Trauma Therapy for military veterans and first responders in Salt Lake City, Utah
For veterans, active service members, police, fire, EMS, and dispatch — trauma therapy that understands the weight of the job.
You've Seen What Most People Never Will
Combat. Car wrecks. Overdoses. The calls that don't leave you, even years later. You've been trained to stay steady in the moment — but that training doesn't teach you how to put it down afterward.
You don't need someone who flinches at what you tell them. You need someone who knows how to help your nervous system actually release it.
How we'll work
We will use EMDR and ART to help you process specific incidents — without requiring you to narrate every detail out loud if you don't want to. It is possible to know what happened without the memory controlling you or distorting your emotions.
For those who want faster progress, a Trauma Processing Intensive can compress months of work into a single day or two.
Challenges we treat
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Combat-related PTSD and moral injury
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Line-of-duty trauma for police, fire, EMS, and dispatch
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Hypervigilance, sleep disruption, and anger that won't settle
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Difficulty connecting with family since coming home or since the job changed you
Why the Usual Advice Doesn't Work for You
"Just talk to someone" often falls flat for people in uniform. You've learned to compartmentalize because the job required it, and a therapist who hasn't seen what you've seen can feel like a waste of an hour. Add the worry about what it means for your career, your clearance, or how your crew sees you, and it's easy to keep putting it off.
I spent three years as a primary therapist at a treatment program for first responders with PTSD, running trauma-processing groups most days. I know how this works, I know how guarded the first conversations tend to be, and I'm not going to flinch.
Moral Injury
For many veterans and first responders, what lingers is what you saw, what you did, or what you couldn't do. Guilt, shame, and a sense of having crossed a line that can't be uncrossed are common, and they don't respond well to being told "you did everything right." We work with those parts directly, with IFS and EMDR, rather than arguing you out of them.
Doing the Work
We start by understanding what's actually driving your symptoms: the sleep trouble, the anger, the edge you can't turn off.
We identify the specific incidents and the beliefs they left behind ("it's my fault," "I'm not safe," "something is wrong with me").
We process them with EMDR and ART, so you can remember what happened without getting hijacked.
Alec on working with first responders:
It's time to invest in YOU.
Your mental health is worth it.