing education through participation in clinical life: an annual conference, monthly grand rounds, and four hours per month of specialist case consultation with CEUs.

While this is primarily an in-person role, most clinicians incorporate some hybrid work depending on program fit and clinical needs. For full benefits details including our student loan repayment program, contact human resources.  This position is listed under Minneapolis for search visibility. Lorenz Clinic's locations are in the southwest metro — Minnetonka, Victoria, Chaska, Prior Lake, Burnsville, Rosemount, and Lilydale — approximately 20-30 minutes from downtown Minneapolis. The primary in-person worksite will be one of these suburban locations, with hybrid flexibility depending on program needs.

Selection

We evaluate candidates not only on credentials but on mission alignment, professional competence, theory-science-practice integration, and the capacity to thrive in a reflective, values-driven environment. Candidates are assessed through multiple means including clinical competence, professional judgment, potential to positively impact the field, and consistency with Lorenz Clinic's core values.

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. Candidates who independently monitor and apply knowledge of self and others as cultural beings in assessment, treatment, and consultation are especially encouraged to apply.

To Apply

Submit a cover letter and CV through this posting. A cover letter is required. Applications without one will not be considered. In your cover letter, address this directly: Why do you want to learn supervision, and why now? We are not looking for a polished answer. We are looking for an honest one. We give meaningful consideration to applicants who thoughtfully articulate their interest in Lorenz Clinic's systemic, relational, and developmental model. Professionalism and intentional communication are central to our culture.

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

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