Therapy & Support for Public Safety Professionals including First Responders, Medical Staff, Public Safety, Active + Retired Military
Angie's Place for Public Safety Professionals
Counseling and Therapy for Public Safety Professionals
There’s an individualized culture that comes from the profession of helping and serving others. One that creates complex needs when Public Safety Professionals need help or seek a supportive relationship after experiencing distressing events. More often than not, police officers, firefighters, medical professionals, and anyone who commits themselves to the profession of service encounter powerful feelings of loneliness, lack of connection, and misunderstanding that they carry with them long after they find themselves in times of need.
Considering the emotional intimacy that is created by individuals who serve as public safety professionals and the events in which they are called to selflessly respond to one after another warrant the experienced support from those who know the expense of that associated toll. We know the emotional charge it takes to perform at an exceedingly high level, contains the emotional weight of one event while amid another.
Within our practice is the understanding of former first responders and family members of these public safety professionals who have an awareness of the benefits of shared experiences. Our authentic therapeutic approach connects us because of our experience through it. Contact us to learn more about Group Therapy and Counseling Services.
If there is a particular concern/need that you or someone you love is experiencing but not list, we encourage you to contact us.
Our Focus
How We Help Public Safety Professionals
- a safe and confidential space
- Improved mental health
- Improved physical health by processing traumas
Support For Individuals Experiencing:
- sleep disturbances
- Isolation
- post-traumatic stress
- addictions
- relationship conflicts
- compassion fatigue
- life dissatisfaction
- secondary traumatic stress
- vicarious trauma
- suicidal Ideations
- substance abuse
Providing You & Your Family
Support is Nothing New To Our Team
Our mission is committed to providing therapy and support for those affected by their experiences which extends to Angie’s Place. A space dedicated to those who know what it means to “wear the mask” for the sake of service.
- Firefighters
- EMT Personnel
- Dispatchers
- Medical
- Veterans
- Military
- Police Officers
- All Family Members
Founder & Therapist
Clark Beckley MSW, LCSW
My professional experience in law enforcement and child welfare allows me to offer a unique perspective in supporting veterans, medical, public safety, child welfare personnel, and other professionals who are susceptible to experiencing personal, relational, and professional disruption due to post-traumatic stress, secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue or burnout. As an adoptee, I am aware of the experience of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees in processing the complex feelings and thoughts connected to the adoption experience.
Director of Clinical Development & Therapist
Carla Marquez Ripley MA, LPCP
I’m blessed by the opportunity to support people who are brave enough to consider seeking therapy. My personal and professional experiences shaped my desire to support those who have recently been feeling stuck in some area of life, struggling with life transitions, and those who desire change and healing. In supporting people who are open to learning how they can be more active in altering their current chapter, I can best walk alongside them amidst their renewed strength, understanding, resilience, and hope.
Client Services Manager & Therapist
Mariah Carstens, LCSW
I look forward to working with individuals who are open to growth, positive change, and confronting their struggles with strength and knowledge. I have experience working with children, adolescents, and adults in a variety of professional clinical settings. Through my professional and personal experience, I embraced the importance of building and nurturing meaningful and supportive relationships with clients in order to facilitate desired change.