Director, Clinical Supervision & Practice Development

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Director, Clinical Supervision & Practice Development is responsible for advancing enterprise clinical supervision models, clinician competency frameworks, and practice development strategies that support consistent, high-quality clinical care across LifeStance. This role develops scalable supervision standards, supervisor training pathways, and outcomes-informed development practices by partnering with Clinical Practice, Measurement-Based Care, Clinical Operations, Learning & Development, Research, and clinical leadership. Success looks like enterprise-wide adoption of effective supervision practices, strengthened clinician capability, improved fidelity to evidence-based care, and measurable improvement in clinical quality, consistency, and patient outcomes.

Consistent with LifeStance’s values, every member of the LifeStance team is expected to support each other and the mission, which may mean participating in projects and initiatives and performing functions and responsibilities not specifically outlined in this job description. Leaders at LifeStance are expected to foster a commitment to the organization’s values.

Consistent with LifeStance’s values, every member of the LifeStance team is expected to support each other and the mission, which may mean participating in projects and initiatives and performing functions and responsibilities not specifically outlined in this job description.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES 

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by employees in this job. Employees may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Clinical Supervision & Competency Leadership

• Develop and operationalize enterprise clinical supervision standards, models, and expectations to support consistent and effective supervision across the organization.

• Establish clinician competency expectations and performance development pathways that support clinician growth, evidence-based practice, and high-quality patient care.

• Integrate measurement-based care, outcomes data, and quality insights into supervision practices to identify performance gaps, guide clinician development, and support continuous improvement.

• Partner with Clinical Practice, Measurement-Based Care, Clinical Operations, and clinical leadership to translate clinical standards and outcomes insights into meaningful improvements in clinician performance.

• Advance supervision approaches for specialty populations, programs, and emerging therapies to ensure effective application of required clinical skills and competencies in practice.

Education, Training & Professional Development

• Partner with Learning & Development to design scalable supervisor training, coaching, assessment, and certification pathways aligned to enterprise supervision and competency expectations.

• Support the development of training, education, implementation, and certification resources related to evidence-based practice, specialty care, outcomes-informed treatment, and therapeutic competency development.

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

• Support leadership development initiatives that strengthen clinical supervision, clinical excellence, and organizational performance.

Practice Development, Research & Thought Leadership

• Collaborate with Research teams to support outcomes studies, publications, presentations, and other scholarly activities that advance understanding of treatment effectiveness and supervision impact.

• Partner with Information Technology, Clinical Operations, and external partners to evaluate emerging therapeutic models and innovative tools that enhance clinical capability, therapeutic fidelity, and clinical insight.

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

• Contribute to enterprise practice development strategies that support LifeStance’s clinical excellence, measurement-based care, clinician development, and value-based care readiness goals.

REQUIREMENTS

Scope / Decision-Making / Impact

This role influences enterprise clinical supervision standards, clinician competency expectations, supervisor development pathways, and outcomes-informed practice improvement strategies across a large, multi-state outpatient behavioral health organization. The role is expected to make recommendations regarding supervision models, competency frameworks, training priorities, clinical development resources, and performance improvement approaches. Decisions involving enterprise risk, material operational change, budget commitments, or policy-level implications are escalated to senior leadership as appropriate.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This role may directly supervise team members, contractors, or matrixed contributors as the clinical supervision and practice development function evolves. If the role does not initially have direct reports, it is still expected to provide leadership, coaching, and direction to cross-functional partners and contributors supporting supervision, training, and practice development initiatives.

Required Qualifications & Skills

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

• Active professional license in good standing, as applicable to the candidate’s discipline and the work performed.

• 7–10+ years of experience in clinical supervision, clinical training, therapist development, clinical leadership, psychotherapy practice standards, or related behavioral health leadership roles.

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

• Experience developing, implementing, or scaling clinical supervision models, competency frameworks, professional development programs, or supervisor training pathways.

• Strong ability to translate clinical evidence, outcomes data, measurement-based care insights, and best practices into scalable supervision standards, training resources, and clinician development strategies.

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

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with clinical, operational, executive, and external audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across matrixed teams and influence stakeholders without direct authority.

Essential Competencies

• Expertise in competency-based education, clinical supervision models, clinician development, and performance improvement.

• Strong understanding of evidence-based psychotherapy, fidelity to therapeutic models, supervision best practices, and outcomes-informed care.

• Ability to use measurement-based care and performance data to identify development needs, guide supervision priorities, and support continuous improvement.

• Strong coaching, mentorship, consultation, and leadership development skills.

• Systems thinker with the ability to scale supervision and clinician development practices across a large, complex organization.

• Skilled in driving adoption, behavior change, and practice improvement across clinical teams.

• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to contribute to publications, presentations, clinical resources, and executive-ready materials.

• High standards for clinical quality, patient safety, ethics, equity, privacy, and compliance.

• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States

• LifeStance is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

• Demonstrates awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience in working with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other various aspects of culture.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

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

• Experience integrating measurement-based care, outcomes data, or quality metrics into clinical supervision or clinician development practices.

• Familiarity with implementation science, behavior change frameworks, quality improvement methods, or care model implementation.

• Experience developing supervisor training, clinical certification, competency assessment, or professional development programs.

• Experience contributing to research, publications, professional presentations, clinical thought leadership, or external-facing clinical excellence initiatives.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, bend, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk. The employee must be able to lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

• This role is primarily performed in a remote office or similar indoor environment, requiring reliable internet access and a quiet, distraction-free, dedicated workspace appropriate for confidential work. Work involves extended periods of sitting, frequent computer use, audio/video calls, meetings, writing, content review, data review, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

• Travel may be required periodically for enterprise meetings, clinical leadership discussions, conferences, implementation activities, or operational engagement.