Brief Intervention Clinic Manager

Description

Lorenz Clinic is seeking a Clinical Manager to lead the Brief Intervention Clinic (BIC)—a new, carefully contained service line designed to meet the growing demand for short-term, structured counseling while preserving the integrity of our psychotherapy core.

The BIC is not a diluted version of our psychotherapy model. It’s a complementary offering built with clarity, boundaries, and fidelity in mind. It provides structured, solution-focused support for clients experiencing situational stress, adjustment challenges, or early-stage concerns without venturing into the depth-oriented work that remains at the heart of Lorenz.

Counselors in the BIC use structured, evidence-based models like Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and psychoeducation to deliver time-limited care. This is a program for clients who need focus, structure, and goal clarity and for counselors who thrive in that rhythm.

This is an opportunity to lead a team that practices within a well-defined scope, where you’ll steward both the tone and the boundaries that keep the BIC true to its purpose. You’ll oversee operations, supervise a small team of counselors, and ensure that the program aligns with Lorenz’s system-wide commitment to quality, containment, and reflective practice.

If you’re the kind of leader who sees containment as an act of clinical excellence and who’s excited to help bridge clients to the right level of care without compromising your team’s scope, this is the role for you.

About Lorenz Clinic
Lorenz Clinic is a clinician-led family psychology institute committed to relational depth, reflective practice, and systems-informed care. Our core mission is—and will always be—psychotherapy. To compliment that, the BIC is a thoughtful expansion of our services, designed to house cases that don’t belong in depth work but still deserve high-quality care. By keeping this work separate, we protect the identity of our core programs and provide sustainable clinical paths for a different kind of counselor.

About the Role
As Clinical Manager, you’ll lead the BIC team in delivering short-term, structured counseling using models like SFBT, MI, Brief CBT, and psychoeducation. You’ll ensure fidelity to program scope, manage day-to-day operations, and hold the line on clinical boundaries. This is not a psychotherapy supervision role; it’s a counseling leadership position that ensures clarity, tone, and system alignment.

You’ll collaborate closely with Intake and adjacent programs to manage referrals and transitions, keeping the BIC true to its mandate while reinforcing the integrity of our psychotherapy services. The role reports to the Director of Psychological Services.

How This Role Is Different
Unlike typical therapy manager roles, this position is designed to steward a contained, scope-bound department. You won’t be developing clinicians into psychotherapists here. You’ll be supporting them in delivering structured, time-limited care with fidelity. And unlike broader administrative roles, you’ll be the tone-holder and gatekeeper of the BIC’s identity—ensuring that what belongs in the BIC stays in the BIC, and what belongs in psychotherapy is properly referred.

Why You Might Be Drawn to This Role
This is a rare leadership opportunity for someone who sees containment as a clinical act and boundaries as a gift to both staff and clients. If you’re energized by clarity rather than chaos and want to help shape a counseling service line that is both sustainable and aligned with a broader psychotherapy system, this role offers the chance to build, steward, and protect. You’ll lead with integrity in a space where scope is defined, support is real, and every session serves a clear purpose. At Lorenz, we believe that structured counseling deserves as much dignity and rigor as depth therapy, and that’s exactly what this role is about.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise the BIC team with a focus on program fidelity, tone, and scope
• Coordinate with Intake to ensure proper case assignment
• Maintain clear boundaries between the BIC and psychotherapy service lines
• Monitor caseloads, documentation, and throughput targets
• Facilitate reflective consultation within the BIC team
• Collaborate with leadership to refine processes and operational supports

What Makes a Good Fit

• Deep respect for the distinction between counseling and psychotherapy and a commitment to protecting both
• Clinical leadership experience in time-limited or structured care models
• Strong knowledge of models such as SFBT, MI, Brief CBT, and psychoeducation
• Clarity in holding scope while supporting staff growth
• Operational competence: scheduling, documentation, throughput management
• Alignment with Lorenz’s core identity and commitment to clinical excellence

This is an in-person role because leadership is an act of presence, and containment, belonging, and developmental growth require embodied relationships that virtual platforms cannot replicate. In a system committed to relational health and reflective practice, physical presence is the vessel that carries our systemic ethic and ensures that clinicians—and the system itself—are properly held.

Requirements

Either:

A) the equivalent of one year of experience as a Mental Health Professional at Lorenz Clinic with a proven track record of leadership and exceeding position requirements or

B) at least five years of post-licensure experience as a Mental Health Professional providing clinical services, of which one year must have been in a management or supervisory capacity equivalent to that of a Clinical Manager in an outpatient program.

And:

• Familiarity and competence with short-term models (SFBT, MI, Brief CBT, etc.)
• Board-approved supervisor or eligible to become board-approved
• Possession of a master’s or doctoral degree from an accredited school of marriage and family therapy, social work, psychology, professional counseling, or related field
• Possession of a valid, independent clinical license (LP, LMFT, LICSW, LPCC) in the state of Minnesota 
• Proven track record of directing programs and/or managing clinicians for effectiveness, productivity, and high ethical standards
• Cooperative work attitude toward management facility staff, patients, visitors, and clinicians
• Ability to promote favorable facility image with clinicians, patients, insurance companies, referral sources, and general public
• Ability to lead clinical staff in making ethically- and clinically- appropriate decisions and solve problems

Other Requirements

• Evidence of leadership qualities
• Strong ethical and moral character references
• Language skills adequate for high-level written, interpersonal, and telephone communication in American English
• Computer literacy
• Ability to work full-time, in-person (our leaders are in the clinic, not on Zoom)
• Strong ethical and moral character references
• Competent in psychological consultation and supervision
• Possesses a National Provider Identifier (NPI) prior to first day of employment
• Approval for Medicare participation within 180 days of hire, if Medicare participation is allowed for license type

Benefits

Full-time, independently licensed clinicians enjoy a robust benefits package that includes paid burnout time, twelve weeks of paid parenting leave regardless of gender, and an annual CEU allowance. Employer-sponsored health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance are also available. A 401k with 401k matching is available. Paid time off, paid holidays, paid service/volunteer time, paid continuing education hours, paid parental leave, an employee assistance program, a flexible schedule, and professional development assistance in the way of an annual continuing education allowance round out the offering. 

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 field 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, please contact human resources.  The role is posted in Minneapolis for visibility.  Lorenz doesn't have a clinic in Minneapolis proper, rather the role will be housed at one of Lorenz's suburban clinic locations. 

Compensation

The hiring range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 annually, depending on experience, credentials, breadth of clinical competence, and clinical program. The hiring range for master's-prepared clinicians is $80,000 - $95,000, and the hiring range for doctorally-prepared psychologists is $95,000 - $120,000.

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.  

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