Boutique healthcare search · Austin, TX
We help healthcare organizations make exceptional executive, clinical leadership, and provider hires, led by a recruiter who has built clinical talent functions from the ground up.
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Results are self-reported by Marissa Creamer from current and prior in-house roles. Cypress Talent Advisory is an independent firm and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any organization named on this site.
Search
Senior, hard-to-fill, and high-volume clinical searches run by someone who has owned the hiring outcome from the inside: sourcing, interview rigor, candidate experience, and closing.
Medical Directors, Directors of Operations, and the corporate and clinical leaders who set the direction of a growing care organization.
The people leaders who make clinicians stay: medical directors, clinical operations heads, and the leaders who open new markets.
Individual providers and full clinic teams across primary care, pediatrics, behavioral health, telehealth, and hybrid models.
Track record
Four high-growth healthcare organizations, each with a different care model and a different hiring problem. The pattern is the same: structure first, then speed.
Value-based pediatric care for medically complex Medicaid patients; expanded from Texas into FL, DC, NC, MO, GA and NY. Team grew from 20 to 500+.
Virtual and in-home value-based care for substance use and mental health, across 7 states.
Global digital health company. First U.S.-based talent acquisition hire.
Outpatient substance use disorder treatment, private-equity backed, growing from 5 to 15 locations.
Earlier career in healthcare staffing and recruiting: Headwaters Healthcare, Addison Group, and Barton Associates, 2015 – 2018.
How a search runs
Strong hiring comes from structure, not gut feel. Every search is built on the same disciplined loop.
Align with clinical operations, finance, and leadership on the role, the market, and what a great hire looks like before outreach begins.
Direct, targeted outreach to passive and active candidates, grounded in real market and compensation data.
Structured interviews and scorecards that improve decision quality and keep every candidate's experience consistent.
Offers shaped around what candidates care about, with brand alignment and communication that protect acceptance rates.
Talent advisory
Beyond search, Marissa works with healthcare leadership teams by the hour to build, fix, or scale how they hire. Engagements are scoped on a call and billed hourly.
Talk through your needsStand up recruiting from zero: process, tooling, scorecards, reporting, and team structure.
Train hiring managers to interview consistently and make better, faster decisions.
Turn growth plans into hiring forecasts, priorities, and a recruiting plan for each new market.
Senior recruiting leadership on demand while you hire a permanent head of talent.
Founder
Marissa has spent over a decade building and leading clinical talent functions from the ground up across multistate, high-growth, PE and VC-backed healthcare organizations spanning brick and mortar, telehealth, and hybrid care models.
She has spoken on structured interviewing and candidate experience, and brings deep physician and APP recruitment expertise. Cypress Talent Advisory is the boutique she is building so healthcare organizations can get that depth without paying for agency overhead.
From Gut Feel to Greatness: Elevating Hiring Decisions Through Structured Interviewing
MGMA Capital City, March 2026
Closing With Confidence: How We Achieved a 95% Offer Acceptance Rate Through Brand Alignment and Candidate Experience
AAPPR National Conference, April 2026
Questions
Physicians, advanced practice providers (NPs and PAs), therapists and other clinicians, clinical leadership, and executive roles at healthcare organizations. Experience spans primary care, pediatrics, behavioral health and substance use treatment, telehealth, and hybrid care models.
You work directly with the recruiter who has run clinical hiring from the inside, not a rotating team. That means a clear view of what really drives acceptance, speed, and retention, without the overhead that comes with a large agency.
Yes. Marissa is based in Austin and has launched and staffed markets across many states, including multistate expansions in value-based and virtual care. Licensing and credentialing realities are part of how searches are planned.
You describe the problem, whether that is building a recruiting function, training interviewers, or planning hiring for a new market. Scope and an hourly arrangement are agreed on a call before any work starts.
No. Candidates are never charged a fee for any service from Cypress Talent Advisory.
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