Services Offered: Trainings, Wellness Programs, and Retreats!

  • Trainings
    • 3-hour, 6-hour and lunch-n-learn formats available
    • While in-person is preferrable to support interaction and conversation, webinar and telehealth options are available.
    • Topics can include
      • Mental Wellness and Resiliency
      • Depression and Anxiety
      • Vicarious Trauma and Post Traumatic Injuries
      • Neurological and Psychological Impacts of Wellness
      • Continuum of Wellness in Wellness Program Development
      • Phases of Law Enforcement Career
    • Specific workshops available for new academy graduates, for supervisors, and for retirees
  • Wellness Programs
    • Wellness Visits can be scheduled for individual officers as needed or for an entire department on a scheduled basis
      • Typically focus on symptom screening, psychoeducation, review of distress and related coping skills
      • Referrals for on-going treatment offered if necessary
    • Wellness Visits effectively support officers as they face stressors and builds rapport in the event that increased support would become necessary.
  • Retreats
    • Current retreats are scheduled to support female spouses and significant others of law enforcement spouses.
    • New retreats to support first responder families and couples will be announced soon.
    • Interested in a tailored retreat for your department or agency? Reach out today!

What Inspires This Outreach?

Several years ago, I was asked to provide a brief training on the mental health impact of critical incidents.  The training would be incorporated into a child homicide curriculum, and I would be discussing trauma and mental health in a room full of detectives after they had sat through a week’s long conversation about some of the most difficult cases an officer can investigate.  Where would I start?  How would I get their attention?  How could I open up the conversation about a topic so important to me, after such an intense and long week for them?

I decided to approach the training with the transparency and honesty that I have handled my entire clinical career.  Families at my office, and professionals within our small community, have come to trust that I offer my entire focus and energy for each session, for each case, for each family.  I decided my best effort to train officers would be to provide the same energy and investment. No psycho-babble.  No know-it-all lectures.  No rainbows and butterflies, either.  

And so the first mental health training was comprised with a balance of transparency, informal anecdotes, and thorough education.  And the response?  A humbling line of detectives, officers, and district attorneys waiting to ask questions, to share their experiences, to inquire about bringing trainings to their home departments and counties.  The data has always been clear about the rates of Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Suicidal Ideation, etc.  However, listening to officers note their increased understanding for their mental health, to disclose that they felt empowered enough to advocate for their own care, and to affirm that they were returning to their departments with renewed ideas to support their colleagues was both affirming and overwhelming.

There has historically been a narrative that officers do not want to discuss their mental health, do not want to acknowledge the trauma, and certainly do not want to seek out support or counseling.  While there may be officers or entire departments that remain hesitant to fully embrace mental wellness as a core concept of law enforcement careers, it has not been my experience.  I have watched officers nod their heads in agreement and take copious notes during a workshop.  I have responded to emails of officers requesting referrals for counseling.  I have consulted with departments to explore ways to support their officers struggling with suicidal ideation.  The tide is turning.  Officers are wanting education.  They want to understand their experiences.  They want to know the options to process and resolve the impacts of those critical incidents.  They want to feel empowered to seek support and regain their psychological strength. 

Climbing Mountain Consulting LLC was born from the identified need to expand mental wellness trainings to departments across the country.  And while the services are expanded, the core values and focus have not shifted.  Trainings are still individualized and thorough, still transparent and honest, still educational and realistic. 

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There is a well-documented trickle-down effect for how the job impacts officers and how that impact comes home to families.  As a law enforcement spouse, I have witnessed and experienced the quiet parts of the impact – the part not said out-loud.  I have watched how my spouse was impacted by years of investigating child abuse cases, how the layering of abuse and homicide cases tested his emotional and cognitive bandwidth, and how much effort it can take to continue to function as a husband and father while all of those other pieces are unfolding.  My experience was very much buffered due to the knowledge and experience gained from being a trauma therapist (for as many years as I’ve been a law enforcement wife!).  

WELLNESS ISN’T A WEAKNESS, AND ADDRESSING IT SHOULD BE A PRIORITY.

INTERESTED IN TRAININGS, WELLNESS VISITS, OR RETREATS? DROP YOUR EMAIL BELOW AND JENNIFER WILL BE IN CONTACT WITH YOU!




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