Firefighter Mental Health Resiliency
Jennifer Miller
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The driving force of the work I do with Firefighters specifically emerged many years ago before I knew I was going to become a mental health practitioner and first responder advocate. I was in the Army for ten years and following a lengthy deployment, there was an influx of negative coping with my unit and friends. There was several poor decisions, arrests, divorces, and death by suicide. That is part of the story, this training is meant to inform, empower, and ultimately be a catalyst for awareness, change contemplation, and become the best versions of yourself. There are many risk factors that can be mitigated given the current information and motivation. I look forward to informing you as well as being present with you all.
Jennifer Miller
In addition to the general forms of therapy, I also use many techniques that are considered “out of the box.” I feel that you deserve to benefit from any technique or intervention that I can provide for you or teach you, even if they are not frequently used by many therapists. Through my wide variety of experiences in the counseling profession, working with veterans, first responders and their families, I have been able to determine which of these strategies are the most effective in particular situations. I am most interested in helping you become the best version of yourself.
My specialties include Critical incident processing, trauma counseling, first responders’ occupational stressors, internal family systems trauma, as well as several different trauma processing modalities. Firefighters, law enforcement, emergency medical personnel and 911 dispatch are a unique set of individuals I am proud to serve. It’s my goal to help you readjust to coming home and taking the boots off, creating balance, and empowering individuals to maximize their functioning until they are thriving. I also use an animal assisted approach with my co-counsel Sarge that enhances the therapeutic outcome.
I served in the US Army for ten years and spent a rather long deployment in Iraq. I am also a single parent, so I am familiar with the struggle of balance parents endure while also trying to maintain a career, healthy family life and strong interpersonal relationships.
