Therapy for first responders & helping professionals.
Nurses, medics, police officers, firefighters, therapists, teachers — the helping professionals and first responders who carry everyone else. The work leaves marks. You're allowed to put it down here — confidentially, without performance, without a clipboard.
Asking for help is hard — especially when you're the helper.
Asking for help is hard for many of us; but asking for help when you're considered a helper yourself can feel close to impossible. First responders and helping professionals often feel it's their responsibility to support others — and to know how to support themselves. The difficulty with that idea is simple: none of us, not even therapists, can do therapy on ourselves.
It's important to seek support as a way to manage the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that come with being the rescuer — the one holding emotional space for everyone else.
Who I've had the honor of serving
- Police officers
- Therapists and clinicians
- Nurses
- Veterans
- Firefighters
- Teachers
- Active-duty military
I've supported these folks through prior outpatient practice, working in an outpatient clinic on a military base, and providing care to first responders and helping professionals at a substance-abuse residential rehab facility.
What we work with
Whether it's trauma symptoms — relational, combat, birth, abuse, or neglect — relationship difficulties, struggles managing thoughts, emotions, or unhealthy coping behaviors, or issues tied to self-worth and shame, I'm committed to supporting you through your healing and recovery.
- Cumulative trauma and moral injury — the calls, cases, and decisions that don't leave
- Hyper-vigilance that won't downshift off-duty
- Sleep that's wrong: too little, too restless, dreams that won't quit
- Anger, numbness, or distance from the people you love most
- The grief of losing the version of yourself you started this work as
- Compassion fatigue and the slow erosion of why you got into it
How I work with it
I don't need you to translate the basics. We can talk about the call, the unit, the patient, the family — without a vocabulary lesson first. I'll meet you in the dry humor and the dark moments equally, because both are part of how you survived.
We build a confidential, paced container — no performance, no productivity — and work with the actual nervous-system reality of your job: how to come down, how to stay in your body, how to be a person off-duty without the armor falling apart.
What to expect
Sessions are 50–55 minutes, weekly or biweekly, in person at the Temecula office or via secure telehealth. Confidentiality is the floor. I'm not affiliated with any department, hospital, or EAP — you get to be a person here, not a role.