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Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.236 We Celebrate A Year Of Hard Lessons, Healing Wins, And The People Who Keep First Responders GoingSend us a textFrom crime and trauma scene cleanup to midnight dispatch and station kitchens, we gathered the most powerful lessons from a year of conversations with first responders, clinicians.Here are the links for all the episodes: Krista Gregg (E.188): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e-188Jessica Jamieson (E.192): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e-192Beth Salmo (E.204): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e-204Elizabeth Ecklund (E.207): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e-207Gordon Brewer (E.211): https://podcasts.apple.c...
2025-12-2634 min
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.220 Not Your Typical Shrinks: Real Talk for Real HeroesSend us a textSteve Bisson welcomes Bill Dwinnells, a licensed mental health counselor with over 30 years of experience and a background as an EMT, to discuss their joint venture, Gambit Counseling, and its innovative approach to first responder mental health.The conversation explores why traditional mental health services often fall short for first responders. As Dwinnells eloquently explains, "First responders see a very unique slice of American life that the vast majority of people know absolutely nothing about," creating a profound disconnection that many carry with them. This disconnect frequently leads to challenges when...
2025-09-0340 min
Art Creativity & Wellbeing442: "Choice is where your power always lies."I've been waiting to bring you this one for a long time! A great conversation with my longtime friend Bill Dwinnells LMHC, NCC, CCMHC . Bill is making a difference in the lives of many people through his work as a therapist. Today you'll hear about how Bill got his start and how he started something amazing in Massachusetts when he became the first therapist to ride along with first responders as they do their work.Our conversation goes down some interesting and inspiring rabbit holes! Contact Bill either at his personal website, https...
2025-07-081h 04
Art Creativity & WellbeingBonus: Who you'll be hearing from soon!Hello friends! I hope you've been enjoying yourselves as we have been on our hiatus! It's been a little longer of a hiatus than I had originally intended. Sometimes life throws curveballs, and there've been some fascinating curveballs in these last several months! I hope to share about them with you soon! We are on hiatus for a little longer, but behind the scenes I have been having some epic conversations with the folks you'll be hearing from today! They are, in the order you will hear them: Speech and Language pathologist Dr...
2025-03-2410 min
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.132 Season Finale: Celebrating Growth, Resilience, and the Transformative Power of TherapySend us a textAs Season 10 draws to a close, it's a time for heartfelt reflection and storytelling that will leave you both inspired and introspective. You'll be moved by the tales of growth from those who make a living by listening, like Courtney Romanowski, whose transition from guest to guest host embodies the beauty of mental health counseling and expressive arts therapy. She can be reached on her website here.You will hear from Eric Knox who discussed firefighters and mental health.Pavel Ythjall describes his strength when tragedy struck...
2023-12-2747 min
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.105 Season 8 Recap: Memorable Conversations and Inspiring Stories in the World of TherapySend us a textWhat an incredible journey it has been throughout Season 8 of Finding Your Way Through Therapy! We kicked off with Michelle LaReau-Alves discussing the often-taboo topic of sex therapy, and finished strong with a powerful conversation on change. Join us as we take a trip down memory lane, reminiscing about some of the most memorable conversations and heartwarming stories from this season.From inspiring stories like Pavel Yityal's experience with his wife's paralysis to fascinating insights shared by Gordon Brewer on therapy, group practices, and spirituality, this season has truly demystified therapy...
