Postdoctoral Psychology Fellow

Description

Postdoctoral Psychology Fellow | Lorenz Clinic of Family Psychology | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Full-Time

Who This Is For

You finished your doctoral training with a strong relational or systemic foundation — and you've spent the months since noticing that most postdoc listings aren't built for what you actually want to do. They offer supervised hours toward licensure, a reduced caseload, and a reading list. That's not nothing. But you were hoping for something more like a serious professional home — a place where the supervision is substantive rather than ceremonial, where the training culture takes ideas seriously, and where your development as a clinician is a structural commitment rather than a good intention.This posting is for you.

Who We Are

Lorenz Clinic of Family Psychology is a training institution with a clinical practice — not a clinic that happens to supervise students. We are a multi-site outpatient practice and psychotherapy training institute in the southwest Minneapolis metro, with locations in Victoria, Chaska, Prior Lake, Rosemount, Minnetonka, and Wayzata, and approximately 130 people across six sites.We use both words deliberately: practice and institute. The clinical work funds and grounds our mission. The institute is what gives the clinical work its shape, meaning, and reach.

We treat systems, not just symptoms.

We develop clinicians, not just employees.

We hold clinicians so clinicians can hold clients.

Our intellectual culture draws on Winnicott, Bowlby, Bion, Bateson, Fonagy, and the Tavistock human relations tradition — not as historical references, but as living frameworks for clinical practice, supervision, and organizational life. Training is not a department at Lorenz Clinic. It is the spine of the organization.

Our formation ladder — master's practicum ? Post-Master's Fellowship ? doctoral internship ? postdoctoral fellowship — is among the most intentionally designed training architectures in the region. The postdoctoral fellowship is the highest rung. The formation that happens here matters not only to fellows, but to every trainee and clinician the organization holds.

The Fellowship

This is a one-year, full-time, salaried postdoctoral psychology fellowship. It is APPIC-listed, with Couple and Family Psychology as the declared Major Area of Study for candidates pursuing that designation — including one of only a handful of programs in the country to offer weekly supervision from an ABPP board-certified Couple and Family Psychologist as a structured component of training.

It is also something more than its structural features suggest.

Fellows at Lorenz Clinic are not observers of an institution in progress. They are part of it. The work you do here — clinically, supervisorily, and in the training community — matters to the organization's trajectory, not just your own.

What You'll Do

You will carry a direct clinical caseload — individuals, couples, families, or groups — developed collaboratively based on your background, training interests, and program need. The population is a choice within the frame. The frame — relational, systemic, here-and-now — is not.

Alongside the caseload:

You will supervise a practicum student. Learning to hold someone else's formation — to manage your own uncertainty while attending to your supervisee's clinical anxiety while keeping the client in view — is among the most developmental experiences this fellowship provides. Fellows who name supervision as a training goal are supported into this role with structured oversight.

You will co-facilitate the Post-Master's Fellowship monthly seminar under the guidance of our Associate Training Director. This is our primary formation vehicle — the room where training culture is transmitted and renewed. By year's end you will be able to design and facilitate a seminar that is epistemologically anchored, structurally alive, and transferable. Most doctoral programs do not develop this. Most clinical positions do not require it.

You will hold a consultation group within the clinic system. The group is a service and a diagnostic instrument — what happens in the room carries information about the larger systems participants are embedded within. You will learn to read it.

You will participate in a didactic seminar series — including monthly faculty-led seminars, monthly Grand Rounds, case consultation, and an annual conference with nationally and internationally recognized presenters. Fellows at Lorenz Clinic earn approximately 100 hours of board-approved continuing education annually simply by showing up to work. Development here is structural, not incidental.

You will be supervised two hours per week: one hour with our ABPP board-certified Couple and Family Psychologist, one hour with our Training Director.

CFP Credentialing and the ABPP Pathway

If you are oriented toward Couple and Family Psychology, or if ABPP board certification is on your professional horizon, this fellowship is designed to move you meaningfully toward that credential. The supervised hours you accrue here, documented from the start in ABPP-ready format, constitute real progress toward eligibility. We will actively support that pathway.

If you are coming from a contemporary psychodynamic, group relations, family therapy, or systemic generalist background and CFP specialty credentialing is not your primary interest, the fellowship still provides rigorous relational and systemic formation across whatever population you emphasize.

Who We're Looking For

We are not looking for candidates who have completed their formation. We are looking for candidates whose formation is ready to be deepened.

A doctoral-level psychotherapist who can tolerate not knowing. Who uses their own relational experience as clinical data. Who brings genuine uncertainty into supervision rather than managed competence. Who has been in a supervisory relationship that actually changed how they work — and can describe specifically what that supervisor did and what it was like to receive it.

Your theoretical background matters less than your epistemological orientation. We receive candidates from contemporary psychodynamic programs, systemic and cybernetic training environments, AEDP-oriented programs, and group relations-adjacent contexts. We do not require you to speak our theoretical grammar on arrival. We require that you be capable of acquiring it.

The one thing that disqualifies a candidate is presenting as fully formed.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Doctoral degree (PhD or PsyD) in clinical or counseling psychology from an APA-accredited program, completed prior to fellowship start
• Completed APA-accredited predoctoral internship prior to start
• Active pursuit of Minnesota LP licensure; full licensure not required at hire
• Demonstrated training or clinical experience with couples and/or families
• Ability to work full-time, in person, five days per week with evening availability as caseload requires

Strongly Preferred

• Graduate training with a relational, systemic, or contemporary psychodynamic emphasis
• Expressed interest in ABPP/CFP board certification
• Prior supervised experience providing clinical supervision, or genuine interest in the supervisory role
• Evidence of scholarly or professional engagement with the field

What Happens After

Some fellows go on to positions in other systems, carrying a relational and organizational formation that most of their peers do not have. Some join our staff as licensed psychologists — already inside the epistemological frame, already familiar with the training infrastructure they spent a year helping to build.

We are transparent about our interest in the latter outcome. It is not a condition of the fellowship. It is a design intention.

A Note on Minnesota

For candidates considering relocation: the Twin Cities metro offers something increasingly rare — a high quality of life that doesn't require a second income to sustain. Green space is extensive and used year-round. Civic engagement runs deep; Minnesota leads the country in voter turnout as an expression of a political culture that takes participation personally. The metro is one of the most culturally diverse in the upper Midwest, with significant immigrant and refugee communities that have shaped the region's identity over generations — which means the relational systems clinicians work within here are among the most complex and interesting in the country. The southwest metro, where Lorenz Clinic operates, sits close enough to the city to access all of it and grounded enough in community to feel like somewhere specific.

Position Details

Salary: $106,000, W-2, based on caseload.

Location: Southwest Minneapolis metro — site assignment determined collaboratively with Training Director

Duration: 12 months, full-time

Start: Late summer/fall 2026, consistent with APPIC timelines

Benefits include employer-sponsored medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) with employer match; three weeks PTO plus paid holidays; paid CEU allowance; and paid burnout time — a distinct benefit we name because we mean it.

To Apply

Submit via the Lorenz Clinic online portal, APPIC, Indeed, Handshake, or LinkedIn.

• Cover letter (required)
• Curriculum vitae
• Two letters of recommendation

Your cover letter should tell us something your CV cannot: how you think about clinical work, what a supervisory relationship has changed in how you practice, and why this fellowship is the right next step at this point in your development. We read cover letters carefully. They are the first clinical document you submit to us.

Graduate transcripts and up to two de-identified clinical work samples may be requested of finalists. Questions about training specifics may be directed to Dr. Jared Spencer, Training Director.

Lorenz Clinic of Family Psychology is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.