Therapy for first responders

Police officers, paramedics, firefighters, dispatchers, ER staff. The job rewires people,

and the things it asks you to compartmentalize don't always stay compartmentalized.

If you're here, you probably already know what's not working. The hypervigilance that

doesn't turn off when you're home. The sleep that won't come, or won't stay. The

drinking. The distance from your partner. The calls you can't shake. The one call you

really can't shake.

EMDR is one of the better-suited modalities for the kind of accumulated and acute

• trauma exposure that comes with the job, for a few reasons:
• You don't have to retell every call in detail. EMDR processes the material without
• requiring full narrative recall.
• It's targeted and time-limited. We work on specific events or patterns and finish
• them.
• There's a clear protocol, clear goals, and you can see your own progress.

I'm a private-pay-friendly practice for first responders, which means we can keep your

therapy off your department insurance entirely if that's what you want. No diagnosis on

file with your employer. No notes anywhere they can be subpoenaed in the ordinary

course. (I'll explain the actual limits of confidentiality in our consultation — there are

some, and I'll be straightforward about them).