2023-06-2107 min
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.100.1 Crisis Work And Dance Therapy Collide For This Special 100th EpisodeSend us a textIn this first episode of the week of my 100th episode, Bill Dwinnells and Courtney Romanowski meet for the first time, despite knowing of each other. They discuss how they have been in the field, how they also feel some classes are missing from the curriculum at masters level program. They also discuss enjoying their experience on the podcast, and how they may not have listened to criss work or expressive/dance therapy if this podcast did not exist.Support the showYouTube Channel For The Podcast
2023-05-1543 min
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.72 Why Crisis Work Is A Great Learning Experience With Susan Roggendorf, Cara Tirrell, And Bill DwinnellsSend us a textIn this episode, we discuss with three former and current emergency services for mental health and substance use issues, Susan Roggendorf, Cara Tirrell, and Bill Dwinnells. We discuss the highs and lows of the work we have done, how we got into the work, how it brought us closer to first responders, as well as some of the difficulties we all face. We also debate the word suicidality and how it is interpreted from a crisis clinician's point of view versus those who have never worked in the emergency department. Susan...
2022-10-261h 05
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.63 Season 5 In Review: Amazing Guests And More!Send us a textDid you miss an episode this season? Did you skip an episode at some point? I review briefly every single episode so that you can go back and listen to it? Was there an episode that you were not sure? Listen to this review to figure out if you want to give it a chance. I seriously enjoyed this season so much. Between returning guests like Pat Rice, Cara Tirrell, Jay Ball, Bill Dwinnells, Lisa Dennis, Katelyn Dehey and newer guests like Stephanie Simpson, Susan Roggendorf, Jill Riley, Carolina Gu...
2022-08-2412 min
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.55 The Complexity Of Crisis Mental Health Work With Cara Tirrell and Bill DwinnellsSend us a textIn episode 55, Bill Dwinnells and Cara Tirrell are back (click here to find their first appearance) to discuss mental health crisis work. Interchangeably called many things, emergency services for mental health is a crucial part of our system. Bill and Cara describe the importance of this system, how it can lead to proper placement for treatment, the experience and stress that it can occur for both the clients and the emergency services worker. Cara and Bill also discuss how it lead to understanding more about the proper use of the suspension of civil...
2022-06-291h 07
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.25 The Most Popular Episode, Crisis Work with Cara Tirrell and Bill DwinnellsSend us a textThe most popular episode turned out to be the most complex editing work I have encountered in this podcast. Who knew the episode on crisis work would end up the hardest to edit? Shoutout to Laura for her amazing editing work. It is all about crisis work. Cara Tirrell and Bill Dwinnells will discuss their work on a crisis team. We share the ups and downs, the challenges, as well as all the lessons we have learned from that work from our combine 50+ years in that particular field. We also look at...
2021-12-011h 10
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.24 A Review Of The SeasonSend us a textAt the end of every season, I will dedicate the last original episode to a review of the season. This season was quite packed, with interviews with Maureen Mann, Jay Ball, Cara Tirrell, Bill Dwinnells, Sarah Turstra, and Blythe Landry. We discussed law enforcement, trauma, crisis work, holistic approaches, money, and how all this relates to mental health. I also discussed people pleasing, the 7 dirty words in my office, bereavement, and how music is a great discussion to have with clients. Support the showYouTube Channel For Th...
2021-11-2408 min
Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental HealthE.21 A Conversation About Crisis Work with Cara Tirrell and Bill DwinnellsSend us a textEpisode 21 is all about crisis work. Cara Tirrell and Bill Dwinnells will discuss their work on a crisis team. We share the ups and downs, the challenges, as well as all the lessons we have learned from that work from our combine 50+ years in that particular field. We also look at the effects on the clients and how we can create rapport in about 5 minutes during a crisis situation. Bill Dwinnells can be reached for counseling at www.billdwinnells.com and if you want to know about his software for c...
2021-11-031h 07
Spooky Times with Eric D150 Lights OutLong before Tales from the Crypt, The Twilight Zone or even Inner Sanctum, horror had a home on television. Tonight Eric goes old school to discuss Lights Out; television's original horror anthology series. But Lights Out didn't start with television. In fact, TV is basically the end of the story! Long before television, Lights Out was a hugely popular radio show making it's debut in 1934. It was not the first horror-themed radio program, but it was the nastiest. This was thanks in large part to the show's creator/head writer, Wyllis Cooper who had a taste fore...
2019-06-0733 min