First Responder Psychology

09/20/2025

To launch the expanded edition, my editor/publisher is offering a 30% discount using code ADC25 at checkout. Use the QR code below to place your order.

09/19/2025

I am honored to talk with Conrad Weaver about how cumulative trauma affects the brain, EMDR, sleep strategies, first responder resilience & peer support. Listen Here:

Podcast Episode · First Responder Wellness Podcast · 09/17/2025 · 48m

09/11/2025

09/11/2025

24 years ago tonight, nearly 3000 people, including 23 members of the NYPD, spent their final night with their families and loved ones.

This evening, as the WTC Memorial “Tribute in Light” shines over NYC, our thoughts are with the families & friends of every soul lost on 9/11.

09/09/2025

Do you suffer the consequences of the "Backwards Law"?

09/09/2025

Peer supporters, first responder clinicians, and chaplains, are you looking for concrete strategies to help first responders and their families improve their coping, understand the signs, science & strategies of stress, trauma, & moral injury? Standing on the shoulders of giants, I've compiled many evidence-based strategies in a digestible, actionable format w/ a 20% discount from the publisher. Order available from the QR code.

09/04/2025

Listen to how to build resilience through adversity, generational differences in policing, peer support, stigma and fear of help-seeking and more.

Former officer turned psychologist Dr. Stephanie Conn reveals the habits and mental armor that protect officers from burnout, bad decisions and walking away from the job

08/29/2025

Yup. Ha ha!

08/21/2025

I routinely talk with first responder clients about Autobiography in Five Short Chapters. Healing is a path and we find ourselves in different places at different times. I was thrilled to be granted to rights to include this incredible poem in the expanded edition of my book. I've seen myself in every chapter at some point in time. How about you?

08/21/2025

Peer supporters at one of my contract agencies shared this innovative way of offering my recommended sleep strategies to their peers who are "pi$$ed off" by their lack of sleep quality.