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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Who are your presentations for?
Still On Scene presentations can be adapted for firefighters, EMS professionals, law enforcement, dispatchers, corrections personnel, emergency healthcare professionals, public safety leadership, recruits and academies, spouses,significant others, and families.
Are your talks only for people with PTSD?
No. In fact, waiting until someone is already in crisis misses the point.
These conversations are valuable throughout a responder’s career.
Understanding operational stress, cumulative trauma, peer support, coping
strategies, and available resources before someone reaches a crisis can make an enormous difference.
Is this just your personal story?
No. My personal experience is part of what makes these conversations real, but the
purpose isn’t to stand on a stage and tell my story.
My experience creates the connection. Education, practical tools, resources, and organizational change are what people take home.
Do you speak to academies and newer responders?
Absolutely. Some of the best time to teach responders about mental health is before years of accumulated calls, unhealthy coping mechanisms, and cultural expectations
have taken hold.
Academy presentations can also include spouses and significant others so
families begin the career understanding what the job may bring home with it.
Do you work with spouses and families?
Yes. First responder mental health doesn’t stop at the station door. Families are often
the first people to notice changes and sometimes the people most affected by them.
Family-focused education helps significant others understand the job while also
making it clear that supporting a responder does not mean carrying everything
themselves.
Do you help departments develop peer support programs?
Yes. Still On Scene can help agencies understand the foundations of peer support, identify program needs, discuss team structure and culture, and connect departments with appropriate training and resources.
Is Still On Scene therapy?
No. Still On Scene provides education, advocacy, peer-support guidance, and lived-
experience perspective. It does not replace professional mental health treatment.
One of the things I specifically teach is how to recognize the difference between peer support, crisis intervention, and professional treatment, and when each is appropriate.
Can presentations be customized?
Yes. An academy, fire department, leadership group, conference, peer support team,
and group of spouses don’t need the exact same presentation.
The core message stays consistent, but the material can be tailored to the audience, available time, and needs of the organization.
What makes Still On Scene different?
I’m not talking about this profession from the outside looking in.
I’ve spent nearly two decades working in emergency services. I’ve experienced the culture, the calls, the cumulative weight, PTSD, treatment, recovery, and the process of returning to the profession. But Still On Scene isn’t about me.
It’s about taking what I’ve learned, the hard way, and using it so somebody
else may recognize what’s happening sooner, ask for help earlier, support a
coworker better, lead differently, or realize that recovery is possible.
What do you want people to remember when they leave?
That the things we experience in this profession can affect us without making us weak.
That asking for help is not surrender. That we need each other.
And that just because the call is over doesn’t always mean we’ve left the scene.