Postdoctoral Fellow Psychology

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Lorenz Clinic has chosen excellence in psychological services and training rather than growth at all costs like larger clinics. Our duty to the public is our North Star, leading us to select the most reflective, well-prepared, professional staff because that's what drives psychotherapeutic change and the best training. Lorenz Clinic has led on the basis of excellence since its inception, distinguished by its clinically-relevant core values. The clinic was founded on the ideals of interprofessionalism and engages in Reflective Practice, which ensures our workplace is conducive to the work itself.

Lorenz Clinic has adopted an evidence-based clinician wellness roadmap aimed at ensuring autonomy, choice, a reasonable workload, social connectivity, fairness, and actualization of our core values.

The Department

Working alongside psychiatry providers and family therapists with access to testing and higher levels of care, psychotherapists treat clients who are being held by a clinic system and interprofessional treatment team.

Clinicians at Lorenz aren't pigeon-holed working with high acuity cases in isolation and have autonomy to choose the types of cases best suited to their competence and interest. The practice enjoys deep, special relationships with referring PCPs that have grown to trust the department to deliver a high level of collaboration and specialized consultation.

Supervising clinicians will be interested to know Lorenz's training department is an affiliate of a number of area graduate programs. Lorenz pioneered post-master's fellowships in Minnesota, and it's a model that's now been replicated the field over. At the time of its inception, our fellowship was relatively novel in the region, and we consider it to be our clinic's main contribution to the field. Working on the field, not just in it, enlivens our work and gives it dimension and meaning, which are integral to wellness and balance in the workplace.

Description

The Lorenz Clinic Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship in Couple and Family Psychology is a 1-year, full-time clinical position that prepares trainees for licensure as a psychologist in Minnesota. The APPIC-listed training program involves some required components, but allows for flexibility to create the experiences the fellow desires. Founded in a scientist-practitioner model, we have a diverse, passionate group of supervisory faculty who enjoy training and working with postdoctoral fellows.

We view the fellowship as a final year of intensive training before independent practice, and our supervisory psychologists are dedicated to assisting you in this exciting year. The postdoctoral fellowship is truly the culmination of many years of preparation and hard work, and is meant to help prepare you for your first position as a psychologist. We are invested in you as a practicing psychologist and a person, and strive to make this year meaningful, enjoyable, and helpful as you launch your career.

Distinctive Elements of our Training Program

• The fellowship training is part of a 6-site, growing mental health clinic that serves clients (age 0-100) from across Minnesota
• Our clinic and program's founder and CEO, Chad Lorenz, PsyD MBA ABPP is a couple and family psychologist, demonstrating how our leadership is grounded in both the science and practice of psychology.
• Fellows collaborate with an interdisciplinary team, including staff with expertise in psychiatry, marriage and family therapy, nursing, social work, and more
• We offer opportunities for both in-person and tele-psychological services, tailored for both client and clinician preference and scheduling
• All of our patient care and training activities are grounded in a systemic, relational, contextually-informed lens
• We have a broad array of licensed psychologists who participate in the training program, offering fellows the ability to learn from experts in different areas. We have specific training faculty who are passionate about supervising and whose specific duties include expanding and continuously improving our training program.
• Two of our supervisory psychologists are Board Certified in Couple and Family Psychology, reflective of our program's national reputation and expertise in this area

• Carry a psychotherapy caseload that includes couples and families along with individual therapy clients. Fellows discuss prior to the Fellowship the expected goals for the Fellowship, which may include ages and populations for psychotherapy and psychological assessment cases (if assessment is a stated goal).

• Monthly seminars led by psychologist faculty: Couples Therapy, Assessment, Supervision of Supervision, Postdoctoral Seminar (addresses professional development issues)
• Monthly Case Consultation and Site Meetings
• Monthly 2-hour Grand Rounds seminar
• Monthly Lunch and Learn
• Annual conference with internationally recognized presenters

• 2 individual hours a week with Licensed Psychologists with competencies in the types of psychotherapy cases.

• Supervise one practicum student on their psychotherapy cases (if supervision is a stated goal)
• Provide at least one lunch and learn seminar

• Rotation in Integrated Behavioral Health in our new Glencoe clinic location

• 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

• Applicants must have a doctoral degree in clin.