Certification Badge/Seal
TRT Center of Georgia has National clinical certification as Emergency Responder and Public Safety Clinicians (ERPSCC) with specialized training in serving first responders and public safety professionals.
We Work With Crisis Managers
Direct Crisis Managers:
Law enforcement & corrections
police, sheriffs, probation/parole officers, correctional officers, court officers
Fire & EMS
firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, emergency dispatchers
Military
active duty, reserves, veterans
Other public safety roles
emergency management, whether you’re currently serving, transitioning, or retired
Indirect Crisis Managers:
Healthcare professionals
nurses, physicians, emergency department staff
Mental health professionals
therapists, counselors, social workers
Educational professionals
teachers, school counselors, administrators
Legal professionals
judges, attorneys, court staff
Pastoral care
chaplains, clergy, crisis counselors
Child protective services and family services workers
Child protective services and family services workers
Why This Work Is Different
You chose this work knowing what it demands—split-second decisions under pressure, managing chaos while everyone else runs away, witnessing and carrying things most people will never encounter. You’ve developed the professional skills to do this work effectively, and you do it well.
But here’s what most people don’t understand: trauma is about the event, not about how you handled it.
Whether you seem unaffected in the moment, whether it’s been a week or ten years, whether you’re still performing at the highest level or struggling personally—if you’ve been exposed to traumatic events, those events have created impact that needs to be addressed. The trauma exists regardless of your strength, your competence, or your ability to keep functioning.
The trauma deserves to be addressed and resolved—not because you’re struggling, but because it happened.
The Special Problem Crisis Managers Face
For most people, psychological trauma is a rapid and destructive change to personal identity. For crisis managers, however, the explanation is not so simple.
You operate out of two identities—personal and professional—where most people operate only out of one.
The special problem develops when trauma occurs and your professional identity assimilates the change while your personal identity does not.
For example: An officer may value life on a personal level, but professionally be required to take a life. Your professional identity assimilates this—you protected others, followed training, made the correct decision. The professional change is integrated.
But your personal identity experiences profound contradiction—taking a life contradicts core personal values. This damage to personal identity doesn't get assimilated.
The problem is compounded when your professional identity denies that damage to personal identity has occurred. The damage is unconsciously retained in memory, affecting your relationships, emotional life, and sense of self—even while you continue performing well professionally.
Here's what makes this complicated: Your professional training serves you well during the traumatic event. The ability to compartmentalize emotions, stay mission-focused, and maintain operational control—these protections allow you to function under conditions that would incapacitate most people. That's exactly what they're designed to do.
The problem develops afterward, during decompression and reintegration. When the event is over and the shock response begins to lift, your personal identity needs space to process what happened—to grieve the contradictions, acknowledge the losses. But the same professional defenses that protected you during crisis often stay activated. What helps you function during the event, as THE PROFESSIONAL, can inadvertently block resolution of the trauma after the event, when you are off duty and you are just you.
More Example
A paramedic’s professional identity assimilates losing a patient as “part of the job, did everything right.” But personal identity holds unreconciled contradictions about powerlessness and failure that never get addressed.
A firefighter’s professional identity integrates making strategic sacrifices. Personal identity retains unreconciled loss about what was sacrificed and what that means about hard choices.
A mental health counselor’s professional identity maintains clinical boundaries and believes that professionalism protects them from being affected by what they hear in session. But personal identity holds unreconciled damage around hearing detailed accounts of, for example, a child being molested—damage that surfaces when going home to their own children, creating hypervigilance, intrusive fears, and the inability to reconcile the safety they want to believe exists with the reality they now know.
A nurse’s professional identity compartmentalizes patient deaths as expected outcomes. Personal identity retains damage around witnessing suffering they couldn’t prevent.
police, sheriffs, probation/parole officers, correctional officers, court officers
What Makes Our Approach Different
Traditional approaches focus on managing symptoms or building resilience to “cope better.” We focus on resolution. Using Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT™), we address the damage that your professional identity has denied—bringing what’s been unconsciously retained into a structured reconciliation process.
This means identifying the contradictions, reconciling the losses, and restoring continuity to your personal identity. It’s molecular extinction of the stored trauma memory so the damage can be resolved and you can be yourself again.
Depending on when the trauma is addressed and how much damage has been retained, resolution can take as little as 30 minutes or may require months of intensive therapy. But either way, it must be addressed.
Whether you’re addressing trauma preventatively (soon after exposure) or after damage has accumulated and expanded, our protocol can eliminate PTSD symptoms and restore what trauma has disrupted.
This isn’t about coping with the cost of your service. It’s about resolving the damage that your professional identity has been denying.