Leadership Team

Director, Outpatient Services

Jessica Lavender is ITP's director of outpatient services and Embrace Health. She works closely with our hospital and clinic partners to ensure their behavioral health programs have the provider support they need.

Jessica is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee with 17 years of clinical and administrative behavioral health experience. Before joining PMC, Jessica served as the director of partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient services at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. Prior to that role, she was the manager of integrated behavioral health care with Ascension Care Management. She holds an MS in Counseling Psychology from Lipscomb University, and a BS in Communications from Middle Tennessee State University.