Regional Clinical Director

About this role

At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It’s a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.

Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!

LifeStance Health Values • Belonging: We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self.

• Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.

• Courage: We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.

• One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

Benefits As a full-time employee of LifeStance Health, the following benefits are offered: medical, dental, vision, AD&D, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. Additional benefits include a 401k retirement savings with employer match, paid parental leave, paid time off, holiday pay and an Employee Assistance Program.

The ideal candidate will be located within the Mid-Atlantic or Southeast region and in one of the follow states. • Region: Mid-Atlantic / Southeast

• States include: NY, NJ, DE, VA, NC, SC, MD, GA, FL, TN

Job Summary: The Regional Clinical Director is responsible for owning and driving psychotherapy clinical strategy implementation across a region(s) in partnership with their Operations VP Dyad. This role is responsible for driving regional clinical KPI performance, ensuring high-quality clinical care, regulatory compliance, clinician engagement, supervision standards, and successful implementation of national and regional clinical initiatives.

This function directly influences the clinical practice of hundreds of psychotherapy clinicians and impacts patient care delivery across multiple states. The Regional Clinical director plays a critical role in safeguarding clinical integrity, improving patient outcomes and advancing enterprises clinical excellence at scale. Serves as the senior clinical authority within the region for psychotherapy, partnering cross-functionally with operations, compliance, quality, and growth teams to define and standardize best practices, improve clinical outcomes, and develop high-performing clinical teams.

Duties/Responsibilities:   Clinical-Operational Dyad Accountability

In partnership with Regional VP of Operations, the Regional Clinical Director: • Co-own regional performance targets including access, engagement, retention, productivity, documentation quality, and patient experience.

• Accountable for psychotherapy practice standards, supervision frameworks, and quality of care, as set by National Clinical Director.

• Align clinical priorities with operational execution to drive sustainable performance improvement.

• Serve as the clinical escalation point for regional care quality, supervision, and risk concerns.

Clinical Strategy & Implementation • Lead implementation of enterprise psychotherapy clinical strategy across assigned states.

• Translate organizational clinical priorities into region-specific execution plans in partnership with the Ops VP.

• Ensure fidelity to evidence-based treatment models and standardization of clinical protocols.

• Identify clinical performance gaps and co-develop corrective action plans with operations leadership.

• Analyze regional performance data and develop action plans to improve clinical KPIs, engagement, and retention.

Clinical Leadership & Quality Oversight • Partner with Ops VPs, Ops Directors, and Clinical Directors to provide regional oversight of psychotherapy services, ensuring adherence to evidence-based practices and organizational standards of care.

• Provide support to Clinical Directors to oversee supervision structures (e.g., LCSW, LMFT, LPC, PsyD, PhD) to ensure compliance with state licensure laws and national regulatory requirements.

• Monitor clinical quality metrics, documentation standards, and client outcomes; implement corrective action plans when necessary.

• Partner with Clinical Directors and Supervisors to address escalations and clinical concerns from frontline clinicians.

• Ensure risk management protocols, ethical standards, and patient safety procedures are consistently followed across the region.

• Partner with Ops VPs and Regional Medical Director to drive measurable improvements in clinical outcomes, patient experience, and patient safety.

• Regularly monitors KPIs including access, engagement, retention, documentation quality, and outcomes; develops action plans to drive performance through Clinical Director teams.

• Supports Clinical Directors in ensuring compliance with state regulations, payer requirements, and accreditation standards.

Clinician Education & Engagement: • Partners with Operations Leadership and Clinical Directors to support new clinicians through provision of clinically focused regional onboarding training, promoting caseload ramp, and engaging in new employee orientation.

• Supports Clinical Directors in providing training, education and supervision of clinical staff based upon regional needs to uphold clinical best practices, updated policies and regulations and coding quality assurance.

• Meets regularly with Clinical Directors to solicit feedback, mentor, engage, and encourage continued professional development (e.g., educate on career progression paths, support clinical professional development/skill development, etc.).

• Partner with HR and Operations in talent calibration, succession planning and leadership development initiatives.

• Develop and mentor high-potential Clinical Directors to strengthen regional clinical leadership bench.

Culture & Change Management • Serve as a visible, engaged leader across the region, promoting a culture of accountability, collaboration, and clinical excellence.

• Act as a change managem

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