First Responders
We value those who protect, serve, and care for our community. We are your trusted guide through dark times. Things will get better.
The first one there.
The first contact.
The first to respond without having all the details and without the assurance of safety. First responders confront evil, pain, human suffering, and tragedy to serve our community.
Daily exposure to high-risk, high consequence
environments
Begin Counseling recognizes the unique nature of public safety professions. Law Enforcement, Fire Service, Emergency Medical Services, and Emergency Communications, among others, experience daily exposure to high-risk, high-consequence environments. Over time, the images, sounds, smells, thoughts, and details can build up and negatively impact sleep quality, relationships, mood, and overall quality of life.
Succeed personally and professionally
Mental and psychological health is essential for success both personally and professionally. Begin Counseling diligently pursues effective treatments, expands access to wellness solutions, and strives to reduce the stigma and barriers to facilitate true hope, wholeness, and connection for first responders and their families.
It is possible. You are not alone. We get it.
Our counseling process is tailored to comprehensively address the impacts of emergency service careers from training to retirement. It is possible, and our team is specifically equipped to come alongside first responders, to promote healthy, full careers, and transition into retirement with confidence and purpose. The decision you make now to address the ways your experiences, career, or circumstances (past or present) are affecting you, not only changes the trajectory of your life, but impacts generations.
We understand the unique challenges first responders and their families face at work and at home.
We do not provide psychological evaluations, and we do not perform fitness for duty exams. Your privacy and confidentiality are of utmost importance to us.
You will be respected, understood, and valued in our work together.
Specialities
Trauma
Therapy
Addresses the impact of trauma on both the mind and body
EMDR
Therapy
Specialized approach to treat trauma and associated symptoms
Christian
Counseling
For clients seeking to integrate a biblical perspective into therapy
Our first responder counseling is for:
Corrections
Emergency Communications
Emergency Medical Personnel
Emergency Responders
EMTs
Firefighter
Fire Service
Law Enforcement
Local, State, and Federal Government Personnel
Military
Nurses
Paramedics
Physicians
Police
Emergency responder cultural competence model
Begin Counseling recognizes the unique nature of public safety professions. Our counseling process is tailored to comprehensively address the impacts of emergency service careers from training to retirement. Our team of culturally competent therapists are specifically trained and equipped to come alongside first responders and their families.
We're a first responder trauma counseling in-network provider for Blue Cross Blue Shield, PEIA (WV), and Peak Health insurances and a non-network Tricare Certified Provider.