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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 Columbia, the suburbs of Columbia, other nearby places such as Spartanburg, Florence, or anywhere else in South Carolina, 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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Counseling/Therapy for Diverse Women: Cisgender, Transgender, Non-binary, and Woman/Feminine Identified.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abuse
  • Acculturation Issues
  • Adoption
  • Affairs and Cheating
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Bicultural
  • Burnout
  • Caregivers
  • Codependency
  • Coming Out
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complex Trauma
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  • Domestic Violence Survivors
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  • Gender Fluid
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  • Gender Transition
  • Gender Transition in Families
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Hispanics
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Immigrants
  • Infidelity
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Latinos
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Mild Depression
  • Military Life Transition
  • Military Service
  • Multicultural Identity
  • Nonbinary Gender Identity
  • Oppression
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Persistant Depressive Disorder
  • Personal Growth
  • Postpartum Anxiety
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Postpartum Mood Disorders
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Racial Justice
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  • Racial Trauma
  • Racism
  • Religious Trauma
  • Seasonal Depression
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  • Sexual Orientation
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  • Transgender
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  • Veterans/Military Families
  • Women
  • Women Veterans
  • Work-Life Balance
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Stephanie Willis
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Together, we'll explore thoughts & feelings, cultivate self-awareness, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen communication & relationships, promote healing & growth. Safe, non-judgmental space to empower your journey towards mental well-being


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Together, we'll explore thoughts & feelings, cultivate self-awareness, develop healthy coping strategies, strengthen communication & relationships, promote healing & growth. Safe, non-judgmental space to empower your journey towards mental well-being

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My experience in the Chicago-land area included work in Non-Profits, Hospitals, & Wilderness Programs before establishing WillisCC. I specialized with high risk adolescents addressing self-injury, gang involvement and drug use.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
  • Behavioral Disorders
  • Co-Parenting
  • Developmental Disorders
  • Financial Stress
  • Grief
  • High Anxiety
  • Loving Someone with a Mental Health Disorder
  • Parenting
  • Racial Trauma
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Women Veterans
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Work together to overcome whatever it is that’s getting the best of you. I partner with you to go from “WTF happened?!” To “I got this!”.


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Work together to overcome whatever it is that’s getting the best of you. I partner with you to go from “WTF happened?!” To “I got this!”.

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What sets me apart is that I'm a combat veteran and trauma survivor. I struggled in ways like too many of us do. That's why this isn't "Just a job" for me. I get it, and I can meet you where you are because I've walked in those shoes myself.

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  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Combat Trauma
  • Depression
  • First Responders
  • Grief
  • Military Service
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Veterans/Military Families
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Denise Tillmannshofer
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We will work together to build a plan. No issue or problem is too large to approach in therapy. You have experienced traumas and it's time you have the support to unlock those pains. Let me help you help yourself. Together we will walk this journey.


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We will work together to build a plan. No issue or problem is too large to approach in therapy. You have experienced traumas and it's time you have the support to unlock those pains. Let me help you help yourself. Together we will walk this journey.

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I am an experienced therapist who specializes in helping people cope with depression, anxiety, trauma, crisis, grief and anger. I utilize EMDR therapy, along with parts work, CPT, CBT, PE and TF-CBT to help you work through and create a better life.

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  • Anxiety
  • Attachment Issues
  • Combat Trauma
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Crisis
  • Depression
  • First Responders
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Suicidal Ideation
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  • War Trauma
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Angela Kearns
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identify underlying causes of the issues holding you back from a life worth living, and develop practical strategies for growth. My ultimate goal is to help you achieve greater self-awareness, resilience, and well-being to one day thrive without me.


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identify underlying causes of the issues holding you back from a life worth living, and develop practical strategies for growth. My ultimate goal is to help you achieve greater self-awareness, resilience, and well-being to one day thrive without me.

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holistic, mind-body focused, and evidence-based. I provide tools and resources to replace unwanted thoughts and behaviors with constructive alternatives. I draw from various therapeutic modalities; mindfulness, CBT, DBT-informed, and person-centered.

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  • Abandonment Issues
  • Abuse
  • Abusive Relationships
  • Academic Issues
  • Acute Stress
  • ADHD in Womxn or Femme Populations
  • Adjustment Disorders
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  • Adult Children of Alcoholics
  • Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents
  • Adulting
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Affair Recovery
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  • Age 20s & 30s
  • Animal Rescue Workers
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Anxiety Management
  • Anxious Attachment
  • Apathy
  • Assault
  • Assertiveness
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Attachment Issues
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Behavior Change
  • Betrayal Trauma
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Bipolar II
  • Bisexuality
  • Borderline Personality
  • Boundaries
  • Breakups
  • Cannabis
  • Career Burnout
  • Caretakers
  • Child Abuse
  • Childhood Abuse or Neglect
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Children of Parents With Substance Use Disorders
  • Chronic Pain
  • Climate Change Stress
  • Communication Skills
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Complex Anxiety
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complex Trauma
  • Consensual Non-Monogamy
  • Coping Skills
  • Creatives
  • Critical Thinking Skills
  • Cultural Adjustment
  • Dating and Romance
  • Dependent Personality Disorder
  • Depression
  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • Discrimination
  • Distress Tolerance
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Eco-Anxiety
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional Intimacy
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Entrepreneurial Women
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Existential Crisis
  • Existential Issues
  • Failure to Launch
  • Family of Origin
  • Family Trauma
  • Fear of Failure
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  • Feminism Adjustment to Cultural Disapointment
  • Finding Meaning or Purpose
  • Functional Anxiety
  • Gaslighting
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Goals/Accountability
  • Graduate Students
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  • Happiness
  • Healing From Relationships
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High-Achieving
  • High Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Hypervigilance
  • Hypomania
  • Impulsive Behavior
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Interpersonal Difficulties
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness
  • Jealousy
  • LGBTQ Family Development
  • Life Adjustment
  • Life Balance
  • Life Changes
  • Life Skills
  • Life Transitions
  • Loving Someone with Addiction
  • Loving Someone with a Mental Health Disorder
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Mania
  • Married to Law Enforcement Officers
  • Mental Disorders
  • Microaggressions
  • Millenials
  • Mind-Body Connection
  • Mood Regulation
  • Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Moving and Relocation
  • Narcissistic Abuse
  • Natural Disasters
  • Negative Self-Talk
  • New Job Transition
  • Nonbinary Gender Identity
  • Open Relationships
  • Overachievers
  • Panic Attacks
  • Parent-Adult Child Relationship
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Parent of Sexual Abuse Survivor
  • People Pleasing
  • Perfectionism
  • Performance
  • Personality Disorders
  • Polyamory
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Procrastination
  • Professional Women
  • Psychedelic Integration
  • PTSD from Abuse
  • Racial Trauma
  • Rape and Sexual Assault
  • Relational Trauma
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Reparenting Yourself
  • Rumination
  • Seasonal Depression
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Actualization
  • Self-Advocacy
  • Self-Awareness
  • Self Care
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Self-Image
  • Self-Regulation
  • Self-Sabotage
  • Self-Understanding
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Shame
  • Sibling Relationships
  • Single Parents
  • Situational Stress
  • Social Anxiety
  • Social Justice
  • Stress-Related Disorders
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
  • Therapist for Other Therapists
  • Time Management
  • Toxic Families
  • Trauma
  • Trauma From Abuse
  • Trauma-Related Disorders
  • Values
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Women
  • Womxn's Health
  • Workaholics
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Workplace Issues
  • Young Professionals
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