Senior Director, Clinical Practice – Therapeutic Standards

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Enhance clinical practice standards, therapeutic competency frameworks, and evidence-based care strategies across LifeStance service lines.

• Establish and continuously refine enterprise therapy frameworks and clinical practice standards.

• Create and uphold clinician competency frameworks across various therapeutic modalities, specialties, and care models.

• Promote the adoption of evidence-based practices through standardized resources, training, implementation support, and alignment with clinical leadership.

• Utilize research, outcomes data, measurement-based care insights, and performance metrics to uncover opportunities for care improvement and minimize variability.

• Assist in the development of training, education, implementation, and certification resources.

• Collaborate with Learning & Development to create scalable onboarding, continuing education, and advanced learning pathways.

• Encourage professional growth through advanced learning opportunities, consultation, and mentorship for clinical leaders.

• Aid in leadership development initiatives.

• Work alongside Research on outcomes studies, publications, presentations, and scholarly activities.

• Partner with Information Technology and external collaborators to assess emerging therapeutic models and innovative tools.

• Act as a clinical thought leader through participation in conferences, speaking engagements, industry collaborations, and external partnerships.

• Set enterprise-level standards and frameworks across service lines, specialties, and care models.

• Provide recommendations regarding clinical practice standards, therapeutic competency expectations, training priorities, and implementation strategies.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure that standards are practical, scalable, evidence-informed, and in alignment with workflows and organizational priorities.

• Lead or mentor project teams, clinical workgroups, consultants, or matrixed collaborators as assigned.

• Travel occasionally for enterprise meetings, clinical leadership discussions, conferences, implementation activities, or operational engagement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Advanced clinical degree, such as Clinical Psychology PhD, PsyD, or equivalent clinical training and experience.

• 8–10+ years of experience in clinical leadership, clinical training, supervision, psychotherapy practice standards, program development, or related behavioral health leadership roles.

• Proficiency in evidence-based psychotherapy modalities, such as CBT, DBT, trauma-informed care, exposure-based treatments, or other evidence-based therapeutic approaches.

• Experience in designing, implementing, or scaling clinical training, competency, certification, or professional development programs.

• Capability to translate clinical evidence, outcomes data, and best practices into scalable practice standards, clinical resources, and training frameworks.

• Experience collaborating with clinical operations or cross-functional teams to support the implementation of care models, clinical standards, or practice improvement initiatives.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, operational, executive, and external audiences.

• Ability to work collaboratively across matrixed teams and influence stakeholders without direct authority.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds.

• Experience in a large, multi-site, multi-state behavioral health, outpatient mental health, or healthcare delivery organization is preferred.

• Familiarity with measurement-based care, outcomes data, fidelity monitoring, or quality improvement initiatives is preferred.

• Knowledge of implementation science, behavior change frameworks, or clinical adoption strategies is preferred.

• Experience in supporting scholarly activities, publications, conference presentations, or external thought leadership is preferred.

• Experience in developing or mentoring clinical leaders, supervisors, or advanced practice communities is preferred.

• Reliable internet access and a quiet, distraction-free, dedicated workspace suitable for confidential work.

• Ability to lift and/or move objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

• Capability to perform physical tasks, including sitting, standing, bending, walking, talking, and hearing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• AD&D insurance.

• Short-term disability insurance.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401k retirement savings with employer match.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid time off.

• Holiday pay.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Bonus potential.

• Equity potential.

• Reasonable accommodation for disabilities.