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.

Tamara Haynes, LPC

I’m a Therapist: Here’s Why Healthcare Workers Make Strong Therapy Clients

There’s an awful adage that says “doctors make the worst patients.” We sat down with someone who knows whether that’s true—Tamara Haynes, a Licensed Practicing Counselor who regularly provides therapy to healthcare professionals. Here’s what Tamara had to say about working with healthcare professionals as therapy clients.

Three Common Relationship Stressors for Healthcare Workers (and How Therapy Can Help)

It’s no secret that people often come to therapy to improve relationships. Whether it’s frustrations with family, spats with spouses, or conflict with coworkers, relationship problems can have a major impact on an individual’s well-being.

What Exactly Is “Solution-Focused” Therapy?

It sounds ideal, right? You have a problem, and your therapist has the solution. Get in. Get out. Get on with your life.