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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. Wherever you are located in New Jersey from Atlantic City to West New York or even Newark, or anywhere else nearby, 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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Jamie Salsberg
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Clients should expect growth through their own work, and the ability to address sometimes difficult situations and material in order to advance from the good work done through therapeutic gains. Be willing to be uncomfortable to create what you want.


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Clients should expect growth through their own work, and the ability to address sometimes difficult situations and material in order to advance from the good work done through therapeutic gains. Be willing to be uncomfortable to create what you want.

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I use a direct, and affirming approach in order to address forward thinking and support clients in working toward meeting their goals. While it is necessary and significant to address the past, it is also essential to be able to move into the future.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Adolescents
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Fertility challenges
  • First Responders
  • Infertility
  • Postpartum
  • Trauma
  • Veterans / Military Families
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Jamie Salsberg remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey
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Dr. Amanda Mead
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Evaluate what led you to the present, explore themes from your past, learn about patterns in your life you'd like to change, better understand relationships you have and how you'd like to improve them, help heal from past trauma to be your best self


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Evaluate what led you to the present, explore themes from your past, learn about patterns in your life you'd like to change, better understand relationships you have and how you'd like to improve them, help heal from past trauma to be your best self

Something to know about my approach is:

I can help you to uncover what's under the surface, accept you for who you are, foster hope. and help you heal from your past while managing the present. I have empathy for others and bring warmth and understanding to sessions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult child of emotionally immature parents
  • Aging Parents
  • Ancestral Trauma
  • Attachment Issues
  • Attachment Wounds
  • Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
  • Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Bariatric Surgery Evaluation
  • Bereavement
  • Betrayal Trauma
  • Career Change
  • Career Transitions
  • Children of Parents with Substance Use Disorders
  • Children whose parents have been diagnosed or passed from cancer
  • Combat Trauma
  • Complex Trauma
  • Cultural Trauma
  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • developmental trauma
  • Developmental Trauma Disorders
  • Early childhood trauma and its adult manifestations
  • Emotional abuse
  • Emotional Caretakers
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Emotional Exhaustion
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional Intimacy
  • Emotional regulation
  • Emotional Self Sufficiency
  • Emotional Wellness
  • Exploring Attachment Styles
  • Family trauma
  • financial trauma
  • Grief counseling
  • Habit Change
  • Healing from Relationships
  • Immigration evaluations
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Job Loss
  • Life changes
  • Life Transitions
  • Managing Change
  • Mother-daughter relationships
  • New Parent
  • parent/adult child relationships
  • Parental Burnout
  • Parental Child Communication
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Peer Relationships
  • Perfectionism
  • Pet Loss
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from abuse
  • Pregnancy Loss
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Relationship Coaching
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Counseling
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship issues
  • Relationship Patterns
  • Relationship problems
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Relationship Struggles
  • Relationship trauma
  • Religious Trauma
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Romantic Relationships
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Sibling Relationships
  • Suicide loss
  • transition from adolescence to adulthoood
  • Trauma
  • Trauma Recovery
  • Trauma Related Disorders
  • Trauma Resolution
  • Trauma Sensitive
  • Traumatic loss
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • War trauma
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Dr. Amanda Mead remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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Scott Levson
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Therapy is a space to feel grounded in which we will work to gain a non-judgmental perspective on your struggles and put our minds together to strategize ways forward.


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Therapy is a space to feel grounded in which we will work to gain a non-judgmental perspective on your struggles and put our minds together to strategize ways forward.

Something to know about my approach is:

I take a pragmatic and eclectic approach by integrating psychodynamic theories with evidence-based tools. I draw on treatments ranging from CBT, ACT, and CPT, tailoring treatment to your unique needs and experiences.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Career Stress
  • College Students
  • Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Depression
  • First Responders
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Job related issues/stress
  • Life Transitions
  • Medical Professionals
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Coaching
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship Exploration and Enhancement
  • Repetitive relational issues
  • Romantic Relationships
  • Social Anxiety
  • Trauma Recovery
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Scott Levson remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
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D. Leigh Geffken
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Together, we will find the issue/block that is troubling you as a whole person. We view wellbeing as a combination of the heart, mind and body.


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Together, we will:

Together, we will find the issue/block that is troubling you as a whole person. We view wellbeing as a combination of the heart, mind and body.

Something to know about my approach is:

I ask the question: what disrupts your connection with yourself and the world around you? Whether the cause for the disconnect be traumatic events, bouts of depression. persistent anxiety or the inability to cope.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abuse and Neglect
  • Adjustment issues
  • adoption trauma
  • Adult Children of Alcoholics
  • Alcohol Use Disorders
  • Ancestral Trauma
  • Anorexia
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety in relationships
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Birth trauma
  • Body Dysmorphia
  • Bulimia
  • bullying
  • Childhood Abuse
  • Childhood Emotional Neglect
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Complex Trauma
  • Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Divorce Coaching
  • Eating Disorders
  • Emotional abuse
  • Failure to Launch
  • Fear of Failure
  • Fears and Phobias
  • High-functioning anxiety
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Life Transitions
  • Maternal Mental Health
  • Medical Trauma
  • Mind Body Issues
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • Panic Attacks
  • Panic Disorders
  • Personality Disorders
  • Physical Abuse
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Religious Trauma
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Social Anxiety
  • Spiritual Trauma
  • Substance Abuse
  • Substance Use
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
  • Vicarious Trauma
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D. Leigh  Geffken remote and phone therapy in New Jersey
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Katey Breuker
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Together, we will work towards progress rather than perfection, recognizing that you are enough just as you are today. By identifying your personal values and beliefs, we can pave the way for a more authentic and fulfilling life.


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Together, we will work towards progress rather than perfection, recognizing that you are enough just as you are today. By identifying your personal values and beliefs, we can pave the way for a more authentic and fulfilling life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe a deeply reparative, therapeutic relationship is the foundation of healing. In this safe space, you will feel truly met to be able to experience all of yourself. This allows overwhelming and repressed feelings to be felt and released.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment Issues
  • Attachment Wounds
  • Codependency
  • Complex Trauma
  • Depression
  • developmental trauma
  • Feminism
  • Feminism Adjustment to Cultural Disapointment
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • New Parent
  • Parental Burnout
  • Parental Identity Development
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Skills
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Religious Trauma
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Secondary Trauma
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Katey Breuker remote and phone therapy in Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont