My heart lies in working with first responders. I have been working with first responders for over 17 years. Growing up, my passion was always to get into law enforcement. When I got accepted into graduate school for psychology, I decided to take that route and merge the two disciplines.
During my graduate studies, I interned with the Fresno Police Department for over five years. I also completed my dissertation on policing and work stress. After graduate school, I worked at CDCR as a prison psychologist for several years and was on the peer support team for Corrections. This is where I truly started to see the need for mental health treatment for first responders.
This need was further reinforced while working as an evaluator and treatment provider for first responders within the Workers’ Compensation system. From this experience, I wanted to do more to help this population and decided to open up my own practice, Therapy for the Healing Hero, in 2023. In addition to my private practice, I continue to work within the Worker’s Compensation system as a Qualified Medical Examiner (QME).
Concern (First Responder Only) and Spring Health (First Responder Only).