Resilience In Healthcare

What Resilience In Healthcare does

Resilience In Healthcare (RIH) is a Palo Alto-based private professional services firm founded by Christophe Gimmler, MD, LMFT, that delivers resilience training, peer support processes, and coaching to physicians and healthcare organizations. The company serves three primary customer segments: individual physicians and medical providers, nurses and advanced practice providers, and institutional buyers such as hospitals, academic medical centers, residency programs, and government health systems. Named clients include Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Internal Medicine Residency, the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, The Permanente Medical Group, UCSF, Sutter CPMC, Oregon State University veterinary college, the Navajo Nation Indian Health Service, and SW Colorado AHEC, indicating reach across academic, federal, integrated delivery, and rural/underserved settings.

RIH's core offering is built around a 10-module modular resilience curriculum covering intrapersonal skills (emotion regulation, stress management), interpersonal dynamics (conflict navigation, boundary setting), and career-long growth (feedback, self-criticism management). This curriculum is delivered alongside structured Balint group facilitation (in-person in the San Francisco Bay Area and virtually nationally), a peer-to-peer support training series, and individual physician coaching plus deeper therapeutic support. The underlying methodology integrates psychotherapy frameworks, coaching tools, mindfulness principles, and relational medicine, packaged into a curriculum originally developed by the founder over a decade of clinical, Balint leadership, and psychotherapy practice.

The business model is professional services revenue: institutions contract for curriculum delivery, group facilitation, and training programs; individuals purchase one-on-one coaching and therapeutic support. No pricing is publicly disclosed, no software or licensing product is sold, no patents or trademarks are filed, no external funding has been raised, and there are no disclosed partnerships. RIH operates with 1-10 employees, distributes through a Squarespace-hosted website with email newsletter capture, and relies on direct enterprise field sales combined with content marketing for inbound demand. The company is founder-led with Christophe Gimmler as Creator and Founder, Teja Patil, MD, MPH as Co-founder, and Matt Cordova, PhD on the team.

Name

Resilience In Healthcare

Legal name

Resilience In Healthcare

Website

https://resilienceinhealthcare.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Resilience In Healthcare is a Palo Alto-based professional services firm delivering modular resilience training, Balint group facilitation, peer support training, and physician coaching to physicians, nurses, and healthcare organizations across the U.S.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Workforce Resilience Training

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Mindfulness, Stress Management & Resilience Training (EDAMAIAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mental Wellness & Resilience Education (Non-clinical) (EDAAAHAK), Peer Support, Recovery Coaching & Sober Living Services (HLAFACAN)

Keywords

• Physician resilience training
• Healthcare coaching services
• Peer support programs
• Balint group facilitation
• Clinician wellbeing programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Resilience Curriculum Training: Institutional training programs delivered to healthcare organizations, teaching cognitive, emotional, and relational skills for burnout prevention and wellbeing
2. Balint Group Facilitation: Ongoing facilitation of Balint groups for healthcare practices, both in-person and virtual, to support provider wellbeing and community
3. Individual Physician Coaching: One-on-one coaching services for physicians seeking personal and professional growth, burnout prevention, and career development support

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Resilience In Healthcare delivers resilience training curricula, structured peer-to-peer support processes, facilitated Balint groups, one-on-one physician coaching, and therapeutic support services designed to address burnout and promote wellbeing among healthcare professionals in hospitals, academic medical centers, residency programs, and federal (VA) health systems.

Product overview

Resilience In Healthcare offers a multi-modal integrated resilience training platform for healthcare providers and systems. The core offering consists of three service pillars: (1) Professional Resilience Curriculum — a 10-module training program covering foundational intrapersonal skills, interpersonal dynamics, and career-long growth; (2) Group Processes — including Balint Groups for relationship-centered case discussions and Peer-to-Peer Support training for peer mentors; and (3) Individual Coaching — featuring Physician Coaching for personal and professional development and Therapeutic Support for deeper psychotherapeutic needs. Together, these services address physician burnout prevention through cognitive, emotional, and relational skill development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Professional Resilience Curriculum
• Balint Groups
• Peer-to-Peer Support
• Physician Coaching
• Therapeutic Support

Quantifiable outcome

• RCT published in JAMA 2019 showed physicians who underwent 6 sessions of professional coaching experienced less burnout symptoms, less emotional exhaustion, better quality of life, and higher resilience scores

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Spring Health: Spring Health sells mental health benefits including coaching, therapy, and digital resilience tools to employers. Its healthcare-employer segment competes with RIH for institutional wellness spending.
• Whil: Whil (formerly Whil Concepts) sells digital mindfulness, stress management, and resilience training to employers, with healthcare as a key vertical. It competes with RIH's mindfulness and resilience training modules at the institutional buyer level.
• Modern Health: Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform combining self-guided digital content, 1:1 coaching, and therapy, with explicit healthcare-worker offerings. It targets the same employer and health-system buyers as RIH and competes on the coaching and resilience pillar.
• Headspace: Headspace offers mindfulness, meditation, and resilience content as an employee benefit with a dedicated healthcare-worker segment (Headspace for Healthcare). It competes directly with RIH for healthcare system wellness budgets via a more scalable digital delivery model.
• Lyra Health: Lyra Health provides mental health benefits including coaching and therapy to large employers including health systems. Its coaching and resilience offerings overlap with RIH's physician coaching services for healthcare workers.
• Calm Health: Calm Business and Calm Health offer mindfulness and resilience content including programs targeting healthcare workers. It competes with RIH's stress management and resilience curriculum through a scalable digital platform.
• BetterUp: BetterUp provides 1:1 professional coaching and resilience/mindfulness content to enterprise buyers including healthcare organizations. Its coaching pillar directly overlaps with RIH's Physician Coaching service.

Broad incumbents

• Ginger (Headspace Care): Ginger, now part of Headspace, provides on-demand mental health support including coaching and therapy to enterprise buyers with healthcare as a major vertical. It is a broader incumbent offering behavioral health at scale rather than RIH's niche physician-resilience focus.

Emerging players

• SonderMind: SonderMind provides therapist and prescriber matching with growing offerings for healthcare workforce mental health. Its narrower focus on clinical therapy overlaps with RIH's Therapeutic Support service rather than its training/coaching core.

Others

• American Balint Society: The American Balint Society is the credentialing and training body for Balint group facilitators in the US. RIH's Balint Group facilitation draws on training from this organization; the Society is more of an enabling/training ecosystem player than a commercial competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/resilience-in-healthcare

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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