S6 E21 Pups, Cups & The Quiet EMS Crisis

About this episode

The episode discusses the mental health challenges faced by EMS responders and features a guest who provides trauma-informed wellness coaching.

They respond to the worst moments of people's lives — every single shift. Then they clear the call, restock the rig, and do it again. Nobody asks if they're okay. The system just keeps moving. In this episode of Responder Resilience, we sit down with two people who decided that wasn't good enough. Whitney Wilkerson (MDiv, BCC, NBC-HWC) is a board-certified chaplain, ordained interfaith minister, and trauma-informed wellness coach with 25+ years of experience supporting people through crisis —...

People in this episode

Hosts: Lt. David Dachinger, Dr. Stacy Raymond, Bonnie Rumilly

Guest: Whitney Wilkerson

Topics covered

• EMS crisis
• mental health
• wellness coaching
• trauma support
• first responders

Keywords

• EMS
• mental health
• trauma
• wellness
• first responders
• crisis support

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