#34 - Matt Newlands & Narelle Mason

About this episode

Senator Antic discusses mental health challenges faced by frontline workers with Narelle Mason and Matt Newlands.

Narelle Mason and Matt Newlands are former frontline workers who now work as registered counsellors equipping frontline workers/first responders to face the unique mental health challenges of frontline work such as policing, military, paramedics and firefighters. In 2022, they cofounded Frontline Mental Health to help frontline workers prepare for the psychological and emotional challenges that frontline work presents. On this episode of BASED, Senator Antic speaks with Narelle and Matt about the current mental health situation in frontline workplaces, the value of preventative work, the concept of post-traumatic growth, and the costs of not addressing traumatic aspects of frontline professions.

People in this episode

Host: Senator Alex Antic

Guests: Narelle Mason, Matt Newlands

Topics covered

• mental health
• frontline workers
• counselling
• preventative work
• post-traumatic growth
• trauma

Keywords

• mental health
• frontline workers
• counselling
• trauma
• post-traumatic growth
• preventative care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Frontline Mental Health

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