First Responders & High Impact Roles
For the people who run
toward the danger.
You show up for everyone else’s worst day. This is the place to process yours.
The armor keeps you safe at work, but it is crushing you at home.
You have learned to shut down your emotions to do your job. It is a necessary survival skill when you are dealing with trauma, death, and crisis every shift. The problem is that the “off” switch gets stuck.
Therapy here is not about making you “soft” or taking away your edge. It is about cleaning out the accumulation of stress so you can actually sleep, relax, and connect with your family when the shift ends.
The Uniform
Police, Fire, Corrections, EMS: You deal with the darker side of human nature. You are hypervigilant, scanning every room you walk into. You feel like civilians just don’t get it.
High Stakes Medical & Military
ER, ICU, Military, Crisis Work: You make life-or-death decisions on zero sleep. You carry the “moral injury” of working in broken systems where you can’t save everyone.
The Warning Lights
You keep it together perfectly at work, but you explode at home over small things. Spilled milk or a loud TV sends you from 0 to 100 instantly.
You feel like a zombie with your family. You know you *should* feel joy or sadness, but everything feels gray and distant.
Certain calls or faces won’t leave you alone. You see them when you close your eyes or when you are trying to sleep.
You can’t sit with your back to a door. You are constantly assessing threats in grocery stores and restaurants. You never truly rest.
The Physiology of the Shift
(Why you stay “Up” on duty and “Crash” at home)
You aren’t broken. Your body is stuck in a biological rollercoaster. You dump adrenaline to handle the shift (Hyper-Arousal), and when you get home, your body forces a crash to recover (Hypo-Arousal/Numbness). We help you flatten this curve so you can live in the middle again.
The Approach
Confidentiality First
I am a private therapist. I am not the department, I am not the board, and I am not your supervisor. Unless there is an imminent safety risk, what you say here stays here.
No Shock Value
You do not need to sanitize your language or your stories. I have heard the dark stuff. You can speak freely without worrying about traumatizing me.
Biological Focus
This isn’t just about “talking about feelings.” We deal with the adrenaline dump, the cortisol, and the nervous system injury. We use tools like EMDR to physically process the stress.
You don’t have to carry it all.
We can help you find your “off” switch again.
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