-Low pay, high volume. You get paid on the amount of clients you see, Since compensation is low, you need to pump up those numbers. 34 clients in a week, 10 in a day sometimes. This is NOT how therapy works.
-I'm becoming increasingly concerns about the ethics of treatment in this place. Freshly licensed therapist are launched into full caseloads with little to no actual clinical supervision (and No, 30 mins spent on going over the EHR or thearpistaid.com worksheets it not supervision). This creates the potential for very harmful things to happen to both therapist and client here.
-The company leverages maximum financial liability on to the therapist. You get a sign on bonus that you'll need to pay back if you leave in under 3 years. Since you're only paid for the clients you see, they will advance money for the first 6 months, which means you actually go into debt (!!!) your first several months here.
-Benefits are threadbare. The location I work at is in a state that forced them to legally give us time off. Until them, we had unpaid time off. You don't get paid holidays off; the office is closed and you don't get paid.
- Prepare to be micromanaged into hell. Constant pings on Teams (did you see this client?! DID YOU CHANGE YOUR SCHEDULE), your schedule being monitored in real time, being messaged after hours and on weekends. Not only that, they have a Moonlighting Review Commitment. You are not allowed to use your clinical license for anything other than work at Lifestance, or you may be fired.
-Supervision is incredibly poor. Everything is focused on endless skills building and very rarely do therapist actually discuss and review cases. That would require a senior therapist, but no senior therapist would ever stick around here. The end result is either a seminar with no follow up about how it's working for the therapist or the first half of the supervision group is spent on reviewing company wide emails, policies, and the EHR.
