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If you’re a first responder (such as police, EMT, firefighter, etc.), you regularly work in a high-stress environment to perform life-saving work. This puts you at a higher risk of developing mental and emotional issues, including depression and PTSD, necessitating professional therapy.

Therapists are a critical resource for first responders. Whether you are located in downtown San Francisco, Bayview, Chinatown, Civic Center, or even Fishermans Wharf, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Do You Need First Responder Counseling?

First responders often experience traumatic events that can leave a lasting effect on their mental health. Here are some signs that you could use counseling:

  • Recurring memories of a traumatic event, such as a shooting, arrest, fire, or critical incident.
  • Feeling anxious or stressed on a chronic basis.
  • Feeling sad on an ongoing basis without hope.
  • Loss of interest in things that you used to love.
  • Being easily agitated or emotionally reactive.
  • Feeling burned out or apathetic about your job.

If any of the above signs ring true to you, consider getting some help in the form of first responder counseling. For more help to figure out if counseling is right for you, read this article from licensed therapist Dana Carretta-Stein about signs of trauma common to first responders.

Get First Responder Therapy Today!

Mental Health Match can help you find a professional therapist who can help you cope with the demands of your job so you can feel great and continue to do your best work. On our platform, finding a licensed therapist is easier than you may think. Get started today by browsing experts below or by using our free therapist matching tool.

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Melis Alkin
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Adjusting to different stages and responsibilities, coping with emotions and past events or childhood of origin issues that continue to get triggered, changing relationships, increasing self-compassion, and meaning making of the past and present.


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Adjusting to different stages and responsibilities, coping with emotions and past events or childhood of origin issues that continue to get triggered, changing relationships, increasing self-compassion, and meaning making of the past and present.

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My approach is collaborative and my sessions are guided by your goals, concerns, and your readiness to make changes. I would like to learn about what made you seek therapy at this point in your life.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Bereavement
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Couples
  • Cultural Adjustment
  • Cultural Trauma
  • Depression
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Disenfranchised Grief
  • End of Life
  • Family Trauma
  • First Responders
  • Front Line Workers
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • Life Adjustment
  • Parental Burnout
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Toxic Work Environment
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Workplace Issues
  • Work Stress
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Lynn Northrop
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Help you live your one precious life with purpose and meaning, even when you are faced with big stressors, losses and pain (physical and emotional).


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Help you live your one precious life with purpose and meaning, even when you are faced with big stressors, losses and pain (physical and emotional).

Something to know about my approach is:

I've been a psychologist for 20+ years. Prior to 2023, I worked in hospitals - providing care & training hundreds of young professionals to do the same. I am proud to report that the folks I trained are my biggest referral source. They trust me.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Acute Grief
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Aging Parents
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Burnout
  • Caregivers
  • Caretakers
  • Chronic Stress
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Complicated Grief
  • Depression
  • Driving Anxiety
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Finding Meaning or Purpose
  • Gender Identity
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • Health Anxiety
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder
  • Job Loss
  • Job Stress
  • Loving Someone with a Mental Health Disorder
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Memory Loss
  • Menopause
  • Mind-Body Connection
  • Mindfulness
  • Moving and Relocation
  • New Job Transition
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Retirement
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Actualization
  • Self Care
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Esteem
  • Situational Grief
  • Situational Stress
  • Stress-Related Disorders
  • Suicide loss
  • Therapist for Other Therapists
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Work Stress
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Eric van der Voort
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Find ways for you to better manage stress and painful feelings, examine and challenge unhelpful thinking, explore new ways of experiencing pleasure, communicate more effectively, and enjoy better sex.


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Find ways for you to better manage stress and painful feelings, examine and challenge unhelpful thinking, explore new ways of experiencing pleasure, communicate more effectively, and enjoy better sex.

Something to know about my approach is:

I work with people in the kink, LGBTQIA+, and non-monogamous communities to address performance anxieties, desire discrepancies, use of sex/porn or substances, confusion about sexuality, relationship conflict, and communication issues.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Alcohol
  • Anxiety
  • Communication Skills
  • Compulsive Sexuality/Hypersexuality
  • Couples
  • Couples Sex Therapy
  • COVID-Related Stress and Anxiety
  • Engagement
  • Front Line Workers
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • Guilt
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Kink
  • Marriage
  • Pornography
  • Sex Addiction
  • Sex Anxiety
  • Sex Therapy
  • Sexual Health
  • Sexual Issues
  • Shame
  • Social Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Substance Use
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Gabrielle Azmy
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We'll give you skills to regulate your nervous system, identify what contributes to the things you struggle with, and how to teach you ways to respond to yourself with compassion and build a sense of agency to get you in touch with the life you want.


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We'll give you skills to regulate your nervous system, identify what contributes to the things you struggle with, and how to teach you ways to respond to yourself with compassion and build a sense of agency to get you in touch with the life you want.

Something to know about my approach is:

We're going to work to understand how trauma and stress are held in your body and mind, which means that we'll do more than just talk about things. We'll create a customized treatment plan and do depth oriented work to create lasting change.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Childhood Abuse or Neglect
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Chronic Stress
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complex Trauma
  • First Responders
  • Life Transitions
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • PTSD from Abuse
  • Rape and Sexual Assault
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Worth
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Veterans/Military Families
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Tina Avila
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work together to provide you with skills, confidence, and strengths to bring out the best version that's already within you.


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work together to provide you with skills, confidence, and strengths to bring out the best version that's already within you.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am a solution focused brief therapist who focuses on increasing hope, positive outcomes, desired change, empowering clients to be the best version of themselves despite experiencing problems or issues.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Complex Trauma
  • Depression
  • Front Line Workers
  • Grief
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Self-Esteem
  • Working Professionals
  • Workplace Issues
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