Marvin Behavioral Health: Blog

The Marvin Blog

Resources, perspectives, and updates from the Marvin team. We write for the healthcare workers, clinicians, and leaders navigating the real human side of this work: burnout, mental health, resilience, and what it actually takes to build a sustainable career in medicine.

Why provider fit matters in mental health care

For LGBTQ+ healthcare workers, people of color, first-generation professionals, international clinicians, and others whose identities may shape how they move through the workplace, fit can carry even more weight. It may matter whether a counselor understands identity, culture, family dynamics, discrimination, faith, language, or the subtle exhaustion of having to explain yourself before you can even begin.

Kristi Wollbrink, LMFT

Take Time To Look Up

One of my professors in graduate school gave us an assignment to take time in our week to look up and notice the treetops. It seemed like such a simple assignment. I remember thinking, “Is that all?” – little did I know how difficult yet effective this assignment would be!

A New National Model for Clinician Mental Health: Marvin Partners with SafeHaven

The mental health crisis among healthcare professionals is no longer something we can afford to ignore. Physicians, residents, nurses, and PAs continue to navigate staggering emotional demands often without the support they need or the privacy they deserve.

Four Mental Health Interventions for Male Healthcare Workers that Actually Work

In healthcare, those patterns often get written off as part of the job: long hours, high pressure, no time to process what you’re carrying. But irritability, anger, and emotional withdrawal are some of the most common signs of burnout and stress in men1.