Early Childhood Mental Health Therapist

Note: This position is eligible for a $10,000 sign-on and retention bonus as well as private student loan repayment. Details can be had by contacting Human Resources.

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 service-oriented, 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

Lorenz's early childhood practice is supported by three levels of care: in-home, outpatient, and early childhood day treatment. The program has close ties with regional graduate schools that do infant and child development training. 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. In addition to outpatient psychotherapy, the department this position is housed in, the clinic also hosts trauma-focused, early childhood day treatment at the same clinic location.

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.

The Role

In this role, you’ll function as a licensed mental health therapist providing psychological services to early childhood mental health clients in an applied, clinical, outpatient setting. You’ll engage in regular consultee-focused case consultation and maintain a rich schedule of continuing education events. You’ll likely earn 100 CEUs per year, just from showing up to work. You’ll have pay and caseload size options and choice, and your clients will mostly be assigned based on your passion, interests, and competence.

Lorenz maintains favorable, interprofessional staffing ratios with each of the mental health professions represented. Clinicians have the ability to coordinate with and leverage in-house psychological testing, intensive groups, and psychiatry. The clinic selects interventionists who are relationally-focused and socially-committed, and folks just so happen to make the best colleagues.. Lorenz uses an industry-leading EHR that allows for seamless interoperability with other health systems, enabling a high level of collaboration between systems of care.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• The provision of psychological services including conducting diagnostic assessments, treatment planning, psychotherapy, psychological testing, and discharge planning for children ages 0-5 of the clinic
• Carrying patient caseload as assigned
• Attending and participating in monthly case consultation, Grand Rounds, business meetings, and other meetings as required
• Compliance with clinic documentation standards
• Compliance with relevant statutes, licensing board rules, and codes of ethics

Job Requirements

The most successful candidates will evidence a track record of service as an interventionist with a high degree of professional activity within the field. The position requirements include but are not limited to:

• A master’s or doctoral degree in a mental health profession from an accredited academic program
• Full, independent, unrestricted licensure as a mental health professional in Minnesota (LMFT, LICSW, or LPCC). LPs should consider the Staff Psychologist role. Pre-licensed therapists such as LGSWs, NCC counselors, or LAMFTs should consider the practice’s Post-Master’s Fellowship position instead.
• DC:0–5 competence
• Exposure to models like Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), TF-CBT, PCIT, Floortime, Circle of Security, or Developmental Repair strongly preferred
• At least 2 years providing clinical supervision (preferred)
• Formal training in child, couples, or family therapy (preferred)

Benefits

Full-time, independently licensed clinicians enjoy a robust benefits package that includes:

• Student Loan Repayment
• Paid Burnout Time
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave regardless of gender
• Annual CEU allowance
• A 401k with 401k matching
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid service/volunteer time
• Paid continuing education release days
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Professional development assistance
• Healthcare Savings Account
• Mileage Reimbursement
• Hybrid options
• Case consultation w/ CEUs
• Did we mention student loan repayment, paid burnout time, and paid parenting leave?!

As an active training clinic, most clinicians at Lorenz earn about 100 hours per year of board-approved continuing education just from showing up to work. The clinic hosts an annual conference, monthly grand rounds, and four hours per month of case consultation with a specialist.

Above all, adding Lorenz Clinic to your resume is a distinctive badge of professionalism and quality recognized the region over. For the past decade and a half, Lorenz has been known as the psychotherapist’s clinic– one of the few practices many clinicians would entrust with their career or in many cases, their own family.

For an unabridged job description or more information about our benefits including student loan repayment program, please contact human resources.

Compensation

The compensation hiring range for this role is $75,000 - $106,250 per year, which is dependent on candidate qualifications, program fit, chosen caseload, and competencies. This is a full-time, except, W2 role. Lorenz does not host independent contractors because we eschew gimmicky compensation schemes and prefer to just take care of our people with solid salaries and benefits.

Individual & Cultural Diversity

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. We view Individual & Cultural Diversity as a professional competency area that applies to all professionals, one that requires specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Candidates who independently monitor and apply knowledge of self and others as a cultural beings in assessment, treatment, and consultation are especially encouraged to apply.

Clinicians might find this posting beneficial if looking for positions using following search terms: mental health therapist, mental health, therapist, LPCC, Pre-licensed therapist, LICSW, therapist mental health, LGSW, LMFT, counselor, psychotherapist, trauma therapist, family therapist, child therapist, children's mental health, clinical supervisor, outpatient psychotherapist, outpatient psychology. Again, Licensed Psychologists should consider the Staff Psychologist role posted separately by Lorenz. Pre-licensed therapists such as Licensed Graduate Social Workers (LGSW), Nationally Certified Counselors (NCC), or Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapists (LAMFT) should consider the practice’s Post-Master’s Fellowship position instead.