A step backwards - Psychiatrist LifeStance Health Employee Review

3.0
17 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay, benefits, work/life balance, clinical diversity, freedom

Cons

Very poorly organized place. Patients leave left and right because they’re not getting callbacks from anyone including billing, scheduling etc. So you keep doing intakes indefinitely. There is no functioning internal referral system which is unacceptable at a company this size. Too much greed buying up practices and not enough expertise/strategy to avoid very significant and painful growing pains. Admin is largely underpaid and incompetent. Since pay is solely fee for service with no base, these issues directly affect your paycheck. This model will only work for you if you are super productive and can see 2 intakes/4-5 follow-ups an hour. Otherwise you will be underpaid. There is absolutely nothing innovative or proprietary about how they provide mental health care - In fact to us it was a step backwards from our practice. Also, Corp Dev will make sure they word your contract in a way that’s going to work for them not you long term.

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Cons

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LifeStance Health Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave this review, and for being a part of the LifeStance Health journey! It's an exciting time for our team. We’re thankful for all your hard work to make lives better, together.
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Pros

Incredible place to work to build experience, receive supervision while supporting a diverse client population. Extremely flexible hours, opportunity to either work from home or in office with administrative staff. Truly caring, intentional, experienced regional leaders that are open to feedback and value their employees.

Cons

Working in mental health in a publicly held corporation has its conflicts of interest. No paid vacation time for FT employees which is counterintuitive to the work we do as trauma informed providers. No paid training. Profitability and bottom-line results for shareholders should not be reason to think of long term needs and burnout potential of providers.

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LifeStance Health Response
1w
Thank you for sharing your experience at LifeStance Health. We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback and are actively working to implement these suggestions. We invite you to share more details of your experience to help us do better in the future—please reach out to globalrecruiting@lifestance.com. Thank you.
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